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AARO records on attempts to engage with Grusch (FOIA 24-F-0266)

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This FOIA release comes from the Department of Defense Freedom of Information Division. It answers request 24-F-0266 from John Greenewald of The Black Vault, and the response is dated March 21, 2024. It holds 26 partly redacted pages, including a January 8, 2024 AARO memorandum for record on repeated invitations to interview David Grusch, along with text messages, emails and authorization memos from DoD and ODNI. AARO concluded that Grusch had no intention of giving it information about his claims.

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Wed, Jun 28
Hey. What is Rubio talking about? 8 13pm 00
He's referring to previous witnesses that provided testimony regarding the C/R program. Those witnesses will not go
to AARO.... They were asked to
Do we have notes from their testimony?
Are their program names?
Owners?
Anything I can verify? , (0
I can review when back in office. On vacation a few more days.
definitely a few program names
Fri, Jul 21
Great job on the interview! Glad they allowed it to happen
Thanks.
Still need those alleged program names. c r,,,1
I'll talk to leadership and get back. 7 03
CN was sent over yesterday with one of my findings. 7 )4 F CO
The agreement, as I recall, was if someone came to you all, we would be invited to participate so I can document and
investigate. That hasn't happened, yet I've had you all over to participate. As it stands, Congress is not enabling us to
actually do the job set in law for us to do and is withholding information from the office Congress set up.
Raises a lot of questions. 1 -j fon
Since you started interviewing we've had no one we didn't send your way so that's just not true
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