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This Central Intelligence Agency Information Review and Release newsletter covers the week of 19 to 23 April 2004. It reports on an External Referral Working Group meeting at NARA, a new Joint Referral Center, and declassification work at the Presidential Libraries. It also notes that the CIA FOIA website passed one million hits, with "UFO" the top search keyword. It summarizes several FOIA requests and archival items, including 1947 to 1949 letters with the Nuremberg war crimes counsel and a 1978 NSC memo.
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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 19-23 April 2004
Executive Summary
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Future Planning Calendar
(U//Kl'U'U')' 4 Mav 2004: Interagencv Securitv Classification»Ap_peals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons‘ meeting
at NARA in Washington, DC. '
(U//HUD) 25 Mav 2004: Interagencv Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals‘
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U//AIUO) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
(U//RIH6) ERWG Holds Monthly Meeting at NARA II
(U//RIUO) On 21 April 2004, the Extemal Referral Working Group (ERWG) met at National Archives at College
Park (Maryland). There were 39 representatives from 18 federal agencies in attendance. The Information Security
Oversight Office (ISOO) announced its review of 99% of agency declassification plans (1% have extensions). The
ISOO divided agencies into four categories. Agencies in categories and B either have no records, or very few
records that are 25-years or older. Agencies in categories C and D have hundreds of thousands of records, with the
difference in categories defined by the robustness of their respective declassification programs. The ISOO intends to
audit over 60 agencies; and is proceeding to notify senior officials about its audit guidelines. The Air Force
Declassification Office (AFDO) briefed members on the AF declassification plan. Then, NARA reponed on its new
Joint Referral Center (JRC) at College Park.
(U//KTUU) The JRC will house 36 permanent reviewers, with additional workstations available to temporary
reviewers. It will be connected to NARA’s ADRRS ("Archives Declassification Review and Redaction System")
database—al1owing reviewers to record their declassification and referral information electronically. Construction of
the new room will begin shortly. A June 2004 completion date is planned. The CIA presented a progress report on
the (‘Document Declassification Support System" (to replace the "Equities Notification Database"). It concluded the
meeting with a Remote Archive Capture (RAC) report. Of the nearly 2 million pages scaimed at the Presidential
Libraries, 934,000 pages are completed or undergoing active review—including 50,000 pages from the Carter
Library. The Carter Library staff and fomier President J imm Carter are lo kin f rward to receiving
30,000-50,000 pages of declassified material by year's
(U//1:I'H'0) FOIA Website Usage Tops One Million Hits
(U//ACTUU) On 15 March 2002, Web Trends software began tracking public interest in CIA's Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) website. An activity summary over the 1 Sept 2003 -14 March 2004 reporting period indicates that the
FOIA website attracted 1,018,869 hits (averaging 1,362 visits per day, and 31,297 hits per day). Each visitor stayed
online an average of ten minutes. The top five keywords selected were "UFO" (15,932 hits), "Iraq" (8,170),
"Guatemala" (7,854), "Soviet" (6,600) and "Vietnam" (6,164 ). One-time visitors totaled 683,139; whereas, 93,962
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(U//A‘!-HQ) FOIA Requests
(U//A-I-U-Q) Requester Interest in IRONBARK Documents
(U//AJLIO.) A requester from Thayne, Wyoming, is seeking CIA materials pertaining to "Operation IRONBARK"-
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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.