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National security

CIA: Who Watches the Watchman?

by Warren Unna,

Today the answer is: “Nobody”. . . but Congress may find a way to keep an eye on our cloak-and-dagger operators without tearing a hole in their essential cloak of secrecy.

Needed

by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Rostow,

A rational security program

Spread of an infection

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

We accuse!

by Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop,

Colossus on the Potomac

by Paul Howard Douglas,

Causes and cures of big government

Science, secrecy, security

by Edward Uhler Condon,

Belgium and Holland–isolated?

by Elmer Holmes Davis,

Our confusion over national defense

by Charles Austin Beard,

Shall we listen to the pacifists or the admirals?

Our national guard

by Henry Martyn Boies,