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When Samuel Loring Morison, a ship analyst at the U.S. Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., noticed three photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier lying on a colleague's desk, he thought they might be of interest to Jane's Defense Weekly, a British magazine. Morison, a part-time editor of a sister publication, filched the photos, which had been taken by an American KH-11 satellite, clipped the "Secret" markings off the corners and mailed the pictures to London...
Such disclosures are often called leaks, but to a Government plagued by spy scandals, Morison's action was a crime. The Reagan Administration used the Espionage Act of 1917 to charge its employee with spying. Although the Soviet Union had already obtained a stolen manual for the KH-11 satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison...
...case was the first in which the U.S. Government successfully used espionage statutes to convict an individual for providing classified information to the press rather than to a foreign power. "This will have a chilling effect on public discussion of important military matters," said Tony Rood, a member of Morison's defense team. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow disagreed. But he said he does hope the verdict will cut off leaks at their source: Government employees...
Finley said that Kirkland, who served as president from 1810-28, commissioned architect Charles Bulfinch to build University Hall in the Federalist, neoclassical style. According to "Three Centuries of Harvard," a college history book by Samuel Eliot Morison, Kirkland called the Yard an "unkempt sheep commons," and completed other improvement projects including the construction of Holworthy Hall...
...from Revolutionary times, Commencement has also been a forum for serious debate, epitomized first by the "Thesis and Question" and more recently by the featured speech. As Samuel Eliot Morison shows in his Three Centuries of Harvard, speakers invariably chose to exploit their moment in Harvard's unique spotlight by addressing one of the burning issues...