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This MoD file, titled UFOs - Persistent Correspondence - Dr David Clarke, holds Dr David Clarke's Freedom of Information requests and emails to the Directorate of Air Staff from 2005 to 2008. Clarke asked for the DI55 report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region and for Rendlesham papers. He also sought records about Nick Pope. Other items include an internal review that released redacted passages on plasmas, the MoD's statement that it had no report of the 2008 South Wales police helicopter sighting, and a 2009 disposal form.
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## Section 40 From: Section 40 ENCLOSURE MUMBER Sent: 16 December 2005 11:50 To: Section 40 Subject: RE: FOI Request - Dr David Clarke ## Dear Section 40 Thank you for your email. I believe Section 40 has been in touch with you about the first point. I am very happy for you to continue to correspond with Dr Clarke as DAS are the policy lead and you have established a relationship already. It's best that he has one POC in MOD! On the redaction points, Section 40 has already checked the first two volumes from a security/technical perspective, and has agreed to redact Vol 3 which does need some technical data redacted. Section 40 be checking them from an FOI perspective. For example, we have seen some references to other nations, which might need redacting. We hope to have completed this task by early January. As it will be a one-off publication, creating a new class under the publication scheme may be unnecessary. Instead of placing the reports on the MOD's publication scheme, we could place them in the MOD's FOI Reading Room which is available at the www.mod.uk website. Info-Access views would be welcome. I am happy to host a meeting here in early January once we have done the work. Section 40 welcome to come of course. Please ring me if you have any other points. Have a good (UFO-free) Christmas! Section 40 Section 40 DI BCR CG AD Section 40 From: Section 40 Sent: 15 December 2005 12:09 To: Section 40 Cc: Subject: RE: FOI Request - Dr David Clarke ## Dear Section 40 Thank you for this. I thought Section 40 was your FOI focal point and have copied my e-mails to her, so I apologise for sending them to the wrong place. I will deal with Section 40 future. All of the information Dr Clarke has asked for in this request is DIS material and not held by DAS. However, Dr Clarke has been corresponding with me about UFOs almost continuously for over 5 years and we have released a lot of information to him. In order to stop him starting a similar long chain of correspondence with yourselves and so I can keep track of what information he has been given I thought it best that your response comes through me rather than directly to him. If you would prefer to correspond directly with him, please let me know. Otherwise I believe that you are best placed to decide on what can be released from these documents (with the input of any other parties as you see fit) and the use of any exemptions. You would then need to redact any information which is to be withheld. As the FOIA is an entitlement to information not documents it would be acceptable to provide a digest of releasable information but given the number of documents involved it may be more practical to provide copies (redacted where necessary). I would then be
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