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This FOIA release from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, dated January 12, 2024, answers John Greenewald of The Black Vault. It releases, in part, 16 pages of records tied to David Grusch. They include a DoD OIG evaluation work paper on a July 2021 interview with Air Force Major David Grusch, the NRO liaison to the UAP Task Force. In the interview he said there was no formal UAP reporting mechanism and called the DNI UAP report analysis not very in-depth. He also proposed a permanent office for strategic anomalies.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 4800 MARK CENTER DRIVE ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22350-1500 January 12, 2024 Ref: DODOIG-2023-001013 SENT VIA EMAIL TO: john@greenewald.com Mr. John Greenewald The Black Vault 27305 W. Live Oak Road, Suite 1203 Castaic, CA 91384-4520 Dear Mr. Greenewald: This responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for “all records and materials submitted or communicated to the Department of Defense Inspector General by David Charles Grusch in or around July 2021.” We received your request on June 9, 2023, and assigned it case number DODOIG-2023-001013. For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist. The Administrative Investigations Component, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and the Evaluations Component conducted searches and located records responsive to your request. Upon review, we determined that the enclosed 16 pages are appropriate for release in part pursuant to the following FOIA (5 U.S.C. § 552) exemptions: x (b)(5), which pertains to certain inter-and intra-agency communications protected by the deliberative process privilege. The purpose for withholding such recommendations is to encourage the free and candid exchange of opinions and advice during the decision- making process. In applying the foreseeable harm standard, we determined that disclosure of this information is likely to diminish the candor of agency deliberations in the future; and x (b)(6), which pertains to information, the release of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Our review included consideration of the foreseeable harm standard, as stated in DoDM 5400.07. Under this standard, the content of a particular record should be reviewed and a determination made as to whether the DoD Component reasonably foresees that disclosing it, given its age, content, and character, would harm an interest protected by an applicable exemption.
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