Documents / FOIA release
This is the Department of Defense's final response to John Greenewald Jr.'s FOIA request 22-F-0035, dated August 5, 2025. It releases 106 pages from the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with some material withheld under exemptions (b)(4), (b)(5) and (b)(6). The pages cover the 2020 to 2021 security review of James Lacatski's manuscript "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: Correcting the Record," about DIA's AAWSAP program. The records include DIA, Air Force and DHS reviews, and the manuscript was cleared as amended in May 2021.
McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESP (USA) From: Sent: To: Subject: (b)(6) Tuesday, August 2020 12:20 McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA); WHS Pentagon ESD Mailbox SECREV SAF/PA Case Completed: Case Number 2020-0436 SAF/PA has completed the review process for your case on 11 Aug 2020: Subject: Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: Correcting the Record (Book) Originator Reference Number: 20-SB-0058/0 Case Reviewer: Beverly Sumpter Case Number: 2020-0436 The material was assigned a clearance of NO OBJECTION on 11 Aug 2020. If local policy permits, the Review Manager for your case, Beverly Sumpter, beverly.a.sumpter.civ@mail.mil, will prepare a hard copy of the review and will forward it via mail or prepare it for pick up. 1
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 109 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.