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19 December 2019

Mr John Greenewald Jr 27305 W Live Oak Road Suite 1203 Castaic CA 91384

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Dear Mr Greenewald

This is a final response to your correspondence of 24 January 2019 submitted on behalf of The Black Vault requesting an Executive Order 13526 mandatory declassification review of the following

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1 At t~e Conference OD the Origins or Lite in Yerevan Armenia ~SR 6-6 September 1971 N S ~ardashev Institute for Sp~c~ Rcsearch Moscow

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re~d an intereatins but highly opeculative paper he had prepared on general relBtivity and the possibility of a bo~ collap3inc into a blacl~ hole in spaee Ilis co-author was the internationolly r8llOUS i theoreticamp phySicist Andrei D Sarharav KardatJhev 1J very much like his superior and fonner teacher at the Institute I S Shklovskiy in

middot1 his approach to ocientiC1c problems lie is not afraid to speculate in his effort to rind a solution

2 The Kardll3hev-Sakharov paper concerned the authors I study 01 hat hnppens when a charsed mass or bodv collapses in space Kordtulhev stoteci that if it ~~rc not chert-ed the mass would Just collapse past the point of Rrovitational singularity and be gone forever In other words the mass would elose in on itself and have no more eontoct vith the outside world ~~e Soviets speculated on hat would happen if the moss were charged 1hey stated that then the mass vould be able to bounce It would collapse but bounce back out However the mass vill come back into a different part ot space time

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take the speaJtprs remarks seriously Shklovskiy remarked later te l l -------__~I that the flying saucer committee conGists ot many polr- shy

ticians theorists historians and similar type people It hIlS littlc if any scientific talent

6 Shklovskiy gave a eeneral entertaining tnlk on warne intereting but uimportant subject Vitaliy r G1nzburcs one of the leadinr astronolrers in the ursn al30 B8ve II taJk on the bllSis of physicl theory that is tll~ ilentifieation fUld compArison of fundHmcntal n3sUJn~t1ons 1n phrl1cs Gin7burr has 8 first rate lllind and is sounder in hill Itsics knoll~dce ~lan ~hkJoV9Kiy Gin1lJllr thinks ralist1cally ~hlch lll ~ nIOiC ~~I L an~Iol~t about the Conference ohe ~ovie I

wa Il-Sked whether t-Ile Conference vas vorthvhile in that it as mostly devoteltl to theoreti cal subJects very remote from tll11g1ble pound0315

0i r zhure sai d Hell if it helps to builu lip support for the ~~oviet TpeorcherG to Get n(V astronomical equipment then certainl] the COIoshyf l - nee mampci sense

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