What's New for Dec 21, 2001

[Eric Dunbar]

> 2. SECRECY: APS POSITION ON FREEDOM OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION.
> In 1986 WN carried the first report of what the FBI called "the
> library awareness program."  FBI agents, who resembled Elliot
> Ness less than Inspector Clouseau, asked a University of Maryland
> librarian for circulation records of "persons with East European
> or Russian sounding names" (WN 5 Sep 86).  The librarian refused.
> The APS council had already affirmed its support for "the
> unfettered communication of scientific ideas and knowledge that
> are not classified" http://www.aps.org/statements/83.2html .

Just a fix on the URL:

<http://www.aps.org/statements/83.2.html>