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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Information Review and Release (IRR) weekly executive summary for 2 to 6 April 2001, released in 2019. It lists upcoming declassification panel meetings and deadlines under Executive Order 12958, and describes a quality assurance effort with Raytheon at the OIM Declassification Center. It also covers a 1949 advisory committee meeting chaired by the Director of Central Intelligence and summarizes recent FOIA requests. It notes that UFOs are among the popular topics on CIA's FOIA website.
Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578273 Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 2 April - 6 April 2001 Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (U//RPUOT 24 April 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Liaisons’ meeting at NARA, Washington, DC. Future Planning Calendar: (U/Hr]-GQ)_l7 Mav 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals‘ meeting at EOB, Washington, DC. (U//RIUU) June 2001: Historical Review Panel (I-IRP)_: Next meeting at CIA. (U//AJ-U-6')’ 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 of IRR Activities Last Week: (UHA-I-H-O) OIM Declassification Center (U//A-I-H6) ODC Embarks on Extensive Quality Assurance Effort (U/LAJ-H6’; Management representatives from the OIM Declassification Center (ODC) met with quality experts from Raytheon this week for the purpose of establishing a comprehensive quality program for the 25-year automatic declassification of ODC's Dcclassification Review Division, told the Raytheon representatives, "Althoug qua ity as a ways been important in our work, recent errors have given us a real wake-up call to this aspect of our business. I expect this process to be difficult and challenging as we examine material and takst at llf " ' ' d hi d 'ta'thhihst 'ble eps every eve 0 our or amzation to improve, monitor an ac eve an main in e g e pOSSl e quality standard." (U//ATUO) From the Archives: In 1949, DCI Says About NSC: "Sometimes The Bigshots Get a Little Sarcastic" (U//HBO) In 1949, Director of Central Intelligence RADM Roscoe Hillenkoetter chaired an Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting where a proposal on handling crisis situations came up. According to the minutes of the meeting, which the DCI team at the OIM Declassification Center recently reviewed, the DCI was concemed that the NSC would respond to the proposal by saying, "my dear friend, you already have that authority, why are you bringing it here?" The DCI reportedly stated, “I feel personally, that it is not necessary that it go to the NSC. We can justify it under the implementing agreement under NSCID 1 (National Security Council Intelligence Directive).... I am going to send a letter with it when I forward it, to protect myself from a little sarcasm there from some of the boys... Sometimes some of the bigshots get a little sarcastic and I want to be covered both ways.“ \| (U/LA-I-U-O) FOIA Reguests ) (U//kl-U9-) 60 Minutes II Wants Reports on Downed Gulf War Pilot (U//‘7!tI'UO) A producer at CBS Television's 60 Minutes II requested copies of two documents related to the case of LCDR Michael Scott Speicher, the US Navy pilot shot down on the first night of the 1991 Gulf war, and still listed as missing in action. The producer requested copies of the classified versions, redacted if necessary, of a joint Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578273 - b)(3 (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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.