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This Central Intelligence Agency executive summary covers Information Review and Release activities for the week of 28 May to 1 June 2001. It lists incoming FOIA requests, including one on the USS Pueblo captain, one on brain fingerprinting research, one on Peruvian massacres, and one seeking records of a 9 July 1959 CIA meeting about unidentified flying objects that involved a South Berwick, Maine case. It also covers pending STAR GATE remote viewing releases, planning for the Bay of Pigs declassification, and Publications Review Board workload.
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b)(3) b)(5) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578279 ,.:i , Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 28 May - 1 June 2001 Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (U//RIBS)-17 June 2001: Historical Review Panel (HRP); Next meeting at CIA (U//A130) 11 Julv 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Liaisons‘ meeting at NARA, Washington, DC. Future Planning Calendar: (U//KPUO) 26 J ulv 2001: Interagencv Securitv Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP1: Next Principals‘ meeting at EOB, Washington, DC. (ULLA-I-U-D) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed general material older than 25 years. (U//*1-U-9) 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: (ULLAJJ lg 1) FOIA Reguests (U//A.I.LLQ]_ New Times Los Angeles Requests CIA Document on Captain of USS Pueblo (U//AI-Ll-O-) The managing editor of New Times Los Angeles submitted a request for a CIA report titled "A Psychological and Political Analysis of Commander Bucher's Statements" dated 30 January 1968. The editor states he leamed of the report from a footnote in a recently released publication, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1964-1968, Volume XXIX, Korea, Part 1 . The subject of the report is CDR Lloyd Bucher, the captain of the USS Pueblo, which was seized off the coast of North Korea on 23 January I968 by North Korean armed forces. The North Koreans held the Pueblo's crew prisoner for 11 months. The editor enclosed a privacy waiver form signed by Lloyd Bucher. O The CIA denied the request under FOIA exemption (b)(1), which exempts classified material from release in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, and exemption (b)(3) regarding the DCI’s obligation "to protect fi-om disclosure intelligence sources and methods... "l (U//ATU9)-CBS News Interested in Brain 'Fingerprinting' (U//XPH6) A requester with the CBS News program 48 Hours submitted a detailed request for information conceming "the testing, funding and/or evaluation of research conducted by Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell, dba Human Brain Research Laboratory, Inc., regarding the ‘Brain Fingerprinting‘ system." The requester is specifically seeking "documents generated from the CIA's peer-review ‘workshop’ conceming Dr. Farwell‘s work conducted in November l993 [and] any subsequent requests for funding and their evaluation." O CIA accepted the request‘ l (b)(3) (b)(5) (U//A-I.l.QLNational Security Archive Focuses on Peruvian Massacres Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 CO5578279
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