INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 7-18 MARCH 2005 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578155
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: March 18, 2005

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 7-18 March 2005
Executive Summary
Future Planning Calendar
(UHAIU0) To Be Decided, 2005: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at NARA in Washington, DC.
(UllicIr(1) TBD 2005: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals' meeting
at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(Ullieltift) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Two Weeks
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(U/441349) 'SOO Audits EO 12958
(11//A4414) On 8 March, Information Security Oversight Office representatives met with CDC managers to discuss
automatic declassification�as part of ISOO's audit of EO 12958, as amended. After a CDC briefing on its 25-year
program, the !SOO asked several questions about CIA's file series exemption (FSE)�which the National Security
Council approved in March 1999.1
The successful session ended with a demonstration of the CIA
Records Search Tool (CREST) System. CREST affords public access at NARA to over 9 million pages of CIA
records declassified under the 25-year program.
(U///41430) FOIA Requests
(UHA-1-171E)) Researching the Brainwashing Controversy
(UHArli.lia) A journalist with Agence France-Presse seeks "all information on the late Edward Hunter, the
journalist, OSS propagandist and CIA contract worker who coined the term brainwashing Mr. Hunter died in June
1978 according to a note to Chapter Eight of John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (page 223 of
my edition: Allen Lane, Penguin, London, 1979)." The requester volunteers that he is conducting research for a
future book on the "cult phenomenon." He justifies his fee waiver request by noting: "the information will contribute
significantly to public understanding of the brainwashing controversy."
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(Ull A IQ) Conspiracies�and Loans to the World Bank
(UHAIU ) The requester seeks "all information, in any format, regarding John Perkins, author of The Economic
Hit Man , former Peace Corp volunteer, from 1989 to the present." He claims to be gathering information on loans
made to the World Bank, because "Mr. Perkins asserts government agencies and corporations are involved in
defrauding countries and, then, plundering minerals." Thus, he asserts: "The public has an urgent need for
information about environmental damage being caused by persons or government agencies who may be identified in
these documents."
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(UM'ettg4+)-Interest in Iraqi Training Camps
(U//771=1) The National Security Archive is requesting all forms of CIA records "from 1 September 2001 through
31 December 2003 pertaining to military or paramilitary or terrorist training camps at or near Salman Pak, Iraq."
Editor: Salman Pak, located 30-40 km SE of Baghdad, is identified on numerous websites as the site of
Saddam-era special weapons facilities, Iraq's own terrorist training camp, and today's new insurgency
hotspot. According to hap:// www.middle-east-online: "The area is home of several Sunni Muslim tribes who
follow the radical Wahhabi brand of Islam. Salman Pak means Salman, 'the Pure,' in Farsi, in reference to
one of the prophet Mohammed's followers, who became the first Persian to convert to Islam."
(11//.4./.1XL) CIA Declassification Center
(INA1110) ERWG Meets at NARA II
(U//I&) On 16 March 2005, the External Referral Working Group (ERWG) held its monthly meeting at National
. Archives at College Park, Maryland. The CIA updated the 70 attendees, representing 24 federal organizations, on
the Document Declassification Support System (DDSS)�highlighting schedule milestones, and future events. (The
DDSS will be an unclassified interagency database for locating and recording review decisions on documents
requiring the review of two or more agencies�referrals.) NARA briefed members on the new Interagency Referral
Center (IRC) at College Park�which will assist agencies in the orderly review of referrals�after a few problems are
resolved in using the IRC module of NARA's Archives Document Review and Redaction System (ADRRES). Many
attendees then had their first opportunity to tour the IRC, and watch a demonstration of the tool used to capture
information on exempted and referred material accessioned to NARA.
(Uthtte0) From the Archives:
(UHAL1.41.) She's an Oldie, But a Goodie
(U//Arriltt) A Current Intelligence Weekly Summary article of December 1955 analyzes the Soviet automotive
industry, which is falling short of its production targets, among other problems. Responding to criticisms of the
industry, Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan replies that he is "perfectly aware that present Russian cars and trucks
correspond roughly to General Motors products of 1939, but the 1939 models were nevertheless, excellent and fully
capable of performing the tasks for which they were designed....and that 'Soviet trucks are something like my wife�
she is still very good indeed, but you would hardly call her modern."
(U/M414�1) Case of the Missing Diamond
(U//404g) In the Spring 1979 issue of Studies in Intelligence, photointerpreter Dino Brugioni explains how DCI
Richard Helms was able to testify to Congress that CIA knew in 1970 that a naval installation in Cienfuegos, Cuba
was for Soviet, rather than Cuban, use. According to Brugioni, "U-2 photography showed the task force, and
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intensive construction activity suggested . . . the Russians were establishing a base to support the operations of their
nuclear submarines." And how did the CIA know this facility was exclusively for Soviet use? Helms said it was
because there were "sports facilities for soccer, tennis, and volleyball only, and we have yet to see a major Cuban
military installation that does not provide for 'beisbol."
(U/1441.1.1Ct) Soviet Union Is Number One
(U/M117117Trom the Carter Library collection, an NSC "Evening Report" for 22 August 1979 comments on "Soviet
Problems with Alcohol." It reads: "The adult per capita consumption of alcohol [in the Soviet Union] is the highest
in the world, 8.07 liters of pure alcohol per annum. [The US ranks fourth, at 4.25 liters.] The RSFSR [Russia] has
an estimated 11.6 percent of the population in the category of alcoholics, 19 percent heavy drinkers, and 94.6 percent
regular drinkers. Furthermore, a Soviet publication in 1975 estimated that from 21 to 43 percent of all money spent
on food and drink by families goes for purchases of alcohol."
(UHATI1&) The Muslim Insurgency in Chad
(UMTIVITr'rom the Nixon Library comes an Office of National Estimates draft memorandum on "The French
Dilemma in Chad," dated 17 March 1970. The memo states, "Since 1965, President Tombalbaye's regime in Chad
has been combatting a Muslim insurgency that is persistent and widespread, though hardly cohesive. Last Spring he
asked France for military assistance in suppressing the dissidents, and President de Gaulle, fond of Chad because of
its key role in World War II, responded by dispatching regular combat troops, foreign legionnaires, and military
administrative advisors. The French Government felt it important to intervene in large measure to show how it
honored its African defense agreements . . . The French are still there, but the rebels have shown considerable
staying power, and French public opinion has become increasingly disenchanted with the adventure. Rebel
resiliency is due to their local support and fanatic belief in the justice of their cause."
(UNALLICI.g_The Chadian Army, even with French officers and equipment, remains pretty feckless. Its mobility is
poor, its morale low, and its discipline very weak. Chadian soldiers would almost certainly be unable to defeat the
insurgents on their own. The Frenchmen in Chad have very little respect for Chadian capabilities. In turn, Chadian
administrators and soldiers tend to resent the arrogance of the French advisors; the public at large tends to resent the
brutality of some of the French units and the presence of so many of the old colonial masters."
(U/7*144e)-L-The counterinsurgency effort, therefore, depends primarily on the staying power of the French. But the
French Government, perhaps following through on an original plan for a limited campaign, unwilling to expend too
many resources on a long drawn out effort, or simply reacting to criticism in the press and National Assembly, has
announced that its legionnaires will be phased out of Chad after July 1970 . . . even if the conflict is not settled."
� Comment: The French withdrew their troops by 1972, President Tombalbaye was overthrown in a coup in
1975, and the insurgency persisted.
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