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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.
^" •■■■■ McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESP (USA) From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Signed By: McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) Wednesday, May 12, 2021 8:14 AM 'JAMES LACATSKI' RE: (Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review 20-SB-0058 Final Response.pdf (b)(6) Jim, DOPSR has completed the review of your manuscript. The manuscript is cleared as amended for publication. Attached is our final response and the pages with amendments. If you have any questions about this response, please let me know. Thanks, Kelly From: JAMES LACATSK(b)(6) Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 3:4b PM ------------- To: McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) fb)(6) ^^■(b)(6) Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review All active links contained in this email were disabled. Please verify the identity of the sender, and confirm the authenticity of all links contained within the message prior to copying and pasting the address to a Web browser. (b)(6) Tim Sent from Outlook From: McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 2:22 PM To: JAMES LACATSKI Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review Hi Jim, I apologize for the lack of response. I'm finishing the compiling on your book. I'll have the response for you next week. Thanks again for your patience. Component input has been very slow to be returned to our office. Thanks, 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.