Introduction Excerpt from the document: This document contains papers related to the NACA Conference on “The Turbojet Engine for Supersonic Propulsion” held at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory October 8 and 9, 1953. Much of the material presented here was presented in the panel-type discussions of the conference. In some cases, in order to supplement those discussions, material not previously presented is included. A list of the conferees is included. On a side note, I found this document in a hunt to find references to my Grandfather, R.E. Greenewald, who worked on many classified government programs in relation to missile…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Excerpt from the Foreword of the book: The challenges facing our Nation today in its war against terrorism are reminiscent of the security concerns in the days leading up to World War I. Newspaper headlines told of large explosions in major metropolitan areas, the presence of spy cells inside the country, and the capture of foreign saboteurs crossing our borders. These events would ultimately result in the establishment of a permanent corps of trained counterintelligence specialists within America’s Army. During peacetime and war, counterintelligence has served to protect the Army’s most important secrets; its success or failure often spell the difference between victory and…
Background Executive Summary Over the course of 1 week in June 2007, a 15-year old high school student emailed a series of bomb threats to administrators and staff at Timberline High School, near Seattle, Washington. The threats caused daily school evacuations. The individual used “proxy servers” to e-mail the bomb threats in order to hide his location. When local law enforcement officials were unable to identify or locate the individual, they requested assistance from a cybercrime task force supervised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Seattle Field Division. FBI agents on the task force, working with FBI technology and…
Background Excerpt from report: In fiscal year (FY) 2010, Congress passed Public Law 111–258 (2010), the Reducing Over-Classification Act, which required the Inspectors General for all federal agencies and departments with officers and employees possessing original classification authority to conduct two evaluations – one in FY 2013 and another in FY 2016. In September 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its audit report on DOJ’s Implementation of and Compliance with Certain Classification Requirements. For that first evaluation, Congress directed the Inspectors General to: (1) assess whether applicable classification policies, procedures, rules,…
Background – Original NSA Release The NSA was a target of one of my original FOIA requests, which yielded the below results. Some of these records were one of the first documents I scanned onto The Black Vault back in 1996, and are archived here as a timestamp for what the NSA was releasing then vs. now. National Security Agency’s UFO Files Batch #1 [159 Pages] National Security Agency’s Batch #2, Records Once Exempt From Release [254 Pages] The “Missing” UFO Files The below documents are the UFO records released today by the NSA. Years after The Black Vault put…