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National Security, the Climate of Opinion and the Entertainment Industry During the last few years the grave problem of internal security has been a central concern for many persons of very diverse views and values. In particular, governmental measures designed to ensure that no subversive elements be retained in government service have given rise to a heated national debate which at times threatened to submerge in- terest in all other national and international issues confronting the coun- try. Gradually, the exchange of accusations and counter-accusations has begun to subside, and is giving way to a more rational approach to the problem of security. There is by now widespread agreement among unquestionably loyal citizens of the country that ways and means must be found to avoid the excesses of the recent past without endangering national security. A presidential committee has been appointed to re- view and suggest revisions of governmental security procedures; the stand which courageous individuals of both major political parties have taken on the unintended and undesirable consequences of security pro- cedures has had its impact on the climate of thought in the country. But the impetus of earlier excesses has not yet been spent. And many fear that a slight reversal in the international situation or the unforesee- able symptoms of the political fever ordinarily produced in a major election campaign may throw us back where we were a little while ago. This, then, is a crucial and perhaps short period in which the climate of thought can be rationally assessed and discussed. It is of particular importance that the unanticipated consequences of governmental security procedures be brought into full light. They are easily overlooked in periods of crisis. There are two such consequences which have especially affected the climate and policies in organizations and industries outside the government. One stems from what is perhaps the most difficult issue in the gov- ernmental security procedures: the vagueness of the criteria for identi- fying an untrustworthy person in government service before that person has done harm to his country. The problem and the consequences of handling it in the current fashion have been described elsewhere in the following terms:* * Ideological Compliance as a Social-Psychological Process, by Marie Jahoda and Stuart W. Cook, in Totalitarianism, Carl J. Friedrich, ed., Harvard University Press, 1954. 222