INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 3-7 MAY 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578233
• 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: May 7, 2004

S.
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578233
FCTret?f-It4AL--lel�4.-CIULY_
Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 3-7 May 2004
Executive Summary
Future Planning Calendar
(U//MOO) 9 June 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at NARA in Washington, DC.
(UHATUtt) 25 May 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U/a1110) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
(U//k14(4) FOIA Requests
(Ullict1/0) Interest in the Indian-Pakistani 'Kargil Conflict'
(U/htIllef) A permanent US resident and graduate student at Kings College in London, England, requests records on
the 1999 Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan. Regarding his dissertation research on Indian Intelligence
Failures During the 1999 Kargil War , he writes: "I am willing to pay up to $1,000 for the material requested
including all the charges. I have a short deadline of 3 months to submit my dissertation and I seek the greatest
release of information..."
(b)(3)
� The FOIA case manager conducted a search that revealed a previous request on this topic. A list of FBIS (
Foreign Broadcast Information Service) reports, and eleven responsive documents, were sent to the student.
He may order additional selected documents from the Requester Report.
Editor: No records were released to the previous requester, who did not want FBIS reports. He appealed the
determination to deny him access to material in its entirety; and the Agency Release Panel upheld the
determination.
(UHAIMI) Researching a Former Internment Camp in Italy
(UHA1UU) A retired businessman, who plans to write a book, is seeking information about "a displaced person's
camp or, a concentration camp, operated by the Italian army." The camp, he offers, existed before and after 1943,
and was located in a town called Arzignano, Italy, in the province of Vicenza. The requester's uncle, along with the
uncle's wife and daughter, were captured in 1941, and interned in "Intepinati Civile DiGuerra" for a period of years.
�
The requester fails to specify whether he is seeking records on his relatives, the cqmp, or both. The FOIA case
manager is awaiting clarification from the requester �having advised him that the FOIA provides for public
access to "reasonably described" records. This generally means that the request is worded so that Agency
personnel may reasonably determine which documents are being requested and locate them.
(U/A41.140t Seeking Records on the Grand Mosque Seizure in Mecca
(UHAILIT7rAn attorney wants all information relating to the 20 November 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in
Mecca. He is particularly interested in Mahrous bin Laden's involvement in this uprising, and the event's subsequent
effects on the Saudi monarchs and religious establishments.
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
F Fl MC1AL U3E ONLY
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578233
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578233
-rtimorrrnEct�askr-clItr-
(b)(3)
(b)(5)
� The FOIA case manager sent the attorney seven documents that were located as a result of searches on this
subject for a previous requester �advised him to also consider contacting the Department of State at the address
provided
Editor: The requester is representing victims of the September 1 1 th terrorist attacks �who have filed a civil
lawsuit against individual network charities and banks providing material support to al-Qaeda. (The case is
captioned: Burnett v. Al Baraka Investment and Dev. Corp., Case Number 1:02CV01616).
(U//241.14�1) CIA Declassification Center
(U/bieW0) From The Archives:
(uiriarro) Briefing Former President Truman
(UHAITTCrfen 30 December 1964, at the behest of President Johnson, Acting DCI, Marshall Carter, traveled with
others to Independence, Missouri, to brief former President Truman on domestic and international developments. In
a 'Memorandum For The Record,' Mr. Carter wrote: "We drove (from Kansas City) to Independence in a car
furnished by Mr. Truman and met with him about 10:00 a.m., in his private office at the Truman Memorial Library."
After explaining that they were sent by President Johnson to brief him, "Mr. Truman expressed his apologies for the
large number of press cameramen and TV cameras at the library and wanted to make sure that we understood that he
had not leaked the fact of our trip." The briefing group "explained that this had been an intentional White House
release by White House spokesmen." After the briefings, "Mr. Truman then escorted us on a trip through the
Truman library/museum which he considers a monument to all the Presidents rather than a Truman museum. He is
attempting to develop the theme of the Presidency throughout the years, how it was operated by various Presidents,
what the responsibilities of any are, etc. etc. He seems to be making real progress in this area."
Notes from the event offer some interesting tidbits: (1) As Mr. Carter was introduced as DDCI, "Mr. Truman
immediately interjected the fact he knew a lot about CIA because he had been responsible for setting it up�in fact he
had recently written an article taking credit for this because he felt it was one of the important things he had done in
his administration in establishing an agency which could pull together all intelligence activities and give the
President a totally unbiased, totally objective analysis of the situation. Mr. Truman interjected that we should never
let the Soviets think they have or can get the upper hand militarily... the Soviets are SOBs and you can not trust
them." (2) "Robert E. Lee was the greatest engineer ever developed by the army..." (3) Also, "...he stated that in the
'60 elections his candidate was Stu Symington (a well known Senator) but as soon as it was apparent that Kennedy
and Johnson were the nominees, he was for them and a Democrat all the way."
(IMAitie) National Intelligence Estimates�Dissenting Views
(IN/R11/0) An undated memo (from the Johnson Library), titled "Review of NIEs, SNIEs," mentions "some 40 NIEs
and SNIEs published during the period [apparently 1964 through 1966]...which reflected substantive footnote
dissent. The Department of State consistently dissented from the majority view of the effects of the bombing
campaigns in North Vietnam. Their stated beliefs were that the bombing would serve no useful military or political
purpose, that it would force North Vietnam to greater reliance on the Communist bloc, and that it carried with it the
danger of Chinese Communist intervention. CIA took the view that the bombing would not of itself bring the war to
an end or seriously hamper the enemy's ability to continue." The document identifies nine dissents (mostly from
State) pertaining to the NIEs and SNIEs on North Vietnamese and Chinese reactions to US actions (i.e., air attacks
and force buildups) from October 1964 through April 1966.
� Some of the dissents detailed in the document challenge assigned 'levels of probability.' For example,
regarding sustained US air attacks on North Vietnam, State estimated that China "would probably" react with
fighters from its own bases �rather than "might" react.
(U//A-14343) Why Fly to the Moon?
(U/AArfinte) An Office of National Estimates (ONE) memo (1 November 1963) for the DDI, titled "Soviet Intentions
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
rorrorpretft-teE-�4464--
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578233
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578233
FOR OFFICIAL UCE NLY
Concerning a Manned Lunar Landing," incorporates an extract from Nilcita Khrushchev's Press Conference of 25
October 1963. When asked�"Can you tell us whether a flight to the moon by Soviet cosmonauts is planned for the
not too distant future?"�Khrushchev's responded: ...We are not at present planning flights by cosmonauts to the
moon. Soviet scientists are working on this problem. It is being studied as a scientific problem and the necessary
research is being done. I have a report to the effect that the Americans want to land a man on the moon by
1970-1980. Well, let's wish them success....We shall take their experience into account. We do not want to compete
with the sending of people to the moon without careful preparation. It is clear that no benefits would be derived
from such a competition. On the contrary, it would be harmful as it might result in the destruction of people. We
have a frequently quoted joke: he who cannot bear it any longer on earth may fly to the moon. But we are all right
on earth, to speak seriously, much work will have to be done and good preparations made for a successful flight to
the moon by man."
Editor: The memo acknowledges that "No conclusive evidence can be brought to bear to answer the question
of whether the USSR is seeking to accomplish a manned lunar landing during the 1960s." The memo adds:
"In NIE 11-1-62, 'The Soviet Space Program,' dated 5 December 1962, we felt required, despite the paucity
of evidence, to attempt an answer to the question [emphasis added] of whether the USSR was aiming to
achieve a manned lunar landing {ahead of us[..."
� As many of us will remember, Khrushchev was ousted as Soviet leader in October 1964, and replaced by
Leonid Brezhnev. The United States put a man on the moon in the summer of 1969.
(U/Mcf4543)-Exportable Music�Food for the Ears
(UHFOUO) Contained in State Record Group 59 [National Archives at College Park, Maryland], among items on
Soviet delegations on fertilizer, insecticides, and hybrid seed corn, the Interagency Standing Committee on
(East-West) Exchanges reported that cellist M L. Rostropovich was scheduled to give his first performance in the US
on 4 April 1956
CC:
(b)(3)
(b)(3)
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578233