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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100700001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized [-'A rav '6ai-.Re1-en vadi-ItA41F l7e5pQO 4980
rc?~, 11c?. Per" -electronic "snooping" de'1ses.
Some of these can bring in a
WTL1.>r1UOllr N.J. conversation from another
LEADER room and others listen in oti
I ' what is being said in a house .
a block or more away.
,WEEKLY-7,692
APR 7 1966
THE LATE George Orwell,
in his novel. "1884, gave that
'f eye of "Big Brother" 'would
SENATOR Clifford Case re-
cently warned against the in-:
creasing danger to, privacy. of
electronic snooping devices...
Speaking before the Essex"
County Young Republicans, the,
Senator said:
"fh no single, respect is .g"
f
free society'more sharply dis
tinguished from .'a 'totalitarian
-state than in the value 'it puts
on privacy 'a'nd' the 'inviolabil-
ity of privato,,'.communieation5
between ~'c f.izens ". '
of our lives, personal and
p otherwise.' Well,. .'for- large
41 of
o
numbers
f citizens the:
Ere vice outside a hearing room
has arrived 18 years ahead of of the Senate Foreign Rela
his predictiQn. ? It, Is `already
being used .`by. , the f;'oder ti Wil-
liam, tions Raborn, Committee. CIA he Adm. ad, was
..Government, I. n d u s tr y and briefing members at the time.
probably more' otfice. groups
and individuals thaia?.',we can
nanc a an . of er persona vices. No one has a. motal.1
1
habits were delved .iflto by right to tear away the privacy".
General' Motors because he' of another.
1frnnfn 4h. ' hnn1t l"Tdnanfn
dustry, by private .investiga- not only office and business,~
but 'the home-even the ,4bed-,I
tors.. There is, -, for'. ? bxam.pie, room-as well can be* in'vaded;.
the case of Ralph Nader, The so easily
easily. There is nothin re-
younglawyer whose 'sex, . fi= g
motely funny about such de-~
i 1 d h 1
uggmg.
.room
s bung they can be purchased by any.';
used, although' they probably one who has the price. And.;
'.lead the "Big Brother", paradE they are not too costly.
Wire ? tapping .is :very uch in
the news today,:particularly-in FRIGHTENING it should be
. Pennsylvania. But snooping ,is to anyone with an iota of In, 1,
also: being done , theold fash-' telligence'that the privacy of
toned way especially in ?in-
1 .-.MORE . DEVICES'1hn wire' ` . rity and responsibility on the?
'taping and, the
4 ?`conventiotial part of their manufacturers;;
~
rl.
r
about the devices is that,
thanks to the lack'" of integ-
:imagine:. '. THE FRIGHTENING thing'
pharmaceutical manufacturers
who turned undercover: police
b
methods against the C
nheeti-
cut drug wholesaler who whs
selling' their products; at low-
R man' in ,the ,whdlesaler's es-
tablishment .
CIt>;A'I'ING greatet' phudders
ing an
;row and spread ibit.o a Frank.,
nstein so horrible :It- could,
.vent.ually. :destroy us. or turn;
a into a to'alita'rion, nation,
o phase of lice-business,'in=
ustry, government 'on` .Any;
evel, organiyat.ion, associa;
ion, or?porson~l---eanbe car
led on safmly, :properly or. ef?'
ectively without varied de
roes of privacy. ; Snooping. U
n evil that can never be; corn-'
letcly: eliminated,; but. must'
e fought and rontrblled "on
11 government levels. ;There'
ust''he , Qc.al, 'Si ate arid: " ca';
rlal'lhws against. All ;liivaaloha'
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