The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States. In late 2010, under Executive Order 13526,[1] the FBI disclosed various UFO files onto the online file depository: FBI Records: The Vault, Unexplained Phenomenon.[2]
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- Main: Executive Order 13526
Executive Order 13526 was issued on December 29, 2009 by former United States President Barack Obama. It is the latest in a series of executive orders from US Presidents outlining how classified information should be handled. It revokes and replaces the previous Executive Orders: EO 12958 and EO 13292.[1]
As a component of the Obama Administration's initiative to improve transparency and open-access to the Federal Government and the information it produces formally introduced upon taking office in late January 2009 and as a result of an agency-wide review and recommendation process ordered in May of that same year, the issuance of EO 13526 was ultimately prompted by several factors. One factor was the large backlog of documents scheduled to be automatically declassified on December 31, 2009 and how to deal with that reality. Another factor was delivering on a campaign promise. These latest regulations, at the time, went into full effect on June 25, 2010 except for sections 1.7, 3.3, and 3.7, which were effective immediately on December 29, 2009.[3][4][5]
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The execution of Obama's EO 13526 allowed the declassification of UFO documents dating back to 1947, including the famous Roswell incident. On November 30, 2010, the FBI disclosed various UFO files onto the online file depository: FBI Records: The Vault, Unexplained Phenomenon. One of the most intriguing files to be disclosed is Memorandum 6751 which reveals the presence of "supernormal" beings and their craft specifications. They are not indigenous to Earth.[6]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Promoting Openness and Accountability by Making Classification a Two-Way Street, by William H. Leary, Special Adviser to the National Security Advisor and Senior Director for Records and Access Management, National Security Staff, 29 December 2009
- ↑ FBI Records: The Vault, Unexplained Phenomenon
- ↑ Part 1, Sec. 1.3(a)(1) & 1.3(c)(2), Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009, Classified National Security Information, Federal Register - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Vol. 75, No. 2, 5 January 2010, p.708.
- ↑ Order of December 29, 2009, Original Classification Authority, Federal Register - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Vol. 75, No. 2, 5 January 2010, p.735.
- ↑ Part 6, Sec. 6.2(g) & 6.3, Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009, Classified National Security Information, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 5 January 2010
- ↑ FBI Records Vault, UFO Part 1 of 16, p. 22, Memorandum 6751
External linksEdit
- Beyond The Darkness (March 24, 2017), interview with former FBI officer John DeSouza on disclosure of Memorandum 6751 (1:01:50)
