Government / Military

William J. Lynn III

2009-02-09what this date marks is not recorded

Former Raytheon lobbyist who became Deputy Secretary of Defense under Obama in 2009, requiring a specific ethics waiver from Obama's own lobbyist-hiring ban - one of the earliest and most-cited examples of the revolving door's reverse direction in the post-2008 era.

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread. It is on this map through the national-security revolving door. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

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This entity's name appears in the 1 document below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

Deputy Secretaries of Defense 1949-2021already cited above

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William J. Lynn III, 12 February 2009 – 5 October 2011. Robert O. Work, 5 May 2…

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→ Raytheon a reference; no pages of it are held

was a company lobbyist before becoming Deputy Secretary of Defense

Deputy Secretaries of Defense 1949-2021
← Harry Reid

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

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wrote to him on 24 June 2009

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On 24 June 2009, Senator Reid sent a letter to then Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III requesting that AAWSAP/AATIP be made a DoD Special Access Program.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 23 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat THE SOURCE SAYS "SENATOR REID", NOT "HARRY REID", and this map does not treat a surname as an identity. The identification rests on the same report one page earlier: printed 22 reads "At the direction of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)", in the same section, about the same programme, in the same year. That is a check a reader can make without leaving the document. AND IT IS STILL THE DEPARTMENT DESCRIBING ITSELF. Guardrail 4 holds that AARO is a party to this history rather than a neutral narrator of it. This paragraph is the best-evidenced thing in the report - a dated letter, three named officials, and an endnote citing a memorandum - but the letter and the memorandum are not held here, and nothing in this corpus carries any of the three men's own account of the exchange. The letter itself is not held by this project; what is held is AARO's sentence about it.
← James Clapper

same document as the row above

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recommended he refuse

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Deputy Secretary Lynn declined to do so based on the recommendation of then-Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, James R. Clapper, Jr., that such a designation was not justified.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 23 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat THE ADVICE IS DRAWN TO THE MAN WHO TOOK IT, NOT TO THE PROGRAMME. Clapper recommended; Lynn decided. An edge from Clapper to AAWSAP/AATIP would give this record an actor it does not have, and the decision has its own edge. AND IT IS STILL THE DEPARTMENT DESCRIBING ITSELF. Guardrail 4 holds that AARO is a party to this history rather than a neutral narrator of it. This paragraph is the best-evidenced thing in the report - a dated letter, three named officials, and an endnote citing a memorandum - but the letter and the memorandum are not held here, and nothing in this corpus carries any of the three men's own account of the exchange. A FINDING AID, NOT A READING: the report's endnotes cite "Memorandum, from the Under Secretary of Defense James Clapper to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, 17 November 2009" three times. Those endnotes are on printed 57, which this project has NOT read; the reference was located by searching the full text of the held file, and nothing here rests on it.
→ AATIP

same document as the row above

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declined to make it a Special Access Program

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Deputy Secretary Lynn declined to do so based on the recommendation of then-Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, James R. Clapper, Jr., that such a designation was not justified.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 23 · read off the page footer; the printed number matches the PDF page on every page held from this report
rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from

Caveat MARKED AS A DISAGREEMENT BECAUSE IT IS ONE, and both sides of it are on this one page: a sitting Senate Majority Leader asked for the designation and the Deputy Secretary of Defense refused it on his intelligence chief's advice. THE ENTITY AT THE FAR END IS CONTESTED IN ITS OWN NAME - this map records on link 23 that the Department has said "Unlike AAWSAP, AATIP was never an official DoD program", and there is no aawsap node here, so the arrow lands on the closer half of a compound the source treats as single. AND IT IS STILL THE DEPARTMENT DESCRIBING ITSELF. Guardrail 4 holds that AARO is a party to this history rather than a neutral narrator of it. This paragraph is the best-evidenced thing in the report - a dated letter, three named officials, and an endnote citing a memorandum - but the letter and the memorandum are not held here, and nothing in this corpus carries any of the three men's own account of the exchange.