Documents / FOIA release
The Central Intelligence Agency's Information Review and Release office issued this weekly executive summary covering 9 to 13 July 2001. It lists upcoming declassification deadlines under Executive Order 12958 and recent FOIA requests. In one of these, an Australian requester received Gerald Haines's article on CIA's role in the study of UFOs, 1947 to 1990, and a 1991 FBIS report on UFO sightings by Soviet officials. It also covers document scanning at the Jimmy Carter Library and 1953 remarks by DCI Allen Dulles.
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b)(3) b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578091 :"'- ' Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 9 July - 13 July 2001 Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (U/HEUG) 26 J ulv 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Liaisons‘ meeting at NARA, Washington, DC. Future Planning Calendar: (U//KIUU) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed general material older than 25 years. (U//HHS) April 2003: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed intelligence-related or multi-agency records. Overview of IRR Activities Last Week: (U//ATUOT FOIA Reg uests (U//APHO) Australian Wants CIA Documents on UFOs (U/IHUU) An Australian requester asked for a copy of the Studies in Intelligence article written by Gerald Haines titled "A Die-Hard Issue-CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-1990", as well as a copy of a 1991 unclassified Foreign Broadcast Information Service report on UFO sightings by Soviet military and government officials. O The FOIA case ofiicer provided the requester with co ies 0 the documents from the Management of Officially Released Information (MORI) database. (U//!d'H9) Historian Interested in Czech General and Son (U//A1-U9) A historian at Boston University requested information on General Bohumil Bocek and his son Dr. Zdenek Bocek. The requester states the General served in the Czech Army in World War II and "in the summer of 1945 General Patton awarded him the Legion of Merit [and] then [Bocek] rose to the post of chief of general staff of the Czechoslovak Army, and he maintained that position even after the communist coup d'état in February 1948." The younger Bocek, according to the requester, was "arrested in Prague on l June 1948, charged with espionage on behalf of the United States and sentenced to life in prison. General Bocek was arrested on 28 February 1951 [and] also charged with high treason and espionage for the United States. The general died under gruesome conditions in prison on 16 October 1952." O The FOIA case oflicer advised the requester that the CIA was not created until 1947 and he therefore should contact the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for OSS records on these individuals. (U//kl-H6} Italian Student Seeks Information on US Foreign Policy During Vietnam War (U//ATUO‘) An Italian university student working on his thesis requested records on "US foreign policy in Cambodia and Laos during the period l964-1970, the period of Cambodian and Laotian ‘neutralism' regarding the US-North Vietnam war." O The FOIA case oflicer provided the requester with a sampling of documents and a listing ofpreviously released material on these countries for this timefiame from which the requester may select documents that interest (b)(3) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578091 (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.