FOREIGN AFFAIRS A PROBLEM FIRST POSED BY PERICLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2014
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 13, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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Mr. Samuel W. Crosby
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representativea
WeAh .aton 251 n. c.
FROM: John S. Warner
Legislative Counsel
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Forwarded herewith are seven copies of
C. L. Sulzberger's article in the Nay York Times
13 May 19610 which Mr. Dulles promised to make
available to tie COmmittee.
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A. Problem. Firq. Posed-
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C. L. ?;131,7,1'.1',i-ZGIllt
LS,Ata:?.; 12.---.Events hav
()IWO 111 fOit:t,1 to rC.00t1Si!h?1'
all t!I.rf tl.rms of ulti-
mat 'rVi vaI, 0:- ,at we so proudly
call ollr Or11 :..00IOty. The aclvan-
L,:r.; of nfl hr)(.ioty to the poi..
fortutiat.? ( lough to inhabit it,
are incompa ra,bly great when coin:
pared to a closed society like that
oe the Soviet. Union. It is riceclha...!.
to disews these advantages WhiCh
are the very c.ince of our political
theory. The question posed, how-
ever, is: At what point does an Open
We have never a ttempted anything
similar. to London's Official Secrets
Act, which s..?ems over-restrictive.
Nor does the informal British sys-
tem whereunder editors are enjoinedl
from printing ccrti..1.M things seem'
?;ilways conduidve to public Interest.
Whether in the ridieuleus ban on
information concernin;-; .Eing
ward VIII's trans-Allantie romance
' or in the recent George Blake spy
cio!e can be. adduced that
fc.cnor;hip favored Britain's
? interests.
? Nevertheless, if the English go
too far, one ls forced to.wonder if
we go far enough. The President's
concern is valid. If he did not point
out a precise way of rectifying., oh-
ViOUS weaknesses, neither do those
who dispute him. Our sy:tein de-
pends on an infoymed public opinion;
but it is not necessary for this opin-
ion to know the innerme.-1 secrets
on which our security relies. Surely
society become a naked society ? , national commission should study
And the deba t,c on this point is still the subject and make recommenda-
imprecise. *Jur, a commission representing
We protect ourselves against 1111S- '00)) GOVeillrilent Vntl and deal-
id liberties by laws forbiddin.',,. with aspects of a, cold war, not
libel, slander or other forms of vilifi-.' q one.
cation; i;nirs neyerthez.s (10 net in- .NO doubt our so called world image
limit freedom of our pre;,,, perci.'.1)o:re-Sil A immensely from the pub-
We recognize that, in).u ake. of 1,licHe,1 rocketing of Commander
decency, a .7,ociety, like the in-11';Slieprcl. The Government Look a
dividuals who compl ise it, requires .great risk In permitting this; but the
some dcg*ree of vestment. The paid off handsomely. One
ment comes when we argue what IHT.nders, ne-,?ertheless, if it. is simi-
vestment .is needed in security's iariy advisalle to test so many Cape
name. Is it entirely safe, in cold H Cana.vcr,--il missile launchings in
war, for democracy to wear only a.' everybody's full view.
bikini? The issues involved are both acute
This, in essence, is the cluesti?,d old: the effort to practice free-
raised by President Kennedy and :ilorn and yet survive a deadly con-
which has become a topic of sharp?i.tet. It was first and best set out
dispute. The President points out j1-)Y Pericles some twenty-five cen-
obvious advantages of cload socie-Lutie ago- He said:
ties that conduct cold war with "war- "Ours is a fre state both in pol-
time discipline no democracy would itics and daily life. . . . We are
ever hope?or wish--to match." superior to our enennes, too, in our
By contrast, he repeats that the 1;n-cilarations for war. Our city is
clan -Ts of CXCenSiVC and uni.varrant- i open to the world. We are not al-
ed ceaccalment of pertinent facts far ways expelling foreigners for fear
outweigh the clangors which are cited of their learning or seeing sonic-
to justify it; that there is little thing of military importance. . . .
value iu insuring the survival cr.. We live freely, and yet we face the
our nation if our traditions do not sun c: dangers quite as rea.dily
survive with it. Yet he mentions the they. . . . Those men surely should
evident fact that,. American news- h deeme.4 bravest who know most
papers unintentionally provide OW' tleHrlY Witt danger is and what
adversaries with valuable inform,- PleAFAil.e is and are not made thereb:,,
tion. to flinch." ?
This observation has ben greeted These noble Nvords state the prob-
with hostility. It has been pointed lem we face today. But in consider-
out that our press performs a valid 111'', the messages of both Pericles
watchdog role, and that the Govern-
ment itself errs in leaking wrong
information. All this is true but, in
my opinion, the broad problem pre-
sented by Mr. Kennedy merits pro-
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found consideration. , still cherish many a thorn Pt lice
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and Kennedy, let us remember some-
thing else. The "free state" of lvhich
the Athenian leader boasted lost its
war with regimented Sparta. Its
traditions, indeed survived and we