INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 26 NOVEMBER - 30 NOVEMBER 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578038
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: November 30, 2001

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 26 November -30 November
2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U//A4434)- 7 December 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC.
Future Planninz Calendar:
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(U/Or14344) 31 January - 1 February 2002: Historical Review Panel meeting at
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(U//1�1,140) 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/A14341) FOIA Requests
(LW/ATM National Security Archive Interested in Bin Laden
(U//A' el) The National Security Archive submitted a request for information pertaining to "the US Government's
1996 back channel initiative to Sudan to capture Osama Bin Laden. According to media accounts, the Sudanese
government was to arrest Mr. Bin Laden in Khartoum, and then extradite him to Saudi Arabia. Thereupon, the
Saudis were to turn him over to the United States."
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(U//Mile)r Florida Instructor Requests Information on Brazilian Leaders
(UHAIU ) An adjunct instructor of geography at the University of Florida asked for information on Joao Goulart,
former President of Brazil, and General Jair Ribeiro, former Brazilian Minister of War.
� The FOIA case officer advised the requester that although it is the CIA's policy to neither confirm nor
deny the existence of records that might indicate a current or former operational or analytical interest in
any particular foreign personality, the CIA can sometimes provide requesters with overt or previously
released records containing information on foreign nationals that is unrelated to any classified or covert
interest. Accordingly, the requester was provided with a listing of previously released documents on
these individuals from which the requester may select documents that interest him.
(11//AlVe)- Requester Seeks Documents on Weapons of Mass Destruction
(U/hIffrYteJ A Staten Island, New York requester asked for information regarding "the proliferation of W.M.D.
(weapons of mass destruction) in general; biological weapons in specific."
� The FOIA case officer provided the requester with listings of previously released documents under the
subjects of proliferation and biological, nuclear and chemical weapons from which the requester may
select documents that interest him.
(UHAItfil.)- CIA Declassification Center
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(UHAIUO) CDC Quality Council Meets
(UHItIllet On 28 November, the CIA Declassification Center (CDC) Quality Council approved the formation of
four teams to review personnel recruitment, technology, business process, and quality/quantity standards. The teams
are formed from members of the Council and members of CDC. The teams will focus on identifying improvements
in the review process while maintaining the highest possible quality.
(UThtliii+) From the Archives: Reports of Castro's Death in 1956 Greatly Exaggerated
(UHATLIII) Fidel Castro was killed in 1956 by Cuban military forces while leading an invading force on the eastern
coast of Cuba, according to the Havana press. The CIA reported the press item in a 1956 Current Intelligence
Bulletin (CIB). According to the CIB, which was recently reviewed by the DI team at the CIA Declassification
Center, Castro had announced that he was returning to Cuba for a "fight to the death," and was killed in a military
action. The report of his death, though, was greatly exaggerated as Castro succeeded in seizing power in Cuba in
1959.
This is a record.
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