INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 10 SEPTEMBER - 14 SEPTEMBER 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578100
• 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: September 14, 2001

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 10 September - 14 September
2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U//g1119)- 25 September 2001: Meeting with Representatives of the Department of State Historian's Office
regarding Foreign Relations of the US (FRUS).
Future Planninz Calendar:
(UHAIO0) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed general material older than 25 years.
(UNAIU0) 31 October 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC.
(UHATVO)�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//216141 FOIA Requests
(U//A+1343). News Service Submits on 11 September a FOIA Request for Information on 11 September Attack
(U//7770) In a request dated 11 September 2001, a journalist from the National Security News Service of the
Public Education Center in Washington, DC, asked for "all records of correspondence between August 28, 2001 and
September 11, 2001, warning of terrorists attacks."
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� The CIA has acc7ted the request
(U//MVO) Yale Fellow Interested in Agency Talk on World War II Military Plan
(illltid440) A postdoctoral fellow with International Security Studies at Yale University requested a copy of "a 15
May 1986 talk to a CIA group by Rudolph Rousseau who was Deputy Director, House Affairs, Office of
Congressional Affairs, about the German intelligence reactions to the Allied plan Bodyguard in World War II that
had a direct impact on the Normandy invasion."
� The FOIA case officer accepted the request
(U/41.140) American University Requester Seeks Copy of DCID
(Ug.41.1449) A requester with American University Administrative Law Review asked for a copy of "Director of
Central Intelligence Directive 1/1, The Authorities and Responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence as
Head of the U.S. Intelligence Community (1998)."
� The FOIA case officer provided the requester with a previously-released copy of the DCID from the
Management of Officially Released Information (MORI) database.
(U//MVO) National Security Archive Interested in Report on Chinese Science and Technology
(U//04131:1). The National Security Archive requested a copy of "Scientific Intelligence Committee, 'Science and
Technology in Communist China through 1970,' circa 1966."
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� The FOIA case officer accepted the request
(U//411.1.120 Requester Seeks Information on Indian Mountain Expedition
(UHAETt1J) A Colorado requester sought information pertaining to "activities that took place in cooperation with the
CIA on the mountains of India, Nanda Devi and Nanda Kot in 1965 and 1966, carried out by a team of American
and Indian mountaineers while placing a nuclear sensing device, containing several pounds of plutonium 238, to
monitor activities in China. According to various media accounts, it was named 'Operation Blue Mountain' or 'Top
Hat."
(U//441,41) CIA Declassification Center
(U/t7kTrin) Declassification Team Begins Work at Hoover Institution
(1J/7441516)- A three-person Remote Archives Capture (RAC) scanning team arrived in California last week at the
Hoover Institution Archives located on the Stanford University campus. The team has scanned 8,709 images thus far
from a collection of classified documents estimated at 30,000 pages. Upon completion at Hoover the team will
travel to Simi Valley, California to begin scanning a collection of 50,000 pages of classified records located at the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
� According to their website, the Hoover Institution is a public policy research center devoted to advanced
study of politics, economics, and political economy---both domestic and foreign---as well as international
affairs. The Institution was founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover.
(U/L.0,1440) From the Archives: U-2 Pilot Receives Intelligence Star
(UfilltliT1GL).-The Deputy Director for Research at the DS&T requested the CIA's Intelligence Star be awarded to
Gary Powers in a 9 April 1963 memorandum that was recently reviewed by the DS&T team at the CIA
Declassification Center. Herbert Scoville, Jr., DS&T Deputy Director for Research stated, "Mr. Powers has received
no formal or official recognition from any quarter recognizing his outstanding service to the Agency." The CIA
awarded the Intelligence Star to Mr. Powers later that month.
� Gary Powers was shot down with his U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Soviet Union in May 1960. He
was held prisoner by the Soviets until 1962 when he was returned to the US by the Soviets in exchange for
a Russian spy.
This is a record.
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Sent on 19 September 2001 at 08:11:18 AM
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