Snepp v. United States (1980) — prepublication keystone.
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SCOTUS upheld an enforceable LIFETIME pre-clearance NDA and imposed a constructive trust on all book profits — crucially, enforceability did NOT depend on any classified disclosure (the government conceded Snepp revealed none); the interest was preserving the 'appearance of confidentiality'.
THE load-bearing honesty fact of the whole insider-suppression story: because the NDA is enforceable EVEN WITH ZERO classified disclosure, the suppression system provably operates independent of whether any secret content (mundane OR NHI) exists. Therefore insider silence is NON-PROBATIVE of NHI. The legal keystone the modern prepublication system rests on.
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Crash-Retrieval Provenance-Independence Analysis (2026).DOPSR / prepublication review.SF-312 Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement.