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Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 2 April- 6 April 2001 Executive Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-04-06 · 3 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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CIA/DOD Inspector General report reviewing the case of Commander Speicher, and an Intelligence Community
analytical assessment of the case, which DIA prepared at the direction of the DCI. '
(U//A'I'UO) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Interested in Consulate Attack
(U//ilrl-H99 A requester from CBC Radio-Canada seeks information on "the 1999 attack on the U.S. Consulate in
Toronto, including the name of the detachment and person in charge of security at the Consulate at the time, any
arrests or convictions, briefing notes, meeting notes, reports, legal briefs and media lines.“
I The FOIA Case Oflicer advised the requester that US consulates are diplomatic missions under the
Department of State, and that he may contact that agency for further assistance. (b)(3)
(U//A'I'H'O) National Security Archive Requests Strategic Warning Report
(U//RI'H9§ Frequent requester William Burr of the National Security Archive, asked for a copy of a study titled
Report on Strategic Warning , dated Febniary 1967, "prepared in response to a request from the Deputy to the
Director of Central Intelligence for National Intelligence Program Evaluations."
0 CIA accepted the requesi l
(U/7KI‘U6) Wall Street Journal Interested in Alleged Soviet Defectors
(U//ATUG) A requester with the Wall Street Journal Europe requested documents related to three alleged Soviet
defectors, Imants Lesinskis, Rasma Lesinskis and Ieva Lesinskis.
(U//AJ.I.l.Q.) Requester~Seeks Cartoons Related to 1954 Guatemala Memorandum
(U//kl-HG) A requester from Texas, who attached a copy of a released 1954 memorandum about Guatemala that he
found in the Popular Document Collection on CIA's FOIA website, is interested in cartoons "maintained in
connection with or compiled as a.result of" the memorandum. The requester listed possible themes for the cartoons,
including "fat, rich labor leaders," and "laborers as slaves of their leaders."
O CIA accepted the
O The requester found the released memorandum at CIA 's repository ofpopular released documents, which
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