INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 4 - 8 NOVEMBER 2002

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01247684
• 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: November 8, 2002

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 4 - 8 November 2002
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
� (UHA,14,10) 13 November 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at Crystal City.
Future Planning Calendar:
(U/hititrO) 19 November 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at the EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U//A4130) 30-31 January 2003: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at
(U/LA-M0) 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//A11443). Declassification Services Division
(UHAWO) Over 1,000 Users Per Weekday Look at CIA's FOIA Website
(UHAIU0) Over 1,000 users per weekday looked at CIA's FOIA website on the Internet during the month of
October 2002. The Internet website www.foia.cia.gov. -- is maintained by the Declassification Services Division
(DSD) at IMS in accordance with a mandate from the Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA) of 1996.
The EFOIA requires federal agencies to maintain collections of "frequently requested records" on their websites.
The October statistics indicate CIA's collection of declassified UFO documents continues to be the most popular of
CIA's "frequently requested records," logging almost 2,600 "views" during the month. The other collections in
CIA's "frequently requested records" are Guatemala, Bay of Pigs, POW/MIA, Human Rights in Latin America, the
Rosenbergs, Penkovsky, and Francis Gary Powers.
(UHArli50) FOIA Requests
(U//k14543) Massachusetts Requester Seeks Information on Marilyn Monroe
(UllAiuu) A requester from Fall River, Massachusetts, asked for "the autopsy report on the late marylin monroe
(sic) ... specifically including the medication that was found within her system at the time of her expiration."
(UHAW0)�National Security Archive Interested in Car Accident in a Suburb of Beirut
(U//A+149) The National Security Archive requested "all records concerning the January 1, 2002 car-crash and
subsequent death of Jean Ghanem, a former deputy leader of Lebanon's Phalangist party, in a suburb of Beirut,
Lebanon."
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(INAlte) Requester Interested in CIA Inspector General Audit
(Ut/A4inkt Knight Ridder Newspaper of Washington, DC seeks "a copy of any audits performed by the CIA
Inspector General's Office and other information or records on awards and expenditures of US government funds by
the Iraqi National Congress and the Iraqi National Congress Support Foundation."
(UHA-1430) CIA Declassification Center
(U//AI) From the Archives: DCI Should Be Fall Guy
(U//A4U0) The DCI team at the CIA Declassification Center recently reviewed documents that indicate DCI Allen Dulles
suggested that he, not the President, should take the blame for an embarrassing intelligence failure. In February, 1975, the
Murphy Commission, established by the Executive Branch to review the foreign policy arena, including peripherally the
intelligence aspect, circulated some draft recommendations and comments for review. One aspect of the paper dealt with the
need for the President to be able to disassociate himself from certain actions: "The 1960 U-2 incident demonstrates the
tremendous repercussions which can result when a President takes personal responsibility for a failure that could more
conveniently have been left at the door of a subordinate. In his memoirs, (USSR) Chairman Khrushchev stated he was
astonished when President Eisenhower announced he had personally authorized all U-2 flights. Khrushchev therefore felt
obliged to respond with personal invective and cancellation of his invitation to the American President to visit Russia.
President Eisenhower himself later stated that his failure to follow Allen Dulles' advice that the DCI be blamed for the
damaging incident was one of the biggest foreign policy errors of the Eisenhower years. The (Murphy) Commission believes
it is truly important that a President be left the option of disassociating himself from embarrassing intelligence failures."
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