---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 402.115"
title: "20"
number: "402.115"
heading: "The FOIA Exemption 1: National defense and foreign policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/402.115"
---

# §402.115. The FOIA Exemption 1: National defense and foreign policy.


Exemption 1 protects from disclosure information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 405, 902(a)(5), and 1306); 5 U.S.C. 552 and 552a; 18 U.S.C. 1905; 26 U.S.C. 6103; 31 U.S.C. 9701; E.O. 12600, 52 FR 23781, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 235.

### Source

Source: 89 FR 102711, Dec. 18, 2024, unless otherwise noted.