Word: cea
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...Atomic Energy Commission originally insisted on controlling all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists and wanted to place strict limitations on visitors to the accelerator. The Commission also demanded a long background information check on any alien employed by the CEA...
...Long, hard negotiations have just about produced a contract that we can live with," Wiggins said, "but the academic freedom of Faculty members involved with the CEA will be impaired somewhat...
Wiggins said that the University never expected to be threatened with government control when it started to build the CEA, "because all the work done there is unclassified." The original contract for construction of the accelerator specifically limited Federal control over the CEA, but at the time, several University officials expressed a fear of undue government pressure on Harvard...
...University's insistence the requirement was deleted, but substituted for it was a clause that reads: "Requests from foreign nations may be filled, but, when appropriate, information will be requested in return." Wiggins admitted that the ambiguity of the phrase could still hinder exchanges of information between the CEA and foreign governments...
...original contract also required that before the CEA employ any alien it make a detailed check of his jobs and addresses for the preceding 15 years. Limitations on visitors were very strict, and CEA officials were to be required to furnish a detailed report on the visit of every guest from a Soviet bloc country...