The following document was obtained from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) through Freedom of Information Act case FOIA-00380-2016. It was filed on July 12, 2016, by The Black Vault and the final response came on November 12, 2021.

The original request asked for, “… all reports from the DIA Defense Warning Office (DWO) since 1989 concerning Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR or Cold Fusion.”

The result yielded four documents, totaling 34 pages. However, three of those documents were withheld in full, which totaled 26 pages. That meant, only 8 were released, in part.

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Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance, 13 November 2009 [10 Pages, 0.7MB]

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The site ColdFusionNow.com describes “Cold Fusion” as the following:

Cold fusion describes a form of energy generated when hydrogen interacts with various metals like nickel and palladium. Cold fusion is a field of condensed matter nuclear science CMNS, and is also called low-energy nuclear reactions LENR,lattice-assisted nuclear reactions LANR, low energy nanoscale reactions LENR, among others.

Cold fusion is also referred to as the Anomalous Heat Effect AHE, reflecting the fact that there is no definitive theory of the elusive reaction.

The following are documents related to “Cold Fusion” as obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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Sorted from Newest to Oldest based on publication date.

The Status of “Cold Fusion”, February 17, 1998 [29 Pages, 2.5MB] – The questions raised by reports of nuclear reactions at low energies, so called ‘cold fusion,’ are not yet answered to the satisfaction of many scientists. Further experimental investigations of these and related questions seems desirable, at least for scientific if not practical reasons. Properly conducted, such investigations would be indistinguishable from normal research. They would yield information germane to accepted areas of scientific inquiry and technological utility. The announcement on 23 March 1989 by Pons and Fleischmann that they had achieved power generation from nuclear reactions at ordinary temperature had a rapid and enormous impact. About six weeks later, the cover stories of three major popular news magazines in the U. S. were on ‘cold fusion’. The response to the prospect of easy and inexhaustible energy, maybe with little residual radiation, was comparable to the public reaction to Roentgen’s report of x-rays in 1895. Then it was thought that privacy would no longer be possible. The strength of the ‘cold fusion’ surprise had two bases. One was the strong knowledge, on the part of physicists, that high energy beams (or equivalently, high temperature plasmas, with their associated high particle velocities) are needed to force nuclei into contact, a prerequisite for their reaction. Physicists had worked hard for four decades, and spent billions of dollars, in only partially successful efforts to produce and contain the multi-million degree plasmas needed to get significant energy out of nuclear fusion. Despite the major progress on heating fusion plasmas, and on overcoming many instabilities which tend to destroy plasma containment, three milestones remain to make fusion energy useful.

A Summary of NRL Research on Anomalous Effects in Deuterated Palladium Electrochemical Systems, January 9, 1996 [146 Pages, 9.6MB] – Claims of excess power produced in electrochemical cells have been made by many investigators including those from two Navy laboratories. The excess power reportedly occurs in palladium electrodes highly loaded with deuterium. Other anomalous effects such helium-4, tritium and low energy radiation production have also been reported. This report summarizes the experimental results from a number of electrochemical loading/calorimetric experiments on palladium electrodes run at NRL. The experiments were carried out with the purpose of replicating the published excess power results obtained at the other Navy laboratories and with the goal of identifying the experimental conditions necessary to produce anomalous effects. Most of the experiments described were attempts to electrolytically load pure palladium or palladium alloy cathodes with deuterium (or hydrogen) and then to measure the power produced in the electrolytic cells. Loading was monitored in situ by measuring the change in the axial resistance of the cathode and comparing the measure values with the known relationship between resistance and the D(H)/Pd atomic ratios. While attaining high levels of deuterium loading in palladium cathodes was difficult we found that using materials with a large grain microstructure facilitated the loading. Calorimetric measurements on the highly loaded cathodes were initially made in isoperibol calorimeters that had a sensitivity of ±10%. No excess power (200 mW) and no radiation above the background were measured in any of the experiments described. Highly sensitive heat conduction calorimeters were evaluated for their use with the electrochemical cells. Results showed that measurements at the ±10 mW level were possible in the heat conduction calorimeters when data were collected frequently and signal averaging was used. Another experiment that was investigated was the electrochemical codeposition of palladium and deuterium on cathodes. Again, no radiation above background levels was detected in these experiments.

Science and Weapons Review, 20 October 1992 – Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Release of “all documents on Cold Fusion” [14 Pages, 1.4MB] – In October of 2016, I requested that the CIA send all documents they had on Cold Fusion. After almost two years, the CIA claimed to have found only one record.  This is that release. Since receiving this, I have filed an additional request for the “non responsive” information blacked out on the release. Once that is sent, I will update this file to have a more complete document.

 Cold Fusion Verification, March 1991 [62 Pages, 2.3MB] – The objective of this work was to verify and reproduce experimental observations of Cold Nuclear Fusion (CNF), as originally reported in 1989 by Fleischmann, Pons, and Hawkins (see reference 1). The method was to start with the original report and add such additional information as became available to build a set of operational electrolytic CNF cells. Verification was to be achieved by first observing cells for neutron production, and for those cells that demonstrated a nuclear effect, careful calorimetric measurements were planned.

 The Accelerating Mechanism in Cold Fusion, 18 September 1990 (COPYRIGHTED DOCUMENT – USED UNDER FAIR USE) [25 Pages, 1.7MB] – The report of the observation of “cold fusion” reaction accompanying the saturation of palladium and titanium by deuterium appeared entirely unexpectedly and has attracted enormous interest worldwide. Meanwhile, however, references to the possibility of such phenomena go back some years.

 In Search of Electrochemically Induced Cold Fusion, by A. Mayer, May 1990 [3 Pages, 0.77MB]

 Nuclear Weapon Implications of Cold Fusion, 1989 [3 Pages, 0.9MB]

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In 2015, the OSTI received a collection of documents relating to “Cold Fusion” from one of the DOE program offices.

They didn’t know what to do with the material because it didn’t really mesh with their existing collections of documents.  The notes about the collection were removed after a short time from the OSTI online catalogue, but in May of 2016, I requested a copy of each letter to and from universities, companies, and organizations, from the OSTI ‘cold fusion’ documents collection.

They released the information to me, in full.

The below is an index of the .PDF files released. They are organized in the exact form they were received, and were obtained “read only.”  I kept them in this form, and offer them for download in the way they were received.

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Note: Some of the .PDFs below have “Attachments” within the PDF. Make sure those are not overlooked while you are reading.

      Ashcroft Acceptance of Preliminary Findings.pdf           621K  
      Ashcroft Request for Review Copy.pdf                      143K  
      Beck Comments on Proposal.pdf                             707K  
      Beck Request for Review Copy.pdf                          139K  
      Beck Reviewer .pdf                                        1.1M  
      Ben Bush.pdf                                              3.1M  
      CFRA.pdf                                                  24M  
      Carolyn Moore.pdf                                         1.0M  
      Charles Tobias.pdf                                        146K  
      Chase Peterson.pdf                                        2.1M  
      Cold Fusion Panel.pdf                                     5.8M  
      David Thompson.pdf                                        221K  
      Dr Arata.pdf                                              1.8M  
      E-Quest.pdf                                               772K  
      ERAB.pdf                                                  1.3M  
      Falicov Proposal Comments.pdf                             730K  
      Falicov Request for Review Copy.pdf                       141K  
      Falicov Reviewer .pdf                                     380K  
      Fleischmann's Rebuttal.pdf                                1.4M  
      Frederick Mayer.pdf                                       6.0M  
      Fusion Info Center.pdf                                    565K  
      Hal Fox.pdf                                               12M  
      Harold Lewis.pdf                                          1.0M  
      Hon Dick Swett.pdf                                        278K  
      Huizenga.pdf                                              4.2M  
      J Briand.pdf                                              331K  
      JETRO.pdf                                                 4.4M  
      Johann Rafelski Reviewer .pdf                             911K  
      Johann Rafelski.pdf                                       1.8M  
      John Bockris.pdf                                          1.2M  
      Jones Comments on Proposal.pdf                            711K  
      Jones Request for Review Copy.pdf                         145K  
      Kladiva.pdf                                               1.1M  
      LM Falicov.pdf                                            281K  
      MIT.pdf                                                   589K  
      Magnetic Power.pdf                                        794K  
      Magnus Jandel.pdf                                         197K  
      Martha Krebs.pdf                                          1.0M  
      Mizu-Tech.pdf                                             5.9M  
      Monkhorst.pdf                                             2.9M  
      Neil Ashcroft Reviewer .pdf                               602K  
      Neil Ashcroft.pdf                                         429K  
      OIC - Ion Band.pdf                                        542K  
      OIC - Los Alamos.pdf                                      563K  
      OIC.pdf                                                   2.4M  
      Pon's Procurement Request.pdf                             141K  
      Pon's Rebuttal.pdf                                        1.6M  
      Pons Receipt Proposal.pdf                                 132K  
      Pons Reviewers Proposal.pdf                               1.1M  
      Pons-Fleischmann Proposal.pdf                             943K  
      Professor Pons.pdf                                        237K  
      Provo Conference.pdf                                      5.9M  
      R Gajewski.pdf                                            244K  
      Rafelski - Comments on Proposal.pdf                       687K  
      Rafelski Request for Review Copy.pdf                      143K  
      Rafelski.pdf                                              361K  
      Stanley Pons.pdf                                          369K  
      Steven E Jones.pdf                                        3.6M  
      Technidyne Associates.pdf                                 2.0M  
      Technova Inc.pdf                                          183K  
      Theodore Beck.pdf                                         1.3M  
      Transfer of 28 PDFs to Headquarters Part Two.pdf          66K  
      Transfer of 28 PDFs to Headquarters..pdf                  68K  
      Transfer of Batch One Letters for Headquarters Review.pdf 69K  
      Transfer of Batch Two Letters.pdf                         67K  
      Transfer of Eight Memos to Headquarters.pdf               17M  
      Transfer of One Memo to Headquarters.pdf                  64K  
      Transfer of Two Memos to Headquarters.pdf                 27M  
      Tritium Production.pdf                                    2.0M  
      Understanding Tritium Production.pdf                      1.3M  
      WJ Schafer.pdf                                            188K

Additional Releases

      Jones - Review Process Mater.pdf                          246K  
      Pon's Statement of Intent.pdf                             1.6M  
      Pon's Submission of New Proposal.pdf                      205K  
      Revised Budget.pdf                                        1.1M  
      Transfer of 5 Memos to Headquarters.pdf                   66K  
      University Utah Project Proposal.pdf                      17M

      Crossroads Technology.pdf                                 2.3M  
      GC Sponsler.pdf                                           17M  
      Robert Simon.pdf                                          538K  
      Status.pdf                                                6.3M  
      Transfer of 6 PDF files to Headquarters.pdf               66K  
      Victor Reis.pdf                                           1.4M  
      Weston Stacey.pdf                                         4.0M

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