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This is a weekly executive summary from the Central Intelligence Agency's Information Review and Release office, covering 18 to 22 February 2002. It lists upcoming meetings of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel and the Historical Review Panel, as well as the April 2003 automatic declassification date. It also summarizes several requests. A former official asked for review of memoranda about Cuba. A German requester who often files on UFO topics received a 1956 report. The summary closes with a 1953 report on Soviet repression in Latvia and Lithuania.
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(b)(3) b)(5) (b)(3) (b)(5) 1) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578074 \ (U//KIUO) Frequent Requester Asks for Copy of Interrogation Report (U//RI'b‘9§-A German requester, who submits frequently on UFO topics, sought a copy of “a CIA report prepared in April 1956 with the title ‘Communist Control Techniques!" The F OIA case oflicer provided the re uester with a co of the requested report from the MOR1 database ofpreviously released documents. (U//?d'H'0') ' ' CIA Declassrfication Center (U//AIIIUG) From the Archives: In 1953 Report, "Stalin's Cows" Look Like Goats (U//MUUT Stalin's Communist regime was particularly harsh in the Baltic republics, according to a 1953 intelligence report that was recently reviewed by the DO team at the CIA Declassification Center. The report outlined some of the conditions suffered by the inhabitants of Latvia and Lithuania in 1950 and 1951. In March 1950, the Moscow govemment began nighttime arrests of inhabitants, eventually deporting 60 truckloads of people from the Baltic region. Prior to the nighttime arrests, though, the authorities requisitioned all the automobiles in the area. Many local men took this as a waming and escaped into the forests, avoiding deportation. In fall 1950, private farmers -- those who had refused to join collectives -- had cut their grain and piled it in the fields for harvest. The government sent trucks during the night and "requisitioned" all of it. Early in 1951, the govemment gathered up the private farmers and deported them to Siberia. Priests who had been deported to Siberia were allowed to write only one letter per year back home to Lithuania. They were not allowed to receive packages, and were prohibited from doing any work. Stalin banned religious rites at funerals. If a priest officiated at burial services, relatives of the deceased were deprived of any allowances or pensions. In fall 1950, when a local militiaman was killed by a partisan unit, he was buried without a priest in attendance in order to preserve the 5,000 ruble allowance for those killed in action. However, a priest went to the cemetery at night and consecrated the grave. Basic items became scarce. It was reported, for example, absorbent cotton was sold only by prescription. In the winter of 1950-1951, there was an acute shonage of fodder in the region. A large number of cows had to be butchered because the collective fanners were unable to feed them. Because of the lack of fodder and the drastic drop in the price of beef after the slau hter, man famiers kept goats instead. The farmers referred to these goats as "Stalin‘s cows." (b)(3 (U/HHU-Q) Publications Review Board Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578074 (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.