Security Tests for Maritime Workers: Due Process under the Port Security Program

Ralph S. Brown, John D. Fassett

The Yale Law Journal · 1953 · 18 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

TnE search for security against spies, saboteurs, and other disaffected persons has led to the creation of elaborate programs for the surveillance of federal employees.'The same considerations require protective measures among those who, nominally in private employment, produce or develop secret weapons for the military establishment.Thus the Department of Defense requires clearance of defense contractors and their employees before they may have access to classified materials .2 and the Atomic Energy Commission has a statutory mandate to investigate the "character, associations, and loyalty," of those to whom it entrusts "restricted data." 3 But neither of these martial agencies exercises as much sway over the livelihood of private citizens as does the United States Coast Guard.Better known for its unceasing attention to wrecks, buoys, and icebergs, 4 since the Korean War the Coast Guard has *The research for this article was made possible