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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “It is one thing to lock your windows and doors and set an alarm and go on vacation and have folks cut that alarm off…”

On the recordJune 8, 1999
It is one thing to lock your windows and doors and set an alarm and go on vacation and have folks cut that alarm off, somehow circumvent that system, come into what you thought was your secured home and steal your secrets. It is quite another thing for your neighbor next door to meet the truck of the would-be burglars, to let them in the House, to help them find your most valuable possessions, and then to disavow any knowledge of that action. And that is just how simple and just how sad the current dilemma we face in fact presents itself.
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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH
New York

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Discussing security and accountability in relation to espionage during a House floor speech.

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