INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 20-24 MAY 2002 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578085
• 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: May 24, 2002

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 20-24 May 2002
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U/i6A4Ser) 12 June 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, DC
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Future Planning Calendar:
(U/4444401 26-27 June 2002: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at
(U//4145144) 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:
� The FR US was established during President Lincoln's administration. It is a legally mandated official
documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
(U//4144(3)�FOIA Requests
(U/PATI70) German Requester Wants "Arms" from CIA
(UntarIKIS) A requester wrote from Germany, asking CIA for "some arms of your administrative body."
� The astute FOIA case manager determined from the balance of the letter that the requester was seeking a
copy of the CIA seal and provided him with an unclassified Factbook about the CIA, which includes a
full-color rendition of the Agency seal.
(U/OCTIIM In Search of the Lost Ark
(Uuprron) Catholics Allied for the Faith, Inc., submitted a request for records pertaining to "the possibility of the
Ark of the Covenant being located in Ethiopia."
� CIA received another FOIA request regarding the Ark of the Covenant in 1999. A search was conducted
at that time, and no responsive records were located.
(IMAISQ)...Attorney Asks for Records on Nobel Prize Winner
(U/MeIgne, An attorney wrote to request records pertaining to Paul and Margit Dirac. The attorney, who states his
office is researching the Diracs, identified Mr. Dirac as a British-born Nobel Prize winner who was prevented from
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working on the Manhattan Project due to his visits to the USSR prior to World War II.
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(U//A4444&) Requester Seeks Information Regarding Israeli Intelligence
(UHA7011) A requester wrote in seeking records pertaining to the relationship between Israeli Intelligence
organizations, such as Mossad, and the Anti-Defamation League and/or other private, non-profit organizations
operating in the US. The requester also asked for records concerning the spying of the Israeli intelligence
community on residents of the US.
(U/rAtIlet Requester Wants Records on Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Bunche
(UfirrOn) The Historical Research Repository, Inc., requested records in connection with its efforts to honor Dr.
Ralph Johnson Bunche. The request letter stated that Dr. Bunche was the first African American to hold a 'Desk' job
with the OSS/State Department in 1945, and that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
� The FOIA case manager provided the requester with previously released documents concerning Dr.
Bunche, and also suggested the requester contact the Military Reference Branch of the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA), where the majority of OSS records have been sent.
(UHA IT 1") CIA Declassification Center
(U/K�elgt) ERWG Convenes May Meeting
(U/Flitnlirr On 22 May 2002, the External Referral Working Group (ERWG) convened at the Department of State
to hear Leo Masciana of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO), who briefed the ERWG on
"Information Security in the Age of Terrorism." Also on the agenda, the ERWG discussed 9/11's affect on
information management law and policy, and the current challenge of melding sharing and secrecy needs into a
compatible national security response. ERWG's Equity Training Sub-Working Group recommended that ERWG
host multiple single-day equity training sessions using a new format to be determined by a member survey. Also on
the May agenda, members heard a Remote Archive Capture Program "RAC Shares and Processing Report" and a
CIA Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA) activities briefing. A representative from !SOO updated the
group on the status of the EO 12958 revision, and reported that the National Security Advisor supports retaining
automatic declassification with a multi-year extension.
(111/Artterrtom the Archives: A Caveat for Extreme Sensitivity
(Utherikie) A 1958 memorandum that was recently reviewed at the CIA Declassification Center, between the
Guided Missile Intelligence Committee (GMIC) and the United States Intelligence Board (USIB) was marked "Top
Secret, Sensitive, Limited Distribution, NOFORN." Col. Earl McFarland, chair of the GMIC, apparently didn't feel
that was enough control in that he also stamped the document on every page "ONE EYE ONLY."
This is a record.
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