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Final Product (FOIA 24-F-0250)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2024 · 26 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (24-F-0250) centers on a January 8, 2024 AARO memorandum for record. The memo describes the office's repeated attempts through 2023 to interview David Grusch for its Historical Record Report. It concludes that Grusch had no intention of giving AARO information about his claims. The release also includes text messages with Chris Mellon and congressional staff, email exchanges with Grusch, and DoD SAPCO and ODNI CAPCO memos stating that AARO may receive classified and NDA-protected UAP information.

  • p. 4 …It was on the interview Sunday. Pentagon is preparing a response. His assertion that we aren…
  • p. 8 …position of the Pentagon, released to media Tuesday, approved by OGC and the Secretary: 'By law…
  • p. 26 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 3200 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-3200 MAR 08 2023…
Chris Mellon @ Ila
To', Jun 1.i Vet law , CO
Hill OGC generally advise members only,
They advise their employers, not members of the public
It's either a lawyer at the Hill or a lawyer in DoD. Who am I sending them to?
Either the law is law or we can scrub having anyone else come see AARO. ,
You can't tell Chuck to go to various committees on the Hill. It needs to be someone who represents AARO in the
Executive Branch.
There are a dozen Hill committees with Majority and Minority counsel who may not even agree.
Depends on how badly people want this sorted. Send me chuck's contact info. k, Ar 09
Not without his permission obviously. How about I relay your contact info here to Chuck? ,
This will get sorted, of that I have no doubt It is only a matter of how quickly and by whom.
I'm not giving my contact info out Given the harassment and threats. That's why we have a secure mechanism.
Chris Mellon
He obviously doesn't have to do so and he oven said 'How do I know Sean is not a target of the ongoing criminal investigatron'
(!) Horirever; that being said, I „
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And yes, you are defending and adjudicating, and you're undermining the very organization you purported to help
establish for this purpose. 1445'
Really? Odd, I try to bring everyone to AARO I can; I am trying to help put Dave in touch with your GC if you can
provide simple contact info; I'm not judging the claims between you and Dave and have not claimed his claims are
accurate, I've said he is sincere and credible and his and other claims, which I expressly called 'allegations:warrant
investigation, I have no idea what u or Dave discussed or when and I'm not taking a position on that or even the
underlying claim of recovered materials. So I'm kind...
Road Moro
Dave can now sa 'Sean has refused to 'provide me or attorne the contact information that would allow us to

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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.