http://www.dga.org/Events/2011/04-april-2011/George-Lucas-on-Star-Wars.aspx

The Nolan/GL interview covers this briefly: begins ~49:50

GL : "It wasn't as bad as I thought it was" (talking about the 77 special effects, now looking back on the SE work)

GL : "We discovered there was no print. We did a three strip in order to preserve it. They had... Fox had never bothered to strike a print of it, fifty thousand dollars, so they never looked at it. I went to retrieve it from the salt mines, the cyan was completely out of sync with everything else. There was nothing you could do about it, it was worthless. I had to go to Poland Czechoslovakia. Putting things together."

GL : "We needed to get a good print. There was no good print of this movie anywhere. So to preserve the film for the possibility of a reissue. We started working on it." (drifts into Jabba talk)

In some of the article already posted, there's a frame which looks very cyan, do you think that pic could be from this faulty cyan strip, which is 'out of sync'?

What's the Poland, Czech thing about? Are they another good preservation type location? (maybe these two places might have someone who might know of a SW copy over there. http://www.nfa.cz/en/ & http://www.nac.gov.pl/en/films)

Don't know about your article, but having these statements in sequential order might be something to consider. Seeing how the story evolves with time may inform/influence people's opinion of this process.