Safeguard data-processing system: Foreword

The U.S. government needs and obtains a wide range of services from the nation's busubesses. From the Bell System, these services range from the large amounts of ordinary telephone service required to carry on its day-to-day operations to the development of complex systems designed to enaure the nation's defense. With respect to the latter, Bell System policy is summarized in a remark by H. I. Romnes at a stockholders' meeting on April 15, 1970: