INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 17 DECEMBER - 21 DECEMBER 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578041
• 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: December 21, 2001

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 17 December - 21 December
2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(Ullieli4E4 9 January 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at DOD, Crystal City.
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Future Planninz Calendar:
(UHATV�r 31 January - 1 February 2002: Historical Review Panel meeting at
(U//AIM�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:
(UMMICI) Publications Review Board
(UHAI134) Former CIA Officer Turned Author Likely to Receive Movie Deal
(till/trill') According to the entertainment industry's publication Variety, the director of the movie "Traffic" is
interested in developing a CIA thriller based on a book a former DO officer wrote. The movie will illustrate "the
difficulty in operating a covert division in a democracy, particularly when there appears to be no immediate threat or
visible superpower to fear." In February 2002, Crown Publishing will release the book on which the movie will be
based.
(U//A111.0) FOIA Requests
(IMA�11113). Judicial Watch Interested in Sudan and Osama Bin Laden
(U//ArItItr) Judicial Watch, a self-described non-profit law firm in Washington DC, submitted a multi-part request
for information pertaining to alleged attempts by the Sudanese government to capture Osama Bin Laden. Judicial
Watch indicates that the same request is being submitted simultaneously to the Department of State, the FBI, and the
National Security Council.
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The FOIA case officer sent Judicial Watch a letter acknowledging receipt of their request. (b)(3)
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(UHAIU0) Frequent Requester Seeks Copy of DCID on SIGINT
(U/OrItIo&) Noted author and frequent FOIA requester Jeffrey Richelson asked for a copy of "DCID 5/5, Conduct of
SIGINT Liaison with Foreign Governments and the Release of US SIGINT to Foreign Governments, May 17, 1983
(or the DCID, if any, that has replaced it)."
� The FOIA case officer advised the requester that this DCI Directive (DCID) was reviewed in a previous
FOIA request, which the CIA denied in its entirety based on FOIA exemptions (b)(I) -- material classified
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in the interest of national defense or foreign policy -- and (b)(3) -- material classified under the DCI's
statutory obligations to protect sources and methods.
(U//k144�1) National Security Archive Interested in Rwandan Coup
(U//AIIJO3 The National Security Archive requested information on "a coup attempt in Rwanda in April 1993
against the government of President Juvenal Habyarimana."
(11//A11117) CIA Declassification Center
(U/httlitr) From the Archives: President Nixon Gives DCI an Advanced Work Plan in 1971
(U//=) President Nixon informed DCI Richard Helms of the need "for improving the intelligence product and
for increased efficiency in the allocation of resources" in a 1 November 1971 letter that was recently reviewed by the
DCI team at the CIA Declassification Center. The President instructed the DCI, "you should give the role of
community leadership your primary attention and delegate, as much as is possible, the day-to-day management of the
CIA." Nixon listed four responsibilities that would require the DCI's priority attention: "Planning and reviewing all
intelligence activities ... and the allocation of all intelligence resources; Producing national intelligence...; Chairing
and staffing all intelligence community advisory boards or committees; Reconciling intelligence requirements and
priorities with budgetary constraints."
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