• WAR DE!'-MENT REF . ID : A414 8 4 8 q_ MEMO ROIM!NG SLIP 

1 NAME, OR '11TLE 

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ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION DATE 

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CONCURRENCE 

FILE 

INFORMATION 

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ACTION 

NOTE AND RETURN 

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iT't. !- ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION TELEPHO 

WO AGO FORM 

1 JUN 1946 895 

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pproved for Release by NSA on 11-04-2014 

ursuant to E. 0. 13526 

PRINTING OFFICE 
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E:atraoia trcm the to11ow1ng dispoai t1on to:rm 1 

SIGLG-1 

Chief, Leg1alat1Ye and 

Lia11on Dl"fi•1on, SS,USA . 

Att.n• Col. 'l'ho-.1 1. Tappy 

:end.nation oti'\artime Statutea, Proe1 .... t1on1 and 

Executive Ordera 

Otf1c• ot the 11 Dec 4? 

Chier Signal' Ottioer Kintiaoh/71,SS 

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z. a. \11th roterenoe to Item• 476, 477 and •78 of Genete Doournent lo. •Z, 

it is reoC1111.ended that etep1 be taken to further ~•nd the Seorecy Aot ot l July 

194:0, to !Uke it permanent legielatlon. 

b. At pre19llt the Secrecy Act prOT1dea that tt will remain in tor'b• only 

during the tinle tlhen the United States ie at war~ It is the opinion Qt the Ohl•t 

S1gnt.l Ottioer that tbe 1ntereat ot the Utlited Statea requS.re1 eqgally during peace 

aa in war that whene•er the publication or d1aolq1"Ure ot au invention by the grant• 

ing ot • patent by the United Stat•• or by the tiling of an epplicati~e in a for•ign 

country 1n respeot to an inTention made iii the United State•, might be d.trtanta.1 

to the public aatety or detenae. the 1n•ent1on. 1hould be kept ••oret. The int._ 

liw rHaaroh and devolopaent procram in wblob the United States 1t now and will ~e 

1noreaaingly engaged tor ;yoar1 to OOD.e, would go tor naught 1r the truite ot tllat 

ettort oould be m•d• pUbl1a property With impunity merely b~oau.e the tJnit•d Stat•• 

may not be engaged in active hoatiliti•• at the t1mt. The criterion llhould ~ 

whether a d11oloaure mit;ht atteot national def'dllae and not whether the natl on 1• 

at war. The ooat or keeping euoh invention• ••oret wQuld be IQl&ll compared to ~he 

beaet1·t. to be dex-ived tro:n. withholding 1uoh information tram un!'riendly' goverment1. 

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(a!pe4) 

LOUIS M. HITCHCOCK.. M•j• Sig C 

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