Army Secretariat
Army Headquarters
IDL 24 Blenheim Building
Marlborough Lines
Andover
Hampshire, SP11 8HJ
United Kingdom
Ref: Army/Sec/FOI2020/09061
E-mail:
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Website:
www.army.mod.uk
Dr Emma Briant
28 August 2020
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Dear Dr Briant
Thank you for your email of 9 August in which you requested the following information:
‘all correspondence between personnel 15 PSYOP Group and Strategic
Communication Laboratories (SCL) and/or Behavioural Dynamics Institute (BDI) from
the months of January - Feb 2011’.
I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000. Following a search of our recorded information, I have established that the information
you requested is not held by the Ministry of Defence.
Under Section 16 of the Act (Advice and Assistance) you may find it helpful to note that we have
been unable to locate any documents from 15 Psychological Operations Group (15 POG) in 2011.
I also feel that it would helpful if I advise that, beyond that provided to you on 6 August, we
consider it unlikely that any information about the 15 POG / SCL activity in 2011 is held by the
Department.
If you have any queries regarding the content of this letter, please contact this office in the first
instance. Following this, if you wish to complain about the handling of your request, or the content
of this response, you can request an independent internal review by contacting the Information
Rights Compliance team, Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail
CIO-
xxxxxx@xxx.xx). Please note that any request for an internal review should be made within 40
working days of the date of this response.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may raise your complaint directly to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Please note that the Information Commissioner will not normally investigate your case until the
MOD internal review process has been completed. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be
found on the Commissioner's website at
https://ico.org.uk/. Yours sincerely,
Army Secretariat