INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 11 FEBRUARY 2002 - 15 FEBRUARY 2002 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578073
• 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: February 15, 2002

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 11 February 2002 - 15
February 2002
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U/blettlet) 13 March 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at EEOB, Washington, DC.
Future Planning Calendar:
(U/htli+9) 21 March 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting (site to be determined).
(111/fiele) June 2002: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at
(111/Ateft) 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//201:119.) Litigation
(UThlale/e) CIA Wins FOIA Litigation Regarding Secret Ink Documents
(U/AirteS) The CIA recently won a FOIA litigation case in the US District Court for the District of Columbia filed
by the James Madison Project. In the complaint, the plaintiff asked for the release of a volume titled "Secret Ink
Technical Manual," a document prepared in 1945 by the Office of Censorship, an extinct WWII agency. The judge
agreed with CIA's arguments that the formulas for invisible ink discussed in the volume must be protected, even
though they date back to World War I and earlier, because those formulas may still be used in intelligence operations
today.
� The CIA had previously won a case involving old documents about invisible ink in the Moses case before
the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP). In that case, the CIA agreed to partial
release of nine technical and historical manuals of the Office of Censorship from the 1940s. Morris
Moses, a historian, appealed the redactions to ISCAP. ISCAP agreed with CIA's arguments that the
techniques warrant continued protection.
(UHAIIJO) FOIA Requests
(U/M414% National Security Archive Interested in Colombia
(UHAtIler) The National Security Archive requested information concerning the "interagency review of US policy
toward Colombia initiated by the Bush administration in the summer of 2001[and] funding, training, operational
support and any other US government activities associated with the Colombian Joint Intelligence Center (COJIC),
established in Tres Esquinas, Colombia, in 1999 with US assistance."
(U/Mr1444) Frequent Requester Seeks Documents on French Nuclear Programs
(U//141483) Noted author Jeffrey Richelson requested copies of "all studies produced by the Office of Scientific and
Weapons Research (OSWR) on French Nuclear programs."
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(U/htte0) CIA Declassification Center
(U/httl/0) From the Archives: 1980 Report from Tehran, "Fortunately, It Is a Short Wall"
(U/TarItta) In a report dated 1980 that was recently reviewed by the DCI team at the CIA Declassification Center, a
Middle East expert, who had recently returned from a TDY in Tehran, reported that "...daily activities in Tehran
have an outwardly calm appearance shattered only recently by street executions and a number of public
floggings....local interest in the hostages is rapidly fading.,..automobile traffic continues to be heavy...some energetic
Iranian artists are painting a mural on the Embassy's front wall depicting the life and times of Ayatollah Khomeini as
well as the achievements of the Revolution. Fortunately, it is a short wall."
(U//litteft) Publications Review Board
This is a record.
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