2023-04-04 - DOPSR "Speaker/Author" Approval

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CLEARED For Open Publication
Apr 04 2023
Department of Defense
OFFICE OF PREPUBLICAITON AND SECURITY REVIEW

Mr. David C. Grusch

About the Author. Mr Grush has served as an intelligence officer for over 14 years, first as an U.S. Air Force officer attending the rank of major but also as a Senior Geospatial-Intelligence Capabilities Integration Officer for the National Geospatial Intelligence agency (NGA) at a civilian grade of GS-15 (Full-Bird Colonel military equivalent), achieving that position at the age of 35 as a rising star in the Intelligence Community as a known national expert in space control, electronic warfare, and cyber technical intelligence. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a Master of Arts with Honors in Intelligence Studies amongst numerous awards and decorations for his service to the nation, both for combat service in Afghanistan and his participation covert and clandestine operations to advance American security. Mr. Grush is a U.S. intelligence community whistleblower

Summary

In May 2022 I became the first government official in the history of the United States to file an Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) whistleblower complaint on credible detailed information I gathered as a member of the Unidentified Aerial (now Anomalous) Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) on a publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material that has been waged under the noise-floor for decades. I disclosed this evidence under oath to the ICIG, along with close colleagues of mine that found the strength to come forward to support my complaint in what we saw as an unfathomable ethical and constitutional dilemma. The ICIG found this testimony credible and urgent for Congress in July 2022 and a summary was immediately submitted to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the congressional intelligence committees the HPSCI and SSCI. I traveled to DC to provide closed door testimony on the matter

How did I ever get myself involved in this? A question I’ve constantly asked myself over the last 4 years. In my professional career and quite frankly my entire life up to that point, I never even thought any of this was possibly true, as I grew up with an average belief system and world-outlook in the blue-collar town of Pittsburgh, PA. However in December 2017 I was reading the New York Times and a story caught my eye claiming a UFO (UAP) program called the Advanced Aerospace threat identification Program (AATIP) was being run out of an office in the Pentagon I was familiar with, the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)). I had no idea this topic was being taken seriously by the department, as I had given very little thoughts on UFOs or so-called “extraterrestrials” in my entire adult life. Furthermore, I was formally educated in Physics and Astronomy and consider myself a very black-and-white intelligence officer requiring substantial empirical data to make high confidence assessments. Even after reading that article and performing a public-domain literature review, I was skeptical, this sounded to me as probably misidentified near-peer adversarial technology and observer bias. While working at the national reconnaissance office (NRO) in their operations centre as a USAF military reservist, I was asked by my boss if I'd like to be their representative for the newly formed Navy-led UAPTF

I agreed to join the UAPTF, hopefully to confirm a negative to prove this was all misidentification, witness error, or a flight of fantasy. Once I started digging, interviewing witnesses, asking senior government mentors of mine what was really going on here, unexpected doors started to open and others were brutally shut in my face, Many powerful officials were unhappy I was asking these questions

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