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Mellon DOPSR Docs 2024 (FOIA 24-F-1134)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2024 · 17 pages · text from the file's own layer

This 2024 Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (24-F-1134) contains Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review records for a submission by Chris Mellon, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. In January 2024 Mellon submitted for release an unmarked message from a former DoD official alleging a program exploiting recovered off-world technology. The file includes emails chasing reviews from OUSD(I&S) and AARO. Both reviewers raised no objection, and on March 1, 2024 the case was cleared for open publication.

Unclass
Tel:
(b)(6)
Class
Tel:
(b)(6)
From:
OSD
Pentagon
OUSD
Intel
-
Sec
Sent:
Wednesday, February
28,
2024 1:32
PM
To:
(b)(
6
)
CIV
WHS
ESD
(USA)
Subject:
RE:
(U)
status
request
DOPSR
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
Good
afternoon and
happy Wednesday!
AARO,
please
provide
a
status
of
this
action.
24-P-0218
was only
assigned
to
AARO
in CATMS.
If
you
would
like
l&S
to
work
addition
review
it
will
need
to
be
assigned
to
USI
as
well.
24-P-0258
was completed
by
l&S
attached as
well
as put into
CATMS
under supporting documents.
24-P-0272
was
assign
to
l&S(373
attached
and
in CATMS
in
supporting documents) as
well
as
AARO
in
CATMS.
Have a
great
day and stay safe.
(b)(6)
OUSD
l&S
Exec
Sec
Pentagon
(b)(6)
(b)(6)
Direct line
(b)(6)
Office
line
Direct
all Exec
Sec
business
to
our
office
email:
(b)(6)
Exec
Sec
Share
Point
(b)(6)
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
6
(b)()
From:
CIV
WHS
ESD
(USA)
Sent: Wednesday, February 28,
2024 1:14
PM
OSD
Pentagon
OUSDTo:
(b)(
6
)
CTR
OSD OUSD
INTEL
&
SEC
(USA) (b)(6)
Intel -
Sec
List
(b)(6)
D
Pentagon
OUSD
;
u
Intel -
Sec
List (b)(6)
Cc: OSD
Pentagon
OUSD
Intel -
Sec
(b)(6)
Subject:
Re: (U)
status request
DOPSR
Good
afternoon!
Writing again re
the case below.
I'm still
waiting on responses as indicated.
24-P-0218-
l&S
and
AARO-
suspense
9 Feb
24-P-0258-
l&S
and
AARO-
suspense
9 Feb
24-P-0272-
AARO
only- suspense 16 Feb
These cases need to be completed
ASAP. Not only is DOPSR under a lot of pressure from
(b)(5)
(b)(5)
, but (b)(6) has complained publicly about how long reviews are taking and DOPSR is now

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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.