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