The response came after John Greenewald Jr., an American researcher and ufologist, requested any CIA "assessments, reports, or communications" referencing the interstellar object, only the third of its kind ever detected passing through the solar system.

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One of the most notorious spies in United States history, responsible for the arrest and eventual execution of numerous Soviet and Russian officials secretly working on behalf of the US intelligence community,

The CIA told Greenewald in a formal response to his FOIA that it will “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records” related to the object — a non-answer that could be interpreted in strikingly different ways.