UNITED STATES
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
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hoy tg 1954
The Tresicent
The White ilouse
Dear lir. President:
In accordance with your request at the larch 11 meetine of the lational
Security Council, te have considered what major revisions in the “tomic
Inerry Act anpear to be apnropriate -t this time.
The attached statement
briefly summarizes the proposed revisions.
Ye feel that the possibility of general security lepislation of uniform
applicability to all arencies and all national secrets should be seriously
considered in the over-all re-examination of the nation's security lavs
which has been initiated as a result of your correspondence of last July
with the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic “nercry.
If such
reneral lerisletion were achieved, the problems necessitatins our pronosels for lerislation modifying the informetion control provisions of
the Atomic Enerev Act micht be sotisfactorily resolved.
The pronposols summsrized in the attached statement, alone with aporoprirte draft levislation, are beins transmitted to the ureay of the
‘odeet, tocethor with other more minor proposels for Llecisl-tion,
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the Courission's lecisl:stive nrocran for 195i, in accordence “iti the
usurl prcctice.
Cor stcf? is nov congiderine whether emendment of the “tonite Tnerrey
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is necessary in connection wth the thermonnclesr nrocran.
It is
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on Lis subject in the neor “vbure,
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