Informatin Review & Release (Irr) News for 19-23 April 2004 Executive Summary

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specifically, "a dozen or so articles of a ‘Special Collection‘ published in the Soviet naval joumal, Morskoi sbornik
between 1960 and 1962" as well as a copy of Soviet Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovskiy's [Penkovsky] letter to the US
President, information on the outcome of Penkovskiy's 1963 spy trial, and Joseph J. Bulik‘s failed efforts to gamer
support on his behalf.
0 The F OIA case manager searched the MOR1 database ofpreviously-released material, printed a number of
responsive documents for the requester, and sent him a Requester Report, fi'0m which to select additional
documents of interest. Also, regarding The Penkovsky Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1965), the case
manager suggested that he consult the Internet to search for out-of-print books on this subject.\|
(U//MUS) Requester Focuses on CIA's Museum
(U//£567 A frequent requester and freelance writer, Russ Kick, is asking for "all handouts, brochures, guidebooks,
catalogues, and other publications regarding the CIA's museum. This includes anything given to or sold to visitors to
the museum, anything which lists and describes the exhibits, etc."
(U//7H-U-Q.).Seeking Turkish Export-Import Company's Records
(U//ATUU) The National Security Archive is requesting all records from 1985 through 1995 pertaining to Enka
Marketing Export-Import, Inc. (a Turkish trading company), its New York City office, Enka's subsidiary bank
(Entrade Int'l Ltd.), its Turkish chief officer (Yavus Texeller), and its dealings with Iraqi purchasers. For
background, requester notes: "Some of the goods exported to Iraq by Entrade were covered by credit guarantees
from the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation....Entrade and Yavus Tcxeller were indicted in
February 1991 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Entrade pled guilty in October 1992 to
charges that it provided illicit payments to... an Italian bank, Banco Nationale del Lavcro (BNL) in return for
contracts with Iraq..."
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(U//ALLLD) From The Archives:
(U//AlU’D7Nazi War Crimes Tribunal Contacts DCI
(U//A1'U'U)'DCI "Alpha" (i.e., "alphabetical") files include a series of 1947-1949 exchanges between DCI
Hillenkoetter (May 47-Oct 50) and Dr. Kempner, Deputy Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Niimberg, Gennany.
Dr. Kempner apparently initiated the exchange in July 1947, to alert the DCI to various topics that he felt might be of
interest. For example: "In connection with the case against former officials of the German Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, of which I am in charge, I came across hundreds of their addresses and among them are a number who did
coding and decoding work. While we are only interested in the contents of these messages, your office might be,
interested in the technical side and in the details of the procedures of coding and decoding...;" Another topic
concemed information from a former German Minister of Post and Transportation on several "inventions," one of
which pertained to "a string of television relays consisting of airplanes, each of which transmits the television
impulses to the next" to overcome line of sight problems. The DCI was not very interested in this "invention"—or
any others that his staff judged to be unpromising. Yet another topic concemed Gemian efforts to press Japan into
war against the United States. The DCI was interested in this infomiation, as well as certain trial transcripts. For
instance, DCI Hillenkoetter found "of definite value to me” documentation on Gemian sterilization experiments on
prisoners, and others, utilizing x-rays and other means. (Note: As the Cold War began, it was anticipated that the
next war would likely involve nuclear weapons. Hence, information on the effects of radiation on the human body
assumed importance in terms of the national security requirement to protect US soldiers and civilians. The
newly-created Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) dealt with this issue, as did the National Science Foundation, the
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