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This is a Central Intelligence Agency Information Review and Release (IRR) weekly newsletter covering 19 to 23 January 2004. It summarizes a meeting of the External Referral Working Group on declassification plans and a planned expansion of the NARA Referral Center. It also lists new FOIA requests and archival items, including Richard Nixon's 1953 speech to a CIA orientation course. A short item notes that in 1978 the Agency regularly sent requesters a UFO information package for $11.80 in copying charges.
b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578189 Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 19-23 January 2004 Executive Summary i Future Planning Calendar (U//Ar!-U-6) 27 Februarv 2004: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons’ meeting in Crystal City. ' (U//A-PEG) 24 Februarv 2004: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals‘ meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC. (Ii//ACPUO) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended. Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week (U//Ailuo) ERWG (U//+5-U0) The Extemal Referral Working Group (ERWG) held its monthly 21 January 2004. Attendance numbered 45-representatives from 20 federal agencies. ERWG’s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) representative thanked those agencies for their timely submission of Declassification Plans for meeting Executive Order 12958’s amended deadline. The next steps in ISOO’s approval process include: l) Januagg-March—ISOO analysts will review the plans and discuss them with the submitting agencies and, then 2) April-June—ISOO will re-review these plans and visit agencies to resolve any outstanding issues. The final step will be a letter from Bill Leonard, D/ISOO, approving the plan. ERWG’s representative from the National Archives and Records Administration then briefed members on NARA’s proposed Referral Center expansion. NARA opined that the existing referral process will fail to reach the 14 million pages which NARA estimates must be reviewed annually to satisfy the EO deadline. Thus, workspace at NARA will be expanded to 40 workstations to assist major declassification agencies in their review efforts. Additional personnel (for review and processing) also are desirable. The new NARA Referral Center may be ready by June 2003. The ERWG also considered an information-gathering strategy and project time line for an Equities Notification Database (END). In the next few months, an effort will be made to interview agencies to gain a better understanding of their referral processes and database requirements. Their response to a planned questionnaire should facilitate this infonnation-gathering process. The ERWG plans to review this initiative in M r O4 - ——**°“2° - Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578189 (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.