INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 22 - 26 JULY 2002 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578245
• 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: July 26, 2002

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 22- 26 July 2002
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(Unfelt*" 20 August 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at Crystal City.
HY/Mtn 21 August 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting, site to be determined.
Future Planninm Calendar:
(U/Metifle) 8-9 January 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting a
(UHAtIgt) 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:
(11//Artett FOIA Requests
(u/orrou) BBC News Requests Records Related to the "Ustica Crash"
(U/hcrOL) A producer with BBC News requested records relating to a 1980 incident in which an Itavia Airlines
DC-9 on an internal flight exploded in mid-air and crashed into the sea near the Mediterranean island of Ustica, west
of Naples. Some days later the wreckage of a Libyan MiG-21 was found on a remote hillside in southern Italy,
leading to speculation that the two crashes may have been related.
(U/h1e144Q) National Security News Service Seeks Information Related to Francis Argenbright
(U/Lt1110) A reporter for the National Security News Service, a project of the Public Education Center, requested
records pertaining to Francis (Frank) Argenbright, founder of passenger screening company Argenbright Security,
Inc.
� As the requester provided all necessary biographic information, as well as a privacy waiver from the
subject of the search,
(W/Aliffei Author Requests Information Relating to Meeting Between Former DCI Bush and Frank Sinatra
(Ufitritfre) A writer researching a book for publication asked for records pertaining to a meeting between then-Da
George Bush and Frank Sinatra in New York on February 23, 1976, at which time, the writer states, Mr. Sinatra
offered to inform the CIA of his meetings with foreign dignitaries.
� The requester was advised that subsequent to the dates in question, we received FOIA requests from other
persons seeking information pertaining to Frank Sinatra 's offering his services to the CIA and all records
in connection with Frank Sinatra. In both cases, thorough and diligent searches failed to locate any
responsive records. As the information sought in the current request would clearly be encompassed by
either of the aforementioned searches, the requester was advised that it would be fruitless to expend her
funds on further searches, and that her request had been canceled.
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(Ull*P110) From the Archives: DCI Colby in 1975 "There Is Always One Report That Predicts an Event"
(unAral In 1975, DCI William Colby spoke on an issue that applies to the CIA's situation today after the 9/11
terrorist events: "I think the one game that is played in intelligence agencies after an event is to look around for the
one report that predicted it, and I guarantee you, you can find it. There is always one report somewhere that predicts
an event is going to happen. It may be lost in a hundred that predict it won't, and it may be a prediction of a hundred
events that didn't take place. But, after a particular event, you can always find one report."
� The document was reviewed recently by the DCI team at the CIA Declassification Center
(U//44eFIge) From the Archives: The "Flying Tigers"
(UllAtble)� A 1945 OSS document from the Casey Collection/Hoover Institute titled American Cooperation with
China During the First Year of the War , included a detailed description of the history of the American Volunteer
Group (AVG, also known as the "Flying Tigers"). Claire Chennault, a retired US Army aviator who had been
training Chinese pilots in China to fight the Japanese invaders, proposed in 1940 to raise a unit of American
volunteers. After many hurdles, 100 American-made Curtis P-40 aircraft were obtained from the British and shipped
to Burma and 100 American pilots were "hired." Because of concerns over neutrality (this was before Pearl Harbor),
the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO) was formed to hire and pay the pilots to be "an advanced
training and instructional unit in China," but their real purpose was to defend the Burma Road. Pilots were paid over
$600 per month and received a bonus of $600 for every Japanese plane they destroyed. With limited supplies and
support, ramping up for action was slow, and the AVG didn't get into battle until 30 December. Over the next
several months, the Chennault's AVG became the bane of the Japanese Air Force in Southeast Asia and Southern
China, eventually tallying up 297 confirmed "kills" and "probably destroying" another 300 by 18 July 1942 when
they were disbanded and the pilots absorbed into the US Army Air Corps.
� The document was reviewed recently by the Remote Archive Capture (RAC) team at the CIA
Declassification Center.
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