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This Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (24-F-0894) collects March 2024 emails about the rollout of AARO's Historical Record Report. Press officer Sue Gough answers journalists from YLE, the Washington Examiner and Scientific American who asked about embargoed copies and the March 6 roundtable with Acting Director Tim Phillips. The chain also covers coordination with ODNI on the press release, readouts of classified Hill briefings that mention KONA BLUE, and a SASC briefing on drone incursions at JBLE.
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 10:21 AM To: King, Heather SES SD ; King, Heather SES SD (b)(6) ; Waibel, Carlie S SES (USA) ; Zier, Caroline G SES OSD OUSD POLICY (USA) >; Bodian, Lane A SES OSD OASD LA (USA) ; Yayboke, Erol K SES (USA) ; King, Heather SES SD ; Magsa men, Kelly E SES (USA) Subject: RE: Following up from Unders Yes, when they reached out to inquire, Breaking Defense said Langley was being briefed in a classified setting to SASC today, fwiw. Original Message From: Wirkkala, Rheanne E HON OSD OASD LA (USA) (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) >; Meagher, Christopher M SES >, Waibel, Carlie S SES (USA) < (b)(6) CC: Mancinelli, Thomas J SES OSD OASD LA (USA) ; Magsa men, Kelly E SES (USA) <(b)(6) ; Zier, Caroline G SES OSD OUSD POLICY (USA) (b)(6) ; Yayboke, Erol K SES (USA) < (b)(6) Subject: RE: Following up from Unders Thanks, Heather. Copying below the quick read-out of the AARO briefings from our team in case helpful: Mr. Tim Phillips, Acting Director AARO, and (b)(6) were joined by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick in a compartmented brief and a TS//SCI brief to 3 (b)(6)
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.