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Kenyon + +Release Date: July 28, 2008 [EBook #26140] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECURITY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Alexander Bauer and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + [Illustration] + + SECURITY + + _If you let a man learn, and study, and work--and clamp + a lid on so that nothing he takes into his mind can be + let out--one way or another he'll blow a safety valve!_ + + BY ERNEST M. KENYON + + Illustrated by Freas + + +Suddenly Collins snapped the pencil between his fingers and hurled the +pieces across the lab, where they clattered, rolled from the bench to +the floor, and were still. For a moment he sat leaning against the desk, +his hands trembling. He wasn't sure just when the last straw had been +added, but he was sure that he had had enough. The restrictions, red +tape, security measures of these government laboratories seemed to +close in on his mind in boiling, chaotic waves of frustration. What +was the good of his work, all this great installation, all the gleaming +expensive equipment in the lab around him? He was alone. None of them +seemed to share his problem, the unctuous, always correct Gordon, the +easy-mannered, unbearable Mason, all of them gave him a feeling of +actual physical sickness. + +Gardner's "Nucleonics and Nuclear Problems" lay open on the desk before +him, but he looked instead beyond through the clear curving glass windows +toward the sweep of green hills and darkening sky and the shadows of the +lower forests that gave Fair Oaks its name. Beside him unfinished lay the +summaries of the day's experiments, and the unorganized, hurriedly jotted +notes for tomorrow's work. The old intellectual alertness was gone. +Delight in changing theory, in careful experimentation no longer sprang +from his work and were a part of it. There was a dull, indefinable aching +in his head and a dry, dissatisfied sensation in his mouth. + +Along the ordered walks below his laboratory windows workers and +technicians streamed toward the gates, checking out for the day through +the usual mass of red tape, passes, and Geiger tests. Lights were +flicking on in the long East Wing Dormitory across the quadrangle, and +the mess hall, where he had recently eaten a tasteless supper, was +lighted. + +Shortly after restrictions had really begun to tighten up last fall, +he had written to a worker who had published making a minor correction +in his calculations and adding some suggestions arising from his own +research. A week later his letter was returned completely censored, +stamped "Security-Violation." It was that evasive Gordon's fault. He +knew it, but he couldn't prove it. Collins suspected that the man was +not a top-notch researcher and so was in administration. Perhaps Gordon +was jealous of his own work. + +Even the Journals were drying up. Endless innocuous papers recalculating +the values of harmless constants and other such nonsense were all that +was being published. They were hardly worth reading. Others were feeling +the throttling effects of security measures, and isolated, lone +researchers were slowing down, listless and anemic from the loss of +the life blood of science, the free interchange of information. + +The present research job he was doing was coming slowly, but what +difference did it make? It would never be published. Probably it would +be filed with a Department of Defense code number as Research Report +DDNE-42 dash-dash-dash. And there it would remain, top-secret, guarded, +unread, useless. Somewhere in the desk drawers was the directive worded +in the stiff military manner describing the procedures for clearing +papers for publication. When he had first come here, he had tried that. + +"Well, good, Collins," Gordon, the Division Administrator, had said, +"glad to check it over. Always happy when one of our men has something +for publication. Gives the Division a good name. I'll let you know, but +we have to be careful. Security you know." + +Somehow he had never heard. The first time he had made a pest of himself +with Gordon who was polite, evasive, always plausible. Gordon, +Gordon--it was becoming an obsession with him he knew, but the man +appeared at every turn. He personified the system. + +In the past months his work had seemed to clog up in details and slow +down. The early days of broad, rapid outlines and facile sketching in of +details were gone. Now the endless indignities, invasion of personal +rights and freedom, the hamstringing of his work, the feeling of being +cut off from the main currents of his field, filled him with despair, +anger, and frustration. + + * * * * * + +Suddenly he raised his head, slammed the notebook shut and switched off +the desk lamp. Not tonight. Tomorrow would be time enough to write out +this stuff. He needed a drink. + +The hall was dark as he locked the door to his lab except at the far end +near the stairway where a patch of yellow light shone through an open +doorway. Mason, he thought, Allan Mason, the one guy at Fair Oaks +Nuclear Energy Laboratories who was always so damnedly cheerful, who +didn't seem to mind the security restrictions, and who was seen so often +with Gordon. As he walked rapidly past the open doorway, he caught a +flashing impression from the corner of his eye of Mason's tall figure +bent over his bench, his long legs wrapped around a lab stool, the +perpetual unlit pipe hanging from the corner of his mouth. Then as he +swung quickly toward the stairs, he heard Mason's cheerful hail. + +"Hi, Milt, hold up a sec." + +Reluctantly he paused at the head of the stairs scowling momentarily, +and then slowly turning and retraced his steps. + +The lab was brightly lighted, and Mason stretched and smiled pleasantly. + +"Come in, old man, I'm about ready to knock off for the evening. How +goes it?" + +Collins mumbled an O.K. trying to keep the irritation out of his voice, +and Mason went on. + +"Just finishing up some loose ends so I can get off to the Society +meeting on Monday. You going?" + +Shaking his head Collins felt his dislike for this man growing. The +annual meeting of the North American Society of Theoretical Physicists. +He didn't even give it any thought any more. Maybe he could go, but it +didn't seem worth the effort. In the past he had tried to go to the +meetings, but somehow work, rush work, some change of emphasis had come +up on the project, and he had had to cancel his plans. He'd finally +given up, but with Mason these things seemed to come easily, and he +wondered why-- + +"That's too bad"--his voice droned pleasantly on, and Collins' eye +caught several botany texts in the book rack above Mason's desk. So, he +had time to read stuff outside of his field. His work was going well. +He had time for meetings and was allowed to go to them--the anger rose +slowly like a swelling bubble from the hard core of his stomach. Then he +realized that Mason had stopped talking and was looking at him. + +"Milt, you look glum tonight. Is there-- Why not have supper with me, +and we'll take in the movie in the lounge?" + +"I've eaten already." Collins was on his feet. He forced a, "Thanks +anyway. See you tomorrow. I'm--" and he was gone. + +As he strode angerly across the quadrangle Mason's words and cheerful +attitude rankled in his mind. The gravel of the walk spurted from under +his shoes, and the night air was clear and cool. It was good at least to +feel something other than despair again, even anger. + +But once in his study with its attached bedroom and bath that made up +his living quarters, he sank to the couch near his desk, all of the +fight gone. He needed a drink. Today all the irritations, tensions, and +suspicions of the past months seemed to close in on him. His work was +going badly. Perhaps seeing Mason had brought it to a head. The fifth of +bourbon in the bottom desk drawer was partly gone from the party last +month. He took a swallow neat, and the fire of the liquid burned and +clawed its way down his throat and spread with blossoming warmth in his +stomach. + +Kicking off his shoes and loosening his tie he leaned back with the +bottle on the floor beside him. + +Later in the evening when the early clarity of thought had left him and +his mind moved disjointedly in and out of seemingly brilliant, emotional +solutions to his problem, he knew he must have a showdown. Lying back on +the couch he drifted into sleep determined to have it out with Gordon in +the morning--resign if necessary. + + * * * * * + +The momentary pause of lighting his cigarette gave Collins a chance +to decide where to start, as he sat across from Gordon. The Division +Administrator was older with a heavy-jowled, close shaven face, and he +waited patiently for Collins to speak. + +"Dr. Gordon, I am having a great deal of difficulty in making an +adjustment both in my work and in my personal relations here at Fair +Oaks, and last night I realized that I would have to talk to you about +it." + +Gordon's face changed slightly, his eyebrows rising almost +imperceptibly. + +"So, what ... how do you mean, Milt?" + +Use of the first name--the familiar approach thought +Collins--administrative technique number blank blank dash blank. + +"Dr. Gordon, these security measures we are under, the difficulty of +publishing, of getting to scientific meetings, the problem of getting +furloughs, lack of knowledge of what is going on in my own field, it's +just a little too much. It's personally irritating, but it greatly +hampers my work as well. Frankly, I'm against the entire security +program as it now stands. If it isn't stopped research will ... well, +simply be impossible. Free interchange of information is essential to--" +His fingers were gripping the arms of his chair. + +"Yes, of course, Milt, but corny as it sounds there is a war on you +know. Oh, not a war with military weapons--yet, but a cold war of +science and engineering, a struggle for supremacy in many fields of +knowledge. If information of our work leaks out, gets to the enemy, we +might as well not do that work. We can't be too careful." + +"I agree, but it goes too far." He leaned forward. "My private mail is +read, and on my last furlough I am certain I was watched from the time I +left the gates out there until I returned, and I don't like it. I can't +prove it, but-- That's getting to the point that life's not worth +while." + +"Come now, Milt, don't you think you're taking this a little too +seriously? You're getting stale, overwrought. You need a fresh point of +view. Lots of our people feel as you do at one time or another, but most +of us learn to live with these necessary regulations, and do our work in +spite of them. Let me make a suggestion, relax, take a little time off, +develop a hobby. Why not do some reading in a field of science other +than your own. It's good for you. Several of the people here are doing +it. I do it, Carter, even Mason for instance--" + +Collins could feel the anger rising in him again. + +"Look, Gordon, I'm not going to mince words. I'm sick and tired of +this mess, and you might as well know it. You can have all your damn +relaxations and hobbies, or what have you. I want to do my work, and +if I can't do it here, I'm going somewhere where I can do it. In plain +English unless we can have an understanding right now--I resign." + +It had come out, and Collins was breathing hard, but Gordon's expression +hardly changed as he looked over the tips of his joined fingers, while +the younger man stopped and crushed out his cigarette viciously in the +ash disposer on the arm of his chair. Gordon doodled on a small pad for +a moment, his eyes not meeting Collins'. Then he spoke slowly. + +"I'm sorry you feel that way, Milt. I ... I'm afraid I cannot accept +your resignation. You see," he said softly, "none of us can leave Fair +Oaks--now." + +Collins looked up, amazement and incredulity written on his face. + +"What do you mean--can't leave? I can leave any time--" + +Gordon slowly shook his head almost sadly. "No, only assistants, +technicians, maintenance people, and they are carefully watched or +restricted to this area. People like yourself, like me, we have +information, knowledge which cannot be let out of government hands at +this time. We're here probably for the 'duration'; maybe longer." + +"But--this is barbarous. I--" the words clogged, jumbled as he tried to +get them out. His emotions ran from anger, to amazement, to indignation, +followed by a trickle of fear, and as he stared at Gordon, the fear +grew. He could scarcely hear Gordon's words-- + +"Take my advice--relax--and forget your fears--accept the restrictions +and go ahead--read in some other field--come in again when you've +thought it out." He was scarcely aware when Gordon slipped a bound +journal volume into his hands and walked with him to the door--and +closed it behind him. + + * * * * * + +Collins left Gordon's office in Administration moving slowly, one arm +hanging loosely by his side, the other clutching the book. The corridor +stretched ahead into B Wing with its laboratories flooded with the glow +of mid-morning sunshine, bright and unreal. His mind was dazed, his +thinking processes stopped in a kind of stunned unbelief. He could not +even quit now. An undercurrent of fear ran close to the surface of his +confused mind. It was the end of science, the end of all his work. All +of the stifling, strangling restrictions of security on his work, on +his private life, came whirling back as a monstrous, formless threat, +something unspeakably big and powerful and unbeatable against which he +could not fight. + +To his right as he moved slowly down the hall the double doors of the +main library reading room were open with the stacks and study cubicles +beyond, silent and restful. He paused and then entered crossing into the +maze of the stacks through a grilled iron doorway. The important thing +now was not to meet anyone, not to have to speak or smile or think. It +was very important now to be alone and quiet. + +He walked until he found an empty cubicle, the endless walls of books, +repositories of knowledge, silent and reproachful around him. Knowledge +and books such as these would soon be added to no longer. He slumped +into the chair and gazed at the tiny reading desk with its softly +glowing lamp and the small stack of volumes on the rack left by previous +users. Absently he stared for a long time at the volume Gordon had given +him as if seeing it for the first time. Then with a deliberate effort he +opened it and thumbed through slowly only half seeing its pages. _The +Journal of Botanical Research._ + +The pages in the _Journal_ were like a look through an open window. +Outside of classified projects in "harmless" fields of research the work +of science went on, papers were published, reputations were made, +freedom still existed. He remembered Gordon's sleek smile and advice +to relax and read in other fields. This stupid useless advice still +rankled. Of course, he probably was stale, but to read junk like this! + +Silently and in his mind, he cursed the day he had studied physics, +better archeology or zoology, anything. Suddenly he stopped riffling the +pages and leaned forward, rapidly turning back to something that had +caught his eye. It was a three and one-half page paper on "The +Statistical Probability of Chromosome Crossover" written in neat +sections with several charts and references. It was by M. Mason. + +Something clicked in Collins' mind--read the journals--Mason's unconcern +with security, the botany books on his desk the night before. It didn't +make sense, but it added up to something. Mason knew something and so +did Gordon. He half rose. He had to get to the bottom of it. Clutching +the bound _Journal_ Collins turned and weaved through the stacks and out +of the library waving the protesting librarian aside and strode down the +corridor toward the laboratories. + + * * * * * + +The door to Mason's lab was partially open, and he looked up quizzically +from taking an instrument reading as Collins burst in. + +"Mason, I--" he planked the bound volume of the _Botanical Journal_ on +the lab bench beside the instrument ignoring Mason's wince as the +instrument needle quivered with the jar. "Did you write this?" His +finger jabbed at the open page. + +Mason glanced at Collins, removed a pair of glasses from his white lab +coat pocket, and putting them on leaned forward and studied the page for +a moment. + +"Yes. Not bad either though I shouldn't say it. I didn't know you were +interested in Botany." His voice was casual with a slight questioning +note. + +Collins suddenly felt ridiculous. What was he accusing the man of? Mason +had a right to publish on anything he wanted to, still a muddled series +of half facts, incidents and suspicions chased through his mind. + +Mason walked over to his desk and filling his pipe sat down thoughtfully +and leaned back motioning Collins into a nearby chair. + +"I think I know what is on your mind, Milt. Maybe I can straighten this +out. Gordon told me a little while ago that you wanted to resign." + +Collins stiffened. So, these two were working together. + +"Milt, did you ever stop to think how lucky we are? Where can you get +better equipment, help, coöperation in the country than here?" Collins +leaned forward to speak, but Mason went on. "Oh, I know all the problems +of security and how it strangles work." He paused for a moment as though +trying to grasp the right words. + +"Look, Milt, what's the basic problem? Why do security measures strangle +research? Isn't it a matter basically of a breakdown in the interchange +of ideas? Sure, and it has come about because there has been no method +of communication which would not get to and be used by our enemies. So, +like yourself, I'm forbidden to publish the results of my work here in +the journals. Why? Because those results are in my field of study, chain +reactions. + +"I'm frustrated just as you have been and science suffers. What do I do? +I write articles in a field that isn't restricted, botany. It's a new +field of interest to me, a hobby if you like. The stuff is published and +gets wide distribution. Every decent library in the country gets it. +Every scientist all over the country can read the papers if he cares to. +Then the word gets around, by the scientific grapevine, with a little +judicious ear-bending. I get a reputation--in Botany. + +"Now the botanists know that I am not a botanist. They understand what +I am doing. The word spreads, and they leave my stuff alone. The +physicists in my specialty know my name, and they get the word, and +pretty soon they are glancing over certain botany journals apparently +for relaxation. They read my papers. It's slow, but it works." Mason +leaned forward and struck a large stick match under the lab bench top. +Drawing several puffs through his pipe his eyes were on Collins' +confused face. Then he laid the pipe down. + +"The enemy botanists may read the botany journals, sure, but the enemy +physicists don't. Their totalitarian training has made them inflexible +in their thinking, besides they have their hands full trying to keep up +in their own fields. The curse of specialization is a blessing to us. +When the enemy botanists read it, it makes sense, but it doesn't help +them much in their work--more or less innocuous." He waved toward the +botany texts on his desk. "It took me six months to learn enough about +it to do the job." As he spoke Mason untangled his legs and brought the +open journal over to his desk. + +"All right, notice in my article I am writing on chromosomes--chains of +genes, and my field is--?" + +"Chain reactions," Collins finished softly, "but--" + +"The article itself is well disguised, but it's a parable. It's botany +on the surface, but it gets over enough chain-reaction theory to be good +physics, if you read it right. You see botany is what you might call my +code field." + +The bright light of noon shimmered on the white buildings and green +lawns beyond the lab windows. Collins was silent and thoughtful. + +"Well, that's about all. Gordon knows. He's in with us, but the +Government doesn't suspect--yet. Oh, they may catch on to us. Information +may leak out to the enemy. There's some chance, but when we're caught +we'll think of something else. Most of us believe it's worth the chance. +There's a risk in anything." + +Suddenly all the pieces fell into place, and Collins' anger and confusion +melted away. In its place was a sense of relief and hope, hope for the +future. It wasn't the final answer, but it was a way to keep going. He +was not alone any longer. He had friends who understood, who had been +through what he had been through. It was a good feeling. He heard +Mason's voice again. + +"Milt, why don't you do some library work? Botany's my code field. I +don't know what yours is, but you've got some catching up to do. There +may be some interesting stuff published already in your code field." + +Collins did, and he developed his new interest enthusiastically. Gordon +had been right. He had been getting stale. Besides, astronomy was a +fascinating field, and suns with their revolving planets in some +respects are very like atomic systems, if you look at it that way. + + THE END + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This e-text was produced from Astounding Science Fiction + October 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence + that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Security, by Ernest M. 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