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5 November 1954 - REF ID: A6657t:. S/ASST DIR NSA e (Mr. Willi• F. Friedan) 

FEDERAL CURB purr ON TECHNICAL DA.TA OUGH: NSA-76 

FROM: NSA-763 

COl1111erce Secretary names Group to Keep Unclasaif'ied Items From Potential Foes 

Special to The Bew York. Times 

WASHING'l'ON, Nov. 4--The Commerce Departmen't acted today at the President's 

direction to keep strategic but unclassified material. out of the bands of 

potential enemies. 

The Secretary o:f' Co.nlDerce,, Sinclair Weeks, said au "Ottice of Strategic 

Intormation11 had been set up "to provide a central location within the Government 

which will vork with the business community" in voluntary efforts to keep 

technical data awa;y from. foreign nations. 

He designated R. Karl Ronaman of Glen Ridge, H. J., as director of the new 

office. Honaman is on loan to the Government :from the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City, where he ia director of publication. 

"In this cooperative effort at self-protection, 11 Weeks said todq, "we will. 

undertake to revitalize the vol.untary system of care:f'ull.y eval.uating the export 

of scientific, engineerirlg and other information of' a non-statistical. nature 

which, wbile unclassified, might none-the-J.eas be prejudicial. to our national. 

aecurity if it fell into un:frie~ hands." 

11Classi:fied11 material in Government parlance is 1nf'ornation stamped 

"top secret," "secret" or "confidential" for security reasons. CJ.assified 

information is closely guarded, of'f'icial.s explained, but there is a wealth of 

technical information that circulates :freely among manufacturers and others, 

and which the new ~ency wou1d scan. 

"Buch watchfulness would not take the f'orm. of censorship 1 " Mr. Weeks 

explained todq. 11 It would instead be a matter of exerciaing intelligence 

reasonable precaution to make certain that 1n the necessarily :free exchange 

of' scientific inf'ormation we do not provide nations whose interests are 

inimical. to our own with material Which they coul.d some ~ use against us. 

The key to the success of this program lies in the cooperation of all who 

devel.op and disseminate our nationa:L •know-how.•" 

The Secretary al.so named a committee of Conmerce Department offic1ala to 

work with the new unit. It comprises John C. Green,, acting director of the 

Office of Technical Services, aa chairman; Al.bert ~' Director of Public 

Inf'orma.tion; Col. ?fewman Smith, director of Office of' Security Control.; 

Marshall M. Smith,, Deputy Assistant Secretary of' CoJl'lllerce for International 

Mfairs, and George T. M:>ore,, acting director, Office of Administrative 

Operations. 

The Nev York Times, City Edition, 5 November 1954, Page 40, Column 3 

(Washington, 4 November 1954)