INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 9 - 13 DECEMBER 2002 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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05578036
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RIPPUB
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U
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2
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March 8, 2023
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April 2, 2019
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F-2010-01471
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December 13, 2002
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* Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578036 ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL USE ONLY (b)(3) Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 9 - 13 December 2002 � Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (UHA-1434)-17 December 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals' meeting at the EEOB in Washington, DC. Future Planninz Calendar: (U//A-144Q) 8 January 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting at Crystal City. (U/h4140) 30-31 January 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at (U//.0.144E)) 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//A-Hge) Special Collections Division (UHA-14344) SCD Prepares Release of Almost 7,000 Pages of Soviet Finished Intelligence (Ulliegeel) The Special Collections Division (SCD) at IMS has prepared ten boxes of material on the Soviet Union for release next week to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The material, comprising almost 7,000 pages of formerly classified material, was previously released in the FOIA and Automatic Declassification programs at CIA, and covers many issues including military, economics, and politics of the USSR. � SCD has been compiling special collections of declassified finished intelligence on the Soviet Union since 1997, and to date, over 102,000 pages on the subject have been released to NARA. SCD currently is working on two more tranches, consisting of over 6500 pages, of Soviet finished intelligence for release in 2003. (U/PA1T70) FOIA Requests (UHA-144420) Texas Requester Willing To Pay $5000 For FOIA Information (U//ru uo) A requester from Temple, Texas asked for records "related to the activities of Skidmore Energy, Inc. in relation to its investment and other activities in the Kingdom of Morocco." The requester writes that he is willing to pay "reasonable duplication fees for the processing of this reauest in an amount not to exceed 55.000." / (1.11/AfeEP) A Canadian Writer Asks for Research and a Favor (ullorttin) A requester from Montreal, Canada wants information on French alchemist Fulcanelli, French alchemist Eugene Canselier, French painter Jean-Julien Champagne, and Egyptologist R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The requester is writing a book and says, "As this is my first full-length publication project ... would you please also be so kind as to inform me if there is the possibility of a deferred payment of any fees ... upon the book's being accepted for publication?" (b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(5) (b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578036 Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578036 ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE oNur (b)(3) (b)(5) (b)(3) (b)(5) (b)(3) (Ullitli:+4)�A Requester Claims Raytheon, Among Others, Experimented on His Brain While in Puerto Rico (U/htlile) A requester from Rochester, New York writes that, while on vacation in Puerto Rico, he "became a victim" of CIA experiments that used technology "that had to do with nuclear mutation of the brain with implants." He claims that the companies involved in these experiments are Maynard Taggart Corp., Raytheon, and General Dynamics. � The FOIA case manager informed the requester that a search of our database of previously released records for information regarding brain implants and nuclear mutation did not locate any responsive records.! (umectrr) CIA Declassification Center (U//41430) CIA's New General Counsel Tours CIA Declassification Center's "Factory" (UHAIU ) Scott Muller, new General Counsel of the CIA, toured the CIA Declassification Center "factory" last week, where he received a demonstration of the Image Workflow Automation System (IWAS) review system, and the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), which is the NARA public access system. Mr. Muller also toured IMS' Document Conversion Center, and received a demonstration of the Proactive Electronics Records Management (PERM) archiving system. (b)(3) (UHALLICI) From the Archives: DCI Dulles on the U-2 (U//A44401 DCI Allen Dulles appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 31 May 1960 to address the issue of the loss of a U-2 over the USSR and the capture of its pilot, Gary Powers, by the Soviets. Mr. Dulles explained why we had the U-2: The "ordinary tools of information gathering," which were overt and covert and information from Soviet � defectors, were insufficient. "However, these sources and other sources developed through the application of various scientific techniques, while very helpful, did not give us the full intelligence the country required against the danger of a surprise attack against us, from bases which might remain unknown and by weapons, the strength and power of which we might not be able to adequately evaluate ... Almost equally serious had been our lack of knowledge of Soviet defense measures against our retaliatory striking power." He contrasted our efforts with those of the Soviets "... while Soviet spy trawlers can lurk a few miles off our shores and observe us with impunity, the Soviets cry 'aggression' when a plane, invisible to the naked eye, flies over it some fifteen miles above the ground." This is a record. CC: Sent on 17 December 2002 at 03:56:19 PM Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578036