INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 19-23 JULY 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578050
• 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: July 23, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 19-23 July 2004
Executive Summary
Future Planning Calendar
(uorre�411 August 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at NARA in Washington, DC.
(UHAtfere) TBD: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals' meeting at
EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U11.4.11.1.0) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
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(U/M-111(1) CDC Briefs DCIO on 25-Year Program
(U///trite)'rfn 20 July, Chief/CIA Declassification Center (CDC) presented an overview briefing to the Deputy
Chief Information Officer (DC10) on the 25-Year Declassification Program. Other CDC participants in the briefing
included: Chief/Presidential Libraries, who demonstrated the Image Workflow Automation System (IWAS) used for
automated review, and which supports complex workflow and online redaction; and, Chief/Metrics and Operations
Team, who gave a demonstration of CREST�the CIA Records Search Tool. CIA has placed four CREST
workstations at NARA, which provide full text search access to over 8.7 million pages of CIA records released under
the 25-Year Program.
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(Uthir14344) From The Archives:
(UHA4110)-Watergate�and the 'Enemies of Detente'
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(Ulliri+364 A fascinating memorandum, dated April 1974, provides CIA analysis of Soviet concerns about the
implications of the Watergate scandal for their leader (Brezhnev), for Soviet foreign policy generally, and for
preparations for a possible upcoming summit with the US. The memo states that "the Soviets have believed from the
outset of the Watergate affair that it was being used by the President's political opposition to get him. As the
President's difficulties have grown, so have Moscow's suspicions. Now the Soviets profess to see the 'enemies of
detente' behind the President's problems." The article states that "Brezhnev himself has a personal stake in detente"
...and cites one report that indicates that "elements of the Soviet military-industrial complex who are disenchanted
with detente and concerned about recent [Soviet] policy setbacks would use a Nixon impeachment to try to oust
party leader Brezhnev."
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� Comment: Secretary Kissinger was traveling to Moscow at about this time to discuss an upcoming summit
meeting. In March 1974,. President Nixon was named a co-conspirator in Watergate, and in April 1974 his
four key aides resigned. The memo, which would have had a very limited dissemination, demonstrates part of
what CIA must be able to do �namely, provide analyses on any matter with foreign policy or national security
implications, regardless of personal or political sensitivities. The US-Soviet summit convened in June 1974,
and President Nixon was "warmly received" by Brezhnev. By July 1974, the impeachment of President Nixon
began. He resigned hisoffice on 8 August.
(U//t�) A State FOIA Release Gone Bad
(U//A1177From Carter Library comes a March 1979 National Security Council (NSC) Memorandum that states,
"[the Italian Newspaper] La Repubblica also published some documents that were released under FOIA. They were
gossipy and dated from 1970-71. They should have been vetted better (by State). We have told the Italians we will
do a better job. We have tightened up FOIA."
� Comment: The flap over the recent publication of State Department and White House documents on Indonesia
by The National Security Archive offers a more recent reminder that foreign governments might bristle at the
release of certain information �or the timing of its release.
(U/Uctilej CIA's Man on the Case
(U//7t1+3C4 A 29 October 1976 letter, under review from the Ford Presidential Library, records CIA General
Counsel, Anthony Lapham's response to a Department of Justice request for declassified documents pertaining to the
Criminal Division investigation of CIA, ITT, and Chile. General Counsel Lapham informs the National Security
Council that the Agency cannot declassify White House and NSC documents, and is returning the requested
documents to the White House for sanitization following the removal of CIA equities.
� The General Counsel invited the NSC staffer to contact a lawyer on his staff with any questions.i
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