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From: dar@telesoft.UUCP (David Reisner @shine)
Newsgroups: net.research
Subject: Re: Suppression of research presentation
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 04:42:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 30 04:42:25 1985
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In article <20100001@haddock.UUCP> bruce@haddock.UUCP writes:
>If anybody has heard of the DoD supressing a research paper when the author
>received no funding from the DoD please post this story to the net.

I have more data on the IEEE incident.

In "The Institute", Volume 9, Number 6, June 1985, there is a front page
story titled 'DOD uses new rules to control optics group'.  The first 'half'
of this articles follows:

	U.S. Department of Defense restrictions on the presentation of
	unclassified papers at an optics conference in April has
	raised concern among IEEE members that new DOD regulations
	will hamper IEEE technical activities.

	The last-minute restrictions were placed on the Society of
	Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Technical
	Symposium East '85, held April 8-12 in Arlington, Va.  It was
	the first time that the DOD used new powers it was granted
	under the Defense Authority Act, signed into law Nov. 6, 1984,
	to control a technical conference rather than internal DOD
	activities, according to a DOD spokesman.

	Under the DOD orders, 16 SPIE papers were deleted from the
	program and 23 papers could be presented only in closed
	sessions, according to R. Barry Johnson, chairman of the SPIE
	Symposia Planning Committee.  He said that attendees of closed
	sessions had to sign a certificate stating that they
	understand that public disclosure of the information is
	prohibited and its export may be prosecuted under
	export-control laws.

	Johnson said the two major closed sessions were on synthetic-
	aperture optical systems and adaptive optics, which are both
	related to space-based technology proposed for the Strategic
	Defense Initiative.


-David
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