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  "slug": "de-bmvg",
  "register": {
    "slug": "de-bmvg",
    "name": "Federal Ministry of Defence",
    "local_name": "Bundesministerium der Verteidigung",
    "abbr": "BMVg",
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "Germany",
    "country_code": "DE",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "ministry",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/de-bmvg",
    "website": "https://www.bmvg.de",
    "reading_room": null,
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "de-ifg-2005",
      "citation": "IFG v. 5.9.2005 (BGBl. I S. 2722)",
      "statutory_days": 30,
      "business_days": false,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 30
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "poststelle@bmvg.bund.de",
        "label": "Ministry mailroom (Poststelle)",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, Stauffenbergstraße 18, 10785 Berlin",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "Luftwaffe air-surveillance and quick-reaction-alert records",
      "Answers to Bundestag interpellations on unidentified aerial phenomena (published as Drucksachen)",
      "No standing UAP desk — the ministry has said sightings are not systematically recorded"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "Bundestag answers on UAP are free and already public — search the Drucksachen before filing.",
      "Ask for the fee estimate before consenting; IFG fees can reach €500."
    ],
    "tracking": "IFG file reference issued with the acknowledgement or decision.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}