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                               SECURITY

                            BY BRYCE WALTON

                _If secrecy can be carried to the brink
             of madness, what can happen when imprisonment
                and time are added to_ super _secrecy_?

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
             Worlds of If Science Fiction, December 1957.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


We, Sam Lewis thought as he lay in the dark trying to sober up, are the
living dead.

It was a death without honor. It was a death of dusty, sterile
stupidity. It was wretched, shameful, a human waste, and far too
ridiculous a business to bear any longer.

The hell with the war. The hell with the government. The hell with
Secret Project X, Y, Z, or D, or whatever infantile code