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This 1995 Clinton Presidential Library file contains Presidential Determination No. 95-45, signed by President Clinton on September 29, 1995, and its supporting papers. The determination exempts the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any hazardous waste law requirement to disclose classified information, following the lawsuits Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry. The file also includes Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall's unclassified declaration invoking the military and state secrets privilege, along with recommendation memos from Widnall, Deputy Secretary of Defense White and Anthony Lake.
09/26/95 TUE 10:02 FAX 703 693 9355 SAF/GC 0008 Security Oversight Office guidance, “[cjcrtain infonnalion that woi 001.3(a)) Protection through or with other classified programs. Consequently, the release of any classified information. 4 National Security TfiformatlQH- of the following categories, is validly classified: classification is requin factor that warrants pi a whole. This theory of classification The mosaic theory of classification classified Declaration is properly classified described in the classified Declaration , As the head of the agency responsible for infomxuion reading the oP««mg near Groom Lake. I have determined that information that concerns this operating location and that falls into any applies to some of the information Although the operating location near by the name or names of programs that ha are claasif.ed; all program names are classified when they are asso operating location near Groom Lake. Nevada I am satisfied that the .nfbnnation described .n the •- i. I have further determined that the information if released to the public, could reasonably be expected to ceptionally grave damage to rhe national secunty 3 Security Classification. Under Information ,uid otherwise be unclassified may require classification when combined cr associated with other unclassified information." (32 CFR 3 •ed if the combination of unclassified items of information provides an added irotection of the information taken as is commonly known as the mosaic or compilation theory. associated with the operating location near Groom Lake. Groom Lake has no official name, it is sometimes referred to we been conducted there. The names of some programs ity k is not possible to discuss publicly cause exceptionally grave uaniat,*-»« •—- aizithnuf risking the very harm to the national security that the majority of information at issue without risking 7 protection of the information is intended to prevent. ciated with the specific location such names would disclose
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 34 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.