Defense Intelligence Agency FOIA Response and DIRD Inventory List (FOIA-00159-2018)

Summary

This document is a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response letter dated March 25, 2022, from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to researcher John Greenewald of The Black Vault. It addresses a request for all Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) produced under the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) / Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) contract with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). The release includes an official 37-document inventory totaling 1,473 pages covering advanced propulsion, quantum mechanics, wormholes, metamaterials, and fringe aerospace technologies.

Page 1: DIA Response Letter (Part 1)

DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20340-5100

U-22-7061/IMO-2 (FOIA)

FOIA-00159-2018 March 25, 2022

John Greenewald 27305 W. Live Oak Rd. Suite #1203 Castaic, CA 91384

Dear Mr. Greenewald,

This responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, dated January 31, 2018 that you submitted to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for information concerning: Requesting all “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents” created by Bigelow Aerospace, BAASS, or any party involved with the “Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program” or AATIP. According to Dr. Eric Davis, who was interviewed on the Coast to Coast AM radio show on January 28, 2018. I apologize for the delay in responding to your request as DIA continues its efforts to eliminate the large backlog of pending requests.

A search of DIA’s systems of records located 37 documents (1473 pages) responsive to your request. Upon review, I have determined that some portions of 37 documents (1473 pages) must be withheld in part from disclosure pursuant to the FOIA. The withheld portions are exempt from release pursuant to Exemptions 3 and 6 of the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(3) and (b)(6). Exemption 3 applies to information specifically exempted by a statute establishing particular criteria for withholding. The applicable statute is 10 U.S.C. § 424. Statute 10 U.S.C. § 424 protects the identity of DIA employees, the organizational structure of the agency, and any function of DIA. Exemption 6 applies to information which if released would constitute an unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of other individuals. DIA has not withheld any reasonably segregable non-exempt portions of the records.

Please be advised that DIA is currently conducting a review of all its AATIP holdings and preparing those documents for release via the DIA website. Upon DIA release, the documents will be available for viewing in the FOIA Reading Room at URL: https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/.

If you have additional questions/concerns you may:

Contact the FOIA Public Liaison Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-394-6253

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This document is made available through the declassification efforts and research of John Greenewald, Jr., creator of:

The Black Vault

The Black Vault is the largest online Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document clearinghouse in the world. The research efforts here are responsible for the declassification of hundreds of thousands of pages released by the U.S. Government & Military.

Discover the Truth at: http://www.theblackvault.com

Page 3: DIA Response Letter (Part 2) - Appeals and Closure

File an administrative appeal (must be submitted within 90 days of the date on the letter) please contact us via one of the following and use FOIA-00159-2018 when referencing your case) Email: [email protected] Mail: Defense Intelligence Agency ATTN: IMO-2C (FOIA) 7400 Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-7400

For mediation services, you may contact the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) at the National Archives and Records Administration to inquire Email: [email protected] Phone: 202-741-5770 Toll-Free 1-877-684-6448 Facsimile: 202-741-5769 Mail: Office of Government Information Services National Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS College Park, MD 20740-6001

Sincerely,

[Signature] (For) Cheryl Cross-Davison Chief, Records and Open Government

1 Enclosure Inventory List

Page 4: Inventory List (Items 1 to 31)

Case number: FOIA-00159-2018 Requester: John Greenewald

Doc# | Title | #Pgs 1 | DIRD: Metallic Glasses - Status and Prospects for Aerospace Applications | 30 2 | DIRD: Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter | 20 3 | DIRD: Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology | 37 4 | DIRD: Biomaterials | 32 5 | DIRD: Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms | 27 6 | DIRD: Space Access - Where We’ve Been and Where We Could Go | 56 7 | DIRD: Invisibility Cloaking - Theory and Experiments | 29 8 | DIRD: Positron Aerospace Propulsion | 35 9 | DIRD: Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion | 72 10 | DIRD: Metallic Spintronics | 27 11 | DIRD: Advanced Nuclear Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions | 37 12 | DIRD: Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices | 36 13 | DIRD: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions | 33 14 | DIRD: The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research | 16 15 | DIRD: Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineer | 17 16 | DIRD: The Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality | 32 17 | DIRD: Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor - Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise? | 19 18 | DIRD: Traversible Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy | 42 19 | DIRD: Antigravity for Aerospace Applications | 44 20 | DIRD: Biosensors and BioMEMS - A Survey of the Present Field | 45 21 | DIRD: High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications | 57 22 | DIRD: Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications | 38 23 | DIRD: State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Laser Weapons | 31 24 | DIRD: Concepts for Extracting Energy From the Quantum Vacuum | 57 25 | DIRD: An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation | 55 26 | DIRD: Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues | 38 27 | DIRD: Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites | 77 28 | DIRD: Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight | 57 29 | DIRD: Negative Mass Propulsion | 43 30 | DIRD: Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion | 50 31 | DIRD: Detection and High Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities | 46

Page 5: Inventory List (Items 32 to 37 and Total)

Doc# | Title | #Pgs 32 | DIRD: Ultracapacitators as Energy and Power Storage Devices | 34 33 | DIRD: MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications | 32 34 | DIRD: Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft | 31 35 | DIRD: Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology | 54 36 | DIRD: Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum | 51 37 | DIRD: Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion II | 36

Total: 1473