INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 6 -10 MAY 2002

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01247682
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: May 10, 2002

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 6-10 May 2002
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(UHA-143�1) 16 May 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, DC
Future Planning Calendar:
(IMAIVO) 20 June 2002: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting (site to be determined).
(W/A-1111+) 26-27 June 2002: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at
(U//A-1+Jf)) 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:
(UMIALT4A) Publications Review Board
(UllitHM3)�FOIA Requests
(U///41441)...Author Wants Information on Chinese Nuclear Testing
(U//A-TUT) Noted author, and frequent FOIA requester, Jeffrey Richelson requested copies of "all 1990s NIEs,
SNIEs, or DI studies on Chinese nuclear testing activities."
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(U//*H30) UK Requester Wants Verification of Alleged Employee's Service
(W/A1U0) A requester from the United Kingdom submitted a FOIA request for employment verification as well as
any other information pertaining to an alleged CIA employee, who, according to the requester, claimed "... to have
been in the 82nd Airborne during World War II," and "who spent the 1950s and 1960s as a soldier of fortune in
Yemen by which time he had given up his US citizenship." According to the requester, the subject died in 1992 in
Tangier.
(UHATIlift) High Schooler from Michigan Seeks Information on the Mentally Ill
(U/770110)- A member of a high school debate team in Michigan submitted two requests, one for "information or
records on the jailing of mentally ill because of the fact that they are ill," and the other for "information or records
on the effects of LSD and other drugs on the mentally ill."
� The FOIA case manager suggested the requester contact the Department of Health and Human Services.
(U//A+17143)- Chicago Requester Wants Information on "OSS Architect"
(UHAIU0) A requester from the Art Institute of Chicago requested information on "Bertrand Goldberg when he
was in the OSS, 1943-45." According to the requester, "Mr. Goldberg was a Chicago architect who designed, while
with the OSS, several conceptual projects such as a Mobile Delousing Facility and a Mobile Penicillin Lab. He also
designed, for OSS, crates for 105mm howitzers that made it a bit easier for troops to transport them in the jungles of
the Pacific and a crate for a 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun that could be recycled into a two-man temporary shelter,
complete with bunk beds and folding campaign stools."
� The FOIA case manager referred the requester to the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), where the OSS records reside. The case manager also offered to search CIA records if the
requester provides sufficient biographic information on the subject for a search to be conducted, and
provides proof of the subject's death.
(U//A HI()) laigation
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(11/46:14513) CIA Declassification Center
.4re)--From the Archives: Philip Agee Enters Agency in 1957
44 The DCI team at the CIA Declassification Center reviews thousands of letters from the ODCI collection each
year. One document reviewed recently was a letter from Acting DCI Cabell to Senator Holland of Florida dated
1957, "Knowing of your interest in Mr. Philip B. F. Agee, I am pleased to inform you that he has recently entered
on duty with us. We appreciate your endorsement of Mr. Agee." A biographic card attached to the letter notes that
Agee had been previously employed as an assistant manager of a commercial laundry in Tampa, Florida and that he
entered the Agency in 1957 as a Junior Officer Trainee, GS-5, at $3,670 per year.
� After serving with the Agency for 12 years, Agee quit to write a tell-all book titled Inside the Company:
CIA Diary, which the Washington Post some years later hailed as "more than an expose, a unique
chronicle ... the most complete description yet of what the CIA does abroad. In entry after numbing entry,
US foreign policy is pictured as a web of deceit, hypocrisy and corruption." In 1979, the State Department
revoked Agee's US passport. In 1997, Agee told the Los Angeles Times, "as is widely known, for more
than 25 years 1 have been one more American working in solidarity activities with Cuba and against US
hostility, aggression, blockade, etc ... "
This is a record.
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Sent on 15 May 2002 at 09:31:52 AM
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