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possible speed in a particular development, and speed was possible only by 

 making use of an individual against w^hom an intelligence service had dis- 

 covered something which it interpreted as barring him from the project. 

 In such cases OSRD would bring the using Service and the intelligence 

 service together to decide which should give way. Agreement was soon 

 reached in all such cases. 



The magnitude of Army and Navy operation and the extreme pressure 

 incident to war combined occasionally to produce upsetting incidents in 

 connection with security. Press releases at times emanated from the Services, 

 describing developments on which OSRD had been rigidly enforcing se- 

 curity precautions, and naturally disturbing the groups responsible for the 

 developments, who found it hard to reconcile OSRD's insistence upon 

 secrecy with the unexpected appearance of newspaper accounts telling most 

 if not all of the story. OSRD was never quite able to convince the scientists 

 that it was not insisting upon precautions which the Army and Navy 

 ignored, or to prevail upon the Services to prevent such incidents. 



Personnel Security 



All OSRD employees were investigated prior to the release to them of 

 classified information, and there was never any reason to question the 

 loyalty and discretion of any of them. During the rapid expansion of the 

 OSRD program weeks would elapse while security reports were being 

 awaited, before new employees could carry their full share of the load. 

 Only the willingness of the staff to carry work overloads for extended 

 periods prevented serious delays in the OSRD program during the interval 

 before security reports were received. New employees were indoctrinated 

 as a matter of routine; and there was a continuing program designed to 

 keep employees constandy aware of the need for security. 



As for contractors, the security provisions were embodied in Article 6 of 

 the standard OSRD contract form which is printed in the appendix. In sub- 

 stance that article required the contractor to (i) refrain from disclosing any 

 information concerning the contract or obtained as the result of his per- 

 formance under the contract to any person except employees assigned to 

 work under the contract, without the consent of the Contracting Officer; 

 (2) report to the Contracting Officer whenever there was active danger of 

 espionage or sabotage; (3) obtain the consent of the Contracting Officer 

 before permitting an alien to be employed on or have access to work under 

 the contract; (4) report to the Contracting Officer, on request, the citizen- 

 ship of his employees engaged in or having access to, work under the con- 

 tract, and (5) refrain from employing on, and to exclude from the site of, 

 work under the contract any person designated by the Contracting Officer 

 as undesirable to have access to such work. 



