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9604 Providing for the Release of Scientific Information (Extension
and Amendment of Executive Order No. 9568)
Signed: August 25, 1945
Federal Register page and date: 10 FR 10960, August 28, 1945 Amends: EO 9568, June 8, 1945
Amended by: EO 9809, December 12, 1946; EO 9865, June 14, 1947 See: Transfer Order 40 of the Secretary of Defense dated July 22, 1949 (14 FR 4908)
| EXECUTIVE ORDER |
PROVIDING FOR THE RELEASE OF SCIENTIFIC
INFORMATION (EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT
OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9568)
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Con-
stitution and Statutes, as President of the United States
and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order
to provide for the release and dissemination of certain
scientific and industrial information heretofore or
hereafter obtained from the enemy by any department or
agency of this Government, to the end that such informa-
tion may be of maximum benefit to the public, it is
hereby ordered as follows:
1. It is the policy of the Government, subject to
the requirements of national military security, that there
shall be prompt, public, free and general dissemination
of enemy scientific and industrial information. The ex-
pression "enemy scientific and industrial information,"
as used herein, is defined to comprise all information
concerning scientific, industrial and technological pro-
cesses, inventions, methods, devices, improvements and
advances heretofore or hereafter obtained by any depart-
ment or agency of this Government in enemy countries re-
gardless of its origin, or in liberated areas, if such
information is of enemy origin or has been acquired or
appropriated by the enemy.
2. The scope of the authority vested in the Director
of War Mobilization and Reconversion as Chairman of the
Publication Board and in the Publication Board by Execu-
tive Order No. 9568 of June 8, 1945, is extended to include
enemy scientific and industrial information. The proce-
dures outlined in Executive Order No. 9568, insofar as
applicable, are extended to the declassification, release
and publication of enemy scientific and industrial
information.
3. Nothing in this order shall be construed to limit
or modify the power of the Secretary of War or the Secre- tary of the Navy to determine finally whether the national military security permits the release in whole or in part of enemy scientific or industrial information.
Harry S. Truman
THE WHITE HOUSE
August 25, 1945
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