Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 26-30 July 2004 Executive Summary

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http://www.odci.gov —~and, (b) http.'//www.foia.cia.gov ) _
(U//RPHO) What Constitutes an ‘Operational File‘?
(U//RI'H9§-The National Security Archive is requesting all CIA documents: (1) specifying the procedures,
guidelines, directives and policies for determining what documents are considered as an "Operational File," as the
term is defined in 50 U.S.C. § 431; (2) concerning the designation of a record, file, file series or other grouping of
records as an "Operation File," and (3) including all memoranda, analyses and reports conceming the scope,
definition, or meaning of the term "Operational File," as defined above.
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(U//FO'UfiTVisit to Ford Presidential Library
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(Ulll-‘$80) C/Extemal Referral and Liaison Team, and two representatives from the Information
Technology Iiroup visited the Ford Presidential Library on July 26-27. They installed a new, classified
LaserFiche system (similar to the CIA Records Search To0l~CREST system at NARA), complete with new hardware
and software. In addition the loaded 13 930 a f residenti 1 te
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(RAC) program. The archivists appreciate the new system's speed and ease of operation.
(U/TUB) From the Archives:
(U//Kl'U'O) Pope John Paul II Visits Poland V
(U//EH59) A May I979 Current Intelligence Bulletin (CIB) reports that Polish party chief Gierek and Cardinal
Wyszyanski, head of the Catholic church in Poland, met for only the third time in recent years to discuss the visit of
Pope John Paul II. According to the official Polish news agency, Gierek promised a "cordial" official reception for
the Pope during his unprecedented Papal trip to a Communist country.
I Comment." The reception by the Polish people was far more than cordial for the former Cardinal Karol _
Wojtyla. Millions turned out to see the Pope and to attend mass. The Pope's homily in Victory Square ended
with a prayer--"let the spirit come down and renew the face of this land. ” Many Poles credit the Pope's visit
as a turnin oint that ins ired the Polish Solidarity movement, which ultimately toppled communism in
Poland.
(U//MUG) Interrogation—Soviet Style
(U/h!rI'b‘6) From the annals of DO reports comes the following on "Soviet Methods of Interrogation," liberally
excerpted , circa 1950
(U/AAA-U-Q) Method and conduct of the interrogation were determined by the interrogator. "The following was
almost a law: the less intelligent and qualified the interrogator, the harsher and rougher was the interrogation....It
was often the case that in preparing a person for interrogation there were examination records prepared by
unqualified, ungrammatical case officers, which rendered the establishment of the presence of contradictions or
even criminality in the evidence extremely difficult or even completely impossible....Shouts, abuse, and
primitive threats helped the interrogator conceal his inability to expose the 'criminal‘ sitting before him. The
interrogator would conduct the case in such a manner as to humiliate the prisoner as much as possible, and to
convince the prisoner that his fate -was entirely and completely in the interrogator's hands. In short, the
interrogator would attempt to break the will of the prisoner to resistance, to self-defense, and transfomi him into
an obedient puppet who would willingly sign any version of the interrogation." .
(U/LAJ-U-O)-"The MGB interrogator had to adhere to the use of standard
threats; for example, the threat to batter the prisoner into unconsciousness, the threat to ship him off to Siberia
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