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This is a CIA Information Review and Release (IRR) weekly executive summary covering 8 to 12 April 2002. It lists upcoming Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel meetings, delays in manuscript mail to the Publications Review Board, and FOIA website statistics. According to those statistics, the CIA's UFO collection was by far the most popular of its frequently requested records, with almost 1,900 visits. It also notes a 1956 Suez Crisis bulletin and several unusual FOIA requests.
(b)(3) (b)(5) b)(3) b)(5) ’ \ Approved for Release: 2019/O3/27 CO5578081 (U//A‘l'U9‘)' National Security Archive Always Pays, Eventually (U//ATU@)J he National Security Archive wrote to CIA recently that they "discovered a case in which we may still owe CIA fees for photocopying," advising they still owe CIA $103.50 for a case completed in 1998 eonceming material on the 1992 capture of Guatemalan citizen Efrain Bamaca Velasquez. (U//A-I-U0) FOIA Office Receives Mail From Down Under for Bill Clinton (U//HUG) A woman from Australia, whose 1999 FOIA request for a Stasi file regarding her former East German mother-in-law was denied—in-full, sent a box addressed to the ClA‘s Information and Privacy Coordinator, containing a sealed card addressed to former President Clinton marked "SWAK", a set of bunny ears, a brassiere, a sheet of souvenir Australian postage stamps, and a sachet from Van Cleef and Arpels. (U//A‘I'b‘6') Author Working on Biography of "American Taliban" John Lindh (U/Hrl'UO') An author who states he is working on a biography of John Philip Walker Lindh, the American caught fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan in December 2001, has requested records on Lindh himself, as well as on a variety of related topics, such as certain Islamic militant organizations and the prison fortress where Lindh was discovered following the quelling of the uprising. (U//RPH9) Florida Requester Asks for "Contract of the Space of Helen" (U//REES)-A Florida requester who precedes her name with the title Arch Angel asks under the FOIA that CIA provide all information from its files on the "contract of the space of Helen with the United States.“ She states, “I am the visitor of the space of Helen and the only official member of the Grant family of the planet," and that she needs the information to prepare "an automatic declaration of treason of the visitor of the space of Helen..." This is a record. Approved for Release: 2019/O3/27 CO5578081 ( ( (b)(3 (b)(5 b)(3 b)(5) ) )
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.