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RAY CRDMLEY
It Was Pueblo Chiefs Duty
To Safeguard Secret Data
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NBA)
Stripped of emotion and side issues, let us look at what
We are dealing with in the capture of the Pueblo.
Certain code equipment and documents aboard the ship
were Top Secret.
Top Secret is, by regulation, applied only to information
or material which in the hands of an enemy could result in
“exceptionally grave damage to the nation.”
This reporter has been present when officers who carried
no Top Secret material except in their memories, were not
allowed in battle areas in Vietnam because they might be
captured and this material somehow extracted from them.
Crypto Top Secret material is considered even more sen
sitive. The breaking of the Japanese code before Midway
made it possible for the United States to win that battle
and turn the course of the war.
Compromised U.S. codes were, of course, altered after
the Pueblo was lost. But the damaged equipment and docu
ments captured presumably will enable the Russians and
North Koreans to duplicate some of the equipment, decode
previous messages and give them a better knowledge of
U.S. cryptographic techniques, making it easier for Mos
cow to break U.S. codes in the future.
A better knowledge of U.S. codes could result in more
Americans dying in South Vietnam.
At a crucial point in the future such enemy knowledge
of U.S. codes could, by disclosing crucial weak points in
U.S. defenses, encourage enemy aggression and lead to
many American deaths.
So, in talking of the Pueblo, we are not talking only of
the lives of Commander Bucher and his crew, important
as every one of those lives are. We are also talking of the
lives of many other men and women.
Security regulations in the Army, Navy and Air Force
put the responsibility for safeguarding classified informa
tion squarely in the hands of the officer on the spot Since
it is his responsibility, he makes the final decision.
The guarding of Top Secret information in the Pentagon
is not difficult. Under field conditions, as aboard a ship
sailing without escort in waters close to enemy or un
friendly territory, it becomes very difficult indeed. Under
such field conditions, this reporter knows that local com
manding officers (junior and senior) resort to some highly
unorthodox methods for making certain that Top Secret
and other classified material will not fall into enemy hands.
They “moonlight-requisition” explosives, weapons, chem
icals and other destructive devices. They train technicians
with little military experience in the firing of hand weap
ons. They develop emergency plans, run drills, attempt to
foresee every possible loophole in their plans.
It has been usual in the Army, Navy and Air Force in
World War 11, Korea and Vietnam, for higher authorities
to give over the responsibility for classified materials in
the field to junior officers and not provide adequate security
for the preservation of that material.
It is then up to the officer in the field to use his ingenuity
in advance of an emergency or refuse his mission under
these circumstances.
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By DONALD PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPI) — “You
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Words of gratitude came
Wednesday from an 82-year-old
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Thursday, Feb. 6, 1969 Griffin Daily News
Auburn Seeking
Court Reversal
By ROGER A. HAMMER
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)
— Auburn University officials,
fighting to keep Yale chaplain
William Sloan Coffin from
speaking on campus Friday,
sought a reversal today of a
federal court order to let the
Vietnam war critic speak.
Federal District Judge Frank
M. Johnson Jr., ordered Auburn
President Harry M. Philpott not
to Interfere with Coffin’s sched
uled appearance. In a ruling
Wednesday, Johnson said Au
burn used “censorship in Its
rawest form.”
Philpott said he would ask
for an immediate stay of John
son’s order from Johnson him
self, until the case could be ap
pealed to the sth U. S. Circuit
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self-appointed nut,” said of
Johnson’s order that the court
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