DoD OIG Releases Partial Records on DARPA-UAP Task Force Communications

The February That earlier case, submitted by John Greenewald of The Black Vault, sought communications between DARPA and the UAP Task Force, and between DARPA and ODNI, tied to the creation of the UAP report — a scope the requester described as encompassing emails, memos, letters, reports, photographs, video, charts, graphs, and PowerPoint presentations. What the response letter actually delivers is a set of release mechanics rather than the underlying correspondence. The office located responsive records and determined that 14 pages were appropriate for release in part under FOIA exemption (b)(6), the provision covering a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

The file was transmitted by email and password protected, with the password sent in a separate message. Certain pages were referred to OSD/JS as the release authority, to be processed and answered directly by that component. Those four features — partial release, a privacy-based withholding, password-gated delivery, and an…