Baker submitted a FOIA request to the CIA in 1999.

Evidence

I filed my first Freedom of Information Act request about twenty years ago, on April 2, 1999, while I was working on the book about libraries, called Double Fold. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 78

Categorization

• XREF: This highlights the significance and an example of FOIA in practice. — connects to: The National Archives has a pending FOIA request that is twenty-five years old. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 25
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 78