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...University's interpretation of the project is, however, completely opposed to the AEC's. According to Wiggins, "the accelerator is considered by Harvard to be just another part of the Physics Department and should not be subject to any more governmental control than the rest of the Department...
...Since everyone agreed in 1956 that the project was to be unclassified," Wiggins says, "Harvard believed that the accelerator would be treated like any other University research project." Wiggins admits that Harvard "was perhaps naive in thinking that the question of AEC control of the project would never come up," but stresses that in 1956 "the AEC did not have the specific Congressional authority it has now to classify a project, in which it has substantial financial interest, as a government facility...
...most irritating of the AEC's original restrictions involved so-called "controls in the national interest" which would have given the AEC power to control all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists. The AEC proposal required that no technical information be released to Soviet bloc nations unless a Soviet scientist agreed in advance to release "equally valuable information to the United States." Nobody has yet figured out how to determine "equally valuable information...
...provision was kept virtually intact which required the University to make a 15-year check of the jobs and addresses of any alien it wants to employ at the accelerator and then submit the job application to the AEC for approval. In the final contract, the AEC will have ultimate authority to decide whether a Soviet bloc alien can be employed at the accelerator. This is the first time Harvard itself has not completely controlled all employment at the University...
...third major AEC restriction was on visitors to the CEA. The AEC was to have the power to stop any visit planned by accelerator officials, and the CEA was to be required to furnish a detailed report on the visit of every guest from a Soviet bloc country. All restrictions on casual visitors to the accelerator have been removed, but formal tours for scientists from Soviet bloc countries must have prior approval from the AEC...