INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 11-15 OCTOBER 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578062
• 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: October 15, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 11-15 October 2004
Executive Summary
Future Planninz Calendar
(U/A4,443.14 13 October 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at NARA in Washington, DC.
(UHATI113) 26 October 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(UHATT1ft) 15, 16 & 17 December 2004: Historical Review Panel: Next meeting at International Point.
(U//7li544) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
(UHAr1430)-PRB Reviews Reach Record High
(11//AILJO) The Publications Review Board (PRB) reviewed over 30,000 pages in more than 400 manuscripts during
FY 2004. Both numbers are more than 20% greater than last year's figures and are record highs for the PRB. The
PRB currently reviews the nonofficial works 'of former employees and soon will begin reviewing current employees'
work. This added responsibility suggests that PRB's numbers could increase next year. The PRB ensures that
former�and, soon, current�employee manuscripts contain no classified information, or other material that might
adversely affect the Agency's mission�or the author's job.
(U//At t13) FOIA Requests
(UHAItte) Peruvian Businessman Seeks to Clear Family Name
(Ullitr110) An attorney representing a Peruvian resident born in Huanuco, Peru, is requesting "all documents
regarding his client and his company, COPEINCA, S.A., a Peruvian [fishing] corporation, that may be contained in
the Central Intelligence Agency." The attorney states that his client is a "well-respected Peruvian businessman who
has been falsely accused, by a local Peruvian newspaper of drug trafficking and harboring known drug traffickers in
his home, [based on] an alleged Drug Enforcement Administration confidential report."
(UHALLID) Behind CIA's "A Study of Assassination"
(UHAIU ) A New York Times reporter is requesting any documents that name, or speculate about, the author of "A
Study of Assassination"; or that discuss its origins and intended audience; or, otherwise, shed light on the history of
this document. This May 1997 release relates to activities in Guatemala.
� The FOIA case manager informed the requester that: (1) More than 5,000 documents pertaining to
Guatemala, including Operation PBSuccess, are now declassified and available to the public through The
National Archives, and on the Internet; and (2) The FOIA does not require federal agencies to pelform
research, create records, answer questions, or conduct unreasonable searches through a body of material to
see if any of it is related to a particular request.
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Editor: "A Study of Assassination" was part of the training file for "Operation PBSUCCESS"�which
supported the 1954 coup d'etat in Guatemala.
(1.1//A7r17) Interest in CIA Documents on the "Angel of Death"
(U/tit143(3) The Senior Editor of Freedom (a publication of the Church of Scientology) is requesting all documents
between 1945 and February 1979 relating to Dr. Josef Mengele. The requester enclosed an article located on the
Internet (www. word iQ.com) about the subject's life.
Editor: After acquiring the nickname "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, Mengele fled westward in April 1945.
The Allies captured and held him as a POW at Nuremburg, but, unaware of his ident,, subsequently released
him. In 1949, he fled to Argentina, where he prospered during the 1950s � first, by operating a toy workshop
and, then, a small pharmaceutical enterprise. Falling into poorer circumstances, he moved to Paraguay in
1959. The Mossad tracked him for a time. From 1960, until his death in 1979, he lived in Brazil. He drowned
after suffering a stroke while swimming.
(UHAIU0) CIA Declassification Center
(Uthletti4})-From the Archives:
(077111344).Defining the DCI's Role�a 1970s Perspective
(U//A1�148)Trom the Carter Library collection comes the following excerpt from a blind NSC memo, circa 1977:
"Under the 1947 National Security Act, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) has responsibility for
'coordinating the intelligence of the several Government departments and agencies and for directing the operations of
the Central Intelligence Agency.' However, the Departments of State and Defense have steadfastly opposed
centralized management of the intelligence community under the DCI.. . . The DCI has independent management
and budgetary authority over only his own agency, the CIA. The Secretary of Defense allocates and manages the
remaining intelligence community resources."
(Ullit11711) "I. Managing Intelligence Collection and Production. The DCI issues a series of general guidance
documents for the collection and production of national intelligence. He tries through a number of different
inter-agency conunittees to reconcile different departmental intelligence requirements. The collection managers
(NSA, CIA, DIA, and the National Reconnaissance Office) and the intelligence producers (DIA, CIA, and the State
Department) retain substantial latitude in choosing which targets and subjects to cover. The DCI has yet to establish
a mechanism to monitor how well these agencies fulfill his general guidance."
(U/t/t143E) "II. Allocating Intelligence Resources. In 1971, President Nixon directed the DCI to plan and review all
intelligence activities, including tactical military intelligence, and to rationalize intelligence priorities within
budgetary constraints. The main thrust of this Directive was that major dollar savings could be achieved by making
the DCI responsible for preparing for the President a consolidated intelligence program budget. The plan failed, in
large part because Directors Helms and Colby were reluctant to intrude in the internal Defense programming and
budgeting system. In February 1976, President Ford made another effort to expand the role of the DCI in the
allocation of intelligence resources. In his Executive Order [EO 11905] he established a Committee on Foreign
Intelligence (CFI) chaired by the DCI with responsibility to 'control budget preparation and resource allocation for a
National Foreign Intelligence Program, to establish policy priorities for the collection and production of national
intelligence, and to provide guidance on the relationship between tactical and national intelligence.' (Footnote:
Executive Order 11905. The CFI reports directly to the NSC and includes as members the Deputy Secretary of
Defense and the Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.)"
(U/MrI11107". . . . Instead of trying to establish policy priorities across the various collection and production
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programs, the CFI focused primarily on the largest component of the intelligence budget, the National
Reconnaissance Program operations. Efforts by the CFI to develop definitions of tactical military intelligence and
national intelligence in terms relevant to the budget process proved fruitless. In summary, the DCI's role in the
overall intelligence budget process is that of an adviser to the Secretary of Defense except for those resources under
his control as Director of CIA...."
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� Comment: This memorandum precedes a series of recommendations for redefining the DCPs role in the
Intelligence Community. It demonstrates the lengthy history of the still unresolved question of how the DCI
should relate to other US Government intelligence agencies
(UHATI/11) Bundy's Advice on Intelligence Reform
(UMtlifitr) William Bundy�a former member of the Board of National Estimates and, in 1976, an editor for
Foreign Affairs �proffered his views on reorganizing the intelligence community in a March 1976 letter to DCI
George Bush. Bundy said he thought the DCI was "off on the right foot" but that he was inclined in the future to go
further and to "divorce the overt activities of the agency.. . from the true clandestine service. My thinking is only
partly prudential," he said, "in the sense that any kind of association with clandestine activities may for the time
being be a drawback on the necessary recruitment for the overt side. But more basically, I do think that a separation
would in itself contribute to better control of clandestine intelligence and of any clandestine activities that continued,
and would prevent the director from being in the difficult position of being both judge and prime operator."
(Ulliellgee) Mr. Colby�A "Dangerous Man?"
21 June 1973
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS: The President, General Secretary Breshnev,
and W. E. Colby
LI the receiving line after the signing of the agreement on
the prevention of nuclear war, the President identified mete
with CIA in presenting me to Mr. Breshnev. Mr, Breehnev
asked the President III was a dangerous man. The President
assured him that I was not. I added to Mr. Breahnev that the
more we know of each other the safer we both can be. The
President added that I also fully supported the new agreement,
which I confirmed.
W. E. Colby
� Comment: At the time of the above memo, President Nixon had already selected Mr. Colby to become DCI (in
May 1973). His confirmation to that position occurred on 1 August 1973.
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