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é oF TO: Time Inc, Editors eo! FROM: John Shapes . : . S ae - ee 1332 - On January 21, 1942, David -Hulburd, acting for Time Inc.'s War Prob- ‘lems Committee, sent out a memorandum on the sub ject of distribution: ‘of- contin dential military information, It said, in part: "Our correspondents, especially our Washington. correspondents, are fe ~ gonstantly obtaining and passing on to us all sorts of really confidential . matter ,,. which, if it got into the wrong hands, would raise hell with the war effort and. subject Time Inc. to serious oni ticism and worse, "Hence! ‘we must establish rigid and absolute control over the inter-~ office and intravoffice exchange of such information.... The “necessity for rigid control of such military information is just . as ereat in 1945 as it was three years AZO « "-Bqually important, if somewhat ‘less obvious, is the necessity of keep- ing confidential non-military information which we as editors receive in confi- dence from our correspondents. Our professional standards in this regard should be. no lgss, high. than our patriotic standards in regard to military information. Our correspondents should feel free to pass on’ to us anything and everything | that comes their way without fear that we will blab it carelessly around, The | same rules apply’ to both military and non-military confidential information as <n P ciroulated under. the News Bureau's control: 4 1) No distribution to anyone except the person to whom it 4 is addressed, ih 2) ] bal No copies to be made and kept for future reference by _ the person who receives it, ” 3) Destruction of the News Bureau. copy as soon as it has been read by the addressee. 4) No ‘idle chatter outside the office, Correspondents, of course, ought not to mark their material confiden- tial unless it really is, Editor Luce. has recently complained that some cor- respondents tend to plaster the word "confidential" on points which are very open secrets, Hulburd will make it his. business to see that correspondents are straightened out in this regard. ‘Nevertheless, the caution remains in full force; we must maintain the ‘highest professional standard 2 respect to the status of.all information we ‘receive under the varioug conf “ro tea BERTI Ens por biheahind att baulisor Vii ° CATEo-s-28 BYB acu Seles aD __3akso3— 22, af , a?