IPD/OIS WEEKLY REPORT (5-11 NOVEMBER)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000700010027-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 12, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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IPD/OIS Weekly Report (5-11 November)
1. The Week in Review
a. New cases logged
b. Cases closed
c. New appeals logged
d. Appeals closed
e. Manpower (man weeks)
2. Current Backlogs
a. Initial requests - 3019
b. Appeals - 246
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Spotlighted Requests
a. Allan Maraynes, producer of "60 Minutes" for CBS, requested
IL L E GIB access to all material involving "the intelligence services of
THE READERS DIGEST (the magazine) which may have been provided for
the U.S. or foreign governments."
b. Russell Dolly off Jessup. "larvland, asked that he be provided
the name and address of the foreign equivalent of the CIA in 25
countries. He also wants the names of the directors of these
foreign intelligence agencies and their addresses. (This letter
came to us in a roundabout way. It was addressed to the
United States Information Agency, now the International
Communication Agency. ICA forwarded it to the Federal Information
Center.of the General Services Administration. This organization
referred it to our Agency for action.)
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c. Kenneth T. Blaylock, president of the American Federation of
Government Employees, submitted a request for information relating
to Agency personnel. In all, he asked for nine categories of
information. It appears that he is primarily interested in
obtaining data on the number of positions abolished since the start
of CY 1981 and the number of persons who have been given. RIP
notices.
d. Robert B. Cullen of the Associated Press requested copies of
documents concerning surveillance and information-gathering
activities carried out in the, United States against their citizens
by the Republic of China, Yugoslavia, the Republic of Korea, Libya,
South Africa, Philippines, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and
Iran. In addition, he wants access to records relating to harass-
ment, intimidation, violence, or other forms of retribution by these
governments against their nationals for political activities
occurring in the United States. Finally, he requested copies of
communications from the aforementioned countries, or CIA
assessments, on how "CIA operations in those countries" might be
affected by any action the U.S. Government might take to stop the
surveillance and harassment of aliens living in the United States.
e. Timothy A. Robinson of St. Louisville, Ohio, asked for
information on the abortive attempt to rescue the hostages in
Tehran, a copy of an alleged report on the ability of B-52s to
penetrate Soviet airspace, copies of any CIA investigations of the
assassination of Anwar Sadat, and photographs of the current and
former DCIs.
4. Spotlighted Responses
a. Joseph E. Persico of Bethesda, Phryland, author of
Piercing the Reich, visited our reading room on 6 November to
examine previously released documents on the OSS Vessel Project. He
ordered copies of 379 pages of material.
b. We advised the Judicial and Fiscal Branch of the National
Archives that a document they had referred to the Agency, an ONE
memorandum dated 29 June 1971, was being denied in its entirety.
This document was requested from the National Archives, under the
FO IA, by Kenneth Rodman.
c. Copies of all previously released records pertaining to the
various campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY) were
provided to Daniel Holder, editor of the SONY at Buffalo campus
newspaper ,The Spectrum.
d. A complete set of the JFK/Oswald release, comprising 3,747 pages of
material, was sent to Donald O'Kula of Long Beach, California.
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5. Analysis
Before certain types of final responses are signed and
mailed, they are sent by IPD to other Agency components, usually to
the DD but occasionally to other components as well, for final
concurrence. IPD has in the past controlled these final concurrence
packages through manual records. However, we have now modified the
automated logging system to accommodate such transactions. This
will enable us to keep a better accounting of the cases.out for
final concurrence and will also facilitate their inclusion in the
monthly backlog report. The switch from the manual recordkeeping
system to the automated log was dictated by the increasing number of
cases being returned to components for final concurrence--51 cases
were out as of 2 November 1981-and by the enC?th of time that it l
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