AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION FROM

FEDERAL EXECUTIVE AGENCIES

PART 4-Panel Discussion on Scientific and Technical Information

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

Berkner, Lloyd V., president, Associated Universities, Inc.
Bronk, Dr. Detlev W., National Academy of Sciences..

750

891

Finney, Nat S., Washington correspondent, The Buffalo Evening

News..

867

Henderson, Prof. Malcolm C., Catholic University.

863

Houston, Dr. William V., president, Rice Institute..

797

Hughes, Dr. Donald J., Brookhaven National Laboratory.

801

Hutchisson, Dr. Elmer, Case Institute of Technology..

761

Livingston, Dr. M. Stanley, professor of physics, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology-

727

Moss, Hon. John E., a Representative in Congress from the State of

California, and chairman, Government Information Subcommittee:

Opening statement..

725

Closing statement

920

Pfeiffer, John, president, National Association of Science Writers.

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-

Berkner, Lloyd V., president, Associated Universities, Inc.:

Excerpt from article in the New York Times, by Waldemar

Kaempffert, February 5, 1956...

755

Excerpt from statement written by Galileo over 300 years ago--
Supplementary statement.

756

756

Bronk, Dr. Detlev W., National Academy of Sciences:

Excerpt from directive sent by Benjamin Franklin, to the com-

manders of all armed ships acting under commission of the

Congress

Henderson, Prof. Malcolm C., Catholic University:

Excerpt from statement of Nordheim in the November Bulletin

of the atomic scientists__

883-885, 889

Summary of answers to subcommittee questions..
Hughes, Dr. Donald J., Brookhaven National Laboratory: State-
ment on the purpose of the atomic energy program__
Hutchisson, Dr. Elmer, Case Institute of Technology: Excerpt from
article in the New York Herald Tribune, by Margaret Higgins----
Livingston, Dr. M. Stanley, professor of physics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology:

846

766

Question 7 of the subcommittee's list of questions submitted to
leading scientists..

731

Statement from Massachusetts Institute of Technology re
request from the Atomic Energy Commission_.

729

Mitchell, John J., chief counsel, Special Subcommittee on Govern-

ment Information:

Article in the Washington Post March 9, 1956, entitled, "British

Statesmen Urge Tighter Risk Screening".

Correspondence between Hon. Daniel J. Flood and the Depart-

ment of State__.

Excerpt from National Science Foundation Act.

Excerpt from statement of Dr. M. Stanley Livingston..

Excerpt from statement of Lloyd V. Berkner___

Excerpt from subcommittee questionnaire..

913

782-783
747, 831, 891

736, 737
835

847, 888, 907

Letters, statements, etc.-Continued

Mitchell, John J., chief counsel, Special Subcommittee on Government Information-Continued

Page

Excerpt of letter from Robert B. Brode, professor of physics,
University of California_

781

Executive Order No. 10521, March 17, 1954..

745

List of agencies stating they had no suggestions for improving the
flow of information.

780

List of former science attachés, Department of State..
Order setting up the Office of Strategic Information in the Depart-
ment of Commerce.

790

844

784

"What's Happened to Science in State?" from Chemical and
Engineering News, volume 34, January 9, 1956___
Moss, Hon. John E., a Representative in Congress from the State of
California, and chairman, Government Information Subcommittee:
List of 10 questions sent to some of the Country's leading scientists_
Pfeiffer, John, president, National Association of Science Writers: Ex-
cerpt from statement of Prof. I. I. Rabi, of Columbia University__
Piel, Gerard, publisher, Scientific American:

Excerpt from statement of Henry D. Smyth......-

Reviews of Modern Physics, volume 12, No. 1, January 1940___
Teeple, David Shea, research consultant:

Excerpt from statement of Dr. Irving Langmuir in 1945__
Excerpt from McKinney report_

Excerpt from testimony of Dr. Harold C. Urey, before a Senate
committee._.

726

881

870

873

817

851

841