U.S. SECRET PAPERS OPEN TO MANY OUTSIDERS
(11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dee. 20. Secret diplomatic documents which a former State Department officer, Alger Hiss, is accused of handing to the Communist spy ring, were accessible to dozens of persons both inside and outside the Government. The United Press says this was revealed yesterday by Government officials who handle highly confidential papers. They said that “secrets” such as those contained in the now famous “pumpkin” papers were, on occasion, made available to non-Government persons, including authors, historians, research workers and former officials writing their memoirs. Officials, including those on the lower levels, have been known to leave the Government service with copies of abstracts of secret. information and use them in qualifying for advanced academic degrees, writing on international economic or political problems or for both purposes There have been cases of persons who took copious notes from secret docu ments simply because they kept a diary.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22825, 21 December 1948, Page 7
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155U.S. SECRET PAPERS OPEN TO MANY OUTSIDERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22825, 21 December 1948, Page 7
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