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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEOFFICE OF FREEDOM O F INFORMATION1155DEFENSE PENTAGONWASHINGTON,DC20301-1155

01 fa32003Ref: 06-F-1532

Dear Mr. Baretow:Enclosed is an interim release of material in response to your A pril 28,20 06,Freedom of Information Act request, as modified by your letter dated F e b ~ a r y 3,2007.TheOffice of the Assistant Secretary of D efense, Public A ffairs (OASD (PA)),has nrovided the enclosed documents as reswn sive to vour remeat. These 1141 naees of~ i s sam Jones' e-mails have been 'Bates Stamped3from 1701 to 2841 to assistyou mreviewing this response. This Office continues to process M iss Jones* e-mails which areresponsive to your request, and these w ill continue to be provided to you uponcompletion of our review.Ms. Allison Barber, an Initial Denial Authority for the OASD (PA), hasdetermined that som e of the redacted information is exempt from release because i t

pertains to internal matters of a relatively trivial nature tha t do not shed significant lighton an ae encvnersonne l rule or practice. In this instance. the redactedinformation..consists of non-public Department of Defense (DoD) telephone and room numbers.Additionally, p&ions of the withheld information a& specifically exemptedby 10U.S.C. 5 130b, which applies to personally identifiable information of personnel inoverseas, sensitive or routinely deployab le positions. Other deleted information exemptfrom release pertains to certain inter- or nha-agency comm unicationsprotectedby theattomey-client privilege. Finally, some information is withheld because release wouldconstitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of the personal urivacv of individuals. Theredacted information under this exemption consists primarily o f homde-mail addresses,social security numbers and personally identifying information of DoD personnel. It hasbeen D oD policy to w ithhold lists of names and other personally identifying informationof D oD personnel since the President declared a national emergency following theterrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. Consequently, this information is deniedpursuantto 5 U.S.C. 552@)(2)(low), @)(3), (b)(5) and (W).

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Please note that pages 1862 through 2114of the enclosed documentswereattached to an e-mail. This attachment is a response to another FOIA request andcontains exemptionspertaining only to that request. Therefore, the exemptions used forthat request are not claimed in this response letter. You are receiving those pages exactlyas theywere attached to the e-mail responsive to your request As you requested, we areproviding the information to you in hard copy and on the enclosed compact disk.

Sincerely,

WillKammerChief

Enclosures:As stated