UPDATE: Always appeal. The NSA's appellate authority sided with me that although there is information that warrants redaction; it appears not everything does. [Quoted] It took more than nine years. NSA has finally responded to my 2017 FOIA request for a 1972 NSA Technical Journal article, “Maybe It’s Related to the Phase of the Moon...” The release? Heavily redacted. Appeal was just filed, and here's the story: https://t.co/eAhsQin41k