A November 2009 USD(I) memorandum and talking-points packet for the Deputy Secretary of Defense redacts every official in an AAWSAP program role by name

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The existing vault finding that no primary government document names Jay Stratton rested on two retrospective documents: the Pentagon's 2020 UAP Task Force announcement and AARO's 2024 historical-record report. This capture located and read a document contemporaneous with AAWSAP's actual 2008–2009 creation and funding dispute: a memorandum on Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) letterhead signed by James R. Clapper Jr. — then USD(I); he had directed DIA in 1991–95 — with an attached talking-points packet for a 17 November 2009 meeting between the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Senator Harry Reid, FOIA-released and hosted by The Black Vault.

Discussing the program's origin, the packet states only: "Early 2008: Senator Reid met [redacted under FOIA exemption (b)(3):10 USC 424 and (b)(6)] a DIA analyst, at a technical conference" — the analyst who met Reid, widely reported elsewhere as James Lacatski or Lacatski-and-Stratton, is not named. Discussing day-to-day oversight: "The program manager and his leadership advised that they saw no justification for Special Access protections based on the content of the FY09 deliverables or the anticipated FY10 work" — again, no name. The packet is not nameless throughout — it names Deputy Secretary Lynn, Senators Reid and Inouye, Reid staffer Bob Herbert, OSD's Marcel Lettre, and, once, DIA Director Lt. Gen. Burgess as recipient of the October 2009 quality-review assessment — but every official in an AAWSAP program role (the analyst who met Reid, the program manager and his leadership, the authors of the attached DIA info memos) is redacted. A companion 16 December 2008 DIA contract-status briefing on the same FOIA-released document set — the earliest primary AAWSAP document found to date — is anonymous throughout. Neither Stratton's name nor Lacatski's appears in either document.

This extends the existing null-result pattern back from later retrospective reports to the program's own contemporaneous internal paperwork, strengthening the case documented in moc-a-rounding-error-nobody-was-tracking that individual-level attribution in this cluster goes unrecorded at the primary-document level generally, not only in hindsight.