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

National Security Agency · 21 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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which inferences could be drawn as to the processing methods used, foreign intelligence services would be able to evade or defeat portions of NSA's present foreign intelligence efforts targeting international common carrier links. These countries could be expected to use different routes of communication or

The costs involved would be substantial but not prohibitive; the technology required is now available.

12. The disclosure of other records at issue here, would result in the loss of the intelligence information gathered from the interception of the government net communications systems. The value of the intelligence data collected from these sources is obvious.

(a) For example, analysis of data collected from the intercept of communications of a foreign government- (paragraphs 8a, b, c, e and 9f) communications (paragraph 9c), or transmissions between (paragraphs

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