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  "slug": "uk-mod",
  "register": {
    "slug": "uk-mod",
    "name": "Ministry of Defence",
    "local_name": null,
    "abbr": "MoD",
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "United Kingdom",
    "country_code": "GB",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "ministry",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/uk-mod",
    "website": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence",
    "reading_room": null,
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "uk-foia-2000",
      "citation": "2000 c. 36",
      "statutory_days": 20,
      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": null
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "CIO-FOI@mod.gov.uk",
        "label": "MOD Information Rights Team",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request",
        "label": "gov.uk FOI guidance and online route",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "MOD Information Rights Team, Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB",
        "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": [
      "UFO desk (Sec(AS)/DI55) policy and correspondence after the 2009 closure",
      "Air defence and radar incident reporting",
      "FOI releases published on gov.uk"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "The UFO desk closed on 1 December 2009 and its files went to The National Archives — historic sighting reports are a TNA request, not an MoD one.",
      "If s.26 (defence) is claimed, ask for the public-interest balance to be stated; it is a qualified exemption, not an absolute one."
    ],
    "tracking": "FOI reference issued by the Information Rights Team on acknowledgement.",
    "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": []
}