DO YOU WANT A LIST OF RARE, PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE MILITARY REPORTS ON
THE SUBJECT OF BEES AND APICULTURE?
 
You can get a list of [largely unpublished] military technical
reports on agriculture and related topics.  Many of these reports have
been locked away for various bureaucratic reasons and have not been put
into the public domain, until now.
 
Here are some subject keywords with which you can obtain a LIST of
several dozen military technical reports on studies pertaining to bees
from the Defense Technical Information Center, a government agency. [see
below]
 
KEYWORDS:  (suggest you select ten or less keywords)
 
bees, apiculture
winged insects
bee venom
hymenoptera
wasps, insects, formicidae
honey
honeybees
pollination
 
IMPORTANT NOTE:  Do not bother using the DTIC web site--in a nutshell,
it is worthless because the web site omits most of the two million
technical reports in the DTIC collection. [Most of these reports are
NOT, repeat NOT, repeat NOT in the NTIS collection, and have been
unavailable to the public.]  Send a letter instead--you will get much
better results.
 
The fee is likely to be free or only a few bucks.  You probably want to
include a statement in the letter such as *I agree to pay reasonable
fees associated with this request.  Please notify me if the cost will
exceed $25.*,  so that they won't delay the processing of the request.
Remember, they WILL try to dissuade you from asking for such a list.  If
they send you a letter, and you do not respond, they will withdraw your
request and you will not get your information.
 
Here is a form letter to use for your request:
 
To:    Defense Technical Information Center
       Attn:  DTIC-RSM [Kelly D. Akers, FOIA Manager]
       8725 John J. Kingman Road, Suite 0944
       Fort Belvoir, VA  22060-6128  USA
Phone:  703-767-9194
 
Dear Ms. Akers:
 
I request the following records under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act:
 
A computer generated technical report bibliography of reports on the
subject[s]/keyword[s] of:
 
________________  OR   _________________  OR  ________________  OR
 
 _______________   OR   _________________  OR   _______________
 
Please send me this bibliography for all years in your computerized
index.
 
This is a request for DTIC records, please don't forward my request to
NTIS.  Please include both classified and unclassified records in your
search.  If any of the records are classified, please review them for
release, or the release of nonsensitive portions.
 
I am an individual, noncommercial requester and this request is not
being made for commercial purposes.
 
[OR YOU MIGHT INSTEAD INDICATE DIFFERENTLY IF YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL
REQUESTER, OR AN EDUCATIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, OR A
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MEDIA; AND YOU SHOULD JUSTIFY YOUR CATEGORY
PLACEMENT WITH SOME INFORMATION ABOUT WHY YOU BELONG IN THE EDUCATIONAL
AND SCIENTIFIC, OR MEDIA CATEGORIES.]
 
I also agree to pay up to $25 for reasonable fees associated with this
request.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
______________
 
 
 
Hope you find this a useful resource.
Michael Ravnitzky
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