FOIA Case 24-F-0894: Fourteen Withheld Pages on AARO Rollout

The Office of the Secretary of Defense has determined that certain information requested under FOIA is exempt from public release due to national security concerns.

Published: September 16, 2026
Declassified: Date not listed
Source agency: The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Fourteen Responsive Pages Withheld Under Three FOIA Exemptions

The final Act request that Mr. John Greenewald, Jr. of The Black Vault, Inc.

originally submitted on March 7, 2024. The Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center received that request the same day it was filed and assigned the case number that now appears throughout the correspondence. What the requester received more than a year later was not a tranche of records but an accounting: the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, a component of OSD, conducted a search of its records systems and located 14 pages determined to be responsive.

Every one of those pages was then withheld in full or in part. The letter identifies five officials who, acting in their capacity as Initial Denial Authority, determined that the responsive pages contained information exempt from mandatory public release. They are Mr.

Paul Plescow, Senior Intelligence Officer, Intelligence…

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