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Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 19 March- 23 March 2001 Executive Summary

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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Information Review and Release (IRR) weekly executive summary for 19 to 23 March 2001. It lists upcoming meetings, including an ISCAP meeting and the Historical Review Panel, along with automatic declassification deadlines under Executive Order 12958. It reports a FRUS conference with State Department counterparts, FOIA requests about the 1953 Iranian coup, U-2 pilot Rudolph Anderson and Soviet nuclear monitoring, and a joint effort with NIMA to index U-2 imagery. It does not mention UFOs.

  • p. 2 …A Texas requester sought information on "Rudolph Anderson (the U-2 pilot whose shooting down by…
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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for I9 March - 23 March 2001
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U//KPUO) 2 April 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Liaisons’ meeting
at NARA, Washington, DC.
Future Planning Calendar:
(U//K1170) 19 April 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP)_: Next Principals‘
meeting at EOB, Washington, DC.
(U//Rl"U'S)- June 2001: Historical Review Panel (HRP1: Next meeting at CIA.
(U//Xl'b‘O) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed general material older than 25 years.
(U//KIUO) April 2003: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for
unreviewed intelligence-related or multi-agency records.
Overview of IRR Activities Last Week:
(U//A-I-HO) Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
(U//MUG) OIM Hosts FRUS Conference with State Department Counterparts
(U/Hrl-U-Q)-On 22 March, OIM hosted a day-long conference at the Foreign Relations of the
United States (FRUS) series where CIA historians, IROs, and OIM release managers discussed policy and
procedural issues associated with the FRUS with their Department of State counterparts. The participants discussed
coordination of the new Joint Historian position, the resource and security implications of State's move to electronic
publication of the FRUS series, and State's development of Access Guides to point researchers to records on a
particular subject.
0 The FR US is the legally mandated official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions
and significant diplomatic activity. Its purpose is to document the facts and events that contribute to I
policy formation, and to record evidence of supporting and alternative views of the final policy decisions.
The State Historian's Oflice publishes FR US and has virtually unrestricted access to Agency materials in
the process A ency Information Review O icers (lROs) review and a rove or release an CIA-
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documents that are requested by State for a FR US volume.
(U//1fl'U'6) FOIA Reguests
(U//M-H-9) Requesters Interested in Notable Americans
(U//ATU67 Frequent requester Professor David Martin submitted requests for information on "American linguist
Kenneth Lee Pike, an instrumental figure at the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Wycliffe Bible Translators,“
and "American amateur archaeologist and explorer Hiram Bingham [whose] most famous discovery was his finding
of the lost city of Machu Picchu.“ Also, from the Office of Special Affairs at the Church of Scientology, requests
were received for records on Dr. Daniel Blain, a past president and medical director of the American Psychiatric
Association and Dr. Morris Fishbein, former editor of the Joumal of the American Medical Association.
O CIA accepted the requests
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