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- CUFON: UFO INFORMATION SERVICE SEATTLE WASHINGTON
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- FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT DOCUMENT FILES
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- NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
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- CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE
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- Fort George G. Meade, Maryland 20755 - 6000
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- Serial: Q4-072-87
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- 27 January 1987
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- The Honorable John Glenn
- United States Senate
- ATTN: Mr. Mark Frondorf
- SH-503 Hart Senate Office Building
- Washington, DC 20510
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- Dear Senator Glenn:
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- This responds to your letter of 7 January 1987 on behalf
- of your constituent, Mr. Clifford E. Stone ( Enclosure 1 ).
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- The National Security Agency (NSA) has received numerous
- Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information
- pertaining to UFO incidents. Our records show that Mr. Stone
- has submitted six such requests over the past 7 years. One of
- those requests was for the information mentioned in paragraph 2
- of his letter to you, the UFO incident at RAF Woodbridge Base.
- In our 1 February 1984 response to Mr. Stone ( Enclosure 2 ), we
- notified him that the estimated manpower and computer search
- costs involved in locating records responsive to his requests
- were $250.00. We advised him that, upon receipt of half that
- amount, a search would be made. Mr. Stone did not respond to
- our letter.
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- Regarding the information in paragraph 1 of Mr. Stone's
- letter, we have no record of receiving an FOIA requests for
- documents dealing with a UFO destruction of a Cuban MiG-23.
-
- Paragraph 3 of his letter ask for NSA analysis of the
- document he attached. It appears to be an Air Force document.
- The project names which are referenced, Sigma and Snowbird, are
- not NSA projects. We have no knowledge of the information
- contained in the document.
-
- The subject of paragraph 4, project Aquarius, has been the
- subject of numerous FOIA requests. Apparently there is or was
- an Air Force project by that name which dealt with UFO's.
- Coincidentally, there is also an NSA project by that name. The
- NSA project does not deal with UFO's. We believe that the
- confusion on this issue results from an FOIA requests submitted
- by another person with interest in UFOs, Mr. Christian Lambright.
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- Mr. Lambright requested all information on the NSA project
- Aquarius, apparently believing that the project pertain to UFOs.
- We advised Mr. Lambright that our project does not deal with UFOs.
- He then requested records revealing the "goal" of Aquarius, and we
- withheld the document because it is classified. We have reason to
- believe that our final response to Mr. Lambright, denying him access
- to the records, has been disseminated within a circle of those
- interested in UFOs and that subsequently a misunderstanding has
- developed regarding NSA, Aquarius and UFOs.
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- In responding to general FOIA requests for UFO information,
- certain documents have been withheld from the public pursuant to the
- first and third exemptions of the FOIA. The first exemption
- provides for the protection of information which is currently and
- properly classified in accordance with the provisions of Executive
- Order 12356. The third exemption protects information from
- disclosure by statute. The statutes applicable in this case are
- 50 U.S.C. 402 note ( Public Law 86-36, Section 6 ), 50 U.S.C. 403(d)
- (3) and 18 U.S.C. 798. This Agency's decision to protect those
- records has been upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for
- the District of Columbia.
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- We hope that the information being provided to you will be
- of help to Mr. Stone.
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- Sincerely,
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- Julia B. Wetzel
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- Director Of Policy