Legal Status of NRO – Briefing to Joint DOD-CIA IG Team, 11 September 1995

Background

The following document was a “Top Secret” briefing by the Office of General Counsel at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) regarding the “Legal Status of the NRO,” given to a Joint DOD/CIA Inspector General team on 11 September 1995.

I filed the FOIA request to receive the document in April of 2018 and it was released in May of the same year.

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 Legal Status of NRO – Briefing to Joint DOD-CIA IG Team, 11 September 1995 [23 Pages, 1.8MB]

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This post was published on May 23, 2018 6:32 am

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