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From: BMCSAR@paterson.christie-hospital.manchester.ac.uk (Steve Roberts)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Restriction of access to sequence data by US Government?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 10:57:00 GMT
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  I have just received a letter from GCG claiming the the US Government is
about to impose restrictions on the shipment of biological data overseas.
I am asked to sign a letter saying that "neither the technical data nor the
direct products thereof is intended to be shipped, either directly or
indirectly..." to a long list of countries. We have collaborations with, and
occasional visitors from, some of these countries (China, Poland, Hungary).

  This sounds serious, does anyone know more? Are GCG over-reacting? Or is the
date of the letter (April 1 1990) significant :-)

Steve.

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