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This is an affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562, and sworn in September 1980. It traces the plaintiff's FOIA requests for NSA's UFO records and the CIA referrals of NSA documents. Yeates says the COMINT reports stay classified in full, and he describes four non-COMINT records that were released in part or found not responsive.
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3. This Agency received four separate referrals (described'; .:.3
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below'> from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concerning'NSA~ ·~
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documents located by that Agency when it was engaged in FOIA .-,~~~~ 'iiit
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litigation concerning information pertaining to UFOs. (Ground ~.;;= .. ;~~~ -~
saucer Watch v. CIA, D.D.c; 178-859.) • r. .... y . •!(~
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::c:·::: ::·:I:~is T::·::: ::::i:::.:::~e :~f o::::·::f:::::: ::1~;:: •~; 1ICIA on December 4, 1978 which provided three additional NSA :.;: :;.• ~ . :{:\:
documents. Subsequently by letter dated December 14, 1978,. '.:;:·:~.i~ :·:~ l,;
attorney for the plaintiff, Peter A. Gersten . ··:·~J.:.'t.:~:"\ ~ ·_:·~-·ii
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attorney of record in the CIA litigation) was informed by cx_A)~:.~:. ,-~ \~
the referral of the documents to this Agency. Mr. Gersten then ··, I'·
filed a request with NSA for the eighteen doc_1:1Itlents· in his own
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iil· name on December 22, "1978 •. In a letter dated "January 9, ·1979; ·
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Roy R. ·Banner, thief, ~olicj Staff, advised Mr. Gers~en that·~.
ll the NSA records that had been referred to this Agency by CIA .· ........... .
were exempt from release under 5 u.s.c.s 552(b)(l) because they
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·1 are classified in their entirety, and exempt from release under
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.5 u.s.c. S 552(b)(3) because they are exempt from release
by 18 o.s.c. S 798, 50 u.s.c. S 403(d)(3) ~nd Section 6 of
\j Public Law 86-36 (50 u.s.c. 402 (note)). j ·~A copy of this ~etter
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copy is also attached to this affidavit ~s Exhibit 1.)
4. By letter dated January 29, 1979 Mr. Gersten appealed
,i the denial of the documents referred by the CIA. (A copy
Iof this letter is attached to the Complaint as Exhibit D. A
i true. and correct copy of this letter (less enclosures) is also
II attached to this affidavit as Exhibit 2.) On March 2,. 1979
1\the NSA Freedom of Information Act/ Privacy Act Appeals Authority
! affirmed the denial of the request for release of the information
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