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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000200080029-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: February 12, 1962
• Content Type: MISC

UNITED PRESS
INTER NAT IONAL
UPI-94
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FEBRUARY 12, 1962
WASHINGTON- -SEN. INWARD W. CANNON COPLAINED TODAY THAT MILITARY
INFORMATION, GIVEN TO SENATORS UNDER lUSR-HIb H SECEECY CONDIT IONS,
IS BEING SOLD FOR A DOLLAR BY THE GOVERNMENT PR INT ING OFFICE.
THE NAVADA DEMOCRAT IS A MEMBER OF TEL SENATE AWED SERV ICES
COMMITTEE, IOC AIRED HIS COMPLAINT IN A SNORT SENATE SPEECH.
"I HOPE TINT IN THE FUTURE OUR KRIM WILL BE UNABLE TO PURChASE
FOR THE SUM OF $1, OR AT ANY PRICE, INF OR MITI ON SUCH AS THAT CONTAINED
IN THE BUDGET AND NUMINOUS 1THEE PUBLICATIONS," CANNON SAID.
CITING SANPLES OF DATA GIVEN IN CLOSED-DOOR BRIEFINGS AND INCLUDED
IN TE SAADI-SIZE $1 BUDGET SUAMARY, CANNON SAID THE! ARS "NOT 7?
MICESSASILY SECURITY BREACHES" OR EVEN PUBLIS D THESE PUBLICLY FOP.
THE ran TINE. rr TME INFORMATIoN IS PROPER, HOWEVER, THEN WE
MOAB NOT INDULGE IN THE FAKERY or UISCLOSING IT TO SENATORS BEHINu
LOCKED DOORS," WE SAID.
MUCH OF TEE CLASSIFIED INTONATION, CANNON SUN "WAS C NSIDEEED
SO SECRET THAT NOT EVEN STAFF REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
WERE PREMITTED TO HEAR OFFICIALS OF THE DEFENSE DEPAITMENT.*
HE NOTED, HOWEVER, THAT PAGE 62 or THE NEW HANDBOOK-STYLE
BUDGET DOCUMENT, AS *SFR INTIM EY TIE HOUSE, INCLUDES A DETA ILED
THREE-YEAR CHART 014 THE NUMBEE OF IL !TART PERSONNEL IN EACH BRANCH OF
THE SERVICE, THE INVENTORY OF TR IR HARDWARE, TIE NUMBER OF ACTIVE
AIRCRAFT AND AIR WINGS AND SIMILAR INFORMATION."
REGARDLESS OF ITS CuSstrIcrilioN, CANNON SAID, SUCH DATA IS "A
VALUABLE AID '10 OIR ENE KISS" IN HIS DEFENSE PLANNING AND IS AVAILABLE
TO AN ENEMY FOR A DOLLAR,
"THIS IS A CRAP PR ICE INDEED TO PAY FOR INFORM? ION THE
COUNTERPART OF WHICH OUR OWN INTIM MACE AGE NC MIS SPEND COUNTLESS
DOLLARS AND ENGAGE IN GPEAT RISKS TO OBTAIN," VIE SENATOR SAID.
AS arm EXAM' ES OF SUCH BIIDOET IIIF ORNAT ION GIVEN BEHIND CLOSED
DOORS BUT NOT IN UELASS 17 1ED VERSIONS OF ARMED SERV ICES COMMITTEE
TESTIMONY, CANNON CITED DATA ON mama PURCHASES OF PLANES, TRUCKS
AND HELICOPTERS AND ON AIR-BORNE AND GROUND BORERS ALERTS.
IN ONE INSTANCE, CANNON SAID, T IIE AR r/ CLASSIFIED CEUTA IN )ATA IN
ITS PRESENTATION WHICH BUD ALREADY BEEN PUBLICLY RELEASED BY TM
DEPARTMENT Cff DEFENSE. BOTH PE PORTS HAD BEEN PIREPARED FOR THE SAME
COMMITTEE IN TIE SANE WEEK OF HEAR INDS, CANNON SAID.
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COMPLAINING OF "CONFUSION" OUR CLASSIFICATION CANNON DECLARED
THAT THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SHOULD GIVE "THE HIGHEST PRIORITY" TO A
FULL SCALD TOP?LEVEL REVIEW OF SECURITY POLICY WHICH WOULD RESULT IN
"MAKING THE WORE OF FOREIGN AGENTS MORE DIFFICULT RATHER THAN
EASIER."
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