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9 (S.D.N.Y. 1980), 507 F. Supp. 117 (S.D. N.Y. 1981) the District Court held that the NSA's refusal to disclose the existence or non-existence of a telegram was unjustified under exemption 3 of the FOIA. ani As the Court states in Webe “Of course, all information gathered by the NSA relates in some way to an NSA activity, simply because the gathering itself is an activity of the Agency. However the underlying policy of the FOIA, which favors full disclosure, requires a more realistic...