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This is an in camera affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, sworn in October 1980 in the case Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562. It says NSA located 239 documents and explains why it withheld 156 communications intelligence reports produced between 1958 and 1979. It also explains the deletions in two released staff papers. The affidavit concludes that disclosure would reveal intelligence sources and methods, so the records are exempt under FOIA.
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on a transmission from a unit to a reporting a sighting of an unidentified flying object), (a report based on a message from to an unidentified recipient which provided instructions for reporting the sighting of flying objects), and (a report based upon a transmission between reporting that some saw a ball of light about the size of an orange moving overhead). One document in summary format is the product of an intercepted transmission reporting the sighting of an elongated ball of fire. One document in message format reports the text of a message sent by the to the reporting an unidentified flying object. One document in summary format reports the text of a message from which was transmitted along a "government net" facility. It reports, among other items, an increase in UFO activity. The last three documents in this group report on intercepted communications of Each report contains information derived from intercepted transmissions reporting the tracking of unidentified aircraft by radar operators. ## EXEMPTION OF THE COMINT REPORTS 10. A primary and often overriding consideration regarding the classification of COMINT reports is that the need to protect communications intelligence sources and methods is greater than the need to protect sensitive contents of the underlying intercepted messages. Nevertheless, no portion of the contents of COMINT reports may be disclosed, where, as here, revealing the information would have the effect of identifying
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Document, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.