In Camera Affidavit of Eugene F. Yeates

Key highlights

• Yeates states he is responsible for processing FOIA requests at the NSA.p.1

  “I am the Chief, Office of Policy, of the National Security Agency (NSA).”

• 239 documents were located in response to a FOIA request, with many withheld.p.2

  “a total of two hundred and thirty-nine documents were located in NSA files.”

• One document discussed a UFO symposium attended by an NSA employee.p.3

  “an account by a person assigned to NSA of his attendance at a UFO symposium.”

• The document titled 'UFO Hypothesis and Survival' had significant deletions.p.3

  “the deletion on page seven of the name of the employee who prepared the draft.”

Outliers

• Yeates mentions that some reports are considered fictitious by NSA analysts.p.10

  “considered to be fictitious by NSA analysts.”

• One report discusses a UFO sighting but is based on intercepted communications.p.11

  “report the communications which relate th~ an unidentified flying object was sighted.”