For purposes of this part, the following terms have the meanings indicated:
(a) Agency or CIA means the United States Central Intelligence Agency acting through the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator;
(b) Agency Release Panel or Panel or ARP means the CIA Agency Release Panel established pursuant to 32 CFR 1900.41;
(c) Days means calendar days when the Agency is operating and specifically excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays. Three (3) days may be added to any time limit imposed on a requester by this part if responding by U.S. domestic mail; ten (10) days may be added if responding by international mail;
(d) Control means ownership or the authority of the CIA pursuant to federal statute or privilege to regulate official or public access to records;
(e) Coordinator means the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator who serves as the Agency manager of the historical access program established pursuant to section 4.4 of the Order.
(f) Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence or ``D/CSI'' means the Agency official responsible for the management of the CIA's various historical programs including the management of access granted under this section;
(g) Director of Security means the Agency official responsible for making all security and access approvals and for affecting the necessary secrecy, non-disclosure, and/or pre-publication agreements as may be required.
(h) Director, Information Management Services means the Senior Agency Official as defined in Section 6.1(mm) of the Order.
(i) Federal agency means any executive department, military department, or other establishment or entity included in the definition of agency in 5 U.S.C. 552(f).
(j) Former Presidential or Vice Presidential appointee or designee means any person who has previously occupied a senior policy-making position in the executive branch of the United States Government to which they were appointed by the current or a former President or Vice President.
(k) Historical researcher means any individual with professional training in the academic field of history (or related fields such as journalism) engaged in a research project leading to publication (or any similar activity such as academic course development) reasonably intended to increase the understanding of the American public into the operations and activities of the United States government. The term includes anyone serving as a research associate of a former Presidential or Vice Presidential appointee or designee.
(l) Information means any knowledge that can be communicated or documentary material, regardless of its physical form that is owned by, produced by or for, or is under the control of the United States Government.
(m) Interested party means any official in the executive, military, congressional, or judicial branches of government, United States or foreign, or U.S. Government contractor who, in the sole discretion of the CIA, has a subject matter or physical interest in the documents or information at issue.
(n) Originator means the CIA officer who originated the information at issue, or successor in office, or a CIA officer who has been delegated classification authority for the information at issue in accordance with the provisions of the Order.
(o) Agency Release Panel (ARP) refers to the Agency's forum for reviewing information review and release policy, the adequacy of resources available to all Agency declassification and release programs, and hearing requests in accordance with this section.
(p) The Order means Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009 and published at 75 FR 707 (or successor Orders). [62 FR 32498, June 16, 1997, as amended at 76 FR 59034, Sept. 23, 2011]