Author: John Greenewald

Background This video was declassified and released to The Black Vault in NRO Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Case F-2017-00169 and F-2017-00170. Both cases were answered with a single response and release of two videos — Hexagon: Sentinel of Liberty and Gambit: Eye of the Eagle. Although released before, these videos were at a higher resolution than previously released. Document Archive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Response:

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Background The United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is an independent agency within the executive branch of the U.S. Federal Government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflict of interest on the part of Federal executive branch officers and employees. Under the Ethics in Government Act, this agency was originally part of the Office of Personnel Management from 1978 until it separated in 1989. On November 20, 2016, in a rare occurrence, the OGE tweeted to President-elect Donald Trump about his decisions about divesting in his business to avoid conflicts of interest.…

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Background In January of 2019, a list of 38 reports made under (or connected with) the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program better known as AATIP, was released.  It contained research into “invisibility cloaking” which sparked a huge amount of media and public interest. On January 31, 2019, George Knapp, investigative reporter with KLAS Las Vegas ran an interview with Harry Reid which made reference to the “invisibility cloaking” in the story. I decided to scour my archive of FOIA documents, along with other military and government resources, and discovered quite a bit of research done outside of AATIP, on the…

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Background The following documents have been released by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff.  They include all correspondence between members of Congress, and their office. Document Archive Congressional Correspondence Logs Congressional Correspondence Log, 2007 and 2009 [1,011 Pages, 199.6MB] Congressional Correspondence Log, 2012 [368 Pages, 69.8MB] All Congressional Correspondence Letters Incoming congressional correspondence (all Members) February 2009 – July 2009 – Document Release 1 [361 Pages, 192.8MB] Incoming congressional correspondence (all Members) February 2009 – July 2009 – Document Release 2 [265 Pages, 141.8MB] Incoming congressional correspondence (all Members) February 2009 – July 2009 – Document Release 3 [147 Pages, 79.7MB]

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