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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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from these sources is no less vital to U.S. planners than the 13. (TSC) The need to protect against any identification of the targets of intercept operations is equaled by the need to protect against revealing the identity of the sources Disclosure of the records could have extremely adverse repercussions to the U.S. over and beyond the The most serious would be a [At the very least] significant loss of disclosures which would tend to identify for COMINT Furthermore,
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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.