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Re: Secrecy: The American Experience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Mon Oct 12 12:38:28 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:10:16 -0500
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810082138.RAA05213@jekyll.piermont.com>
Perry mentioned:
>"Secrecy: The American Experience" by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
>
>First chapter and review at:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/moynihan-secrecy.html
Moynihan also was chair of a Senate commission looking into secrecy and
classification. Their report is a terrific read (as such things go). It's
S.Doc 105-2, "Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing
Government Secrecy," 1997, pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress,
allegly on line at http://www.access.gpo.gov/int
I'm particularly fond of Appendix A, "Secrecy: A Brief Account of the
American Experience." I assume this is the basis of the book, though I
haven't really read the above noted nytimes article.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com
