R.&D. DATA CURBS HURT MORE THAN RUSSIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100010005-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 5, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEV YORK TIMES
5 FEBRUARY 1982
R.& D. Data Curbs Hurt More Than
TotheEditor. percent -had been- maintained over
In a speech totheAnnerican Associa. $100 billion more R.& D. would have
Lion for the Advancement of Science; been performed in that period.
A
tor of the Central dm. Bobby R. Inman, Deputy Direc.? . Think of what the 3100 billion could
asked for voluntary Age, have done to maintain vitality in the
tmeasures to pre. industrial, and educational system.
vent the loss of'sensitive rnilitarytech. Without it, we've experienced a r+ever-
nology to the Soviet Union Otherwise. ' sal in our balance of trade, from posi.
he said, the scientists will lace"legal tive to negative. Our engineering and
restraints" (news story Jan. 8)c science schools have suffered (only 5.8
'.: There seams no= question that the percent of our 1980 college graduates
,.Soviets havee.benefited from western were.engineer ,compared with 35 per.
technology, and particularly from U.S. cent in the U.S.S.R. -37 percent in West
technology because of our long tradl. Gerata ryand7l t Japan).
tion of open publication of unclassified
research and development.- However, - size of the .P~~f, and therefore
measures that prevent Soviet access to the ability of the nation to support des.
unclassified literature also: prevent perately needed social hundreds, of ? thousands -.ofi engineers, diminished because it hasPrograms n
't been ?o r-
scientists'.:and, undergaduate . and Lured by the new enterprises and the
graduate students in the-U.S.. in allied : newproducts that come from R.& D.
nations and in developing nations from.. ? Unfortunately, many Americans
vingaooess to that same;naterial.. : fail to realize that the country's wealth
It used to bq, that U.S. research and . was built on R.& D. Now It needs to
development was so far ahead of the. rebuilt Arty new policy of restricting
rest of the world that *e could only be the. flow. of unclassified , literature
pleased : when our technology was should bey thought through But for al- fully lest it hurt not only very cars.
propagated or the Soviets
most 13 years, R:& D. as a percentage but all of gross national pnodaet: has been society ' J ~ J. HARFtut
dropping--from 2.9 percent of G.N.P. ... ecutive fir' Amerfcan Instiitute
in 1907 to about 2 of Aeronautics
York. a rouauties
percent now- If the2.9 98'
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