Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA (Civil Action No. 80-1562)

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file where it had been retained for historical reference
purposes. The deletion was made pursuant to S u.s.c. § 552(b)(3)
which provides that the FOIA does not apply to matters that
are specifically exempted from disclosure by statute. The
applicable ~tatute in this instance is Section 6 of Public Law
86-36 which specif~cally exempts from disclosure the names and
titles of NSA employees •
b. The second non-COMINT document is a memorandum
which discusses the UFO phenomena as the author believes they
may r~late to the intelligence community •. This document was
released with deletions of the descriptive references to the
COMINT operations of the Agency. The deletions contain informa~
tion .which I have determined .to be curr~n!-lY and prop_erly
classified and, thus, exempt from disclosure under 5 u.s.c. !
S 552(b)(l). _ Portio~s of the material deleted also ~oncern ;
.information witr respect to the organization and operational .
activities and functions of NSA which are exempt from disclosure
pursuant to 5 u.s.c."s 552(b)(3) which provides that the FOIA
does not apply to matters that are specifically exempted from
disclosure by another statute. Section 6 of Public Law 86-36
provides that no law shall be construed to require disclosure
of the organization or any function of the NSA or any information
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with respect to the activities thereof. Moreover disclos~re of I
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this information would reveal information protected by 18 !
u.s.c. §798 which prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of
classified information concerning COMINT activities and by the
National SecurTty Act of 1947 (50 u.s.c. S403(d) (3)) which
prohibits the disclosure of information pertaining to intelli-
gence sources and methods. A portion of this document was
deleted pursuant to 5 u.s.c. §552(b)(5) because it represe?ts
this employee's expression of opinion on how the topic relates
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