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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.
“The Pentagon”10 pages
From: Sent: To: Subject: CHRIS MELLON (b)(6) Thursday, December 14, 2023 3:37 PM (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Re: Status? (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) Hi (b)(6) Thanks very much for the update. Regards, Chris Mellon > On Dec 14, 2023, at 2:27 PM, (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) wrote: > > 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. > > Hope this helps, > > > Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review > Cell: > How am I doing? https://usg01.safelinks.protection.office365.us/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fice.disa.mil%2Findex.cfm%3Ffa%3Dcard%26sp%3 D139133%26s%3D110%26dep%3D*DoD&data=05%7C01%7Cdouglas.g.mccomb.civ%40mail.mil%7C2c3f999a46374e0b6 b7f08d bfce48862%7C102d0191eeae4761b1cb1a83e86ef445%7C0%7C0%7C638381830713104811%7CU nknown%7CTW FpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJOIjoiV2IuMzliLCJBTi161k1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata =ISWaCXs1XK%2BC1sOM5XmCrXI96EZZOLVym1jBr0GIxJ%2Fo%3D&reserved=0 > > > > Original Message > From: CHRIS MELLON > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 2:22 PM > To: (b)(6) CIV WHS ESD (USA) > Subject: Status? > > Hi > 1 (b)(6) (b)(6) > Office: (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6)
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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.