INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 2-6 AUGUST 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578052
• 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 6, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 2-6 August 2004
Executive Summary
Future Plannink Calendar
(u hYrwe) 11 August 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at NARA in Washington, DC.
cutairt9 TBD: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals' meeting at
EEOB in Washington, DC.
(UllitIVEr) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
(U/tA-141444.FOIA Requests
� (U/1ATIX4) Information Sought on America's First Jet-Propelled Spyplane
(U//A-The requester claims to be "writing the first book on the North American B-24 Tornado, America's first
jet bomber (1948)." He adds...because it was also the world's first jet/spyplane, I need to know if there is any CIA
connection and documentation about its operations in Yokota, Japan, from 1950-1958.
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� The FOIA case manager notified the requester that his request was received, and that an analyst would review
it and be in touch should any problems arise, or if additional information is required.
(U/A+130) Seeking a Regional Map of an Afghan Site
(UHArible) On behalf of 501(c)3 [charitable tax-exempt] organization 'Green Village Schools,' the requester is
seeking satellite and/or aerial imagery of Shin Kelley, Helmand, Afghanistan. He states that his organization has
built, and is maintaining, two very successful schools there and, consequently, desires a map of the region. "In the
unlikely case that such imagery does not exist, please instruct me as to how I could obtain it."
(UfrA+130) Interest in Media Influence by the CIA �
(U//A144( The requester seeks information relating to the CIA's "Project Mockingbird," and/or files relating to the
subject of media influence by the CIA between 1950 and 1980.
� The FOIA case manager searched the MORI database of oreviti usly released records, located two responsive
documents, and sent them to the requester.
(U//A4130) CIA Declassification Center
(UNTIV(1)-CDC's Latest Visits to the Presidential Libraries
(U/L.611.41Following a 26-27 July visit to the Ford Presidential Library, CDC's External Referral and Liaison Team
visited the Kennedy and Eisenhower Presidential Libraries during 2-5 August to install CDC's upgraded classified
Laserfiche system. The new system is similar to the CIA Records Search Tool�CREST system deployed at National
Archives at College Park, Maryland�but it is only to be used by cleared library archivists. In toto, CDC has
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provided 115,593 pages of reviewed presidential material from the Remote Archive Capture '(RAC) program to the
Kennedy Library. Also, it has delivered 47,749 pages to the Eisenhower Library. In addition, the CDC team
provided tutorials on the new system to the library archivists, along with 'canned' queries to assist them in searching
the system. This trip completes the installation of the new Laserfiche system, and the delivery of additional reviewed
presidential material to the initial four libraries in the RAC program: Johnson, Ford, Kennedy and Eisenhower.
(U//kft1T)) From the Archives:
(UHAItTej Carver's Advice to FSOs
(UHAIrtej-in early March 1970, DCI Helms was due to address State Department officers at the Foreign Service
Association. George Carver, then Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, sent a memo to the DCI, in which he
outlined four themes that he felt might be profitably covered in the DCI's remarks:
"The first is the obvious one of demonstrating that the Agency�along with the Foreign Service Officer corps�
works for the US Government and that none of our officers have horns, a tail or cloven hoofs."
The second theme was to make the officers aware that "our activities and operations in any given country are
always known to the Ambassador and either approved by him, or commented on to Washington by him, before the
fact."
"The third point is a little trickier." Mr Carver wrote that while he had "a lot of admiration for many
FS0s...almost all of them.. seem inherently inclined to think of themselves as advocates of the government to which
they are accredited, rather than USG's dispassionate, objective representatives to it or interpreters of its actions."
"Finally there is a related point of considerable importance. Many of our Foreign Service colleagues�
particularly at the DCM [deputy chief of mission] and ambassadorial level�seem incorrigibly prone to confuse the
concept properly labeled 'influence' with another concept properly labelled 'cordiality' or 'good fellowship,' but for
which 'influence is a misnomer. If an Ambassador has, or thinks he has, warm personal rapport with the local
Numero Uno...that is fine but such rapport�even if it actually exists outside the mind of the reporting officer�is not
necessarily influence."
Mr. Carver then explained that he felt true influence was "the ability to get someone to do (not just promise)
something he had not thought of doing or is himself disinclined to do." He added: "From an epistemological point
of view, such statements as 'I cannot ask the President of Thaibodia to do such-and-such because levying such a
request would jeopardize/damage/diminish/reduce our influence over him' are logically meaningless nonsense. (What
such a statement often really means is 'I don't want to put this pitch to the President because he might be offended
and not greet me/my wife so warmly at the next diplomatic reception.) This is a rather delicate notion, but if you
could weave it into your remarks it would be useful to do so."
� Mr. Carver's remarks are particularly interesting, given his extensive contacts with high-level State
Department personnel, which allowed him to be viewed as a knowledgeable observer Under sim jar
circumstances, what might high-level State Department personnel have said?
(U//A+1:443) Defining the DCI's Role and Title
(U//244�10) From the Kennedy National Library comes a 19 July 1975 Memorandum from Secretary of Defense
James Schlesinger to the President (Nixon), commenting on "Recommendations Regarding Intelligence in the Report
of the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy." Schlesinger states
that the "recommendations for the most part are reasonable and sound," but cautions that "their success depends on a
number of factors not addressed in the Commission report... Comments on specific recommendations are as
follows:"
"Recommendation #46: The DCI should have an office in close proximity to the White House and be accorded
regular and direct contact with the President.
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Of more importance than the physical location of the DCI's office is the question of whether or not the DCI
should retain his role as head of the CIA. It is my view that as long as the DCI is responsible for day-to-day
operations of the clandestine services, he will be unable to perform his larger role as the President's premier
intelligence advisor and as leader and coordinator of the entire intelligence community....
Recommendation #47: The CIA should be retitled the Foreign Intelligence Agency (FIA), and its Director the
Director of Foreign Intelligence (DFI).
Concur."
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� Comment: This commission is generally referred to as the Murphy Commission, as it was chaired by former
Ambassador Robert Murphy. Although at the time Schlesinger was Secretary of Defense, he served as DCI
from February 1973 until his resignation on 2 July 1973 to assume the duties of SecDef The DCI Team
recently released a memorandum from then-DCI Colby expressing "little value in establishing an additional
[DCI1 office nearer, as access is easy anytime the President desires it" and "no particular advantage to be
gained by raiding the CIA..." The numbered recommendations above were apparently 'shelved' �probably
by the Ford Administration, given that President Nixon resigned less than three weeks later. We are unclear
as to wh a 1975 Nixon Collection document is included in the Kennedy Library collection.
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