INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 2 - 6 JUNE 2003

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01247765
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: June 6, 2003

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 2- 6 June 2003
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(UHAIU0) 11 June 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at Crystal City.
Future Planning Calendar:
(UgA11444) 22 July 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U/a11.10) 4-5 June 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at State Department and CIA Headquarters.
(U//AfUO) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities Last Week:
(U/ttlir144)- Historical Review Panel
(U//41440) HRP Convenes with State Counterpart for Semi-annual Meeting
(Ullittnt The first full joint session of the DCI's Historical Review Panel (HRP) and the State Department's
Historical Advisory Committee (HAC) was hosted by State from 3-4 June. Two Deputy Assistant Secretaries
welcomed the gathering, praising the strength of the working relationship between CIA and State. The joint session
concentrated on Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) issues -/
� The Historical Review Panel, which meets semi-annually, is a prestigious seven member panel of historians
and academicians appointed by the DCI The Panel's mission is to advise the DCI on the systematic and
automatic declassification review of historical documents under the provisions of EO 12958, and on the
Agency's voluntary declassification initiatives, as well as to provide guidance for the historical research
and writing programs of the CIA History Staff
(U//A44,10)�FOIA Requests
(U//A-1-1�0) National Security Archive Asks for Kissinger's Telephone Transcripts
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(U//A ) The Department of State recently referred two documents to the CIA from a group of documents that
State found responsive to a FOIA request submitted by the National Security Archive. In that request, National
Security Archive asked for "... transcripts of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's telephone conversations as
recently transferred by Mr. Kissinger to the Department," of which the National Security Archive became aware
from a State Department press release dated August 2001. The two documents that State referred to CIA were
transcripts of telephone conversations that occurred in October 1973 between Kissinger and DCI William Colby.
The conversations were about "the INR problem," referring to State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR),
and Kissinger's desire that CIA provide a person to fill a high-level position there.
he two men couldn't come up with a good
candidate. One potential nominee was just "not quite up to it." Colby said of another potential nominee, "I don't
think (he) would be a good idea," to which Kissinger responded, "although I like him." Kissinger remarked about
another of Colby's suggestions, "... it takes him about six hours to make a point." Colby also suggested another
name as someone "I suggest you not take," to which Kissinger replied, "Oh, God, no! Not a chance."
(U//A1170) State University of New York Professor Requests Information on French Artist
(UHATtf19) An art historian and Assistant Professor in the Art Department at SUNY Oswego, writing a book about
French artist Fernand Leger, asks for any government records about him, particularly any evidence that he was
monitored by the US authorities due to his political beliefs.
(UHAI-1444.) Historical Collections Division
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Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter
DCI 1947-1950
(UHAILLCI) CIA Declassification Center
(UllicH30) From the Archives: Nineteenth Century Author Reveals "The Secret of Their Cleverness"
(UHATI715) "Western leaders have always recognized -- and resented -- their built-in disadvantage when negotiating
with the Russians," was the opening line from a 1984 memorandum from the Vice Chairman of the National
Intelligence Council (NIC) to the DCI. The document is from the Casey Collection - Hoover Institute, and was
recently reviewed for declassification at the CIA Declassification Center. The author of the memo included a
passage from La Russie en 1839 by the Marquis de Custine that outlined our "built-in disadvantage" when dealing
with the Russians:
"If it is true that the better diplomats are to be found among the Russians than among the most advanced
peoples, the reason is that our press informs the Russians about every plan that is proposed and every event that
occurs among us. Instead of prudently concealing our weaknesses we reveal them every morning with passion,
while the Byzantine policy of the Russians, at work in the shadows, is careful to hide what they are thinking
and doing and fearing. We go forward in the light of day; they advance under cover. We are blinded by the
ignorance in which they leave us; they are enlightened by our candor. We are weakened by rumor; they are
strengthened by secrecy. And there you have the secret of their cleverness."
� La Russie en 1839, which was published in English as A Journey for Our Time, was described recently in
a book review, "famous for its wit, poignancy and deeply penetrating insights, (the book) is often called the
best ever account of the country by a foreigner. A fascinating portrait of a people, the Marquis'
observations are as revealing and timely today as when he traveled through Moscow and St. Petersburg in
the 19th century.
(U//411.10.) Litigation
(U/t-A-Iii0) CIA Wins Wheeler v. CIA Litigation
(UHAILLQLThe District Court of the District of Columbia, on 4 June 2003, granted the CIA's motion for a summary
judgment -- which is a request to dismiss the case -- in the John Fenton Wheeler v. CIA case. The court's opinion
says that "Mr. McNair's affidavit (referring to the DO/Information Review Officer, Bill McNair) has detailed the
reasons for the CIA's position with great clarity and persuasion." Mr. Wheeler had argued that the CIA had released
a large amount of information about the subject in question, to which the court responded that Mr. Wheeler's
argument "... fails in the face of the details of McNair's declaration."
� Mr. Wheeler's suit was an appeal of a FOIA that he filed with the CIA in 1996,
asking for records the Agency may hold on him when he was "the Associated Press correspondent in
Havana," and also when he "was AP bureau chief in Spain, Portugal, and Peru" in the 1960s. The CIA
responded to that request by stating, "we have searched those Agency systems that might contain
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