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This 2025 Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (25-F-1324) collects Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review records on Christopher Mellon's submissions, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, from 2022 to 2024. His article "The Next Step: UAPs in Space and America's New Sputnik Moment" was cleared in July 2022, and his speech "UAPs and ET" was cleared as amended for accuracy. His foreword to Luis Elizondo's book was cleared in January 2024.
Thu 6/2/2022 4:35 PM To: (b)(6) TR OSD OUSD INTEL & SEC (USA) (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) SI.PR: JWICS: From: (b)(6) CIV WHS. ESD (USA) Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 5:37 PM To: (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) Re: DOPSR request (b)(6) CIV WHS. ES.D (USA) (b)(6) û 2 attachments (307 KB) America's New Sputnik May 31st.pdf; Form373.(b)(4); 2014_USDI8tS.pdf; Perfect, thanks so much! It's attached. The requested suspense date is 10 June if at all possible. Let me know if you need anything else! Regards, ce o Prepublication and Security Review (b)(6) Pentagon Unclass Tel: (b)(6) How am I. doing? https://ice.disa.mil/index.cfm?fa=card&sp=139133&s=110&dep=* DoD From: (b)(6) Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2022 6:24 AM To: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Subject: RE: DOPSR request Thanks,® You can send it to me on NIPR since it's unclass. Subject: DOPSR request Good evening! I have a short article that needs a review from your component. The author is former DASD for Intel' Christopher Mellon. How do you prefer to receive it? I. can send via NIPR, SIPR or JWICS. Please advise and thanks! Regards, Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review
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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 34 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.