INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 26-30 APRIL 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578232
• 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 30, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 26-30 April 2004
Executive Summary
Future Planning Calendar
(U/tAltle) 12 May 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at NARA in Washington, DC.
(U/AerliflO) 25 May 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(UllihrWe)- 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
Primorac v. CIA: In 1992, Ranko Primorac filed a FOIA request seeking the information he alleged the Agency had
collected on him during the mid-1970s. Mr. Primorac was born in Croatia and claimed that the Agency had
investigated him at the request of the Yugoslavian government and turned over the results to the FBI. When the
Agency responded that it could neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of responsive records, Mr.
Primorac filed suit. On 23 February 1994, the court upheld the Agency's "Glomar" response on the grounds that the
information sought by Mr. Primorac was classified. Mr. Primorac did not appeal that decision. Rather, Mr.
Primorac waited until January 2003 to file a second lawsuit based on his 1992 FOIA request. The Agency argued
that the issues surrounding his 1992 FOIA request had already been litigated and that, even if there was a new issue,
Mr. Primorac waited too long to raise the issue. In trying to distinguish the 2003 case from his original litigation,
Mr. Primorac argued that the law had changed since his first lawsuit because, in 1995, President Clinton had signed
Executive Order 12958, which, Mr. Primorac erroneously claimed, required the Agency to "automatically
declassify" the documents he had requested from Agency. The court agreed with the Agency's position and, on 20
August 2003, granted the Agency's Motion to Dismiss. On 22 April 2004, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
affirmed this judgment.
(U/1Mt�(1)- FOIA Requests
(U/h44440) Editor Seeks Detailed Index of FOIA Cases
(U//lrfinXii) From the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, Westminster, comes a request for "access to and
copies [in electronic format] of the case log or index of FOIA requests received by your agency in the period
January-June 1997, including details such as dates requests received, names of the persons or organizations making
the requests and description of the information sought, etc."
� The FOIA case manager accepted the request , and sent a formatted diskette of the FOIA Case Log to the
requester covering the time period specified.
(Uther}1344) Request for CIA Records on MIB Compensation
(U//14146)) Writing on behalf of survivors of the Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB-Republic of China), the
requester seeks "1950s documents related to CIA funded underground group by name of [the] Asian Resistance
Movement (or Asia Foundation?) which was formed about 1949-1950, probably in Hong Kong, to assist United
States in spying [on] Red China." He adds: The MIB never paid the survivors. When they arrived in Taiwan by
1955, the Taiwanese authorities granted them the 'right' to live in houses constructed with these funds. The
government refuses to recognize their ownership of these dwellings without the MIB's missing original files
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confirming their claim. The requester is trying to 'verify the truth' to prevent the Taiwanese authorities from seizing
their homes, and relocating the occupants.
� The FOIA case manager notified the requester that a search of the MORI database of previously released
records failed to locate any responsive records. He is being given 45 days beyond this reply, in which to make
a fee commitment in support of a search of CIA's entire system of records.
(u/ame) 'Black Vault' Requester Seeks IAC Document
(UHAITM) In his first of three submissions this week, a requester is asking for document number IAC-D-80/6 Sec
3-57, "Deficiencies in Biological Warfare Intelligence,"dated 1 May 1957. He agrees to pay up to fifteen dollars for
this (Intelligence Advisory Committee) record. However, he notes that he does not belong in the "Commercial" fee
category, because the responsive document will be publicly distributed without charge over his website (www.
blacicvault.com).
(U/4.14,0,) CIA Declassification Center
(U//Aleff) From The Archives:
(UHATDDI Soviet-Hungarian Economic Consultations
(U/A41430) A Current Intelligence Bulletin (CIB, September 1969) reports that "the Soviet party central committee
has invited a delegation of Hungarian economic reform experts to Moscow for what appears to be a detailed review
of their policies. For well over a year, the Soviet leadership has maintained a noncommittal public posture on the
Hungarian experiments. These feature a substantial decentralization of economic authority....Moscow, however, has
kept a close eye on the reforms and has occasionally called for explanations of various trends... .The announced
purpose of the visit is to 'study the experience of CPSU organizational work in the field of guiding the national
economy'... .The Hungarians may be called upon to explain the measures which the party has taken to ensure
continued control over the economy."
� These discussions, which reflected Soviet concerns about the possible political ramifications of Hungarian
economic experiments, came one year after the Soviets had invaded Czechoslovakia to squelch nascent
political liberalization in that country, and about 13 years after the Soviets had invaded Hungary. Despite
Soviet concerns, Hungarian experiments with modest economic reforms continued over many years, and
partially alleviated consumer shortages that were endemic to the Soviet bloc. Soviet efforts to achieve
economic reform while maintaining the political status quo ultimately failed -both abroad and at home.
Today, about 15 years after the breakup of the "Soviet bloc," East European states are making their formal
entrance into the European Union.
(Hi/Attie)) Allegations of a Castro Assassination Plot
(UM/414304-A 3 July 1975 White House Situation Room cable contains "information items" for Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger. One article, entitled "The Washington Star News," states: [Reporter] "Jeremiah 0' Leary writes
that retired Major General Edward Lansdale has named Robert F. Kennedy as the administration official who
ordered him in 1962 to launch a CIA project to work out all feasible plans for getting rid of Cuban Prime Minister
Fidel Castro. Lansdale, in an interview with the Star, said there could be no doubt that 'the project for disposing of
Castro envisioned the whole spectrum of plans from overthrowing the Cuban leader to assassinating him.' Lansdale
said he received his instruction from Kennedy and in turn relayed orders directly to CIA official William K. Harvey,
bypassing the Agency's chain of command. A former high-ranking official, who insisted on anonymity, also said that
President Kennedy's brother and most trusted advisor precipitated the 1962 CIA project for planning the destruction
of Castro and his regime. Both Lansdale and the ex-CIA source said the request was relayed without the knowledge
of either CIA Director John A. McCone or Secretary McNamara. But Lansdale said both became aware of the
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planning later, along with members of the 40 Committee."
� "At the end of November, the President [Kennedyl launched Operation Mongoose with a top secret order to
use our available assets...to help Cuba overthrow the Communist Regime," according to Christopher Andrew's
For the President's Eyes Only. "The head of the operations was Edward Lansdale, but the operations
themselves were entrusted to a newly founded CIA Task Force W whose Miami headquarters became the
largest CIA station in the world." According to Andrew, ."Special Group member U. Alexis Johnson insists
that 'there was never to my knowledge any foundation for charges offree wheeling by the CIA' and both DDP
[Deputy Director for Plans is now the DD01 Helms and DDI Cline conclude that the inspiration for the
assassination plots came from the White House."
(U/JVH4C1) NSC-State Department Tension
(U//=0) An original White House letterhead Memorandum (14 January 1972), signed by then-National Security
Advisor Henry Kissinger, instructs the Secretary of State that the President is to be informed of any meetings with
Soviet or Middle Eastern foreign governments; and, he requires a memo outlining the objective of the meeting and
the manner in which it will be conducted. Also, he requires a follow up memo on all discussion details.
� Dr. Kissinger ultimately replaced Rogers as Secretary of State in 1973.
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