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Public Affairs emails with The Debrief

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This FOIA release from DoD Washington Headquarters Services collects 2020 Pentagon public affairs and Navy emails about press queries on unidentified aerial phenomena. It includes the August 14, 2020 announcement that Deputy Secretary David Norquist had approved the UAP Task Force, and follow-ups on a CBS query about a claimed F/A-18 cellphone photo of a triangular object. It also reproduces The Debrief and Vice/Motherboard articles, and internal emails on DOPSR's handling of the Navy videos and Luis Elizondo's AATIP role.

  • p. 6 "In decades with the Intelligence Community I've never seen anything like this," said one intelligence…
  • p. 24 …were unaware of such a message, including never being made aware of UAP reporting through NAVYADMIN…
  • p. 58 …decades with the Intelligence Community I've never seen anything like this," said one intelligence official…
  • p. 73 …decades with the Intelligence Community I've never seen anything like this," said one intelligence official…
  • p. 85 …And we've never said Elizondo never worked on UFOs at all, we've only reiterated…
  • p. 86 …That approval was never granted. Regarding VADM Trussler's question, that would ultimately need to go…
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Jay tells me the photo is part of the active investigation, so it would probably be withheld from release for that reason.
Relatedly, my old boss, now retired VADM Matt Kohler (who was mentioned in the article) got called by the New York
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Feel free to call if you want to chat on any of all this...
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