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SUBJECT: A CUFON EDITORIAL 16-MAY-1994 FILE: UFO2135
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This the second in a series of CUFON editorials: 16-MAY-1994
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In our constant effort to verify material, we noticed that a reproduction of a
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) "Withdrawal Notice," (NA
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Form 1400 (4-85)) appears on page 525 of _Above Top Secret, the Worldwide UFO
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Coverup_, Timothy Good, Sidgewick & Jackson Limited, London, 1987,
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ISBN 0-99496-7.
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Such withdrawal notices retain the place of restricted or classified documents
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in the holdings of the NARA.
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The implication made in Mr. Good's statement in the caption to the withdrawal
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notice reproduction is that the document which this particular withdrawal
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notice represents is a "... Top Secret UFO report...". This does not appear
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to be the case.
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Dale Goudie, Director of the UFO Reporting and Information Service has filed
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requests with the NARA for the document, "Report TR-DE-3A," represented by the
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withdrawal notice which Mr. Good reproduces. Correspondence and a sample page
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from the "sanitized version" of the report are reproduced below.
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The "sanitized version" of Report TR-DE-3A is very heavily censored making it
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difficult to ascertain the actual report contents in detail. But by the
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title and the text that does remain, it is apparent that this report concerns
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the collection and analysis of "electronic intelligence", (ELINT). While it is
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possible that ELINT collection might have to do with UFOs, it seems unlikely
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that this particular report is related to UFOs judging by the context of the
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released text.
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We also wish to point out that although the records of "Project Blue Book,"
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the official records of the United States Air Force UFO projects Sign, Grudge
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and Blue Book which are in the custody of the NARA are included in NARA Record
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Group 341, "Records of Headquarters, United States Air Force." The withdrawal
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notice in question is _not_ from the Blue Book records. According to a NARA
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official, there are no withdrawal notices in the Blue Book records. Simply
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stated, the Blue Book records are a component of RG-341.
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The withdrawal notice does, however, represent a restricted document from
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RG-341. We are not claiming that Mr. Good has stated that this withdrawal
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notice is from the Blue Book records, but neither does he make the
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distinction between RG-341 and Blue Book.
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We believe that the reproduction of this withdrawal notice with the caption
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Mr. Good has applied to it is misleading. It cannot currently be said that
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this withdrawal notice represents a withheld "... Top Secret UFO report.".
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We agree that there are many UFO related documents being withheld by the
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various government agencies.
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In reply to a request from Congressman Steven Schiff's office (R-NM), we
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have provided a letter and a full photostatic copy of the "sanitized version"
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of Report TR-DE-3A. Our letter to Rep. Schiff is also reproduced below.
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Jim Klotz - CUFON SYSOP
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Dale Goudie - CUFON Information Director
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National
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Archives Washington, DC 20408
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November 10, 1993
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Reply to: NNRM94-1360-ER
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Mr. Dale Goudie
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Dear Mr. Goudie:
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This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act inquiry
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(NN93-1216) dated October 15, 1993. Your letter was received in
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this office on November 8, 1993.
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Project BLUE BOOK files contains no withdrawal notices. They
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were all declassified when we accessioned them. We cannot
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identify any other series in Record Group 341 as "UFO related
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files."
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In order to request a declassification review of withdrawn items
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you must identify the specific withdrawal notices that would be
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found among the records you examine in our search room. We have
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no listings of withdrawal notices that have been placed in our
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records.
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Sincerely,
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/s/ Jo Ann Williamson
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JO ANN WILLIAMSON
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Chief
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Military Reference Branch
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Textual Reference Division
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National
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Archives Washington, DC 20408
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November 10, 1993
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Reply to: NNRM94-1361-WM
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Mr. Dale Goudie
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Dear Mr. Goudie:
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This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act request
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(NN93-1217) of October 23, 1993, which was received in this
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office on November 8, 1993.
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The original document is currently security classified. Since we
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must submit the document to another government agency, we are
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unable to complete the processing of your request within the ten
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days provided for by the Act. The amended Act [5 U.S.C. 552
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(a)(6)(B)] provides that an agency may be allowed additional time
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to complete its review of the requested records if that agency is
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exercising due diligence in responding to the request. We will
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inform you when the review is complete.
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We can furnish a sanitized copy of "report TR-DE-3A, Elint
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Progress Report Supplement" 15 October 1955, Documents Relating
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to Intelligence Activities, (entry 267, NM-15), Records of
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Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, Record Group 341, for $6 (our
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minimum mail order fee). We can also make it available in our
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research room.
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Remittance should be made payable to "NATF-NNRM94-1361-WM" and
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sent to the National Archives Trust Fund Board, P.O. Box 100793
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Atlanta, GA 30384. Please return the enclosed NATF Form 72 with
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your remittance. Instructions for ordering are printed on the
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back of this form. We have a minimum fee of $6 for all mail
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orders. If you wish to pay by using a MasterCard or VISA credit
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card, you should return the enclosed form (annotated with type of
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credit card, account number, expiration date, and your signature)
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to the Cashier (NAJC), National Archives, Washington, DC 20407.
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Your account will be verified before the copies are shipped.
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Beginning in December 1993, the National Archives will move more
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than 800,000 cubic feet of records from several facilities to its
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new building, Archives II, in College Park, maryland. the move
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will continue through 1996, and during that time, various record
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groups will be closed for research and reference activities,
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including requests for information and reproductions. If
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planning a research trip to Washington, within the next years,
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verify with each reference branch that records that you will want to
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see will be available.
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The "Archives II Researcher Bulletin" publishes updates of the
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move schedule. You should write the Textual reference Division
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(NNR), National Archives and records Administration, Washington,
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D.C. 20408 to obtain copies and be put on its mailing list. You
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may write this division or call the Reference Service Branch
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(202) 501-5400, for more information on the move status of specific
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records. We know this massive move will inconvenience people;
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we ask your patience and understanding while we move records to
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Archives II.
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Sincerely,
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/s/ Jo Ann Williamson
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JO ANN WILLIAMSON
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Chief
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Military Reference Branch
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Textual Reference Division
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SANITIZED COPY
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SENSITIVE INFORMATION DELETED
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USAF
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TECHNICAL REPORT NO. TR-DE-3A
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(TITLE UNCLASSIFIED
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ELINT PROGRESS REPORT SUPPLEMENT
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PROJECT NO. 20024
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15 OCTOBER 1955
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DEPUTY FOR ELINT
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AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
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OHIO
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SECTION I
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SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH [------------------------] (TOP SECRET)(AFOIN-4C2)
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1. Analysis of [--------------------------------] of nine recent
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[--------------------] made by an Air Force Security Service [-----------]
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[------------------------------] has indicated that these [----------] may
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be associated with a [---------------------------------------------------]
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(para 22b) [-------------------------------------------------------------]
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2. The principal characteristics of these signals as summarized
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from USAFSS data are shown in Table I. All of the intercepts were made
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at the [---------------------------------------------------------] and
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[--------------------------------------------------------------] (para
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23c) [-------------------------------------------------------------------]
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a. Laboratory analysis at ATIC has shown that the [----] of
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these [------------------------------------------------------------------]
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[--------] In one case [------------------------] both of these [--------]
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occurred simultaneously. A correlation between the recordings and the
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operators' logs indicates that a [-------------------------] is used
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with the [--------] and a [----------------] is used with [--------------]
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[------------] para 23c) [-----------------------------------------------]
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b. Two different [----] modes were observed. They are: (1)
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[--------------------------------------------------------------] and
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(2) [----------------------] Both [----] modes have been seen at [-------]
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[-------------] (para 23c) [---------------------------------------------]
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3. A comparison of the [----------------------] with collateral
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information has provided a tentative association of this group of sig-
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nals with the [----------------------------------------------------------]
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[-----------------------------] (para 22b[-------------------------------]
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a. There is very little intelligence on this [------] but it
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is estimated to have the following [--------] design characteristics:
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(1) [------------------------------------------------------]
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(2) [------------------------------------------------------]
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* denotes source of material. AFOIN-4C2 is the Analysis Division under
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the Deputy for ELINT ay ATIC.
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National
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December 14, 1993
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Reply to; NNRM94-02320-KS
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Mr. Dale Goudie
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Dear Mr. Goudie:
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This is in response to your letter of December 4, 1993.
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Record Group 341, Records of Headquarters United States Air
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Force, consists of 7,739 cubic feet of material, arranged in over
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500 series. Project BLUE BOOK, the documentation relating to
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investigations of unidentified flying objects, is just one series
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in this record group.
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The copy of the withdrawal card you enclosed with your letter is
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from RG 341, Entry 267. This entry consists of the records of
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the Dissemination Branch of the Office of the Deputy Chief of
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Staff, Operations. These are not the BLUE BOOK records.
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We will inform you when we have received a response concerning
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your FOIA request (NN93-1216).
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Sincerely,
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/s/ Kenneth D. Schlessinger
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KENNETH D. SCHLESSINGER
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Military Reference Branch
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Textual Reference Division
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March 12, 1994
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The Honorable Steven Schiff
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District Office
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625 Silver Ave., Suite 140
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Silver Square
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Albuquerque, NM 87102
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Dear Congressman Schiff,
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We are writing to follow up on our February 6 letter; we are in
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receipt of your reply. Since you, as a congressman, received
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what you considered inappropriate response to a request for
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information from the Department of Defense, we thought that you
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would be interested in the existing situation which we describe
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here with the help of an example.
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We are writing to provide an example of the Freedom of
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Information Act (FOIA) in action; of how the FOIA works.
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We became interested in a document which was supposed to have
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been retired to the National Archives and maintained in NARA
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Record Group 341: records of the Headquarters, United States Air
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Force. This document was not in the collection, however. In its
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place was a "withdrawal slip." A withdrawal slip holds the place
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in the files of a document which is being withheld by an agency.
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Dale then made a FOIA request to the Modern Military Branch,
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Textual Reference Division, NARA for the withdrawn document. We
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are informed that NARA then requested the document from the
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activity of the Air Force withholding the document on Dale's
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behalf as a requester.
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Apparently, that Air Force activity provided a "sanitized" copy
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of the document to the NARA which, in turn, for a nominal fee,
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was reproduced and shipped to us. We have attached a copy of the
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sanitized report.
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As can be readily seen by even a cursory examination, a great
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deal of the text has been selectively deleted, (redacted), before
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release. We'd say that this document has been "well sanitized!"
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At this point, we want to be clear that we sincerely believe that
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there is a need and a proper use for secrecy, precisely for the
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protection of the national security. Use but not abuse.
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A case can be made for the continued protection of intelligence
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sources IF any living person could be compromised from the
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release of names. However, in this case, human intelligence is
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not the subject but electronic intelligence (ELINT).
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Similarly, an equally strong case can be made for withholding
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site names and locations of intelligence monitoring sites, IF the
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sites are still active.
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However, it is very difficult to understand how most, if not all,
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of the information excised from the report can have any relevance
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to the protection of the national security now, nearly 40 years
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later.
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Certainly, technology issues are no longer relevant. The vacuum
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tube and discrete transistor technology, and the extremely
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limited and cumbersome computational hardware of 1955 is far
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outstripped by the high speed digital technology of today.
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Consequently, signal analysis methods in use in 1955 would also
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be obsolete.
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Right along with the advancement of digital computer technology,
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information coding and decoding techniques must have also
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evolved. In this light, it is hard to understand the need for
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secrecy now about methods which were in use in 1955.
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Perhaps more importantly, it seems likely that the political
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situations or entities no longer exist which inspired the
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collection of intelligence and the attendant secrecy. Even if
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the political entities still exist, the immense changes in the
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political structures and interests of the world since 1955 would
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surely make intelligence, or the fact that it was gathered,
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obsolete today. Again, it is difficult to understand how any of
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this material need remain classified.
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In short, it seems unreasonable in these days of the decline of
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world communism, and announced openness, that a citizen would
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receive such an answer to a legitimate Freedom of Information Act
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request. A recent position Memorandum from President Clinton to
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heads of federal departments and agencies reads, in part:
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"I therefore call upon all federal departments and
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agencies to renew their commitment to the Freedom of
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Information Act, to its underlying principles of
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government openness...
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We believe that eliminating unnecessary secrecy such as in this
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case is one of the goals of President Clinton's Presidential
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Review Directive (PRD) 29. PRD 29 orders a sweeping review of
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secrecy and classification in general with an eye to a re-write
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of Executive order 12356.
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There are many more examples like the attached sanitized report;
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such apparently unnecessary secrecy is pervasive. We have been
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told by an ex-military intelligence officer that the standard
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practice (in the informant's unit) was " ... when in doubt,
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classify ... when in doubt about at what level to classify,
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classify higher.", "... we routinely classified everything Top
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Secret ..."
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Any researcher who uses the Freedom of Information or Privacy
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Acts to any extent learns by experience that although most
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agencies act in a businesslike manner, the agencies do not make
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things easy. On the contrary, even if one can identify a
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specific document to inconsistently applied standards, the
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resulting search may be made only among previously released
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records. Or so many portions of a document are withheld
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(redacted) that the meaning of the contents can only be guessed
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at as in the attached example.
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Illegible copies are another frequent result of FOIA requests.
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The rubber stamped admonition "BEST COPY AVAILABLE," or "POOR
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ORIGINAL" appear often on largely or completely unreadable
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copies. Per page reproduction fees are charged in some instances
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for illegible material.
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Through personal experience with the FOIA, we find it very odd
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that on repeated occasions, an agency or storage facility will
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have extensive records of mundane day-to-day activities, but will
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deny possessing any records pertaining to much more dramatic
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events. In one instance, voluminous records were available of a
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post Korea Air Force construction unit making repairs in local
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public buildings in spare time, but made "no records" responses
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to requests for regulations and other records of events which had
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garnered media attention.
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It appears from our experience that each Department, each branch,
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each Agency and some units have regulations and other special
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unit specific documents which define the procedures for that
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activity in handling FOIA and Privacy Act requests. In one case,
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"canned responses" to use in reply to certain specific FOIA
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requests appeared in an Army "FOIA SOP" (Freedom of Information
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Act Standard Operating Procedure) document. Upon obtaining a
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partial copy of this document, we were informed that the document
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was being withdrawn from use.
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The apparent simplicity of the FOIA is crushed under the weight
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of large complicating requirements imposed by less well known
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documents such as Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5400.7,
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"DoD Freedom of Information Act Program."
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The feeling that the spirit of the FOIA does not enter into most
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FOIA or Privacy Act cases is pervasive among those who use these
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Acts to any extent. Many stories of FOIA adventures appear in
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literature.
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Dale is in the process of appealing the withholding of so much
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from the attached report. We feel that it is important to follow
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the prescribed procedures to their conclusion.
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As indicated in our previous letter, we are not actively pursuing
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the "Roswell Case," we do have much similar information about
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other, similar cases of unnecessary secrecy and
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non-responsiveness of government departments and agencies. Most
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notable among these is probably "Project Aquarius." At least two
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Senators have requested information on this matter with
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inconsistent result.
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Should you be interested in the outcome of the appeal on the
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enclosed document, or if we can provide you with additional
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information, please do not hesitate to write us.
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Sincerely,
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/s/ Dale Goudie /s/ James Klotz
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Dale Goudie James Klotz
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P.O. Box 832
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Mercer Island, WA 98040
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March 23, 1994
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Reply to: NNRM94-04986-ER
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Mr. Dale Goudie
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Dear Mr. Goudie:
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This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act inquiry (NN94-306)
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dated February 20, 1994, and received in this office on March 15, 1994.
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The document you cite "Report TR-DE-3A, ELINT PROGRESS REPORT
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SUPPLEMENT" dated 15 October 1955, was filed under a Top Secret Register
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number 5-2862, Record Group 341, Entry 267. This entry is a arranged by Top
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Secret register numbers. The Top Secret register number was placed on each
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document in this entry when it was received by Headquarters U.S. Air Force
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while in their custody. There is no index to this series and the register
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number to a particular document does not relate to other documents that may be
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on the same subject. We examined the contents of the archives box in which
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5-2862 was found but did not locate the report on "TR-DE-3", nor have we
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located any ELINT progress reports or a separate series for the Deputy for
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ELINT. Research in this series requires one to examine all boxes of this entry.
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"TR-DE-3A" (5-2862) was withdrawn by our Declassification Division, based on
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guidelines provided by the originating agency the Air Force, after we
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accessioned the records; the withdrawn document is retained in that division.
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When you submitted a FOIA on this document we forwarded it to the Freedom of
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Information Office of the United States Air Force for declassification review.
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Sincerely,
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/s/ Timothy K. Nenninger
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TIMOTHY K. NENNINGER
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Chief
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Military Reference Branch
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Textual Reference Division
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April 26, 1994
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Reply to: NNRM94-6304-TKN
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Dale Goudie
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Dear Mr. Goudie:
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This is in response to your letter, dated April 3 which we
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received April 25, regarding your October 23, 1993, FOIA request
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(NN93-1217).
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As we indicated in our November 10, 1993, letter to you (copy
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enclosed), we have forwarded a copy of the document you requested
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to the Department of the Air Force for further declassification
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review. This review is to determine whether any additional
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portions of the document deleted during the original Air Force
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declassification of the document can now be declassified.
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Because the Air Force has not completed its review and informed
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the National Archives of its outcome, your appeal of these
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deletions is premature. The established procedure for handling
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your original FOIA request is still underway and not yet run its
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course. When the Air Force completes its review, we will inform
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you of the outcome.
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Sincerely,
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/s/ Timothy K. Nenninger
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TIMOTHY K. NENNINGER
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Chief
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Military Reference Branch
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Textual Reference Division
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Enclosure
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