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Glomar response

noun

Etymology

So named because it was used in response to a request for records about the Glomar Explorer submarine-retrieval ship.

Definitions

  1. A response by a US government agency (etc) that it can "neither confirm nor deny" the…

    A response by a US government agency (etc) that it can "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of (secret) information which has been asked for.

    • If a requester knows that the CIA may use the Glomar response only for requests about covert operations, then a Glomar response to a FOIA [amounts to revealing that something exists as a covert operation].
    • As an alternative basis for its holding, the District Court held that the CIA Information Act, 50 U.S.C. § 431, permits a Glomar response only when the FOIA request relates to a covert activity.

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