INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 23 APRIL - 27 APRIL 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578275
• 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 27, 2001

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 23 April - 27 April 2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U//M134) 17 May 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EOB, Washington, DC.
Future Planninz Calendar:
(U//Alti ) 6 June 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at NARA, Washington, DC.
(U//214140) 17 June 2001: Historical Review Panel (HRP): Next meeting at CIA.
(U//A41.141 October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed general material older.than 25 years.
(1.11/A4+481) 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/MHUO) FOIA Requests
(U//A1 tith) CIA Receives First Requests on the Missionary Plane Shootdown in Peru
(U//P770) CIA has received six requests so far this week on the April 20 shootdown in Peru by the Peruvian Air
Force of a missionary plane. The Associated Press, CBS News, ABC News and the Miami Herald are among the
first requesters. The requesters have asked for a wide range of information on the event including CIA's audio and
video tapes of the flight, and CIA information on similar shootdown incidents dating back to 1990.
(b)(3)
(b)(5)
(U11111114}Freedom Magazine Interested in Noted Reporter/Biographer
(IN/A71-151$) Thomas Whittle, a frequent requester from Freedom Magazine, seeks information on James Phelan, an
investigative reporter, editor, and author who wrote the best-selling book, Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years
(1977).
� CIA accepted the request
(UHA11111) Argentinean Newspaper Seeks Information on Argentinean Banker
(U//A1110)- A requester with Argentina's La Nacion newspaper asks for information concerning David Gravier, an
Argentinean banker and businessman who died in a plane crash in Mexico in 1976. The requester indicated that at
the time of his death, Mr. Gravier was living in New York waiting for authorization to buy the American Bank and
Trust.
� The FOIA Case Officer advised the requester that although it is the CIA's policy to neither confirm or
deny the existence or non-existence of records that might indicate a current or former operational or
analytical interest in any particular foreign personality, we can sometimes provide overt or previously
released records containing information on foreign nationals that is unrelated to any classified or covert
interest. Accordingly, the requester was provided with 14 pages of previously released material on Mr.
(b)(3)
(b)(5)
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