Documents / FOIA release
This Defense Intelligence Agency release is a packet prepared for the Deputy Secretary of Defense before a November 17, 2009 meeting with Senator Harry Reid. It contains a memo from Under Secretary James R. Clapper Jr., talking points, and Reid's June 24, 2009 letter asking for restricted Special Access Program protection for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program, which Reid called AATIP. It also includes DIA reviews of 26 Bigelow Aerospace technical reports. DIA and Clapper found no justification for a Special Access Program.
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could result from unauthorized disclosure (para C2.3. l .3) of publically available
information. Although the information can loosely be tied to one of the eligibility
criteria for classification (scientific, technological, or economic matters relating to the
national security (para C2.3.2.5)), DIA is prohibited from classifying basic scientific
research, and its result, unless it clearly relates to national security {para C2.4.3.2).
This requirement has not been met.
• (UHfQiaI'iil) In the second paragraph of his letter, Senator Reid cites "the identification
of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings" that will
"require extraordinary protection." Although most of the unclassified reports discuss
unconventional aerospace technologies, DIA is unaware of any report containing
information sufficiently sensitive and vulnerable to require extra protection associated
with either ACCM or a restricted SAP (paras C6.8. I .2 and C8. l. l .3 ). DIA assumes
these statements are in reference to future phases of this program and highlight
security and counterintelligence concerns that appear to be the main focus of Senator
Reid's letter.
(UIW0U~ Pursuant to a request from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence, Special Programs staff, l(b)(3):1D usc 424:(b)(6) ~orthe
Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program Contract, has forwarded draft
copies of technical reports from the first year, which will be published in the com~in~-~---~
months. If you have questions about the contents of these reports, please contact (bl(3l 10 use 424 (bl(6l
l(b)(3):10 USC 424:(b)(6) ~e will arrange to have l(b)(3):10 USC 424:(b)(6) I
review the reports with your staff.
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FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 18 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.