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Harry Truman: Right here I want to stop and tell you that Central Intelligence had Yale University make a survey, and that survey…

On the recordOctober 3, 1951
Right here I want to stop and tell you that Central Intelligence had Yale University make a survey, and that survey found--and they had no connection with the Government--that 95 percent of all our information was public property.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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The President's News Conference

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