Soviet Espionage Effort Have Targeted U.S. Research Libraries and Staffs since 1962, FBI Charges in Report.

Turner, Judith Axler

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Publication Date: 1988

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Soviet Espionage Effort Have Targeted U.S. Research Libraries and Staffs since 1962, FBI Charges in Report.

Turner, Judith Axler

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n37 pA1,22 May 25 1988

Soviet intelligence agents have been collecting scientific and technical documents in research libraries to identify emerging technology before its components become classified or restricted. Librarians are also recruited as spies. However, asking librarians to identify suspicious library users would violate ethics and intellectual freedom. (MSE)

Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Information Sources, Intellectual Freedom, Librarians, National Security, Public Agencies, Research Libraries, Users (Information)

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