A LID ON SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002700130006-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 13, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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13 January 1982
HE RUSSIANS are get- - scientists. don't agree to this, he mation is printed? Would it ;vane i
formation from the., outrage and of laws. restricting - A.
use. in their military buildu Apart from his bla ?`-Yu,6 JC.ieiil.uic snowieoge se-
say-s-Adm. Bobby R. man. The tem t to tant at- cret for very.-long is virtually
throw fea " to' th
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lmoosslble. No country has a
de ut director of the CIA thinks
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re-
a key means of stopping is miral's approach is wrong on a'
b sources. It frequently. happens
for sclentists:to..:let.U.S. intelli-`7"couple'of counts. For one thing, that scientists. in different county
Bence-agents examine' their pa.';--4 41, t ti is
in
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p les a sclera s .are t?1e,.who don't'.even know of
pens- beforsi'thei*?re?` ublished
P - - somehow responsible.- for. what -.,.each other's a stence'arrive at
They should' do? this .voluntarily ` he calls a "h h f th
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morr ase o e similar findings -near the same
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coun
ry. technology. They re
.time.
~. It..can.-'make--sense not to
Inman dehvererl- xently " to a
panel~sessiorr at the ntly tural< The Soviets get technalo -broadcast iriforrnation-on espe-
- frorrl the- West. mainl
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sensitive matters with a
meeting=of--the-American Assn= Y P cla Y.
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i_ lug our technical publications. In like the-?H-bomb'
-?Science'-He'*'saicl,collgressional=;" formula: but
OSt irisf2ttt c fhprQ'cnr-,vavfn ' o::o., a~~, ,a ---_- - -
predict-`or.control use. 'A. com=-:' as this--cannot bee indefinitely.
will demonstrate that'as the So-.
vices, haye'expapded .their?inili- -y Pu r gnu --its programs. can be bottled up. The kind-of lid Adm.:'
Lary; -. "the bulk- of' new= :employed in many ways, in both Inman wants to clamp on scien9
:n1111tary and civilian-sectors. tifle information could never
technology which they have em ' -,m, b th U "t d S
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shoo- be. stamped secrete If: -tloils 1n'_:whlch technical- .lnfor% better
than he thinksink-
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Lists' work. to..see. W any, of -it:- all of - thhe hundreds of publica-_: public understands Lhis situatio ?
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PaA-of his remedy would be seems- :doub ul `- but - could a -hirli- to threaten scientists with a
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