Author: John Greenewald

In December of 2016, The Black Vault filed a FOIA request with the CIA, requesting all records pertaining to a contingency plan for the CIA, should the U.S. government shutdown. It took until February of 2022 to get the requested material. Below, you will find records from 2016, when the CIA was preparing for a shutdown. The responsive document was a declassified, in part, SECRET OPA Notice outlining the procedures for a pending funding lapse at the end of 2016. Document Archive The CIA and a Government Shutdown – What Happens? [6 Pages, 0.8MB]

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The follow memorandum was released by the CIA in 1981, however, about 50% of the original was declassified. In April of 2019, The Black Vault requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) of the record, in order to get all or some of the redactions listed. In February of 2022, approaching three years later, the CIA closed the case stating the original unredacted version could not be found for a review. Document Archive Original Document Released CIA MDR Response Letter

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In April of 2021, Jeremy Corbell published alleged UFO/UAP photos and footage that was “filmed in the Combat Information Center of the USS Omaha / July 15th 2019 / warning area off San Diego @ 11pm PST.” The Black Vault filed for information with the U.S. Navy that same month, and sought after the USS Omaha deck logs, along with all other photographs and videos from the same encounter on and/or around July 15th, 2019. The response from the U.S. Navy revealed that during the time frame the encounter took place, the USS Omaha deck logs, along with all voice…

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(Scroll down for link to document archive. Below is the text of the release letter for these records.) You are receiving this email because you submitted a FOIA request to the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency concerning the insurrection on January 6, 2021. The DC Government received overlapping FOIA and investigatory requests about the attack on the U.S. Capitol. We are providing all relevant investigatory bodies and FOIA requesters the opportunity to receive the results of an all-encompassing search of District-wide emails concerning January 6, 2021. The details of the search that was conducted are listed below. We…

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