INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 26 - 30 AUGUST 2002 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578254
• 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 30, 2002

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 26- 30 August 2002
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U11=) 17 September 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at the EEOB in Washington, DC
Future Planning Calendar:
(U//701441)...4 October 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Crystal City.
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(U/SetHS) 8-9 January 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting a
(U//..661I1Q) 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//M12144) CIA Declassification Center
(U//7MM CDC Releases 2.2 Million Pages at NARA
(WhirtlIS) The CIA Declassification Center (CDC) this week released some 2.2 million pages to the public at the National
Archives in College Park, Maryland as part of its implementation of the automatic declassification provision of Executive
Order 12958. The records, which are in electronic format, are contained in the CIA Records SEarch Tool (CREST) in the
Archives library and are available to all researchers. They are fully text-searchable. This weeks' release makes up the
electronic portion of CDC's 2001 released records. The release, scheduled for late September 2001, was delayed by the
events of 9/11 and subsequent checks to ensure that current homeland securities sensitivities including weapons of mass
destruction were thoroughly addressed in these newly released documents, With this release, we now have over 5 million
pages of CIA records available to the public on the CREST System at College Park.
(U//Mtle.) The 2.2 million pages consists of records dated from 1951 to 1978 with quantities about equally distributed over
those years. Documents released include both CIA products and business records from all CIA directorates and MSO areas.
DCI area records released include Policy Files, History Staff, and Subject files. From the Directorate of Intelligence
researchers will find 0/DDI policy files, historical files, policy files, and finished intelligence collections. Directorate of
Science and Technology records released in this collection include collection programs mission files, contract and
procurement files, history files and subject files. Also included are a significant number of Scientific Abstracts and
Consolidated Translation Summaries of foreign technical publications acquired during the height of the Cold War.
(U//A4141:1) From the Archives: Letter from DCI Dulles to Jackie Kennedy in 1959
(U/aDCI Allen Dulles apparently enjoyed Ian Fleming's James Bond books as indicated in the following 17
November 1959 letter to Mrs. John F. Kennedy:
" Dear Jackie:
Months ago you kindly loaned me a book by Ian Fleming, which I read with vast interest, and thereafter when I was in
London, I got in touch with the author.
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Now I have just got my hands on a later edition of what I believe is the author's last publication, which is a similar thriller
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to the one you gave me, and I send it along, hoping you have not already seen it."
Jackie Kennedy responded with a handwritten note:
"How unbelievably thoughtful of you to send me Goldfinger - I am delighted with it - and it is being coveted by Jack and
his father. Affectionately, Jackie Kennedy."
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(U/1A4+301 Publications Review Board
(Uhisielge) FOIA Requests
(U/Litakie) Coast Guard NCO Interested in Blood Drinkers
(UHATlit7) A Non-commissioned Officer assigned to a US Coast Guard cutter requested records on any reported
cases of, or government investigation on, "vampires, being either human blood drinkers, murderers or so-called real
vampires." He also, in the same letter, asked for records pertaining to paranormal/supernatural research societies or
organizations.
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(U/PPrI4Q) Author Seeks Information on Former Baseball Player and OSS Employee
(UM-Pettit)) A published author, and frequent MIA requester, submitted a request for previously released records
relating to Morris (Moe) Berg, a former professional baseball player who served overseas with the OSS.
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(UHATH13) Australian Journalist Interested in Recently Deceased Cold War Defector
(UM4,1440) A reporter for the Brisbane, Australia Courier-Mail requested records pertaining to "Evdokia Petrov, a
former code clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, Australia, until her 20 April 1954 defection. Mrs. Petrov's
defection followed that of her husband, Vladimir, an MVD officer covered as a Third Secretary at the embassy, by
17 days, and occurred only after Australian authorities disarmed the Soviet Embassy 'couriers' who were assigned to
forcibly escort her back to the Soviet Union."
(U/071-reil Freelance Writer Looking into Disappearance and Murder of Army Officer in 1944
(Urn) A freelance author who is writing a magazine article requested records concerning "Major William V.
Holohan, commander of an OSS mission who disappeared, and was allegedly murdered, three months after he and
his team parachuted into northern Italy in September 1944."
� The FOIA ease manager sent the requester a list of 69 responsive, previously released documents,
comprising nearly 500 pages, from which he may select those he wishes to receive.
This is a record.
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Sent on 5 September 2002 at 08:49:33 AM
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