Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 28 May- 1 June 2001 Executive Summary

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(U//RIUU7 Among the requests received this week from the National Security Archive include information on "the
mass grave found between August 14 and 18, 1984 in Pucayacu, Ayacucho [Peru] containing 50 bodies that had
been strangled, shot or beaten to death and showed evidence of torture," "the November 13, 1983 massacre near the
village of Soccos in Ayacucho Department, Peru of between 27 and 50 women and children participating in a
wedding party," "the January 26, 1983 massacre in Uchuraccay, Peru of eight reporters by peasants under the
command of the army," and "the April 3, 1983 massacre in Santiago de Lucanamarca and Huanca-Sancos, Peru
which resulted in the deaths of 67 peasants and 69 guerrillas by Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path)."
(U//MUG) Requester Wants Information on 1959 UFO Meeting '
(U//AI-U9)’ A Kentucky requester asked for “the items discussed in a Memorandum for the Record, start date 6 July
1959 in which a meeting was held on 9 July 1959 at the CIA conceming unidentified flying objects. During the
meeting a case involving the ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) and a woman in South Berwick, Maine was
discussed." The requester also seeks "all infomiation or records conceming what happened at the CIA 6 July 1959
after that investigation where the investigator of the case contacted a person called AFFA, as well as the following
flying saucer sighting by the three members in the room."
0 The CIA has encountered inquiries about AFFA ro uesters in the past. According to other
requesters, AFFA is a native of Uranus.
(U//RIHQ) OIM Declassification Center
(U//A-I-HQ) ODC Informs Marine Corps of Pending Release of STAR GATE Material about Lt Col Higgins
(U//KPUUT Representatives from the OIM Declassification Center this week infonned the Marine Corps that newly
declassified material from the STAR GATE collection will be released soon, which will include information on the
Intelligence Community's efforts to locate kidnapped Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins through
remote viewing. OIM also offered to assist the Marines with notification of Higgin‘s family of the pending release.
O STAR GA TE was the project name for US Government research into the parapsychological phenomenon
known as remote viewing. Pursuant to a 1995 Congressional mandate, DIA records on STAR GA TE were
transferred to CIA with direction to begin a program of review with the intention of declassifiiing as many
as possible.
O Lt Col Higgins was taken captive in I 988 while on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
US military and intelligence eflorts to find Higgins failed, including the STAR GA TE remote viewing
program. Higgins was hanged by his captors after 18 months in captivity. The STAR GA TE project
involved other high profile cases, including an attempt to locate Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Agent
Enrique Camarena who was murdered in Mexico City in I985 and CIA Chic 0 Station William Buckley
who was killed by his pro Iranian kidnapers in I 984.
(U//ArI'b‘O‘j OIM To Begin Processing of Third Tranche of Bay of Pigs Release
(U///¥I'BQ-) Representatives from the OIM Declassification Center (ODC) met with OIM's Special Collection
Division (SCD) to begin plarming the third release of declassified Bay of Pigs material -- comprising about 15,000
pages. The first tranche of Bay of Pigs material, comprising 3,200 pages, was released to the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) in 1998. SCD currently is reviewing the second tranche -- about 6,800 pages --
which SCD plans to have ready for release by the end of the year.
0 The Bay of Pigs collection is the third product line processed by the OIM Declasszfication Center this fiscal
ear The other two are Guatemala 1954 and the recently completed POW/MIA review. (R. Warshaw,
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