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DoD FOIA 22-F-0035
The Black Vault / DoD · 2025-08-12 · 109 pages · text from the file's own layer
This is the Department of Defense's final response to John Greenewald Jr.'s FOIA request 22-F-0035, dated August 5, 2025. It releases 106 pages from the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with some material withheld under exemptions (b)(4), (b)(5) and (b)(6). The pages cover the 2020 to 2021 security review of James Lacatski's manuscript "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: Correcting the Record," about DIA's AAWSAP program. The records include DIA, Air Force and DHS reviews, and the manuscript was cleared as amended in May 2021.
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KELLY MCHALE, Room: 2A534, (703) 614-4903, Email…
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Kelly McHale
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Kelly McHale
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Kelly McHale
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Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review
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Kelly McHale
Security Review Specialist
Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review
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Kelly McHale
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Kelly McHale
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Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review
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Subject: RE: Manuscript Plan of Action
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- p. 107 …Rich Higgins; Title: "Deep Fight"
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Kelly McHale
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Kelly McHale
Security Review Specialist
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Please direct any questions regarding this case to Kelly McHale at
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