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> The IEEE has also had papers removed from conferences by the DoD.  In these
> cases it was because some or all of the funding for the research was from
> the DoD, and the authors of the papers hadnot gone through the proper channels
> to get there paper cleared.  I believe that this is also the case in the 
> other examples.
> 
> If anybody has heard of the DoD supressing a research paper when the author
> received no funding from the DoD please post this story to the net.

The April 15 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology reports that one
of the papers which the Pentagon would not allow to be presented at the
recent meeting of the International Society for Optical Engineering was
written by two Canadians at a Canadian observatory.

Maybe they were getting DOD funding but somehow I doubt it.

The reason the Pentagon gives for preventing papers from being presented
is that reading a paper at a conference attended by non-Americans amounts 
to the export of the information in the paper.  The same laws which require
an export license for a fighter or a Cray are being applied to research papers.

Fred Wamsley 
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