INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 20 AUGUST - 24 AUGUST 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578097
• 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: August 24, 2001

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 20 August -24 August 2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(Uthart1343) 5 September 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC.
Future Planning Calendar:
(u/lAirtk)- 20 September 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC.
(LT/Atilt)) 20 - 21 September 2001: Next Historical Review Panel meeting at CIA
(U/htf�43) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed general material older than 25 years.
(U/M4440) 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:
(Uthir14444) FOIA Requests
(U/hM�1343.). National Security Archive Interested in South America
(U//Fart7T Among this week's submissions from the National Security Archive are requests concerning "the
mysterious disappearance of ex-Bolivian President Juan Jose Torres on June I, 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and
recovering of his corpse on June 3, 1976 on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina," "the kidnapping of exiled
leader of Chile's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) Edgardo Enriquez on April 10, 1976 near Buenos Aires,
Argentina." and "the third congress of the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation held in Asuncion,
Paraguay between March 28-30 1977."
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(U/har130) Requester Seeks Information on OSS Station Chief
(UNAIU0) A Chicago requester with Resource Base-China Associates, seeks information on "Captain Milton 'Mary'
, Miles, Office of Navy Intelligence ... (who succeeded) ... James McHugh as head of OSS station in Chungking,
China in October 1942." The requester further indicated that Captain Miles "was [a] close friend of Tai Li, 'the
Hirninler of China."'
� The requester was provided with five documents on this subject from the Management of Officially
Released Information (MORI) database of previously released material. In addition, the requester was
advised to contact the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Department of the
Navy for further assistance.
(U/hor1440.) University Student Requests Information on Operation Paperclip
(W/PrIlleY) A requester who indicates that he is a "resident of the great state of California and a student at the
University of California, Los Angeles," asked for information on Operation Paperclip, the post WWII program
established to exploit German civilian scientists.
� The FOIA case officer offered the requester 267 pages' of previously released material on this subject.
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The requester can receive up to 100 pages free of charge but will have to pay 10 cents per page for all
pages above 100.
(umbeitIt) Frequent Requester Interested in Noted Attorney
(U///C1177) Frequent requester Thomas Whittle of Freedom Magazine requested information on Mitchell Rogovin, a
Washington DC lawyer who died in 1996. According to the obituary attached to the requester's letter, Mr. Rogovin
"did legal work for high-profile individuals and organizations ranging from the Central Intelligence Agency to the
public-interest lobbying organization Common Cause ."
� CIA will accept the request
(U//A41444) IMS Declassification Center
(UHAIU0) Visitor from CMS Tours CIA's Declassification Factory
(U87tI43)) Chief, Requirements, Plans and Policy Office at the Community Management Staff
visited last week and toured the CIA Declassification Center's declassification factory.
3irector of IMS, hosted the tour, which included a visit to the Document Conversion Center, and a
demonstration of the Image Workflow Automation System (IWAS), and the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST)
public access system. Who until recently was the DCI's representative to the Interagency Security
Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), suggested to ho is her successor on the Panel, that the entire
ISCAP membership should be invited for a tour of the"factory" to illustrate the Agency's commitment to
declassification.
(U/hiettN1) From the Archives: In 1963, Cuban Trainers Give Peruvian Students Bad Evaluations
(umtitre) The Cubans evaluated their Peruvian brethren harshly according to a DI Weekly article dated 1963 that
was recently reviewed by the DI team at the CIA Declassification Center. The Cuban trainers gave bad evaluations
to communist students from Peru, observing they were "too nearsighted and needed glasses, timid by nature, resistant
to doctrine, or ... they prayed at night."
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