ARPANET breach - 1983 (darkdante)

Good afternoon,

This email is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request received by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on 05 July 2022. After careful consideration, it appears your request will best be provided a response by another federal agency. Your request is being referred to the "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) FOIA Office". Please find their contact information provided in the attachment letter.

V/r,

Ms. Nyree L. Shelp, M.S.W.
Executive Assistant
Procurement Services Directorate
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
6910 Cooper Avenue
Fort Meade, MD 20755
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Good Morning Ms. Crose,

Please find the interim response attached for your recent FOIA Request that
was requested on July 5, 2022. The case number for this request is
22-F-1222, please refer to this number and the action officer mentioned in
the interim response in any future correspondence regarding this case.

V/r,

Walt Jackson

Freedom of Information Division OSD/JS

walter.j.jackson12.ctr@mail.mil

Good afternoon

Ms. Crose,

Please see the attached final response to your Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request.

Thank you.

Tyra Howard

Government Information Specialist

for Stephen L. Fisher, on behalf of

Stephanie L. Carr

Chief, Office of Freedom of Information

OSD/JS FOIA Requester Service Center

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Dear Ms. Crose:

Thank you for submitting your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) via email to
foia@nara.gov, as a referral from the Department of Defense. We received
your request on September 23, 2022. Your request concerns:

*"Investigative documentation from the breach of ARPANET in 1983. The
individual arrested for this breach was a hacker known as "darkdante".
Please include any memorandums, briefings, handwritten notes or other
recorded material related to the damage caused by this breach, its
investigation, and the cost to undo the damage."*

Our office handles FOIA and Privacy Act requests for NARA’s operational records
(records created by this agency). Because your FOIA request is for
records that may be archival records (records created by or originated in a
different agency but that may have been transferred to the legal custody of
NARA), we are forwarding it by this email to our Office of Research
Services, Textual Reference (RR2RR) staff who handle FOIA requests for
textual archival records.

That office will assign your request a tracking number and respond directly
to you. In the future, if you need to follow up with that office directly,
please contact them at the address below, or electronically via email
(email is preferred).

National Archives and Records Administration
Research Services, Textual Reference Branch (RR2RR)
8601 Adelphi Road, Room 2400
College Park, MD 20740

Phone: 301-837-3091
Fax: 301-837-1752
Email: archives2reference@nara.gov

For your reference, a copy of your request is below.

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Sincerely,
Ashley A. Bryan
Government Information Specialist
Office of General Counsel (NGC)
National Archives and Records Administration
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301-837-3409

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From: 'Howard, Tyra D CIV WHS ESD (USA)' via FOIA <FOIA@nara.gov>
Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 12:23 PM
Subject: Referral OSD/JS FOIA Request 22-F-1222
To: foia@nara.gov <foia@nara.gov>

Good afternoon,

Please view the attached referral for direct response to the requester
regarding OSD/JS FOIA Request 22-F-1222. The requester has been notified of
this referral.

Please contact me if there are any questions.

Thank you.

Tyra Howard

Government Information Specialist

for Stephen L. Fisher, on behalf of

Stephanie L. Carr

Chief, Office of Freedom of Information

OSD/JS FOIA Requester Service Center

tyra.d.howard.civ@mail.mil

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October 5, 2022

Reply to RR2RR 22-66108LT

Emily Crose

MuckRock News

DEPT MR 131167

263 Huntington Ave

Boston, MA 02115

Dear Ms. Crose,

This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act request of September
23, 2022 for records relating to the breach of the Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in 1983 by an individual known as
"darkdante". Your request was received in this office on September 26, 2022
and assigned FOIA case number 22-66108.

For our search, we focused on Record Group 371 - Records of the Defense
Information Systems Agency for records of the Defense Communications Agency
and Record Group 330 - Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
which has records on the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Within Record Group 371, we searched in the series “Classified Publications
Background Files, 1961-1987” (Entry UD-UP 4 and Entry UD-UP 7), “History
Source Material” (Entry UD-WW 70), “Research and Development Studies
Relating to Information Processing, ARPA” (Entry UD-13W 17), and “Worldwide
Military Command and Control System Program Files, Electronic Systems
Division” (Entry UD-10W 2).

Within Record Group 330, we searched in “Chronological Files, Office of the
Director, ARPA” (Entry UD-15W 5 and Entry UD-18W 63), “Study Files and
Weekly Reports, ARPA, 1976-1985” (Entry UD-15W 6), and “Congressional
Correspondence Files” (Entry UD-UP 733).

We did not locate records relating to an investigation to a breach or
records of the investigation into or the arrest of “darkdante” from 1983
during our search.

We do not consider this a denial of your FOIA request. However, if you are
not satisfied with our action on this request, your options for appeal and
dispute resolution are outlined in the attached enclosure.

This concludes the processing of your request.

Sincerely,

LAUREN THEODORE

Archives Specialist

Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)

National Archives at College Park, MD

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LAUREN THEODORE
Archives Specialist
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
National Archives at College Park, MD