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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.
mailto (b)(6) mailto(b)(6) ; JAMES LACATSKI (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. Hi, Could I have a progress update on 20-SB-0058 "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon"? We are at the six month point since the manuscript was submitted. Your last email from two months ago indicated that 3 components had it for additional review. Thanks, Jim Lacatski Sent from Outlook From: JAMES LACATSKI (b)(6) Sent: Thursday, July 16, 202U 10:51 PM-------------- --------- To: McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) ; JAMES LACATSKI(b)(6) Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review --------- Thanks. Jim Lacatski Sent from Outlook From: McHale, Kelly A CIV WHS ESD (USA) Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:53 PM To: 'JAMES LACATSKI' Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: DOPSR Case 20-SB-0058 - Manuscript Review Mr. Lacatski, Our work posture has changed to part-time in the office so we are working to get book reviews out to our components and receive their responses. Your manuscript is currently tasked out to 3 components for review. At this time, I cannot it
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.