Memorandum from Edward U. Condon to President Harry S. Truman with Related Material
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
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WASHINGTON 25
National Bureau of Standards 252-M
Address Reply to
In Your Reply
August 6, 1951
Refer to File
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
The President, White House
FROM:
E. U. Condon, Director, National Bureau of Standards x3-M
SUBJECT:
Loyalty and Security Procedures
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Actual operation of loyalty and security programs within the
government, in the atmosphere of suspicion and hate engendered by
some members of Congress, is producing bad results:
(1) Nervous strain, legal expense and virtual blacklisting of
individuals on trivial and silly charges which ought never to be
given serious consideration.
(2) Especially in science, the bad name which the Government
is getting as an employer, is intensifying the problem of recruiting
men to work on urgent problems. We have a critical shortage of
scientists anyway which is made worse by these abuses.
(3) The Administration is harming itself politically by admitting
by its official actions that these individuals deserved removal.
Regrettably some actions taken may have been necessary, but many have
not been necessary by any reasonable standards, and yet each such
removal can also be attacked as an instance of earlier carelessness
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