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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.
From: King, Heather SES SD ; Mancinelli, Thomas J SES OSD OASD LA (USA) ; Magsamen, Kelly E SES (USA) <(b)(6) ; Zier, Caroline G SES OSD OUSD POLICY (USA) < (b)(6) FTVayboke, Erol K SES (USA) <(b)(6) Subject: Following up from Unders Chris / Carlie, Following up from Unders a bit ago - the Deputy asked us to flag for you that the Langley topic re: Breaking Defense may be connected to the AARO rollout that occurred this week. Understand there were hill briefings on UAP led by Tim Phillips (Acting Director of AARO). Now that those hill briefings have occurred, there may be more individuals who are tracking Langley. She asked that we flag for you all and that you get a readout of those hill engagements. Copying Rheanne and Tom here too in case they have color/context! Thanks! Heather (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.