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Newer News: July 2021

June 2021

• CIA denies release of unclassified Open Source Enterprise product on North Korea, June 29. "We determined it must be denied in its entirety."
• US Intelligence Agencies Are Trying To Solve Scientific Mysteries And Failing Badly by Dan Vergano, Buzzfeed, June 26. "Secret intelligence reports are offering up answers to three big scientific mysteries -- but the speculation doesn't always square up with science."
• The Truth Has Not Always Been Out There by Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, June 24. "Rather than explaining when U.F.O. sightings were really just top-secret planes, the government has sometimes allowed public eagerness about the possibility of aliens to take hold."
• DoD Linguist Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Transmitting Classified Information to Aid a Foreign Government, Justice Dept news release, June 23. "Mariam Taha Thompson, 62, was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for delivering classified national defense information to aid Lebanese Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization."
• Pentagon Reviewing Deceptive Air Force 'Pass-through' Budget Account by John A. Tirpak, Air Force Magazine, June 17. "The idiosyncrasy that makes the Air Force's budget appear to be nearly 20 percent larger than its true size is getting a review by the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
• Washington's Daily Secret Machine by Peter Baker, New York Times, June 9. "A White House correspondent examines a predecessor's candid memo about how classified information is traded in the Beltway."
• Gov't use of Chinese drones in limbo as Congress weighs ban by Matt O'Brien, Associated Press, June 1. "More than a year after the U.S. Interior Department grounded hundreds of Chinese-made drones it was using to track wildfires and monitor dams and wildlife, the future of drone use by the federal government remains uncertain."
• DOD Releases FY2022 Budget Request for Military Intelligence Program, news release, June 1. "The Military Intelligence Program (MIP) top line budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 is $23.3 billion."

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