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• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000200100017-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
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Fourthly, the article states, "On May 29, 1955, the Washington Star
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published an article entitled "What Price Security?" Killian is quoted as
saying: "Present security procedures may be among the most hazardous threats
to our loyalty defense!"
This probably refers to the statement made by Dr. Killian before a
Committee on Government Operations subcommittee which was studying the
organization and administration of the military research and development
programs. Dr. Killian appeared at the request of the subcommittee.
The twenty-fourth intermediate report of the Committee on Government
Operations dated August 4, 1951-refers to Dr. Killian's statement as follows:
"The subcommittee is pleased to be able to include the comments from
Dr. James Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
in his discussion of the great need for developing a better understanding and
rapport between th:v Government agencies involved and our civilian scientific
and engineering activities. Dr. Killian stated that this need should be
placed at the head of the list at the present time as being the most critical
single problem we have in the whole field of research and development:
" Dr. Killian. There has been, unhappily, a deterioration in recent months
in relationships between Government and science. The reasons for this
deterioration are much more fundamental than the more simple problem of the
relationship between members of the military services and scientists.
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Great progress was made for a period after the war in the development
of better and more effective relationships between military personnel and
civilian research personnel. The problem has now come to be one of various
trends, movements, and policies in this country having created a condition
where members of the scientific community are clearly discouraged and appre1 n 2
sive about the lack of understanding of scientific methods and in undue re u,r cL
to what sometimes seems to be a preoccupation with security procedures andJ
policies at the expense of scientific progress.
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I believe that the whole problem of security proce ures
and policies at the present time may be one of the things that
is most hazardous to our future research and development
activity in this country in relation to military problems.
(Note the above paragraph is probably the one that was
garbled to produce Mr. Lewis' statement. What the paragraph
says is quite different from Mr. Lewis' purported quotation.)
`I also feel very strongly that representatives of both
science and Government have a responsibility to find constructive
ways to minimize this widespread discouragement and to bting
about a reconstruction of sound relationships between Government
and the scientific community.
"II think this responsibility rests upon both groups and
that it is going to take the best judgment, the best good will
that we can manage to summon in order to resolve some of the
problems that we now face. This seems to me to be the crux
of the whole problem at the present time."
It is interesting to note that Dr. John von Neumann and
Dr. Vannevar Bush made recommendations to the subcommittee
which were similar in content to those made by Dr. Killian.
Whether or not the Washington Star quotation was based on the
above Congressional testimony, that testimony as quoted above
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does accurately express- views.
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