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This Clinton Library release of Clinton Presidential Records covers the National Security Council email folder labeled Area 51, dated September 15, 1997 to November 3, 2000. It lists withdrawn emails, most held back for national security or privacy reasons. Some emails were released. They include November 1997 talking points on the President renewing a classified information exemption for the Air Force site near Groom Lake, Nevada, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Other released items are news clippings about Lake Havasu grass circles and UFO requests to the NSA.
Page 1 of 2 Exchange Mail DATE-TIME 11/3/97 12:03:25 PM FROM Crowley, Philip J. CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED SUBJECT Revised Groom Lake [UNCLASSIFIED] TO CARBON COPY TEXT BODY TRANSLATED ATTACHMENT FOR USE IF ASKED FYI BACKGROUND ONLY: This is the third such Presidential Crowley, Philip J. Johnson, David T. Luzzatto, Anne R. Rubin, Eric S. Wozniak, Natalie S. Question: Has the President Exempted "Area 51" from the Public Disclosure Requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act? — The exemption relates to two lawsuits under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; beyond that 1 am not going to comment on a matter potentially involving classified information and that is the subject of litigation. — On September 26, the President renewed an existing exemption for the United States Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning the location. The exemption does not limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law other than those that might require the disclosure of classified information. GudGL_.doc GROOM LAKE November 3, 1997 34796D26.FIN •> *
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 37 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.