Official position · S-024
The Pentagon stated that it had no information about people injured or killed for providing information to AARO, that the office was willing to speak with any employee or contractor, former or current, and that Congress had been kept fully informed of its activities.
Pentagon (Department of Defense) · Susan Gough, spokeswoman · Jul 28, 2023
Retaliation, threats, violence
What it denies and what it leaves open
It rules out only harm connected with cooperation with AARO; it does not concern the people Grusch says were harmed in other contexts or the administrative reprisals he has reported.
- Original words
The Department has no information that any individual has been harmed or killed
- Who disputes it
- Grusch stated under oath that he personally knows people who were harmed and that he directed them to the competent authorities; in 2026 he also spoke of an alleged plan to kill him.
- Concerns
- David Grusch
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