Documents / FOIA release
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)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Attachments: Signed By: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Wednesday, January 17, 2024 1:27 PM CHRIS MELLON (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA); Luis Elizondo RE: Status? 23-SB- 0182 DOPSR Clearance Final.pdf (b)(6) Good Afternoon Sir, The Security Review of your manuscript is complete, and it is now cleared for publication. Please see the attached clearance letter and stamped first page for your records. If you have any questions just let me know. Have a great day, Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review Cell: (b)(6) Office: (b)(6) Original Message From: CHRIS MELLON (b)(6) Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 3:37 PM To: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Subject: Re: Status? (b)(6) Hi (b)(6) Thanks very much for the update. Regards, Chris Mellon > On Dec 14, 2023, at 2:27 PM, wrote: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) (b)(6) > No Sir - no problems at all thus far. We rolled it in with Lue's review out of caution. > Unfortunately his review isn't complete yet, though it is in its final stages. > That said, at this point I anticipate that your Foreword will likely be a "No Objection" response. 1
Not linked to a story yet.
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.