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.
Jim Lacatski Sent from Outlook From: McHale. Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) Sent: Thursday. May 28. 2020 1:45 PM To: 'JAMES LACATSKI' Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review Mr. Lacatski. We have done our initial review of your manuscript and determined that it requires review' by several components. Due to the nature of the material, it must be processed on the systems at our work site. We are currently on full-time telework and cannot access our work site systems. As soon as we return to the work site, we will task the manuscript to these components. 1 apologize that your book is held up because our operations are interrupted. Thank you, Kelly McHale Security Review Specialist Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review Tel: 703.614.4903 Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution-Caution- https://www.esd.whs.mil/DOPSR/ 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. Hi. (b)(6) 13
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.