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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.
Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review Hi Jim, I spoke with the last remaining reviewer last week. They are finishing up their review. They had some delays getting responses from their sub-components but they resolved that and they are finishing up and will be returning their review to me. I will be back in the office tomorrow (I've been on telework for a few days) and I will check if they've returned it to me. As soon as this last review comes in, I'll complete the review package and provide our final response. Thanks for your patience. We never intend for reviews to take this long. Thanks, Kelly ----- Original Message----- --------- From: JAMES LACATSKI [CauimnrCaiiiiimljiiiiiM Caution-Caution-Caution-mailtq(b)(6) . ] Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 j:u4 kivi Subject: Rc: [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. Hi Kelly, Is the review close to completion? It is now at the 11 month point. Jim Lacatski Sent from Outlook From: McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:37 PM To: 'JAMES LACATSKI' Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review Jim, I'm keeping the pressure on them. I do not want to redact large swaths of your book so we'll ensure that they respond and adjudicate their information. Thank you for the well wishes. I hope your holidays are joyous too. Thanks, Kelly 6
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.