IPS WEEKLY REPORT (23-29 MARCH)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001800050084-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: March 30, 1978
• Content Type: MF

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
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30 March 1978
Chief, Information and Privacy Staff
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1. The Week in Review
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IPS Weekly Report (23-29 March)
23-29 Mar 1978 Weekly Average
New cases logged
150
99.8
Cases closed
50
63.9
New appeals logged
0
3.8
Appeals closed
0
1.5
Manpower (man-weeks)
108.9
100.3
Spotlighted Requests
a. Janet E. Smith, administrative assistant for
the Federation of American Scientists, asked for copies
of any records held by the CIA concerning "the mysterious
noises and lights that have afflicted the East Coast,
Canada, Europe and, possibly, other regions." The
director of the Federation, Jeremy J. Stone, recently
advanced the theory at a press conference that the
noises off the Atlantic Coast had been caused by Concorde
flights. The Agency received a similar request a few
weeks ago from Robert Todd, one of our UFO buffs.
b. Prof. Bruce Erickson'of Culver-Stockton College,
Canton, Missouri, requested copies of all files maintained
by the CIA on the late Edgar Parks Snow, ~tn American
journalist who gained fame through his reporting of the
Chinese Communists between 1936 and 1971. Snow died on
15 February 1972. Professor Erickson alleges that Snow
was the subject of a CIA investigation.
c. The president'of The Newspaper Guild, Charles A.
Perlik, Jr., requested copies of any documents in CIA
files concerning the Guild. The organization was
formerly known as the American Newspaper Guild.
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d. Jonathan Knight, who is the associate secretary
of the American Association of University Professors,
asked for copies of all files maintained by the CIA on
his organization, plus any records concerning past or
present contractual arrangements or agreements between
the Agency and the Association or any of its personnel.
The request letter was obviously patterned after the
standard ACLU form letter used to request documents
'concerning CIA's connections with academic institutions.
e. We received requests from the campus newspapers
of the College of William and Mary (The Flat Hat) and
Vanderbilt University The Vanderbilt ustler3tor
copies of records pertaining to the gency's past and
present contacts with these institutions or members of
their staffs.
3. Spotlighted Responses
a. Two requests from Barry Lando, CBS News, were
denied in full.' In each case, we replied that the fact
of the existence or nonexistence of records relevant to
his request was in itself a classified matter involving
intelligence sources and methods. The requests were
for records concerning negotiations with the Israelis
to obtain captured military equipment of Soviet manufacture,
and for records of payments to the Israeli Government
or. Israeli citizens from the DCI's contingency fund.
b. The same reply was sent to Howard Kohn, associate
editor of Rollin Stone, in response to his request for
access to all ocuments pertaining to "CIA-sponsored
expeditions" to the mountains Nanda Devi and Nanda Pot
in the Indian Himalayas.
c. E. J. Applewhite, who resides in Washington,
D.C., was provided a copy of the sanitized version of
"Clandestine Services History; The Berlin Tunnel Operations,"
dated 25 August 1967. This history was initially
released in connection with a request from David C.
Martin of Newsweek.
d. Twenty-six documents, 16 of them sanitized,
pertaining to Ohio State University were provided to
Robert Rudinger, editor of the school newspaper, The
Ohio State Daily Lantern. He was informed that t1
existence or nonexistence of additional records which
might reveal any covert CIA connection with the Uni-
versity or its personnel was a classified matter in-
volving intelligence sources and methods. This reply
was sent in answer to three requests, all submitted
separately by members of the newspaper's staff, for the
same material.
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4. Analysis
A review of the first 468 Freedom of Information
requests logged during 1978 revealed that only 16 of
them (3.4) percent) came from persons who were definitely
neither U.S. citizens nor permanent resident aliens.
Determination of the citizenship of requesters is not
an easy matter, however, since this is rarely mentioned
in the request letters. Students with apparently
foreign names writing to us from the campuses of U.S.
colleges could be foreigners here on student visas, or
they could be U.S citizens. We assumed the latter to
be the case. The citizenship of U.S. correspondents
for foreign newspapers and periodicals is also often
difficult to determine.
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/30 March 1978
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