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This is a Central Intelligence Agency executive summary of Information Review and Release news for 23 to 27 April 2001, approved for release in 2019. It covers upcoming declassification meetings and deadlines, FOIA requests about the April 2001 missionary plane shootdown in Peru and about Rwanda, and the dismissal of a FOIA lawsuit about Princess Diana. It also notes that 74.5 cubic feet of declassified records went to NARA, including a motion picture film on Unidentified Flying Objects.
my *~ (b)(3) b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578275 Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 23 April - 27 April 2001 Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (U//AJ-U0-) 17 Mav 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Agpeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Principals‘ meeting at EOB, Washington, DC. Future Planning Calendar: (U//Kl‘U'U1 6 June 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons‘ meeting at NARA, Washington, DC. (U//Ail-U-9) 17 June 2001: Historical Review Panel (HRP): Next meeting at CIA. (U//Arl-LID.) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed general material older_ than 25 years. (U//kl-H9) 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//HHU-Q) FOIA Reguests (U//ATUO) CIA Receives First Requests on the Missionary Plane Shootdown in Peru (U//MUD) CIA has received six requests so far this week on the April 20 shootdown in Peru by the Peruvian Air Force of a missionary plane. The Associated Press, CBS News, ABC News and the Miami Herald are among the first requesters. The requesters have asked for a wide range of information on the event including CIA's audio and video tapes of the flight, and CIA information on similar shootdown incidents dating back to 1990. (U//A‘l‘U'9)~Freedom Magazine Interested in Noted Reporter/Biographer (U//kl-H9§ Thomas Whittle, a frequent requester from Freedom Magazine, seeks information on James Phelan, an investigative reporter, editor, and author who wrote the best-selling book, Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years (19 77). 0 CIA accepted the request (U//A'l'UU) Argentinean Newspaper Seeks Information on Argentinean Banker (U//A‘I'b‘9§- A requester with Argentina's La Nacion newspaper asks for information conceming David Gravier, an Argentinean banker and businessman who died in a plane crash in Mexico in 1976. The requester indicated that at the time of his death, Mr. Gravier was living in New York waiting for authorization to buy the American Bank and Trust. O The FOIA Case Oflicer advised the requester that although it is the CIAS policy to neither confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of records that might indicate a current or former operational or analytical interest in any particular foreign personality, we can sometimes provide overt or previously released records containing information on foreign nationals that is unrelated to any classified or covert interest. Accordingly, the requester was provided with 14 pages ofpreviously released material on Mr. Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578275 (b)(3 (b)(5
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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.