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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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again, contain information pertaining to the radar operator's report of objects on his radar screen which he cannot identify. c. COMINT Report Which Targets Communications. This document is a summary of intercepted messages prepared in 1976 which report radar tracking information from a radar station to a central control point. It is similar to the reports described in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above. d. COMINT Report Which Targets Communications. This summary was prepared in 1966 by It contains a summary of intercepted communications which were transmitted between the commander regarding a yellow object that was reported to have fallen into the sea. These messages were transmitted along a government net facility. e. Two COMINT Reports Were the Product of SIGINT Operations and Targeted the Communications of The two reports were produced from a field site which is operated by the U.S. and The reports were prepared in 1966 and contain summaries of the communications transmitted by radar operators as discussed in sub-paragraph b, above. One of the two reports is a follow-up report to the other. The relevant activity reported deals with the tracking of an object approximately 50 nautical miles northeast of by the Facility. As with the messages described above, these COMINT reports are summaries of the messages.
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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.