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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.
steps to defeat, the capabilities of NSA's intelligence gathering ~ ~ !i :• techniques. 1:I' -~~ 16. The RELEASE OF COMINT REPORTS COMINT reports being withheld from the plaintiff are all based on intercepted foreign communications. The disclosure of these records would identify the communications I that had been successfully intercepted and processed for intelli- j . II II I I 11 II lj 1!r IJ !! II I I gence purposes. No meaningful portion of any of the records could be segregated and released without~entifying the communications underlying the communications intelligence repo~t:__~) Also disclosed would be the communications lines, channels, links, and sys~_ems targeted and intercepted and NSA' s ·1 capa~ilities to successfully process the underlying communica- I tions. These communications targets and the processing techniques• are. current intelligence sources and methods. __ Disclosing - - . , them would. permit foreign intelligen~e officials to draw inferences and make assessments about this nation's COMINT collection and processing activities that would enable them to take counter-measures, as described above, to defeat the capabilities of NSA's intelligence gathering techniques. 17. The COMINT reports being withheld from the plaintiff I are classified in their entirety to protect intelligence I sources and methods. When originat0 ed, certain of the recor.ds were properly classified Top Secret pursuant to Executive Order I 10501, Section l(a), providing \for the application of that classification to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which could res~lt in exceptionally grave damage to the nation, such as .the •compromise of ••• intelligence operations ••• vital "to the national defense." Other documents were properly classified Secret pursuant to Executive Order 10501, Section l(b), providing for the application of that classification to · information, the unauthorized 1isclosure of which could result in 'I ~ ~· ~~1~~· ~~· .. :..?~· .. 1'3~ ....~ ~· B:P· ~: : I : " ;; : . ....: . :f . ~·-t ~;;.>1· ~~'. . !?: ~~· -~~ ~ .. ~:,.-'!: ~~ . ~!~:. :tiii) ~·<.,,... ~~- : f'. :;1; ·. " ffi. •' : L< r,:~...., pr .. "lfi,"J w.. ~- .. .. i.•J. /}~': '"'.~'. ·' £.''. r..' tr
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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.