Gemini Close-Out Briefing; Project Challenges, Costs and Technical Spin-Offs, LA-CP 13-01079

20 color vugraph pages (printed single-sided). Dated September 12, 2013. While a Los Alamos product, the logos of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and National Security Technologies, and the National Nuclear Security Administration are at the bottom. The Gemini Series project logo (mentioning the Castor and Pollux experiments) is on some pages. This document is marked Official Use Only (OUO) based on FOIA Exemption and category: 5. The Castor and Pollux experiments were carried out at the Nevada National Security Site and conformed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Safeguards guidance issued by the White House. The most commonly invoked privilege incorporated within Exemption 5 is the deliberative process privilege, the general purpose of which is to "prevent injury to the quality of agency decisions." Three policy purposes consistently have been held to constitute the bases for this privilege: (1) to encourage open, frank discussions on matters of policy between subordinates and superiors; (2) to protect against premature disclosure of proposed policies before they are finally adopted; and (3) to protect against public confusion that might result from disclosure of reasons and rationales that were not in fact ultimately the grounds for an agency's action. Since the Trump Administration has addressed a plutonium infrastructure option in South Carolina, the three policy purposes no longer appear to be met and the limitation no long applies. While no DOE review was made, a trained Authorized Derivative Classifier who also had Official Use Only training suggested that there was no longer a basis for the OUO marking. Staple bound at upper left corner Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…