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

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This is an affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562, and sworn in September 1980. It traces the plaintiff's FOIA requests for NSA's UFO records and the CIA referrals of NSA documents. Yeates says the COMINT reports stay classified in full, and he describes four non-COMINT records that were released in part or found not responsive.

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p. 1 …l. · I am the Chief, Office of Policy, of the National Security Agency (NSA). As Chief…
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p. 3 …li};J· ~- Plaintiff was also advised in this letter that other NSA .:/\~~~.)' :~:.1~l documents existed…
p. 4 …An additional NSA document ~as referred to the NSk by . the CIA on July 27, 1979…
p. 5 …A primary signals inte11i_9~~~~ ..~ ~· . -~~·'l.;i... ~-~ -l'~~ cs~GINT) mission of NSA is to intercept…
p. 6 …I_;_..· ;_:_·._·.:····.·.1,._::._;._) is a prima~y mission of the NSA. Foreign officials may be ·:,_;:~H~.I…
p. 7 …Finally, a communication channel believed to be targeted by NSA can "be used by a foreign…
p. 8 steps to defeat, the capabilities of NSA's intelligence gathering ~ ~ !i :• techniques. 1:I' -~~ 16. The…
p. 11 …All such information relates to classified communications intelligence functions of NSA that have not been publicly…
p. 12 …activities and functions of NSA which are exempt from disclosure pursuant to 5 u.s.c…
p. 13 …The third non-COMINT document is a memorandum for the record by an NSA assignee that…

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to the mission of the Agency. This deletion is non-factual and
does not represent finalized Agency policy. It includes the
kind of an~lysis, frank comment and recommendations, which· an
agency must encourage and protect from public disclosure to avoid
a chilling .effect upon free and candid internal discussions in
1: support of optimum decision making within the Agency. Finally,
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a portion of this record in addition to being_ exempt from dis-
closure under 5 U.S.C. §552(b)(l) and (b)(3) is being withheld
for the reason that it is not within the scope of plaintiff's
request.
c. The third non-COMINT document is a memorandum for
the record by an NSA assignee that was originally withheld in
its entirety pursuant to 5 u.s.c. § 552(b)(5) and (b)(6). ·In
my review today I have ascertained, however, that this memoiandum
is neither in whole nor in part responsive to the plaintiff's
request. It does not deal with UFOs or the UFO phenomena.
Rather, it is a document voluntarily prepared by the assignee
to report an incident that occurred during his attendance at a
UFO symposium. It is the assignee's personal account of his
~ctivities and does not include reference to any UFO sighting or
ji ph~nomena.
ii / a. The final non~COMINT record is a report which
llIi!\ was addressed in paragraph 8, above. The portion of the record
I responsive to this FOIA request has been released to plaintiff's
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attorney, (See Exhibit 8, attached hereto). The remaining
portions of the record contain no reference relating to UFOs or
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