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- p. 14 …By contrast, information which is about someone acting in an official or work capacity should normally…
- p. 18 …Volume 2, Working Paper 5, page 5-1, paragraph 1.
The sentence "The incidence of visual…
- p. 22 …within the sixty working day period, your requests will be combined and work to process your…
- p. 31 …43 should be cited.
- In Volume 2, working paper no. 5. Page 5-3, paragraph 9…
- p. 33 …wording in brackets which refers to the work of DI51. This should be redacted under s…
- p. 34 …be stated as such.
- In Volume 2, working paper no. 5. Page 5-3, paragraph 9…
- p. 38 …be stated as such.
- In Volume 2, working paper no. 5. Page 5-3, paragraph 9…
- p. 46 …It is for these reasons that we have taken the decision to do no further work…
- p. 49 …to have got forgotten while we were working on many requests, including the UAP report. I…
- p. 51 …to have got forgotten while we were working on many requests, including the UAP report. I…
- p. 54 …to have got forgotten while we were working on many requests, including the UAP report. I…
- p. 60 …to have got forgotten while we were working on many requests, including the UAP report. I…
- p. 71 …The author was initially employed as a contractor and commenced work on the report in December…
- p. 77 …relations with other countries by disclosing their work on UAPs and related programmes.
11. In anticipation…
- p. 78 …in case they were useful to the work of the Defence Intelligence Staff. During a policy…
- p. 82 …Friday, 28 April, to spend two days working at the British Library.
Assuming the report is…
- p. 85 …look forward to hearing from you when work on the document is completed (hopefully soon). Please…
- p. 86 …He was a contractor working for a private company, who was temporarily employed by the MOD…
- p. 87 …He was a contractor working for a private company, who was temporary employed by the MOD…
- p. 88 …not the case the private company he worked for must be known and contactable.
Other than…
- p. 89 …not the case the private company he worked for must be known and contactable.
Other than…
- p. 91 …Redact "Section 40
## Volume 2
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- p. 95 …While I am aware of the sensitivity of the work of the DIS, I would point…
- p. 96 …The author was initially employed as a contractor and commenced work on the report in December…
- p. 99 …52
## Flying Saucer Working Party - minutes, memos and final report
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- p. 110 …While I am aware of the sensitivity of the work of the DIS, I would point…
- p. 113 …In the meantime, thanks again for all the work you have put into processing this substantial…
- p. 114 …With regard to Volume 2 - Working Paper 9 (low flying charts) my colleagues in Low Flying…
- p. 116 …it clearly involved a considerable amount of work. I gather from the documents already released that…
- p. 118 …early January once we have done the work. Section 40 welcome to come of course. Please…
- p. 119 …and will not be possible within 20 working days or within the £600 limit. We therefore…
- p. 124 …Unlike the Flying Saucer Working Party report which was over 50 years old when released, this…
- p. 127 …8) The release of the final report of the DGSTI Flying Saucer Working Report No.7…
- p. 141 …Had to stop to do some real work.
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- p. 144 …A decision has been made not to carry out any further work on the subject. The…
- p. 148 …I am working on a post-doctoral project at the University of Sheffield which is examining…
## Section 40
Directorate of Air Staff-Freedom of Information Ministry of Defence 5th Floor, Zone H Main Building Whitehall London SW1A 2HB
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JGmc.
11 April 2007
## FOI Request
## Dear Section 40
I wish to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information relating to MoD's internal discussions concerning public statements made by a former desk officer on the subject of UFOs.
As you will no doubt be aware one of your predecessors, Mr Nick Pope, who was Sec(AS)2a from 1991-94, publicly declared his conversion to "a believer" in UFOs in 1995 after he left the post (Mail on Sunday, 2 July 1995). In the following year a book he had written about UFOs, and his experience as a desk officer responsible for dealing with public inquiries about UFOs on behalf of MoD, Open Skies Closed Minds, was published. The book set out Mr Pope's belief that UFOs did pose a possible defence threat to the UK in stark contrast to the publicly stated MoD policy (which remains in place today) that the phenomenon has been repeatedly judged, most recently by the DIS report on UAPs, to be "of no defence significance."
I am fully aware that Mr Pope's statements, during his employment with the MoD, were made in a private capacity and that he was not authorised to speak on behalf of the MoD. I also appreciate that the Data Protection Act 1998 protects information of a personal nature. Nevertheless during his employment, and specifically in 1995-96, Mr Pope was a serving MoD officer and the stance that MoD decided to adopt in response to his very public statements - that were clearly in contrast to the department's stated line - must fall within the category of information defined as "in the public interest."