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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.
0 114 100, Chris Mellon I've asked OGC for contact info CO Great! Waiting to hear back. CO I will be happy to provide that to Dave and Chuck if you like I think you have a fascinating and important iob and I want nothing more than to see the process work. Please don't think I am out to make your iob harder. Actually, Dave can't say any such thing since he hasn't asked me for anything. Only you. Actually, he probably can and might! But that doesn't matter, I have no specific reason to believe he will and I am not proposing that to him. Just trying to close the loop and move things toward a good outcome. Thanks. Yesterday 0 You .tt chsapoettring message time to I work This is official position of the Pentagon, released to media Tuesday, approved by OGC and the Secretary: 'By law, AARO may receive all UAP-related information, including any classified national security information involving military, intelligence, and intelligence-related activities, at all levels of classification regardless of any restrictive access controls, special access programs, or compartmented access programs. Moreover, there is no restriction to AARO receiving any past or present UAP-related in... Read More ; Y CO N•w Allostagos I've passed that along to Dave for his attorney's review. Per your message above I'll seek to avoid further communication unless it is something that seems extraordinarily urgent or you initiate. &40 0 Well OK! I'll get that off to Dave and his attorney this morning. Thanks. 7.54 Am 0 40
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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.