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This is a Memorandum and Order in Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. National Security Agency, Civil Action No. 80-1562, signed by a United States District Judge on November 18, 1980. The plaintiff sought all NSA records on UFOs under the Freedom of Information Act. The court reviewed a public affidavit and a 21-page top secret in camera affidavit from NSA official Eugene Yeates. It found that the withheld communications intelligence reports and portions of four other documents were properly exempt, granted summary judgment to the NSA, and dismissed the case.
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CITIZENS AGAINST UFO SECRECY, Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, Defendant. Civil Action No. 80-1562 ## MEMORANDUM AND ORDER This Freedom of Information Act case is before the Court on defendant's motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff is seeking all documents in defendant's possession relating to UFOs and UFO phenomena. Defendant has provided some material but has withheld other material pursuant to various FOIA exemptions, see 5 U.S.C. § 552(b) (1976). The bulk of the material withheld consists of communications intelligence reports, which defendant asserts are protected by Exemptions 1 and 3 of the Freedom of Information Act. Four documents at issue are not communications intelligence reports; defendant has withheld one of these documents in its entirety, and portions of three others, pursuant to these exemptions, and exemptions 5 and 6. The Court first carefully reviewed the public affidavit of National Security Agency official Eugene Yeates and then, after receiving plaintiff's opposition, examined personally a top secret affidavit from Yeates, submitted by defendant in camera. The public affidavit provides a general statement of the defendant's position that is strongly bolstered by the extremely detailed, 21-page in camera filing. On the basis of these affidavits, the Court finds that the claimed exemptions have been properly and conscientiously applied. The communications intelligence reports clearly relate to the most sensitive activities of the defendant and thus fail squarely within the protection of Public Law 86-36, 73 Stat. 63 (1959). The in camera affidavit provides the
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Memo, 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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.