INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 10 - 14 MARCH 2003 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578139
• 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: March 14, 2003

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 10- 14 March 2003
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(UHA11117) 25 March 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
Future Plannink Calendar:
(U941410) 16 April 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Crystal City.
(UHAIUO) April 2003: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed intelligence-related or multi-agency records.
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(U//M40) 3 June 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at
Overview of IRR Activities Last Week:
(UThtlilft) Publications Review Board
(UHAe14510) FOIA Requests
(UHATC13) Democratic Campaign Committee Seeks Information on Republican Senator
(U//TO) The Research Director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Washington, DC, asks for
correspondence between Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond (R, Missouri) or a member of his staff and the CIA.
(UHAMEH- CIA Receives First Request on Raelian Movement
(U11.0.144&) Frequent requester Jonathan Levy, from Hilton Head, South Carolina, asks for information regarding
"the Raelian Movement--an international religious entity." The Raelians allege to have cloned human babies.
(U//AP) Requester From Woodstock Wants Information on Connection Between Music and Antisocial
Behavior
(U/htli4144�A requester from Woodstock, New York, requests "information or records on the relationship between
behavioral profiling and the music and entertainment business." She explains that "perhaps the government
sometimes funds studies of this nature in order to have a baseline as to what powerful behavioral triggers of the times
may be being used not only to incite dangerous violence, but to inhibit dialogue between individuals and to
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encourage consumer purchases."
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(UHAItt�0) Requester Wants Information for Book on American Trotskyism
(U/1r1+,144) A requester from Rhode Island is seeking information on seven individuals, including 3 foreign nationals,
who were of importance to the history of the American or world Trotskyist communist movement." He plans to use
the information in a book he is writing on the history of American Trotskyism, as a follow up to his book on
international Trotskyism.
� The FOIA case manager provided the requester with a Glomar -- refusal to confirm or deny the existance
or non-existence of records -- on the three foreign nationals. The requester was also informed that he
must provide more complete biographic information on the remaining four individuals as well as a
commitment to pay fees before any searches could be conducted.
(U/htIre) Graduate Student Interested in South Vietnamese Politics
(U//Al uo j A Harvard graduate student in the Department of History is requesting information on Ngo Dinh Diem
(president of South Vietnam until 1963) and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The student wants the information in
support of his Ph.D dissertation, which is a study of US relations with South Vietnam during 1954-1963.
(U//4/4419) CIA Declassification Center
(U/h$141.10) From the Archives: Can You Keep A Secret?
(U//AIU0): In a speech that was recently reviewed at the CIA Declassification Center, Lt. General Vernon Walters,
during the time he was DDCI, told a story to a group in Pittsburgh that illustrated the importance of keeping secrets.
"One day General Washington had spent the night at the home of a revolutionary sympathizer and as he was leaving,
the sympathizer's wife said to him, 'Oh, General, where do you ride tonight?' And he leaned down in the saddle and
said, 'Madame, can you keep a secret?' And she said, 'Of course.' And he said, 'So can I. Good day, Madame.' And
rode on."
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