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Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 8 January 2001- 12 January 2001 Executive Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-01-12 · 2 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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O As in similiar requests for information predating the origin of the CIA, the FOIA case 0 zcer re erred the
requester to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records. (b)(3)
(U/I‘A'l'H-Q). National Security Archive Requests Copy of Peacekeeping Study
(U//1'el'H6§ The National Security Archive requested a copy of "an unclassified CIA study written by Frederick
F leitz titled Comparison of Peacekeeping Operations by Success and Limiting Factors , dated 29 July 1992."
(Uh'A'I'H6) Scholar Seeks Information on Proposed 1970s US - Cuba Baseball Game
(U//All-U-9§ A local requester who claims to be doing scholarly research seeks infonnation "on efforts to persuade
the United States Govemment to permit a team of Major League Baseball players to play a game in Cuba between
1974 and l976.“ The requester notes that “Senator George McGovem raised the issue with Fidel Castro in a May
1975 visit to Havana," however, "Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rejected the idea in early l976."
0 Because the request contained only references to Department of State ersonnel with no indication of CIA
involvement. the F OIA case ofiicer will refer the requester to State. (b)(3
(U//Ar]-H69 Publications Review Board
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