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This is an unclassified CIA weekly newsletter from Information Review and Release, covering 8 to 12 January 2001. It lists upcoming meetings and the automatic declassification deadlines under Executive Order 12958. It also covers the review of 67,000 pages of National Security Council records and a 1953 memo on the value of open Soviet literature. In addition, it summarizes FOIA requests, including one from a requester with past interest in UFO information who asked about Glenn Miller's 1944 disappearance.
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578265 UNCLASSIFIED Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 8 January 2001 - 12 January 2001 _ Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (U/1‘-A-IE6) 18 Januarv 2001: Interagencv Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Principals’ meeting at DOJ, Washington, DC. Future Planning Calendar: (U/TKPUU) 1 - 2 February 2001: Historical Review Panel (HRP): Next meeting at CIA. (U//A-I-U0-)-October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed general material older than 25 years. (U//Al-U9) April 2003: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed intelligence~related or multi-agency records. _ Overview ofIRR Activities Last Week: (U//MUS) OIM Declassification Center (U//Arl'H6') OIM Discusses Review of National Security Council Records (U//Rl'U'O')' Representatives from OIM's Declassification Center and Information Review Group met with the National Security Council (NSC) to discuss the disposition of 67,000 pages of presidential records dated between 1953 and 1981 that the NSC controls. The collection involves covert action activities, relations with Congress, the national security establishment, and double agent cases. The OIM re resentatives estimate that it would take OIM reviewers three months to complete a review of the collection. (U//A1-U-Q) From the Archives - DDI Outlines the Importance of Open Source Information in 1953 Memo (U//Ad-H99 The importance of open Soviet literature to CIA‘s intelligence researchers was outlined in a 1953 secret memo from the Deputy Director of Intelligence to the Project Review Committee. The memo, recently reviewed for declassification by the DCI Team at the OIM Declassification Center, indicated open Soviet material improved the quality of intelligence by making it easier to find information without further investigation, provided useful comparative data, shortened the time an analyst spent surveying information related to his field, gave non-linguists the opportunity to examine references that would otherwise be inaccessible, and facilitated the coordination of requirements for Soviet publications. An article titled "Rust Fungi of the Crimea" that appeared in the open publication Soviet Men of Science was cited as an example. Although on the surface it appears to have little intelligence value, the memo explained, rust fungi has important significance in the field of biological warfare. (D. (U//RIBS) FOIA and Privacy Act Requests and Responses (U//RIBS? Frequent Requester Interested in Big Band Musician (U//ATUUT A requester with previous interest in UFO-related information, submitted a request concerning the legendary musician Glenn Miller. The requester questions the accepted version of Mr. Miller's disappearance over the English Channel in 1944, by citing an intemet story that claims a British diver discovered the wreck of Miller's single-motor plane off the French coast in 1985, but found no signs the plane had crashed, or any human remains. UNCLASSIFIED Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578265 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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.