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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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8d and 9d, e, f) -- immeasurably aids U.S. analysts' studies of the Analysts are able to report on the capabilities of foreign generally. This information enables planners in turn to assess the capability of the system and The data transmitted communications is useful in evaluating the performance capabilities of By monitoring the activity and other transmissions and relating it to geographic areas, the U.S. analyst can Other targeted communications provide critical technical information, such as data which is vital to the development of U.S. countermeasures. Foreign communications are among the sources of intelligence information regarding their nation's intentions, in both the short and long terms. Moreover, the government net system described here continue to yield valuable intelligence data -- including the communication systems discussed in paragraph 9d. (2) Also, the data collected from intercept operations against government net systems (described in paragraph 9c) provides invaluable information to our policymakers. From these sources U.S. analysts are able to compile reports on significant activity. and events. Also, by monitoring these transmissions, analysts are able to obtain data to
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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.