INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 29 DECEMBER 2002 - 4 JANUARY 2003

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01247685
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: January 4, 2003

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 29 December 2002 -4 January
2003
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(W/A11:70) 12 February 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Crystal City.
Future Planning Calendar:
(UHAT170) 25 February 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(IMAit143) 30-31 January 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at
(U//A4430) April 2003: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed intelligence-related or multi-agency records.
Overview of IRR Activities Last Week:
(U/A1430) FOIA Requests
(U//A-HifY) Danish Newspaper Requests Information on The Flying Enterprise
(U/h641548) A reporter/journalist with the Elsinore Daily News in Denmark requested information on the contents of
the cargo on board the merchant ship The Flying Enterprise. According to the requester, the ship "went down in the
Atlantic Ocean in January 1952, possibly containing a shipment of zirconium meant for the construction of the
world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus."
� An earlier search on behalf of another requester found no responsive records. The requester was advised
to contact the US Navy for further assistance.
(UMVUOT Texas Prisoner Interested in Osama Bin Laden
(UHAIU0) A requester who resides in an Amarillo, Texas prison asked for any information on Osama Bin Laden
"and his training with the CIA."
(UHARgO) Requester Seeks Information on the Only American Ever Imprisoned for Belonging to the
Communist Party
(U/Mriiie) A frequent requester from Olympia, Washington requested any information on Junius Scales, who
according to the requester, was the only American ever imprisoned under the Smith Act for belonging to the
Communist Party. The requester included an article about Mr. Scales that indicated the Smith Act of 1940, "...
made it a felony to lead or be a member of a group that advocated the violent overthrow of the United States
Government."
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(UHA-1440) CIA Declassification Center
(U/tAii313) Report on the SRC-RAC Team
(C--)- The Special Review Center - Remote Archive Capture (SRC-RAC) team's primary mission is the review of CIA equity
presidential library documents, responsive to Executive Order 12958. The Remote Archive Capture (RAC) project is a
CIA-National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) joint effort to scan classified presidential library documents
from all agencies that are responsive to EO 12958 and bring them to the CIA Declassification Center (CDC:
(b)(3) or review. Regarding the CIA portion of the presidential library holdings, the SRC has processed most of the
available National Library Johnson (NLJ) collection through first and second level review, but over 40,000 pages remain out
(b)(3) on referral, The remaining National Library Eisenhower (NLE) folders are moving through the review
process, and the SRC/RAC team anticipates tackling the remaining National Library Kennedy (NLK) collection of 11,000
pages very soon.
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(b)(3)
(U/M1110) From the Archives: John Steinbeck Reports Soviet Literary Interest to CIA
(UHAALIQ) The DI team at the CIA Declassification Center recently reviewed a 1965 memo from the Johnson Library from
the ADDO to the DDI that describes a meeting between the author John Steinbeck and Stanislaw Kondrashov, an Izvestia
representative. Steinbeck had visited a CIA office to relate that Kondrashov had sought the interview by professing an
interest in Steinbeck's current literary projects, but about 30 minutes into the two-hour session he turned the discussion to
Steinbeck's thoughts on Johnson's Vietnam policy. Steinbeck "got the impression that Kondrashov was primarily interested
in eliciting a condemnatory statement that he could quote..."
� Though this action of reporting a meeting with a Soviet official might now seem unusual for a member of America's
literary circle, Steinbeck's biographer describes him as a "stout patriot with great sympathy for the common folk,
outcasts, and victims, and compassion for the underdog." Though some of his work reflected what then might seem
to be radical social views, he supported the war in Vietnam at least in part because he considered President
Johnson a friend and once visited South Vietnam�largely at LBJ's behest--to report on the war and visit his son
who was a soldier there. He died in 1968, but his books still sell in the thousands (about 50,000 copies of Grapes
of Wrath are sold yearly, despite his loss offavor in academia for his Vietnam stance.)
(W/A-145�1) From the Archives: DDCI Lists Potential DCI Candidates:
(LW/Aitittj Deputy Director Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter wrote a memorandum for the record on 5 April 1965 on a conversation
he had with the Honorable Robert Murphy of State Department, which recently was reviewed at the CIA Declassification
Center:
"During the course of the conversation, Mr. Murphy asked me what I knew about Mr. McCone's plans and a
replacement for him. I told Mr. Murphy that I knew Mr McCone would be leaving shortly, and that no replacement had been
named.... I told him I had made my position abundantly clear to Mr. McCone and to others ... that it would be a grave error to
put a military man in as Director, either retired or active, regardless of his stature. I told him that there was within the
Agency a competence for the position greater than any of the names I had heard mentioned from the outside. I told him that
if the President had to have a name which would light up public lights, then the Agency would certainly be prepared to fall in
line and support this selection, and live with it regardless of the competency of the individual chosen .... Upon questioning, I
stated that there were at least three people in the Agency whom I considered qualified to perform the job in an outstanding
manner and for whom I would be perfectly prepared to stay on as Deputy for as long as they might wish. Specifically, I
listed Mr Kirkpatrick, Mr. Helms and Mr. Bross."
� Lyman Kirkpatrick at the time of the memo had finished a long stint as Inspector General (1953-1962) and then had
become Executive Director. Richard Helms, who had been a Deputy Director Plans, replaced Lt. Gen. Carter
shortly after this memo was written, serving under Admiral Raborn before becoming DCI about a year later. John
Bross' career included serving as Comptroller and later as head of the National Intelligence Programs Evaluation
Staff (NIPE) from late 1963 to 1971.
(Wilk-1110) From the Archives: The Central Intelligence Bulletin
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(11//Aiii.0) The DI team at the CIA Declassification Center is reviewing for declassification the Central Intelligence
Bulletins (CIB). The first CIB appeared on 28 February 1951 in response to a direct request from President Truman for a
daily intelligence summary and analysis of key overseas developments specifically tailored to HST's needs. Subsequent
CIBs were specifically adapted to meet President Eisenhower's needs and altered even further to suit President Kennedy's
style. Unfortunately, the Bay of Pigs fiasco then intruded, causing JFK to lose confidence in intelligence and relegate the
CIB to history's proverbial dustbin. For the first time in 11 years, contact between CIA analysis and the White House had
been broken and the Agency found itself without a daily link with the President to carry out critical warning and alert
functions, among others. Finally, as the dust settled, the Agency made every effort to restore that link, and eventually
succeeded through the introduction of a new Presidential-level Eyes Only publication different in style, classification, format
and length from the CIB but similar in fundamental concept: the President's Intelligence Checklist or PICL, which was
superseded by the President's Daily Brief or PDB on 1 December 1964. The CIB, meanwhile, continued as a valuable daily
intelligence resource for senior policymakers throughout the national security establishment.
This is a record.
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