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This Central Intelligence Agency executive summary covers Information Review and Release activities for 13 to 17 May 2002. It reports NARA's release of declassified CIA records on Nazi war crimes and describes several FOIA requests, including ones on the Mt. Ararat anomaly and Operation Cyclone. It also notes a 1953 Director's Log entry on convening the Robertson Panel, which found no evidence of UFOs but recommended controlling UFO information. It observes that the CIA's UFO collection is one of the most requested on its FOIA website.
ac, \» b)(3) b)(5) (b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/O3/27 CO5578084 Information Review & Release (IRR) News for I3 '- I 7 May 2002 Executive Summary V Immediate Calendar. (U//EH90) 12 June 2002: Interagencv Securitv Classification Agpeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Liaisons‘ meeting at Eisenhower Executive Ofiice Building, Washington, DC Future Planning Calendar: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting (U//A-I-U0) April 2003: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed intelligence-related or multi-agency records. (U//XIUQ) 26-27 June 2002: Overview 0fIRR Activities Last Week: (U) NARA Announces Public Release of CIA Documents on Nazis (U/Hal-HQ’ The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced on 8 May 2002 that declassified CIA records involving Nazi war crimes are being made available to the public. The CIA recently declassified these records under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, Public Law I05-246, which mandated that all agencies, including the CIA, “locate, inventory, recommend for declassification, and make available all records pertaining to individuals in the Nazi government, or in govemments allied with the Nazis, who participated in racial, religious, or political persecution or to theft of the assets of persecuted people.“ In a press release about the opening of the CIA records, U,S. Newswire, Inc. pointed out that the release included "files on 381 individuals and subjects associated with Nazi war crimes or war criminals," including Walther Rauff, designer of a “gas van" extermination device; Krunoslav Dragonovic, a Franciscan priest who sen/ed the Nazis in Croatia; and Reinhard Gehlen, leader of a German military intelligence unit during World War ll who entered into a controversial post-war liaison relationship with the US govemment. O The CIA ’s Nazi War Crimes eflort was orchestrated through the ExDir's oflice. IMS provided significant support to that effort, including reviewers from IMS/Public Information Programs Division and administrative support personnel from IMS/Declassification Services Division, (U//Rl‘UOj'Litigati0n (U//ATUU) FOIA & E0 Requests (U//HUG) Clearinghouse Seeks Information on CIA's Processing of FOIA (U//HBO) The Freedom of Infonnation Clearinghouse in Washington, DC seeks “records showing requests that Central Intelligence Agency has made for additional resources for FOIA processing in order to reduce the agency's backlog for pending FOIA and/or Privacy Act requests," including "requests for increased funding from Congress, and requests for increased staff." The requester states the intention of the request is to "evaluate the efforts that the Approved for Release: 2019/O3/27 CO5578084 (b)(3
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.