INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 12-16 JANUARY 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05578186
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2019
• Case Number: F-2010-01471
• Publication Date: January 16, 2004

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Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 12-16 January 2004
Executive Summary
Future Planning Calendar
(UHAIVID) 27 January 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(U//A4130) 24 February 2004: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Principals'
meeting at EEOB in Washington, DC.
(uirmitfo) 31 December 2006: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended.
Overview of IRR Activities--Last Week
(b)(3) (U//A440) ISO� Visits
(U//i=7) On 14 January 2004, (210/Information Management Services (IMS) hosted two ISO� (Information
Security and Oversight Office) staff members�Laura Kimberly (Deputy Director for Policy) and Linda Ebben
(Program Officer responsible for the CIA)�for a day-long briefing. The effort allowed ISO() to learn more about
selected IMS programs and initiatives and was a useful forum for exchanging information. Various IRRG
(b)(3) components participated. Chief, CIA Declassification Center, covered the 25-Year Program by
discussing: 1) the 111-million page internal workload and the 20-million page external workload; 2) CDC's on-site
partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA-formerly, NIMA), 3) the CDC business process,
and progress against workload (93 million pages reviewed, 27-million pages released), 4) CDC's recently submitted
declassification plan to ISO() and FY 2004 through FY 2011 projections�the latter being the automatic
declassification date for special media (microfilm, audio and video tapes, etc.), and 5) program challenges (i.e.,
declining budgets, prioritization of the remaining workload-38-million pages) and the complexities of reviewing
external equities (i.e., records requiring review by agencies other than the primary record owner).
(UllitkIge) Also, CDC's Senior Program Analyst briefed ISO� on the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST)�the CIA
public access system installed at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. It contains over 8.7-million
released CIA and NGA pages from the CDC output. Chief, Declassification Review Branch, CDC,
discussed the Remote Archive Capture (RAC) program�a NARA-funded effort executed by CDC to scan classified
records at Presidential Libraries for review Dy CIA and other government agencies, as
appropriate. The CIA review takes place on our Image Workflow Automation System (IWAS), and the other
government agency review takes place on the stand-alone STAIRS system�the State-of-the Art Information Retrieval
System. To date, about 1.9-million Presidential Library pages have been scanned for all agencies. CIA has reviewed
about 300,000 pages. Chief, Declassification Services Division briefed on IWAS, the Management of
Officially Released Information (MORI) System, the Electronic Records Web Interface (ERWI) repository search
system, and the new CIA Automated Declassification Review Environment (CADRE) system�currently under
development as a replacement for IWAS, MORI, and ERWI. The IMS briefing included another topic that is central
to CDC's processing of external referrals�the Information Technology Group's (ITG) Program Manager briefed on
the new Equity Notification Database (END) project. This Congressionally-directed effort to establish a database of
information on external equities is still in an early development stage.
� (U//A4430) FOIA Requests
(U///tl'irm Seeks 'Smart Pay' Card Holder List
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(U//k143�) A government list development firm is requesting "a complete list of all individuals who are Smart Pay
small purchase credit card holders, including their mailing addresses and phone and fax numbers where possible [at]
the Central Intelligence Agency. We prefer that the information be provided by email or disk."
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� The FOIA case manager informed the requester that the information sought must be denied, because it is
classified under the provisions of Executive Order 12958. In addition, Section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949
exempts from disclosure "the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel
employed by the Agency. Exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3) apply. An explanation of these exemptions
accompanied the response.
(UMA4110) Request for Secret File�Giovanni Montini
(IR/M.4444 A Newton, Kansas, requester seeks a reference document or transcript (perhaps made with a listening
device) titled: "Secret File named 'Giovanni Montini"'�issued on 07/20/1953 and declassified on 02/28/1975. The
document allegedly is cited in the footnotes of a recently published book about the Vatican, and is referenced in
several books by Avro Manhattan.
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Editor: Giovanni Montini later became Pope Paul VI. Avro Manhattan (1914-1990) authored a number of
exposes on the Vatican. The requester is asking for a fee waiver because "the information will contribute to
the public's understanding of papal politics and their effect [sic! on the world today." However, fee waivers
are only granted after satisfting certain criteria: 1) The disclosure must "significantly" contribute to public
understanding of government operations or activities. [Four factors apply: a) The subject matter of the
requested records must specifically concern "identifiable operations or activities" of the government; b)
Disclosable portions of the requested information must be "meaningful" information in relation to the subject
of the request,. c) Disclosure of the information must contribute to the understanding of the public at large�not
a narrow segment of interested persons; and, d) Disclosure must contribute "significantly" to public
understanding of government operations or activities] and 2) Disclosure of the information must not be
primarily in the commercial interest of the requester. [Quotes added for emphasis] She has three other open
cases on this general topic. Sometimes, requesters write separate requests to avoid fees.
(UHAIU0) CDC Declassification Center
(UlliriLiQ) From The Archives:
(U/M4441) Iraqi Looting in Baghdad
(UHA.1.13Q) A November 1952 Current Intelligence Bulletin reports: "Iraqi soldiers cheered the mob as it looted the
US Information Service premises in Baghdad. Soldiers had been stationed there in three armored cars to protect the
building. The [US] Ambassador had repeatedly protested to Iraqi authorities concerning the inadequate police
protection given the building. The Chief of Police refused to fire on the people who were shooting at the fireman
attempting to save the building. The day after the rioting, Embassy employees visiting the USIS [domestically,
"USIA"] offices were hissed and booed and two of them received minor injuries. The sympathy exhibited by police
and army elements for the anti-American, anti-British rioting shows the growing strength of intemperate Iraqi
nationalism."
� This 1952 item demonstrates that anti-Americanism and looting are not new in Baghdad.
(U//fIcitiO) US Intelligence on Cuba�What Did JFK Know?
(U/htli/e)) A CIA Memorandum for the Record (20 September 1962 ) from the DI's Office of Current Intelligence
(OCI) discusses an article appearing in the 24 September issue of Newsweek . The article states, "US intelligence on
Cuba still bogs down, at least in getting word to the top. A question about the Soviet buildup on the island, for
instance, came up at JFK's press conference last month. The President answered it, but in general terms. It was not
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until the next day, when his aides checked further, that he learned about the 60 ships scheduled to arrive in Cuba this
month." The OCI memo notes that OCI assumes "that the press conference alluded to was the one that took place on
29 August. This was the occasion for the famous statement, 'We are not at the present time planning an invasion of
Cuba." The OCI memo states that the CIA reported on the flow of military cargo to Cuba to the President, but "that
the figure 60 did not crop up until after the press conference on 29 August and was a State concoction referring to
Soviet dry cargo shipments," not exclusively military transfers, The memo adds... "during the entire month of
August, DIA consistently refused to accept the idea that Soviet military shipments were involved. DIA considered
the shipments to be economic goods. Despite repeated briefings and arguments throughout the month by CIA
analysts, DIA adhered to this view, made CIB reporting difficult and less categoric, and regularly advised the White
House of their view. DIA analysts maintained this position until at least 5 September."
� On 3 September, CIA reported the construction of SAM sites in Cuba and the appearance of Soviet-guided
missile boats and additional land armaments, according to the unclassified History Staffpublication, "Cuban
Missile Crisis 1962." The mid-October detection of the early stages of deployment of Soviet MRBMs (medium
range ballistic missiles) triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(UHALL/44) Afghanistan to Convene Grand Tribal Assembly
(U//AT E/e) A Current Intelligence Bulletin (CIB), dated 8 November 1955, reports: "The calling by Afghan king
Zahir Shah of a Grand Assembly of the Tribes (Loe Jirgah) to discuss the Pushtoonistan issue indicates a major
policy decision is pending in Kabul. The last two such assemblies were called in 1930 to approve Zahir's father as
king and in 1941 to affirm Afghanistan's policy of neutrality in World War II."
� The DI certifier came across this item during the first week of January 2004, at the very time that Afghanistan
was concluding a Loya Jirga (updated spelling) to agree on a new constitution for Afghanistan.
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