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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.

Handling (RH) level (lAW DNI CAPCO manual Sec. 4). Has the CIA Office of Security (OS) or Directorate of Operations
(DO) provided a memo in this regard for oral history interview subjects? Has the OS provided a memo to also cover
managed-need-to-know (MNTK) projects not directly reported to ODNI CAPCO?
Lastly, what signed policy does AARO have to receive non-title-10 SAPs (ie, DOE and NSC)? Has the EOP NSC Security
Director, Director National Program Management Staff OUSD(I&S), or DOE SAPCO/SAPOC provided a memo similar
to the DoD SAPCO memo you provided?
v/r,
DG
On Mon Nov 13. 2023 at 8:13 AM (b)(6)
(b)(6) wrote:
1 Mr. Grusch,
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Attached are the two items we spoke about:
• The Verbal Legal Advisement that we review prior to the start of every interview.
• The MFR from SAPCO that makes it clear that AARO can receive compartmented information from
interviewees.
Our address is (b)(6) I will meet you in the lobby.
See you tomorrow at 1000,
(b)(6)
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