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This CIA Information Review and Release newsletter covers the week of 14 to 18 April 2003. It lists upcoming meetings of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel and the Historical Review Panel. It also summarizes FOIA requests, including one about JFK Jr. from high school students and one from Stephen Aftergood, who had complained about UFO enthusiasts and Noah's Ark searchers using up FOIA resources. It closes with an External Referral Working Group meeting on Executive Order 13292 and a new automatic declassification deadline of 31 December 2006.
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b)(3) (b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C01247762 6-6-N'F'l'E7EN'l“lFL (U//7-TIUOT Foreign National Wants CIA's Information About Himself (U//ATUU) A requester living in Massachusetts wants information on himself. The requester indicates he is an Algerian citizen born in the Czech Republic. ’ (b)(3) (b)(5) (U/7Kl'U'O) Texas Company Asks for List of Employees Holding Government Credit Cards (U//MUG) ErgoGenesis, a company in Navasota, Texas, asked CIA for "a current list of IMPAC card holders," apparently referring to the International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card (IMPAC), which is a government-wide program implemented to process government imprest fund purchases through credit cards. O The Information and Privacy Coordinator authorized a statutory denial, advising the requester that in d 'th the CIA A t f I 949 th A enc is e m tedfiom th rovisions f n laws wh' haccor ance wz c 0 e g y xe p e 0 a y zc require the disclosure of the names ofpersonnel employed by the CIA. (b)(3) (U//MUG) CIA Declassification Center (U//A-PUG) ERWG Meets at NARA in Washington, DC ' (U//AIUO) Chair, Rich Warshaw convened the External Referral Working Group's (ERWG) monthly meeting on 16 April 2003 at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC. J. William Leonard, Director, information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) spoke to 32 attendees representing 16 federal agencies about EO 13292 (which will be referred to as “EO 12958 as amended”). He noted the new EO retains the basic structure of the original Order, but that it now ‘belongs’ to this administration. In the new order , the President: (1) recognized the effectiveness of the existing interagency process, (2) set a new deadline of 31 December 2006 for completion of the automatic declassification review, and (3) ‘institutionalized’ the automatic declassification process. Mr. Leonard told the ERWG to expect a draft implementing directive within 90-days. I President Bush signed E0 13292 on 25 March Z003 to amend President Clinton ’s E0 I 2958. Because Bush decided to amend rather than rewrite Clinton's Order, the Classified National Security Information E0 will be known by the original number with "as amended” added. ‘ O The ER WG was formed in 1996 to coordinatedeclassfiication policies, standards, and procedures among the agencies aflected by President Clinton's Executive Order 12958 on Classified National Securi In ormation. Rich Warshaw Chairman of the ER WG is also Chief of the CIA Declassification Center. (b)(3 CUN‘Fl‘DEN‘Fl1°rl_— Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C01247762 4i— ) (b)(1) (b)(3)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.