EVEN DOODLING IS CHECKED TO GUARD SECRETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670046-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: April 25, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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--- FEARSO~i -----
veal Doodling
i Is Checked to ~
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Guard Secrets
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Curlicues Drawn j
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11'y Officials Are
burned as Secur- ! '
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~;4* DREW. PEARSON ?
WASHINGTON.
doodles usually. are burned if
'they arc drawn during a secret
conference.
Washington's champion- doo-
dler, Secretary rof State John
Foster Aulles, draavs complex
1VChE SAM'S security sys- i ?
tom is now so strict that
even do?dllng by high offs-'
ffi:fis is ~teckeA to make sure'
?~fiheir subconscious scribbltng?.
,~ doesn't reveal any secrets. The
? geometric designs as he? thinks.
It isn't ~ihely these abstr8ct pat-
lei?ns would g[ve away any se-
? crets. But, on the chance ;+
psychologist might got a clue
to Dulles's secret thinking from A
{ them, -aids scrupulously gather ??~ '
j up his doodles and. stuff them
. Into a briefcase after each
t trieeNng. +
? Secretary of~efense Char'm'
' F.. Nilson also doodtec al his
-desk. He ntny )ot down a word .
or figure or curlIcue..; bnt his
staff doesn't bother fo pick It
up after him. Theq 'are con-
~?inccd his dciod]fng would only
? confuse enemy -agents. ~ '
i Sensitive agencies, such f :,
~ the Atomic energy Commission
,arid Central Iritclligence Agen-
cy, automatlCailp destroy all
'doodling or. scribbling that has .
anything to do with secret
work.
Atomic Energy ~ Chairman '
Lewis Strauss does not doodle;
'hut he scra~ylg notes ? on tiny
'white pads and stuffs them in ' '
his pockets. Ne ?~ven keeps. a ~
pad by his bedside. In case he
s!:ould get an idea In the Wild- ~
die of the night. '13ut he ah~?ays i
cn:pties his pockets in hls office k . .
:and is careful 'to destroy .notes ,
that' contain security -informs- ;
t ~.cin. ~.
Cehttal ~ rlntellige~tce Chief
Alton T)nlies scribbles notes- on;
,I sheets of long, lined ~?clloH?"
paper. Hls aecurlq?-minded staff '
lakes no chances and ~simpiy?
inc?incratfyf all his waste. paper.'
i The s2me ..is trm~ in other
seer^t e fives.around Washing- .
i tar. >;~~i doodling is often
flas?1`If'il /s ~``Pep? 4erref." .
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FR?__~~~i e ?
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/14 :CIA-RDP74-002978001100670046-0