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Zeal on secrecy could backfire

Admiral Bobby Imman of the CIA knows the danger that his crusade to alert US researchers to Soviet espionage could make academics abreact. But what else is the Administration looking for?

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Zeal on secrecy could backfire. Nature 296, 693–694 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/296693a0

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