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From: Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas campbell@ufomind.com

Las Vegas Review-Journal, Friday, January 09, 1998

AIR FORCE SECRECY UPHELD

Groom Lake workers are not entitled to information about a classified base for their litigation, a court rules.

By Bob Egelko

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- An attempt to pry loose information about allegations of toxic waste burning at a secret Air Force site in the desert -- said to be the "Area 51" of extraterrestrial lore -- hit astone wall of secrecy in a federal appeals court Thursday. The lawyer for five current and former workers at the base, and the widows of two workers killed allegedly by toxic wastes, are not entitled to learn whether hazardous substances exist there or how they are handled, the results of a federal inspection or even the name of the base, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

The 3-0 ruling upheld the Air Force's claim that giving out that information could endanger national security and a 1995 order by President Clinton further restricting disclosure. Before arguments in the litigation in November, the judges reviewed confidential government statements, while Air Force security officers guarded their conference room.

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