Word: cea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversy first arose when the AEC attempted to insert certain restrictions into the contract. The Commission originally wanted to control all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists, and to place strict limitations on visitors to the accelerator...
Despite the AEC's concessions, however, the final contract will still require the University to furnish the AEC with background information on all aliens doing research at the accelerator. Harvard will also have to notify the Commission whenever scientists from Soviet bloc nations plan visits to the CEA...
...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...
...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...
...work done at the CEA will be unclassified, but unhappily, the present CEA contract has many loopholes which could permit the Federal government to tighten its controls over the accelerator at some future time. Wiggins stresses that if the AEC should ever attempt to impose intolerable controls, Harvard will stop operating the accelerator. But by then electron research could be so dependent on Federal funds that it may be almost impossible to turn down the yearly operating grant from...