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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755-6000

FOIA Case: 75788A 20 March 20 15

JOHN GREENEWALD

Dear Mr. Greenewald:

This responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of 23 November 2013, which was received by this office on 25 November 2013, for "a copy of all records pertaining to Mother Teresa AKA Agnes Gonzha Bojaxhiu." As previously provided, your request has been assigned Case Number 75788. For purposes of this request and based on the information you provided in your letter, you are considered an "all other" requester. As such, you are allowed 2 hours of search and the duplication of 100 pages at no cost. There are no assessable fees for this request. Your request has been processed under the FOIA and one document is enclosed; this document was located during a new search.

However, ten documents (18 pages) have been withheld in their entirety­ the same documents that were withheld in your prior request, Case Number 59589. The ten documents have been reviewed by this Agency as required by the FOIA and have been found to be currently and properly classified in accordance with Executive Order 13526. These documents meet the criteria for classification as set forth in Subparagraphs (b) and (c) of Section 1.4 and remain classified TOP SECRET or SECRET as provided in Section 1.2 of Executive Order 13526. The documents are classified because their disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security. Some of the information is exempt from automatic declassification in accordance with Section 3.3(b) of E.O. 13526. Because the documents are currently and properly classified, they are exempt from disclosure pursuant to the first exemption of the FOIA (5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(1)).

In addition, this Agency is authorized by various statutes to protect certain information concerning its activities. We have determined that such information exists in these documents. Accordingly, those portions are exempt from disclosure pursuant to the third exemption of the FOIA which provides for .. ..

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the withholding of information specifically protected from disclosure by statute. The specific statutes applicable in this case are Title 18 U.S. Code 798; Title 50 U.S. Code 3024(i); and Section 6, Public Law 86-36 (50 U.S. Code 3605). No portion of the information is reasonably segregable.

The Initial Denial Authority for NSA information is the Associate Director for Policy and Records, David J. Sherman. Any person notified of an adverse determination may file an appeal to the NSA/ CSS Freedom of Information Act Appeal Authority. The appeal must be postmarked no later than 60 calendar days after the date of the initial denial letter. The appeal shall be in writing addressed to the NSA/CSS FOIA Appeal Authority (DJ4), National Security Agency, 9800 Savage Road STE 6248, Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6248. The appeal shall reference the adverse determination and shall contain, in sufficient detail and particularity, the grounds upon which the requester believes that the determination is unwarranted. The NSA/ CSS FOIA Appeal Authority will endeavor to respond to the appeal within 20 working days after receipt, absent any unusual circumstances.

Sincerely,

PAUL J. BLASKOWSKI Chief FOIA/PA Office

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How History Records "Herstory" she was a woman who achieved much, Abbreviated biographies of notable women and was not intimidated. Her faith, her commitment to social justice, and her l:ry Shelly Levy and Jennifer NeimiUer Sandra Day O'Connor- determination to do what was right gave " .. .1 will bting the understanding of a her courage. omen have made history in !llC woman to the Court, but I doubt that United States, but their stoties alone will affect my decisions. r think the Madam C.J. Walker- Whave not always made it into the important thing about my appointment A daughter of former slaves, Madam history books. Women's conttibutions is not that I will decide cases as a woman, CJ. Walker rose from an impoverished helped shape our Nation. Some women but that I am a woman V.:ho will get to childhood to become America's first became famous for their work, their decide cases." black female millionaire. Born Sarah ideas, or their leadership. Others, just by O 'Connor graduated in 1952 from Breedlove in 1867 in Delta, Ll\, Walker surviving the frontier, working in facto­ Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, CA. was orphaned when she was 7 years old, tics, or manning the front-lines of re­ Men outnumbered women 30 to 1 in her married at age 14, and widowed at the form movements, proved they were class. Although she graduated third in a age of 20. Dreaming all the while of a hardly the "weaker sex." Women over­ class of 102, O'Connor found that legal better life for herself and her daughter, came poverty, racism, and sexism to ac­ firms were not eager to hire a woman she worked as a laundress in St. Louis, complish their goals. lawyer. She went into govemni~nt work MO, for almost 20 years. Then, in 1905, The following biographies may in­ and held many positions including Waiker invented a new hair-care prepa­ clude some unfamiliar names and valu­ county attorney in San Mateo, CA, assis­ ration for black women and began to sell able insight, as well as interesting tant attorney general for the State of it door to door. The tnixture, Madam information about well-known women. Alizona, a seat in the Arizona State C.J. Walkei-'s Wonderful Hair Grower, Senate, head of the A1izona State Repul>­ mel with almost instant success, and Maria Mitchell- lican Party, county judge, and appoint­ Walker soon started her own cosmetics When Maria Mitchell was growing up ment by lhe governor to the Arizona company. In an era when most urban in the Qualer community of Nantucket, Court of Appeals. As the first woman black women worked as cooks or maids, MA, in the early 19th century, few young appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Walket- owned a corporation and em­ women were allowed to study higher O'Connor will always occupy a special ployed hundreds of individuals across mathematics, let alone astronomy. How­ place in American history. the Nation. ever, Mitchell's father, a devoted ama­ As he1· wealth increased, Walker made teur astronomer, introduced her to both Frances Perkins- lavish contributions to black schools, or­ the tigors of mathematics and the divine Frances Perkins was the first won1an phanages, and civil tights organizations. machinery of the night sky. He also en­ in the United States Cabinet. She was the She also involved herself in political and couraged her inclination toward teach­ architect of some of the most extensive social causes, campaigning for the tights ing and passed on his sense of God as and ·important reforms and social legis­ of black war veterans and for Federal evident in the natural world. lation ever enacted in America, includ­ antilynching legislation. Walker rose Mitchell went on to international fame ing the establishment of Social Security. quite literally from rags to tiches. She through her discovery of a comet. She Although Perkins began her career as gave other black women an unparalleled became the first professional female as­ a teacher, she soon became caught up in example of pride and self-determina­ tronomer in the country, and was the social causes. The turning point in her tion. first woman to be elected to the Ameri­ life came when she witnessed the Trian­ can Academy of Arts and Sciences. gle Shirtwaist Company fi1·e in Gt·een­ Mother Teresa- Mitchell's yearning for a higher purpose wich, CT in which 146 workers lost their In 1948, Mother Teresa started her in her life eventually led her to Vassar lives. From then on, Perkins' life 1nission work in Calcutta among those who were Coll ege (one of the first colleges for wa.~ to better the conditions of all work­ at the very bottom of human society­ women) as the school's professor of as­ ers. people who were destitute, cast out, tronomy. Mitchell wa.~ a powerful influ­ President Franklin Roosevelt ap­ mentally disabled, and homeless people ence on the lives of her students. She pointed Perkins Secretary of Labor dur­ who were dying with no on e to care for became deeply involved in the struggle ing the greatest economic crisis in them. She started with no money and no for women's education against the prej­ American history-the Great Depres­ organization behind her, but with a pro­ udices of the time. sion. Perkins prodded, pressured, and found conviction that if she acted out of MitcheU was continually uplifted spir­ persuaded businessmen, labor leaders, love, all else would follow. itually by her study of the heavens. That and politicians to respond to the needs The number of men and women en­ she never failed to recognize the close of the American people. Those needs tering religious or·der·s continually de­ connection between her work and faith included the establishment of safer clines. However, the Missionaries of in God is evident in her famous words: w01·king condi6ons, fairer wages, rea­ Charity, the order founded by Mother "Every formula which expresses the law sonable working hours, unemployment Teresa, is rapidly expanding. The order of nature is a hymn of praise to God." insurance, and Social Security. Clearly, now serves in over 70 countries. A

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Brother organization pursues a similar erful political job. strength and bravery, Tubman went on goal. The Sisters and Brothers work with Born into a conservative Republican to work as a nurse and spy for the Union the poorest garbage-pickers in Cairo, family, Hillary Clinton became involved Army during the Civil War, fight fo•· lepers in Tanzania, alcoholics in the with civil rights and poverty programs women's right to vote, and help open a slums of Lima, and AIDS victims in New through her Methodist Church. After home for poor and elderly black people. York City-wherever the need is greatest graduating from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and Yale Law School in Antonia Novello- Sojourner Truth- Connecticut, she took a job as a lawyer Dr. Antonia Novello's medical career Sojourner Truth was a leader in the with Marian Wright Edleman's and her dedication to public service so fight against slavery in America. Born a Children's Defense Fund. · impressed President Bush that he nomi­ slave in the late 1790's, she labored in the In ] 975, she married Bill Clinton. He nated her as Surgeon General, the fields of New York landowners until she was elected governor of Arkansas 3 years Nation's highest medical officer. Con­ was finally freed in 1827. later. Hillary Clinton joined the Rose gress approved, and on March 9, 1990, At the age of 46, guided by her reli­ Law Finn, a well-known legal office in she was the first woman as well as the gious faith. Truth set out on behalf of Little Rock, the State's capital. In 1993, first Hispanic to become Surgeon Gen­ women's 1ights. Although she had no she became the First Lady of the United eral. formal education, Truth became famous States. Novello earned her degree from the for her wise, spellbinding speeches. Dur­ Despite Clinton's controversial image, University of Puerto Rico, where she ing the Civil War, Truth nursed she remains an active and determined specialized in pediatrics. She wanted to wounded Union soldiers and helped for­ health-care and women and children's improve health care services for all peo­ mer slaves adjust to freedom. She contin­ rights supporter. ple, especially women and children. ued to champion the civil rights cause As Surgeon General, she traveled un61 het· death in 1883. Marie Curie- aCJ"oss the country promoting health Respected by such influential fig11res Born in Poland in 1867, Marie Curie awareness She warned against the dan­ as Frederick Douglass and Abraham lin­ is one of the most famous women of all gers of smoking, teenage drinking, and coln, Sojourner Truth was one of the time in the field of science. There was of mixing drinking and dtiving. Novello most important activists of her time. She little opportunity for anyone, especially often confronted the companies that remains an inspiration to all those who a woman, to get an education in Poland. produced tobacco and alcohol. She als o dedicate their lives to furthering racial Therefore, Curie relocated to study in addressed the issue of domestic vio­ and sexual equality. France. She was the first woman in Eu­ lence. Novello gave special attention to rope to receive a doctorate degree. ca1·e for children withAJDS, and to treat­ Clara Barton- There she met and married Pierre Curie. ment for breast cancer and other As founder of the American Red Together they pursued their interest women's diseases. Cross, Clara Barton created an organiza­ in science. Fascinated by the newly dis­ tion that during the past 100 years saved covered phenomenon o f radiation, Amelia Earhart- the lives of countless disaster victims and Marie and Pierr~ discovered two new When Amelia Earhart was a young girl wartime casualties. Her personal accom­ elements-radium and polonium. The in Kansas, she loved to read adventure plishments were even more significant. CUiies then found uses for these new stories and often wondered why girls In a petiod when women were seldom elements in the field of medicine. For never got the adventurous roles in the allowed to be anything other than wives their discoveties, the Clllies shared the stories. and mothers, Barton excelled in several Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with An­ In her lifetime, Earhart supplied a lot careers. As an educator, she demanded tonic Becquerel, the discoverer of radio­ of matetial for adventure stories. From needed reforms in the school systems in activity. In 1911, Marie Curie was her t1ip as the first woman to pilot an which she taught. As a nurse, she cared awarded a second Nobel Prize in Chem­ airplane across the Atlantic Ocean, to for hundreds of Civi l War wounded. As istry. set6ng world air-speed records, to her a rliplomat, she was an adviser to sena­ final detennination to pilot her airplane tors and presidents. Barton overcame Harriet Tubman- around the world, she always showed her timid nature to become a most influ­ She was born into slavery on a Mary­ courage and daring. ential woman of her time and a great land plantation in 1820. Harriet Tub­ On july 2, 1937, 19 hours into her humanitarian in Amclican history. man, a rebellious child, did not always do famous around-the-world trip, Amelia as she was told. Earhart's Lockheed Electra airplane Hillary Rodham Clinton- Determined to change her life, Tub­ went down in the Pacific Ocean. Her like Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady Hil­ man escaped to the north on the Under­ disappearance sparked a massive 2-week lary Rodham Clinton has been cliticized ground Railroad in 1849. During the search by American, japanese, and Brit­ for the way she looks and acts, and for next 10 years using money she earned ish ships and planes. Searchers covered having too much influence on the Presi­ doing odd jobs, Tubman returned to the thousands of square miles without suc­ dent of the United States. Though she South and led approximately 300 slaves cess. To this day, the mystery of what often changes her image in response, she to freedom. happened to Earhart and her navigator makes the role of the First Lady a pow- Called "General Tubman" for her remains unsolved.

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