TELLING TOO MUCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100090048-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: March 16, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON I. D. C.
BRISTOL , (Conn.) PRESS
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"TELLIN.G TOO MUCH
I CPYRGHT
We well realize the importance
of freedom of speech and of the;
press but when such freedoms:
are'being abused to the point
where a potential enemy.nation
is being helped. it is high time,
that we. became a' little more dis-
creet. As it is now, we are hurt=
lug our own. cause because of our
zeal to keep all of our people ins
formed of every move our scien-
tists' and military leaders are;
making.
Let's keep on, building planes
and devising the latest in mod
ern weapons but let's do it a lit-i
tle more quietly. If the variousi
news media must publish learned
articles on scientific subjects, let
them confine themselves to . that,
sort of material which can be of.
no military or diplomatic bone-.
Allen W. Dulles, Director o
this country's Central Intelli-
gence Agency, declared Monday
that the United States is "telling
Russia too much".. about secret
weapons, strategy and scientific
progress, adding that he would
give a great deal if he could
learn as much about the Soviet
Union as that country can learn
about us by merely reading the
newspapers.
As the nation's top intelligence
authority, Mr. Dulles, brother of
the Secretary of.State, ought to
'
s talking about.
know what he
Like many of us, he is probably
fed up with the blatant way
some of our citizens insist on
accomplish. It seems that we Iron Curtain. As TheodoreRoose-
cannot design a new plane or ii velt said, we should "walk softly"
contrive a new bomb withou
having to put on a show to dem
onstrate it to the public. Queerly
enough, a few minutes after the
story concerning Dulles' dissat
isfaction with our disregard fo
now the emphasis should be on
the "softly." .
secrecy came over the Associate
Press wire another. story cam
in disclosing that the Navy woul
soon unveil a new plane. Tha
sounded like an invitation t
Pussia to send a few spies to th
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