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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) (b)(3) (b)(3 Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578091 ~ ’"“ (b)(3) ) (b)(5) (U//kl-HQQ Requester Interested in U-2 Project Manual (U//A:I'H9§~A Massachusetts requester asked for a copy of the “Idealist Reports Control Manual.“ The requester indicates, "Idealist was the codename for the U-2 project of the Office of Special Activities (OSA) of the DDS&T from 1961 through l974." (U//AIH9)-IMS Declassification Center (U//ATUUT RAC Team Working at Jimmy Carter Library (U//PHUU) A Remote Archive Capture (RAC) team from the IMS Document Conversion Center continues to scan classified documents at the J immy Carter Library near Atlanta. The team has scamied over a third of the more than 800 boxes of Presidential records of interest to the Agency. The team anticipates completing the initial collection of records in August. ' O The IMS RAC teams are sent to locations throughout the United States that house classified materials that contain Agency equities. The teams scan the classified documents so digital versions can be reviewed at International Point by all agencies that have equities in the documents. The IMS Declassification Center plans to send a RAC team to California in August and September of this year to capture material at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (about 30,000 pages), and the NARA Pacific Region fiicility' (about 1,500 pages) and Reagan Library (about 50,000 pages), both near Los Angeles. \| (U/AH-U-O) From the Archives: DCI Dulles Says Obtaining Intelligence in WWII Was "Child's Play" Compared to Iron Curtain _ (U//Ad-H95—In 1953, DCI Allen Dulles delivered prepared remarks at the tenth Agency Orientation Course. The notes from the course were recently reviewed by the DCI team at the IMS Declassification Center. The DCI spoke of the challenges facing the Agency and compared it to the World War II experience, "We are working now in the most difficult era that intelligence has ever known. It was child's play to get intelligence during the war compared to getting intelligence today from behind the Iron Curtain. There are new difficulties because some of the most important targets are in the scientific and technical fields, which makes it harder for the ordinary individual to be able to operate. But that difficulty is, and must remain, a challenge to us all." (U//AI-U0) Publications Review Board Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578091 (b)(3) (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.