INFORMATIN REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 19-23 APRIL 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578211
• 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 23, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 19-23 April 2004
Executive Summary
Future Planning Calendar
(U//1017171) 4 May 2004: Interagency Security Classification-Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at NARA in Washington, DC.
(Ulliat70) 25 May 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(Di/A1440) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
(U//Altif)) ERWG Holds Monthly Meeting at NARA II
(ufifirrtn) On 21 April 2004, the External Referral Working Group (ERWG) met at National Archives at College
Park (Maryland). There were 39 representatives from 18 federal agencies in attendance. The Information Security
Oversight Office (IS00) announced its review of 99% of agency declassification plans (1% have extensions). The
ISO� divided agencies into four categories. Agencies in categories A and B either have no records, or very few
records that are 25-years or older. Agencies in categories C and D have hundreds of thousands of records, with the
difference in categories defined by the robustness of their respective declassification programs. The ISO() intends to
audit over 60 agencies; and is proceeding to notify senior officials about its audit guidelines. The Air Force
Declassification Office (AFDO) briefed members on the AF declassification plan. Then, NARA reported on its new
Joint Referral Center (JRC) at College Park.
(U//PCITTY) The JRC will house 36 permanent reviewers, with additional workstations available to temporary
reviewers. It will be connected to NARA's ADRRS ("Archives Declassification Review and Redaction System")
database�allowing reviewers to record their declassification and referral information electronically. Construction of
the new room will begin shortly. A June 2004 completion date is planned. The CIA presented a progress report on
the "Document Declassification Support System" (to replace the "Equities Notification Database"). It concluded the
meeting with a Remote Archive Capture (RAC) report. Of the nearly 2 million pages scanned at the Presidential
Libraries, 934,000 pages are completed or undergoing active review�including 50,000 pages from the Carter
Library. The Carter Library staff and former President Jimmy Carter are looking forward to receiving
30,000-50,000 pages of declassified material by year's end.
(U/Mrttf)) FOIA Website Usage Tops One Million Hits
(U//J) On 15 March 2002, Web Trends software began tracking public interest in CIA's Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) website. An activity summary over the 1 Sept 2003 -14 March 2004 reporting period indicates that the
FOIA website attracted 1,018,869 hits (averaging 1,362 visits per day, and 31,297 hits per day). Each visitor stayed
online an average of ten minutes. The top five keywords selected were "UFO" (15,932 hits), "Iraq" (8,170),
"Guatemala" (7,854), "Soviet" (6,600) and "Vietnam" (6,164 ). One-time visitors totaled 683,139; whereas, 93,962
were repeat visitors.
(U//HQ) FOIA Requests
(UH.O.LI.1Q) Requester Interest in IRONBARK Documents
(UHALLIQ.) A requester from Thayne, Wyoming, is seeking CIA materials pertaining to "Operation IRONBARK"�
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specifically, "a dozen or so articles of a 'Special Collection' published in the Soviet naval journal, Morskoi sbornik
between 1960 and 1962" as well as a copy of Soviet Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovslciy's [Penkovsky] letter to the US
President, information on the outcome of Penkovskiy's 1963 spy trial, and Joseph J. Bulik's failed efforts to gamer
support on his behalf.
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� The FOIA case manager searched the MORI database of previously-released material, printed a number of
responsive documents for the requester, and sent him a Requester Report, from which to select additional
documents of interest. Also, regarding The Penkovsky Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1965), the case
mana er suggested that he consult the Internet to search for out-of-print books on this subject.
(U//A1110) Requester Focuses on CIA's Museum
(U/hkite) A frequent requester and freelance writer, Russ Kick, is asking for "all handouts, brochures, guidebooks,
catalogues, and other publications regarding the CIA's museum. This includes anything given to or sold to visitors to
the museum, anything which lists and describes the exhibits, etc."
(U//..Seeking Turkish Export-Import Company's Records
(U/MILYt7) The National Security Archive is requesting all records from 1985 through 1995 pertaining to Enka
Marketing Export-Import, Inc. (a Turkish trading company), its New York City office, Enlca's subsidiary bank
(Entrade Intl Ltd.), its Turkish chief officer (Yavus Texeller), and its dealings with Iraqi purchasers. For
background, requester notes: "Some of the goods exported to Iraq by Entrade were covered by credit guarantees
from the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation.. ..Entrade and Yavus Texeller were indicted in
February 1991 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Entrade pled guilty in October 1992 to
charges that it provided illicit payments to... an Italian bank, Banco Nationale del Lavcro (BNL) in return for
contracts with Iraq..."
(U//A+I40) CIA Declassification Center
(U//All LO) From The Archives:
(UHAltrett Nazi War Crimes Tribunal Contacts DCI
(UHATUC) DCI "Alpha" (i.e., "alphabetical") files include a series of 1947-1949 exchanges between DCI
Hillenkoetter (May 47�Oct 50) and Dr. Kempner, Deputy Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nurnberg, Germany.
Dr. Kempner apparently initiated the exchange in July 1947, to alert the DCI to various topics that he felt might be of
interest. For example: "In connection with the case against former officials of the German Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, of which I am in charge, I came across hundreds of their addresses and among them are a number who did
coding and decoding work. While we are only interested in the contents of these messages, your office might be
interested in the technical side and in the details of the procedures of coding and decoding...." Another topic
concerned information from a former German Minister of Post and Transportation on several "inventions," one of
which pertained to "a string of television relays consisting of airplanes, each of which transmits the television
impulses to the next" to overcome line of sight problems. The DCI was not very interested in this "invention"�or
any others that his staff judged to be unpromising. Yet another topic concerned German efforts to press Japan into
war against the United States. The DCI was interested in this information, as well as certain trial transcripts. For
instance, DCI Hillenkoetter found "of definite value to me" documentation on German sterilization experiments on
prisoners, and others, utilizing x-rays and other means. (Note: As the Cold War began, it was anticipated that the
next war would likely involve nuclear weapons. Hence, information on the effects of radiation on the human body
assumed importance in terms of the national security requirement to protect US soldiers and civilians. The
newly-created Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) dealt with this issue, as did the National Science Foundation, the
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military, and other entities. In 1994, a Presidential Advisory Committee released a study on Human Radiation
Experiments. Future DC1 Deutsch sat on that commission.)
� The "Nazi/Japanese War Crimes Task Force" approved these documents for release. In yet another example
of how such "older" material remains topical today, the above-cited references to German "experimentation,"
and interest in sterilization and radiation, coincide with the opening of a new exhibit, "Deadly Medicine:
Creating the Master Race," which opened 22 April 2004 at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,
DC. The exhibit focuses on German efforts to "purl fi," the German bloodline by "eugenics." One method
involved sterilization (of non-Germans) through radiation.
(UllArltfer) NSC Feedback to CIA
(Ull/C117117) An 18 November 1978 Memorandum from David Aaron (Deputy Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs) to Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Frank Carlucci, reads: "In keeping with our agreement
to keep in touch about perceived problems in the area of political intelligence, I have been surprised by the lack of
analysis of two subjects in recent days�why the Soviets may have put MiG-23s into Cuba and the Soviet reaction to
our announcement on other country arms sales to China. In the first case, the Agency has done a good job of
reporting its technical analysis on the aircraft of concern to us in Cuba. Nevertheless, I have seen no analysis from
CIA speculating on the possible reasons why the Russians have put the planes in there and what this says about their
view of relations with the United States. Similarly, in the case of arms sales to China, we would welcome�even
now�the thoughts of Agency analysts behind the Soviet's strong, quick and high-level reaction to our announcement
and what this says about the Soviet view of our bilateral relations at this time. In this connection, we would be
interested in analysis of the impact on Soviet relations with Western Europe of arms sales by European countries to
China. Analysis of these issues does not require National Estimates or major printed memoranda/studies. We would
just like to hear from you on these subjects in typescript."
� This is not CIA's first reminder to 'anticipate' possible interests of policymakers (e.g., IRR Weekly.
"Producing a Relevant CIA Product," 5 September 2003). Also interesting is the reminder that a lengthy and
exhaustive treatment of the subject�and the accompanying delay associated with such efforts�was not what
Aaron was seeking. David Aaron was Zbigniew Brzezinski's deputy.
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