INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 29 MARCH - 2 APRIL 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578208
• 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: April 2, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 29 March - 2 April 2004
Executive Summary
Future Plannink Calendar
(U//0A40.0) 14 April 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at NARA in Washington, DC.
(U//7M10) 27 April 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U/A-1111,) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
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(b)(3) (U/441,10)DUIRO�Personnel Change
(U//7r115.0) is the new IRO for the DI, replacing who has taken a position in the (b)(3)
Historical Collections Division supporting HCD's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) effort. F7vas (b)(3)
previously the Associate IRO on both the DI and DCI teams, and has a wealth of experience in the review and
release world.
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(U/hici+143) FOIA Requests
(U//A44444) Request for 'JRC Monthly Reconnaissance Schedule' Memo
(Uhltlig,4)-A requester is seeking re-review of a 2 January 1968 memorandum titled "JRC Monthly Reconnaissance
Schedule for January 1968." He adds that the memorandum is cited in Richard A. Mobley's book Flash Point North
Korea, the Pueblo and EC-I21 Crises (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003)�and that he recognized it as
being "one of the monthly memoranda I wrote for the DDI to the DCI from the late 1950s to the early 1980s."
� Noting the requester's agreement to pay any fees, the FOIA case manager accepted the request,/
Editor: The memorandum above provides background information for the 303 Committee�a senior-level,
interagency committee within the National Security Council that was established during the Johnson
Administration by NSAM-303. It was responsible for Covert Action and other highly sensitive activities in the
Nixon administration. The name derives from the meeting room number in the Old Executive Office Building.
It was replaced by the 40 Committee in 1970. Author, Richard Mobley was a career naval intelligence officer
assigned to the Defense Intelligence Liaison Office in London between 1998 and 2001.
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(U//A44#3)-Requester Wants to Assist in Search for MIAs
(UHAITD7 An adjunct professor at Ozark Technical College (OTC) in Springfield, Missouri, is trying to identify, via
FOIA, the proper government organization to address a long-standing interest. He writes that he has sought this
information from "several local, state offices and the state Veterans Administration to no avail." The requester wants
to serve on one of the teams searching for MIAs in Southeast Asia. He identifies himself as a Vietnam veteran
(1970-1971) who is currently an instructor of human anatomy�"so I have the skills to recognize and identify human
remains....I am being considered for a full-time position at OTC, but would rather be granted the privilege of helping
return some of our lost servicemen."
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(UllA114430) NGO Seeks CIA Records on Italian Citizens
(UHA-11113) An Italian historical researcher for the "Observatory on Organized Crime"�a nongovernmental
organization (NGO) in Geneva, Switzerland� is asking for records that will clarify whether his countryman,
Francesco Pazienza, was a CIA asset between 1978 and 1982. He also seeks any documentation resulting from a
meeting between DCI William Casey and deceased former head of Italian military intelligence (SISMI), Fulvio
Martini, relating to Pazienza's extradition from the United States.
(UHA1in14).CDC Declassification Center
(1.1/htliff)) From The Archives:
(U/hteltif) Soviet-Watching
(U/771614Q,) A generation of foreign policy and intelligence analysts and academics made careers out of trying to
understand and interpret a closed Soviet society. One of the tools used was the precedence accorded to leading
officials. Thus, a Central Intelligence Bulletin (CIB) article in June 1954 notes that the Soviet press has published
an alphabetical listing of top leaders, rather than in the usual order of precedence. Ambassador Bolen notes that the
intent behind this change may merely be to emphasize the principle of collectivity, but that if this becomes standard
practice, it will deprive Malenkov of another of his few remaining attributes of preeminence. Bohlen adds that he
does not believe the order of listings possesses the same conclusive significance as in Stalin's time. CIA's comment
is that the alphabetical listing is "a striking departure from previous practice and appears to signify a further
weakening of Malenlcov's position. ..and an inability to agree on precedence of listing.. ..Prior to the recent activities
of, and the publicity accorded to party first secretary Khrushchev, Malenkov appeared to hold the position of 'first
among equals' in the Soviet collective leadership. However, recent events have suggested a modification of the old
collective leadership concept and the possible development of factional groupings within the leadership, focusing
around Malenkov and Khrushchev."
� The US Government watched very closely for signs of division in the USSR's post-Stalin leadership. Some of
the assessments in this article proved accurate in February 1955, when Malenkov "resigned" as Premier.
Bulganin, a Khrushchev supporter, replaced Malenkov.
(U/h444.10.) Memorandum on Domestic Intelligence
(Uthar1+516)-The following undated excerpt is from a Ford Library document written on White House stationery. It
serves as part of a covering memo from Tom Charles Huston to H. R. Haldeman. The memo cites..."the serious
internal security threat" and makes suggestions for an "Improvement in Inter-Agency Coordination. ...All members of
the committee ['the top domestic intelligence officials of the FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA, and each of the military services]
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and its working group, with the exception of Mr. Hoover, believe that it is imperative that a continuing mechanism
be established to effectuate the coordination of domestic intelligence efforts and the evaluation of domestic
intelligence data. In the past, there has been no systematic effort to mobilize the full resources of the intelligence
community in the internal security area, and there has been no mechanism for preparing community-wide domestic
intelligence estimates, such as is done in the foreign intelligence area by the United States Intelligence Board.
Domestic intelligence information coming into the White House has been fragmentary and unevaluated. We have
not had, for example, a community-wide estimate of what we might expect short or long-term in the cities, or on the
campuses, or within the military establishment." The covering memo concludes: "Mr. Hoover is set in his ways and
can be bull-headed as hell, but he is a loyal trooper. Twenty years ago he would never have raised the type of
objections he has here, but he's getting old and worried about his legend. ['Mr. Hoover refused to go along with a
single conclusion drawn, or support a single recommendation made. His position was two-fold: (1) Current
operations are perfectly satisfactory, and (2) No one has any business commenting on procedures he has established
for the collection of intelligence by the FBI.] "He makes life tough in this area, but not impossible-for he'll respond
to direction by the President and that is all we need to set the domestic intelligence house in order." (b)(3)
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(Di/AMC') Eulogy for the Vietnam War
(UHAIII)-From the Ford Library, the following comment on the Vietnam War was among press clippings selected
for the 7 May 1975 White House Situation Room Evening Notes: "Smith Hempstone says that it began, as most wars
do, with a grand illusion, with champagne rhetoric and a commitment to high ideals. It ended with disillusionment,
the bitter beer of defeat and a questioning of truths no longer held self-evident. It began with ruffles and flourishes,
and the proud thunder of a distant drum. It ended, hours after the last Americans had fled, with the Muzak tapes at
Saigon's American FM radio station blaring rock music to an empty house. After 30 years of warfare, the land is
salted with tears and limed with graves. May we and those we abandoned find a sort of peace. And thank God it's
all over. At last."
� Smith Hempstone went on to become Ambassador to Kenya, where he continued to write dispatches in the
colorful style of a newspaperman
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