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SAPOC (SAP Oversight Committee)

1994-01-01year known, day not recorded

Special Access Programs Oversight Committee (SAPOC) - the senior Defense Department body that oversees the military's special-access (black) programs, supported by the SAP Coordination Office (SAPCO). The real DoD gatekeeping structure named in the Wilson-Davis memo as controlling access to the alleged crash-retrieval program. A documented oversight body; the UFO connection is the memo's contested account.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo", "crash-retriev". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

None of this entity's 10 connections has a source you can open. 3 are bound to a document this project holds and quotes but cannot republish, so they do not count above.

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ColourGovernmentOrganizations
  • ← Michael Kostelnik attached, not counted
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002
    This map says
    director of SAPCO and executive secretary of the SAP Oversight Committee (SAPOC)
    The document says
    Mike is also director of SAPCO (Special Access Programs Coordination Office). Mike is member and executive secretary to SAPOC (Special Access Programs Oversight Committee) in capacity as SAPCO director.
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 7  ·  read off the page footer
    rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from
    Caveat ADM. THOMAS WILSON DENIES THAT THIS MEETING TOOK PLACE. This link is sourced to what these private notes record, not to anything established. The document is marked support:false and is not counted toward this project's sourcing figure.
  • ← William Perry attached, not counted
    same document as the row above
    This map says
    reorganized the DoD special-access-program structure in 1994
    The document says
    not belonging to usual SAP divisions as organized in '94 by Perry himself
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 7  ·  read off the page footer
    rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from
    Caveat the same caveat as above governs this connection
  • ← Thomas Wilson attached, not counted
    same document as the row above
    This map says
    per the memo, was allegedly refused access to a crash-retrieval SAP gated by this oversight committee (Wilson denies the account)
    The document says
    They told me of a special projects record group not belonging to usual SAP - a special subset of the unacknowledged/carve-outs/waived programs - not belonging to usual SAP divisions as organized in '94 by Perry himself - set apart from rest but buried/covered by conventional SAPs
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 7  ·  read off the page footer
    rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from
    Caveat the same caveat as above governs this connection
  • ← SAF/AAZ (Special Program Oversight) names a source we do not hold
    referenced here as part of the same DoD special-access-program oversight structure topped by SAPOC
    analyst note; DoD SAP oversight structure
  • ← CAPCO (Controlled Access Program Coord. Office) names a source we do not hold
    coordinates with DoD's SAP Coordination Office (SAPCO) to ensure reciprocity for DoD intelligence SAPs
    ODNI, Controlled Access Program Coordination Office (CAPCO); DCID 6/11 (1995); ICPG 2006-700-10
  • ← SAPCO (SAP Central Office) names a source we do not hold
    the DoD SAP Central Office staffs SAPOC; its director is SAPOC's executive secretary
    DoD Special Access Program Central Office (acq.osd.mil/sapco); FAS (sgp.fas.org) SAPOC reference
  • ← David Abba names a source we do not hold
    Executive Secretary of the SAP Oversight Committee
    DoD SAPOC/SRG structure (FAS sgp.fas.org; CDSE SAP student guide)
  • ← William LaPlante names a source we do not hold
    Vice Chair of SAPOC as USD(A&S)
    DoD SAPOC/SRG structure (FAS sgp.fas.org; CDSE SAP student guide)
  • ← Kathleen Hicks names a source we do not hold
    chairs the SAP Oversight Committee as Deputy Secretary of Defense
    DoD SAPOC/SRG structure (FAS sgp.fas.org; CDSE SAP student guide)
  • ← Ronald Moultrie names a source we do not hold
    member of SAPOC as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security
    DoD SAPOC/SRG structure (FAS sgp.fas.org; CDSE SAP student guide)

Notes on this record

The category

Recategorised 26 August 2026. SAPOC is the Defense Department's senior oversight body for special-access programs. Across this map "org" reads as non-governmental - NICAP, the Parapsychological Association, Radiance Technologies - so filing a DoD gatekeeping committee there understated what it is and left it uncoloured on a timeline about government activity.