By John Greenewald, Jr. – The Black Vault – Originally Published May 19, 2020 Within the walls of the Pentagon, which serves as the headquarters for the Department of Defense (DoD), there is a “multi-agency task force” operating within the shadows. This task force does not aim to guide Americans through a pandemic. It does not investigate terrorists around the globe. This one? It’s aim is to research Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAPs. In recent statements obtained by writer Roger Glassel, who contributes to Swedish magazine UFO-Aktuellt, DoD spokesperson Susan Gough stated, “The U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The following document was first released in 2003. It has resided in the CIA’s CREST database as document number: CIA-RDP80T01497R000100080015-7. Although the letter was originally released, the list of histories created, were not. So, on May 25, 2019, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request to the CIA for a review of the complete document. On March 17, 2020, the CIA released the document. Although redactions did still appear; much of the record was released. It is available below. Document Archive Completed Histories of DDI Components, 26 July 1973 [7 Pages, 2.2MB]
Background President Donald Trump sent the following letter to the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 18, 2020. The entire letter is below, without editorial. Document Archive
Background This National Intelligence Daily was issued on April 24, 1980. It appears in the CIA’s CREST database, as CREST #0005148740. Originally, it was released in 2010 with heavy redactions. In June of 2019, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR), and in March of 2020 – the CIA released the below version with less redactions. Document Archive National Intelligence Daily – June 2, 1990 – 2020 Release – [26 Pages, 11MB]
Background This article was written for the CIA Studies in Intelligence. The author was Benjamin B. Fischer. In August of 2019, The Black Vault requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request on this document, which was previously released, though was redacted in many parts. The MDR was responded to in March of 2020, and did reveal some new information never before revealed. That part was the following paragraph, speaking about a 1981 KGB ‘esimate’ that had a drastic change on how the Soviet Union viewed itself when contrasting to previous estimates created in the 1970s. This was the newly revealed…