INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 16 JULY - 20 JULY 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578092
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: July 20, 2001

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 16 July - 20 July 2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U//A+134) 26 July 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC.
Future Planning Calendar:
(untrro) 20 September 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC.
(UllgQ) 20 - 21 September 2001: Next Historical Review Panel meeting at CIA
(UHALLI.0) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed general material older than 25 years.
(U//A44460) 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//Ailg.43.) FOIA Requests
(UHAttill)- Swedish Journalist Submits Several FOIA Requests
(UHATUO) A reporter with TV4, the Swedish national TV station, submitted seven requests on a variety of topics.
The reporter included among his requests information on "the sinking of the passenger ship MIS Estonia on
September 28, 1994 in the Baltic Sea;" "the murder and subsequent police investigation into the murder of the
former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme [who] was ,assassinated in February 1986," "the export from Sweden of
the Swedish jetfighter JAS Gripen;" and "the Soviet submarine called U-137 that ran aground in the archipelago of
Karlskrona in southern Sweden in 1981."
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(U//A8 ) Italian Professor Interested in NIEs
(UPAT7C7rA professor at the University of Siena in Italy requested copies of "all previously released National
Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) on the Front de Liberation National (FLN) in Algeria between 1954 and 1962 and
eventual links with Italy's Mediterranean politics of the same period."
� The FOIA case officer queried the Management of Officially Released Information (MORI) database of
previously released material and consulted with an analyst with the Special Collections Division within the
CIO/IMS Information Review Group. No responsive records were located.
(UHAITITT) National Security Archive Submits Requests on South America
(U//7t1116) Among this week's submissions from the National Security Archive include a request for information on
the 1962 elections in Brazil and "the meeting of the Second Congress of the Latin American Anti-Communist
Confederation in Paraguay between May 28 and May 31, 1973."
� CIA accepted the requests I
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(UHAWIEP) Youth Correctional Center Resident Wants Information on Manufacturing Nuclear Weapons
(U//A-I4fFetrA resident at the Northern California Youth Correctional Center asked for information on several topics
ranging from how passports are printed to how nuclear weapons are manufactured. He also asked for CIA's
assessment of prisons and police forces in specified European and South American countries.
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� The FOIA case officer provided the requester with a sampling of documents and a listing of previously
released material on these subjects from which the requester may select documents that interest him.
(U//At-IMS Declassification Center
(11//A144444 ERWG Holds July Meeting at State Department
(U//A3+.+IS)- On 18 July, the External Referral WorIcinu Groun (FRWG) met for the first time at its new host facility,
the Department of State. The ERWG's Chair, df the IMS Declassification Center, welcomed 30
attendees from 19 ERWG-member Federal agencies. The agenda included: (1) an evaluation of ERWG's 25 June
2001 Equity Recognition Conference; (2) a "Fundamentals of Records Management" briefing by NARA's David
Langbart of the Life Cycle Management Division; (3) an overview by of the IMS Declassification
Center, on the CIA's recent efforts to identify 25-year old documents in remote locations such as national
laboratories and military installations. The ERWG decided to set-un a half-day working session to formulate a
recommendation for modifying E.O. 12958.
(UHAIttO) From the Archives: Car Pooling "Develops Better Acquaintance Among Employees"
(UHArCIrr)-According to the History of the Foreign Documents Division 1946-1952 ,which was recently reviewed
at the IMS Declassification Center, the Division had to be temporarily relocated to a remote site in the Washington,
DC area. "The generally remote location left branch personnel with little recourse to poor public transportation
service, but perhaps eventually contributed to the general morale, as 'car pooling' developed better acquaintance
among the employees."
� The Foreign Documents Division was established to combine several World War II document exploitation
units. It was originally part of the Central Intelligence Group and was folded into the the CIA when it was
established in 1947. In the early days, the Division exploited captured German documents and some
Soviet documents, and some 650,000 captured Japanese documents. In 1967 the Foreign Documents
Division was transferred to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).
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Hli/A-1171,1 Board Responds to Congressional Inquiry
(UHAti4344) Through the Office of Congressional Affairs, the Chairman of the Publications Review Board (PRB)
responded to a request from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the number of manuscripts
the Board had denied in full over the last ten years. The SSCI's request is related to litigation by a former
Department of Energy (DoE) employee against DoE, the Department of Defense, and CIA. The suit alleges that the
three Executive branch agencies have prevented him from publishing his manuscript about China's nuclear weapons
program.
� The Board has reviewed 3059 manuscripts since I January 1991 and has "denied in full" only thirteen.
0 e, four authors rewrote their submissions and obtained Board approval for publication. (S. Koch,
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