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...admirable effort to reverse the Reagan Administration's tight controls on the free exchange of information, Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck and Director of Policy Analysis Muriel Morisey Spence '69 last week issued a 32-page report urging President Bush to undertake a "Presidential Initiative on Information Policy" that would overhaul current federal information policies...
...years by the Reagan Administration's tight policy on information controls. Over the past eight years, in the name of national security, the Reagan Administration expanded controls on the publication of scientific research, attempted to impose prepublication reviews of research results, broadened the classification of information, and restricted the free exchange of knowledge with foreign scholars...
...academic freedom, they have also hindered national security. Broad controls on scientific and technological information have proven extremely damaging to the American economy as well. Japan has overtaken us in the race to develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year...
...agree with the majority's endorsement of the Shattuck plan, but disagree with the premise that it would enhance national security by expediting technological developments. The Reagan Administration's fear that free exchange of information might threaten national security is not unfounded. Many weapons in the Soviet arsenal include technology stolen from the United States. Even if loosening restrictions on the exchange of information does not damage national security, it certainly would not enhance...
...real problem with the Reagan administration's obsession with secrecy is the infringement on civil liberties. Prior censorship, life-long restictions on the free expression of government employees, and spying on library patrons are unconscionable violations of constitutional rights, and are inexcusable on any grounds--even national security concerns...