{"id":8372,"date":"2019-10-28T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2020-06-09T00:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:40:22","slug":"ussr-ufo-sightings-someone-must-have-made-a-political-decision-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/ussr-ufo-sightings-someone-must-have-made-a-political-decision-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"USSR &#8211; UFO Sightings &#8211; Someone Must Have Made a Political Decision, 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The following document was just one of thousands of pages on UFOs released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In July of 2018, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request on the record, since it had been many years since its last review, and it remained heavily redacted.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the CIA claims the material that remains redacted (which is pretty much everything) is due to Section 3.3(b)(1). This is defined in the executive order as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>Sec. 3.3\u00a0Automatic Declassification.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>(b) An agency head may exempt from automatic declassification under paragraph (a) of this section specific information, the release of which should clearly and demonstrably be expected to:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>(1) reveal the identity of a confidential human source, a human intelligence source, a relationship with an intelligence or security service of a foreign government or international organization, or a nonhuman intelligence source; or impair the effectiveness of an intelligence method currently in use, available for use, or under development;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p>The following is a table\/side-by-side comparison of the previous release vs. the newest release. Captions will outline which page comes from which release.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8372 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6-8-2020-5-36-31-PM.jpg'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6-8-2020-5-36-31-PM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6-8-2020-5-36-31-PM.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6-8-2020-5-36-31-PM-600x802.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6-8-2020-5-36-31-PM-224x300.jpg 224w, 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noreferrer\">CREST<\/a> database on this document, as it stands on October 28, 2019 when the screen shot was taken. 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