Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 5 March- 9 March 2001 Executive Summary

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(U//7!l'U'U']“National Security Archive Continues Interest in Colombia
(U///HUD) Among the recent requests received from the National Security Archive on Colombia include a request
for information pertaining to "the massacre of Colombian civilians at El Calato in the Department of Cauca,
Colombia, on or about December 16, 1992" and "the massacre of some 11 Colombian civilians at San Jose de
Apartado, Colombia on February 19 and July 18, 2000.“ The Archive also requested information on several
Colombian paramilitary leaders. '
(Uifid-HQ) British Requester Seeks UFO Document
(Ll#7'el'b‘O) A requester from the United Kingdom asked for “a copy of a report produced by the United Kingdom
Government's Department of Scientific Intelligence and Joint Technical Intelligence Committee, in 1951 [with the
title]: 'D.S.I./J.T.I.C. Report No. 7, Unidentified Flying Objects.'"
O CIA accepted the request
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(U//K1150) From the Archives: In 1949 -- Problems in CIA-IAC Cooperation
(U//KPUO) In a 1949 study by the Office of Research and Estimates (ORE) for the DCI, which was recently
reviewed by the DCI Team at the OIM Declassification Center, three problems affecting the relationship between the
Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) and the CIA were outlined: departmental policy obstacles to effective
cooperation, departmental action failures in supporting CIA, and departmental failures in the coordination of CIA
reports and estimates. According to ORE, "The most spectacular evidence of lack of departmental cooperation is
represented by the NSCIDSS (National Security Council Intelligence Directives) As a result of the coordination of
these directives with the IAC agencies prior to NSC action, they represent only those concessions to CIA that the
IAC agencies were willing to make, and consequently do not provide the DCI with the authority required by him to
discharge the responsibilities imposed on him (and) the IAC agencies tend to utilize the IAC as an executive
(ORE emphasis) rather than an advisory body.”
0 Two years after this study the DCI changed his relationship with the IAC. From The US Intelligence
Community by Jejfrey T. Richelson, ”Fr0m the very creation of the CIA, the DCI’s role has been under
challenges by other components of the intelligence community -- initially being seen by some as more a
servant or staff manager than an actual director or coordinator. Thus, when he first took oflice in 1951,
Walter Bedell Smith was viewed as acting not with the advice of the Intelligence Advisory Committee
(IA C) but rather at its direction One of Smiths s irst innovations was to put the IAC in an advisory rather
than supervisory role with respect to the DCI. " b 3
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