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Appendix C: A Study of the Responses of Industry to a Letter of Inquiry from the NAS Panel on Scientific Communication and National Security
Pages 110-116

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From page 110...
... The wealth of material made our task difficult, but insures a significant contribution to the Panel's considerations. The charge by the National Academy of Sciences to the Panel is relatively straightforward and narrow: What is the effect on national security of Technology transfer to adversary nations by means of open scientific communications, either through scientific literature or by person-to-person communications .
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From page 111...
... This is seen to be very difficult, as only one of the respondents attempted a numerical estimate to support his point {6~. It is probably safe to say that the written responses reflect the individual's gestalt image of the relationship between scientific communications and national security that he had built over time as the result of his own experience, both within and outside his company.
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From page 112...
... MI SCELLANEOUS VIEWS OF THE RESPONDENTS A number of important points were mentioned by only one or a few respondents; these probably are a consensus, but we could not be sure. Two respondents mentioned that the United States no longer has overwhelming technological superiority nor a monopoly on technical information (2,3~.
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From page 113...
... Two respondents felt that foreign policy (economic warfare) and national security needs should not be mixed in framing restrictive controls (9,12~.
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From page 114...
... " m e possibility that a decrease in restrictions would have positive results is as a priori valid as the suggestion that an increase of restrictions is advantageous. m is has to do with the complexities of enforcing restrictions, the ease of the Soviets' gaining information, the difficulty with which the United States gains information about the Soviet progress, East-West transfer, slowdown in innovative and competitive positions of U.S.
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From page 115...
... Free Market Tradition Several of the respondents implicitly suggested that the government should rationally select those specific critical technologies for which restrictions would apply. Although not stated explicitly, this is tantamount to affirming the Western free market tradition of "freedom of action unless it is expressly forbidden," rather than the "action only if it is expressly permitted" view of the central planned countries of the Eastern bloc.
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From page 116...
... Adams, Senior Vice President, Martin Marietta Corporation.
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