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This Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (24-F-0088) contains the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review file for case 22-SB-0151. The file covers James T. Lacatski's manuscript "The U.S. Government's Secret UAP/UFO Program: The Beginning - Initial Planning and Investigations," co-authored with Colm Kelleher and George Knapp. It holds emails from July 2022 to April 2023, including DIA's review of the 143-page manuscript. The release ends with an April 24, 2023 letter that clears the manuscript for public release but does not endorse its accuracy.
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24-F-0088 Doc 002 (b)(6): (b)(3):10 USC (b)(61 1-0(h). (h)(11. 1 T TCC I b)(6) 111(61. (111(11. 1 () T TcC 8 424 111(Al• /1-11(11• (1 T TCC From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: Attachments: DIA PREPUB REVIEW COMPLETE: (Manuscript) 22-SB-0151 The U.S. Government's Secret UAP/UFO Program kh)(11• 1(1 T Tcr 8 z1.241 Thursday, April 20, 2023 7:41:26 AM 1rnaae004.ong imjaeoQl.onq PREPUB CLEARED for PUBLIC RELEASE Book 2 111 071122,gclf Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//ONAMMo Greetings DOPSR, Hope this email finds you well. Please pardon our lengthy turnaround time to finalize this review (case 22-SB-0151). Due to the sensitive subject content, the review required extensive breakdown efforts by DIA subject matter experts. Effective 20 April 2023 (b)(6); (b)(3):10 USC § 424 (b)(6); (b)(3):10 USC § 424 DIA Prepublication Review approves clearance for public release of DIA equities contained within the attached 143-page manuscript, The U.S. Government's Secret UAP/UFO Program: The Beginning — Initial Planning and Investigations, subject to the following: • Clearance is approved for text of product only— not content found beyond the hyperlinks. The appearance of external hyperlinks do not constitute endorsement by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for the linked websites, the information, the products, or the services contained therein. The DoD does not exercise any editorial, security, or other control over the information you may find in these locations. • Recommend releasability consent by named individuals who do not hold publicly acknowledged positions. • Apart from minor edits or formatting, if substantial changes are made, a subsequent review and clearance is required before it can go to a publisher, presentation in a public forum, or release to anyone else. Please highlight or clearly indicate the new material so that we can expedite the review. Additional material subject to review includes text, photographs, photograph captions, illustrations, diagrams, tables, charts, or maps. You are not required to resubmit products that you amended only to comply with our comments or redactions.
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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 22 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.