Author: John Greenewald

In November of 2018, The Black Vault filed a FOIA request for all e-mails sent to/from then CIA Director Gina Haspel (now former). An untold number of documents were entirely exempt, but two records were released. The records included a May 2018 e-mail from General David Petraeus to Haspel, inviting her to participate in the upcoming Bilderberg Meeting in Turin, Italy. Also included, was the invitation itself with the “Bilderberg Meetings” letterhead. Document Archive General David Petraeus’ Bilderberg Meeting Invitation to Former CIA Director Gina Haspel [6 Pages, 0.5MB]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzaSoQzdTbg The Obama Presidential Library just informed me they have approximately 3,440 pages and 26,271 electronic files that pertain to my request for AATIP, UFO, UAP and AAWSAP information. If true, I am absolutely floored the Obama Presidential library has that. I posted this fact on Twitter, and to my surprise, international media exposure quickly followed. Vice News, Huffington Post, BILD (Germany), and many others have picked up the story. Below, you will find the actual letters published in full, which is the heart of this story.

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On March 15, 2022, the Department of Justice published the following: To mark the start of Sunshine Week, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued comprehensive new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guidelines today that strengthen the federal government’s commitments to transparency in government operations and the fair and effective administration of FOIA. The Attorney General’s guidelines, which were announced in a memorandum (see below), direct the heads of all executive branch departments and agencies to apply a presumption of openness in administering the FOIA and make clear that the Justice Department will not defend nondisclosure decisions that fail to do so.…

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The purpose of this publication is to provide a reference of unclassified terms and definitions, abbreviations and acronyms without undue use of technical or scientific symbols or formulas, used within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Although I likely will never adequately explain how difficult this document was to track down, The Black Vault began the journey in August of 2014. The request was bounced around and transferred to numerous agencies, which included the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Department of State, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the U.S. Army, the…

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Bigelow Aerospace is an American aeronautics and outer space technology company which manufactures and develops expandable space station modules. Bigelow Aerospace was founded by Robert Bigelow in 1998, and is based in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It is funded in large part by the profit Bigelow gained through his ownership of the hotel chain, Budget Suites of America. The below are the only files that come up when seeking FBI records on Bigelow Aerospace, or one of its subsidiaries, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (or BAASS). Oddly, this specific request below was for BAASS records, but only after a December…

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