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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.
(b)(5) Yes, we packaged them together for tracking through the review. we're just waiting for the final responses on his manuscript. (b)(5) (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) From: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 10:08 AM To: CHRIS MELLON (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Subject: Re: Forward for Lue Elizondo's Book/ 23-SB-0178 // Lue Good Morning Sir, Have a great day, (b)(6) From: "CHRIS MELLON" (b)(6) Date: Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 2:12:15 AM To: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA)" (b)(6) (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA)1(b)(6) Subject: Forward for Lue Elizondo's Bookf 1.3-513-1/1/8 // Lue Hi Gents: A couple of months have elapsed so I thought I'd touch base and see how the review is coming of the short Foreword I drafted to accompany Lue Elizondo's new book Are Lue's book and Foreword being reviewed sequentially or in tandem? Has the review of my draft Foreword even begun? Any insights you can provide on timing and progress will be appreciated. Thanks, - Chris 1
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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.