INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 16 - 20 JUNE 2003

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01247766
• 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: June 20, 2003

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 16 - 20 June 2003
Executive Summary
Immediate Calendar:
(U/h4F140)- 9 July 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting
at Crystal City.
Future Planning Calendar:
(U//Atu0) 22 July 2003: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U//A44443)- 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities Last Week:
(wiAluO) EO Mandatory Declassification Review
(UHAltitri From the Archives: Japanese Government in 1945: "100 Million Japanese Must Die Before
Defeat"
(UNALLIC4 "Every phase of Japanese life has been constricted by the war," was the theme of a May 1945 Current
Intelligence Study written by the Research and Analysis Branch of the OSS. According to the Intelligence Study,
which was written just two and a half months before US forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
the people of Japan had just finished the country's coldest winter in 25 years. Even so, the Japanese government
"demanded increased sacrifices of all kinds from the citizenry, including a 7-day work week." School children were
assigned potato and rice gardens and carried out "the work formerly done by janitors." "Schools and temples were
being transformed into vegetable gardens," and the cages of the zoo were adapted "for the raising of rabbits, goats,
and hogs." The citizens developed a table butter made from silk worms. Even with these hardships, the Japanese
Government told the citizens that the "war may last ten or twenty years" and "100 million Japanese must be killed
before Japan can be defeated."
� This OSS document is one of many from a collection gathered by the late Ray Cline, who was DDI from
1962 to 1966. The document was reviewed and declassified in response to an EO Mandatory
Declassification Review request submitted by Mr. Cline's daughter.
(U//2414:t0) FOIA Requests
(U//A/17/0)- Associated Press Wants International Terrorism Sit Rep
(MAIM) An investigative researcher from the Associated Press seeks the "Weekly Situation Report on
International Terrorism" for the month of July 1973.
(U//ACanadian Wants Information on Jimi Hendrix' Manager
(UNATtitt) A requester from Ontario, Canada requests "records and reports on Michael Frank Jeffery covering the
period January 1960 to May 1973." The requester states Mr. Jeffery, a British citizen, was the manager of rock and
roll star Jimi Hendrix. Mr. Jeffery died in an Iberian Airlines crash over Nantes, France in 1973.
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(UHATTI7rNational Security Archive Interested in East Timor
(UHNIT71") The National Security Archive asks for finished intelligence reports generated between January and
December 1977 on Indonesian military operations in East Timor.
� The National Security Archive is a non-profit research library/institute on international affairs located in
Washington DC -- and arguably the most frequent requester of CIA information under the FOIA and EO
programs. According to a National Security Archive information sheet, they are "the world's largest
non-governmental library of declassified documents, and use the Freedom of Information Act and other
release programs to create comprehensive collections on specific topics of greatest interest to scholars and
the public."
(U/L414444 CIA Declassification Center
(U//244130) RAC Scanning Team Completes 101,000 Pages at Carter Library
(U/h6riiift) On 16 June 2003, the Remote Archive Capture (RAC) scanning team at the Carter Library completed
101,000 pages.
� A five-person team from the CIA Declassification Center began scanning operations at the Jimmy Carter
Library near Atlanta, Georgia on 22 July of last year. The team's goal is to complete 300,000 pages.
(U/A414443) From the Archives: Light At The End of The Tunnel in Viet Nam in 1966
(U//A44414) A provocative and foreboding Central Intelligence Bulletin (CIB) article of February 1966 reviewed and
certified by the DI Team at the CIA Declassification Center this past week discusses Hanoi's latest assessment of the
situation in Vietnam and of Communist prospects in the conflict. Writing in the North Vietnamese Communist
Party's theoretical journal, Hoc Tap, North Vietnam's legendary military strongman -- Defense Minister Vo Nguyen
Giap -- says that despite what Hanoi anticipates will be the introduction of "over 700,000" American troops into
South Vietnam (US troop strength actually peaked around 500,000), he believes the Vietnamese Communists can
still win the war. Giap argues that there are basic political and military weaknesses in the American position in
Vietnam which will bring about a US defeat. US troops, he notes, are thinly deployed throughout the world and
Washington "cannot send to the South whatever number of troops" it would like without reckoning with "worldwide
difficulties." Additionally, the US cannot decide whether to make its main military efforts along the coast, where
the full power of American weapons can be brought to bear, or in the hinterlands where the effectiveness of US
firepower is limited. More importantly, US troops possess "low morale and the US Army is not organized or
trained to fight successfully against a people's war." As for US air attacks against North Vietnam, Giap
acknowledges the possibility of more "fierce" aerial bombardments, but maintains that the raids cannot "by any
means cut off the North's main communications routes" and cannot shake Hanoi's determination to continue support
of the Viet Cong insurgency in the South.
(UHAIU0) Giap's articles were designed to provide Vietnamese Communist cadre, military personnel, and the
informed populace with the latest official regime view of the war, formulated by a wildly popular North Vietnamese
leader who had successfully led the North's armed forces since their founding, including, perhaps most notably,
defeat of the French in the First Indochina War.
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CONFIDENTIAL
(UhYritterr From the Archives: Senator Prescott Bush Praises DCI in 1961
(U11.4143e0719C1 Allen Dulles wrote in September 1961 to Senator Prescott Bush, father of future DCI and President
George Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush, to say he was "deeply touched by (Senator Bush's) kind
remarks in the Senate." The document was reviewed recently at the CIA Declassification Center. An item from the
Congressional Record was attached to the memo that contained the following remarks: "The Central Intelligence
Agency is an organization of which really little is known; but from what I know of it, as a member of the
Committee on Armed Services and through my personal contact with many members of that Agency, I believe it
has rendered outstanding service for the United States." He went on to praise DCI Dulles, noting he had known him
for 30 years and that the DCI sometimes comes in for strong criticism: "If something happens to go wrong, the
blame is often placed on him, as with the Cuban invasion fiasco. From what I know of that action, I do not believe
the blame belongs on his shoulders. However, he is a man who never says anything to defend himself. For that
reason, he is apt to bear a large amount of unjust criticism. I rate him a brave, dedicated, and brilliant American
with a long record of distinguished service to the United States."
Senator Prescott Bush
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