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Project Condign (DEFE 24/2090)
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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.
“Works”36 pages
- 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
Working Paper No.5, Page 5-1, Paragraph 1 – Redact from…
- 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
Flying Saucer Working Party - minutes, memos…
- 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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From: Section 40
Sent: 03 November 2005…
- 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…
4. A question I feel the Press will certainly ask (see Attachment B) is how much in the way of public funds were spent on the production of this report. If precise figures have not been kept (as the report was part of a larger contract) is it possible to estimate how has been spent, based upon similar projects undertaken by MoD?
It is not possible to provide details of the cost of producing the report. The author was initially employed as a contractor and commenced work on the report in December 1996. However, producing the report was only one of several tasks in which he was engaged and it is not possible to determine how much of his time was divided between producing the report and his other tasks. In addition, the author only spent 50-60% of his working week on these tasks (this time was split between working in London and working at his company's offices). The remaining percentage of his time was spent working on his company's business. The author left his company on early retirement in Section 40 following which he was employed as a consultant for the DIS until completion of the report in March 2000.
5. Who has had sight of this report in terms of senior officials and/or ministers at the Ministry of Defence?
The report was not passed to any MoD Ministers. The report was distributed to only three senior officials within the MoD and Royal Air Force at Director level or above.
6. Further to my email dated 23 February, I should have mentioned one Additional question for DIS relating to the UAP report. I noted that in the three page paper dated 22 January 1997 produced by the author of the report (which you released in August last year), he refers to the UAP project as "Project Condign."
Could DIS confirm that "Condign" was the word used to describe the project during the period 1997-2000. If so, is there any significance in the choice of the word? The similarity to "Condon" (the name of the USAF study, completed in 1969) is striking and I wondered if that was why this name was chosen.
It is confirmed that 'Condign' was the word used to describe the report. The word 'Condign' was randomly generated and any similarity with the word 'Condon' is purely coincidental.
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