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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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The 143 page manuscript, "The U.S. Government's Secret UAP/UF0 Program: The Beginning -
Initial Planning and Investigations," was written by the former DIA (b)(6); (b)(3):10 USC § 424
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Good Afternoon All,
Please see attached manuscript for security review.
Some of their previous work was cleared in May 2021, which they've included ("Book 2 JTL
Attachments") for background.
Suspense for this review is 30 November. If you have any questions, please let me know
!lave a great day, Not linked to a story yet.
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.