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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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originating with other Federal agencies or components would be
referred to the ~riginating agency. A total of seventy-nine
documents were referred to various agencies for their direct
response to plaintiff. . : ~
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6. An additional NSA document ~as referred to the NSk by .
the CIA on July 27, 1979. (The fourth and final CIA referral.)
In a letter dated December 19, 1979, Mr. Banner responded to the
referral by again advising Mr. Gersten that this record is
exempt from release under 5 u.s.c. § 552(b)(l) because it was
classified in its entirety, ~nd exempt from release undei 5
u.s.c. s 552(b)(3) because disclosure of it was prohibited by 18
u.s.c. § 798, 50 u.s.c. § 403(d)(3) and Public Law 86-36. (A
true and correct copy of this letter is attached as Exhibit 6.)
7. By letter dated January 23, 1980, plaintiff ~ppealed •·
the denial of the information referred by CI~ and the subsequent
denial of ·his general FOIA·request of February:l6, 1979. ·ay
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reply letter dated March 24, 1980, the NSA Freedom o~ Informa- .
tion Act/Privacy Act Appeals Authority affirmed the denial of
.---Iplaintiff's request for release of information on the same
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grounds as cited above. (A copy of this letter is attached to
the Complaint as Exhibit K. A true and correct copy is also
attached to this affidavit as Exhibit 7.)
a. Finally, a portion of a document which is respon:ive · l
to the plaintiff's request was rece~tly declassified and released
to counsel for the plaintiff by letter dated September 15, 1980.
{A true and correct copy of this letter less the enclosure ·.:.,~~·.:-
is attached as ~xhibit 8.)
THE STATUS AND MISSION OF NSA
9~ NSA was established by Presidential Directive in
October 1952 as a separately organized Agency within the
Department of Defense under the direction, authority, and
control of the Secretary of Defense, who was designated by the
President as Executive Agent of the Government for conducting
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Document, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.