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From: :IV OSD PA (USA)
Sent: ,Nednesday, October 21, 2020 10:31 AM
To: (b)(6) CIV USN DCNO N2N6 (USA)
N2N6 (USA)
Subject: Re: Hmmm...
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Thursday, October 22 2020 9:32 AM
Stratton, John F (Jay) SES USN DCNO N2N6 (USA);
N2N6 (USA); Cummings, Matthew C (Matt) SES OSD OUSD INTEL (USA)
(b)(6) CIV OSD PA (USA)
RE: Hmmm...
(b)(6) IV USN DCNO
I answered multiple queries about DOPSR, the DOPSR process, and the leak of the videos back when I first started
assisting (b)(6) , right after Navy released their new guidance to pilots on UAPs — that's how I initially got involved,
because DOPSR falls under my portfolio. A copy of the DD1910 that Elizondo had submitted to DOPSR to release the
videos for research/database purposes got out to Greenewald, (b)(6) , and others. I also answered some queries about
whether DoD did an investigation, which included what you provi. es me regarding the Navy investigations, and that the
DoD investigation had only looked at whether classified info had been leaked (so the first sentence of the third
paragraph of the article is accurate). AFOSI, of course, never provided PA with a copy of their report, so neither
nor I knew what was in it. The only info we were provided was that their investigation focused on whether classified
information had been leaked, and that the determination eventually was that none had been (keep in mind this was
2019, two years after the leak to NYT/Politico).
And we've never said Elizondo never worked on UFOs at all, we've only reiterated over and over and over again that he
had no assigned responsibilities for AATIP. There was one set of queries very early on that we replied that he had done
some coordination/introductions but did not run AATIP/was not part of AATIP. This was per input from (b)(6) I'd
have to dig around to find that verbage; per OGC, though, we don't use it anymore.
I don't recal (b)(6) asking about AFOSI back in April.
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From: Stratton, John F (Jay) SES USN DCNO N2N6 (USA)
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 8:42 AM
To: (b)(6) CIV OSD PA (USA)
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Subject: RE: Hmmm...
(b)(6)(b)(6) CIV USN DCNO N2N6
Do we know if this was covered in the AFOSI investigation conducted a few years ago?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akwmdk/this-is-the-pentagons-real-men-in-black-investigation-of-tom-
delonges-ufo-videos
Jay,
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Stratton, John F (Jay) SES USN DCNO