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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.
If you are not satisfied with this response, you may request that this office reconsider the initial determination. Within 30 days of this response, provide any and all information or explanation of facts that you believe this office should know. You may include citations or copies of similar references that show this information was previously released and already in the public domain, although a mere listing of published citations may not necessarily be sufficient to reverse the initial determination. Please note the wide availability of certain information in open sources does not in and of itself constitute an official DoD or U.S. government acknowledgment, release, or declassification of the information. Additionally, you may rewrite portions of the redacted information and resubmit the manuscript for reconsideration. You also have the right to appeal this response to the appellate authority. The appeal must offer written justification as described above to support the reversal of each required amendment being appealed. Appeals must be submitted within 60 days from the date of this response. Please submit any reconsiderations, rewrites, or appeals to: whs.pentagon.esd.mbx.secrev@mail.mil. Please direct any questions regarding this case to Kelly McHale at kelly.a.mchale.civ@mail.mil or at (703) 614-4903. Sincerely, MCHALE.KELLY KX^ A1290682610 George R. Sturgis, Jr. Chief Enclosure(s): As stated
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.