RELIABLE SOURCE

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two bad systems are in current use on data. The first is "reliable source". The other system in use is multiple report. In this system (reliable source) a report is considered true or factual only if the source is well thought of. This is a sort of authority system. Most professionals working with data collection use this. Who said it? If he is considered reliable or an authority, the data is considered true or factual. Sources are graded from A to D. A is highest, D lowest. The frailty of this system is at once apparent. Philby, as a high British intelligence official, was a Russian spy for 30 years. Any data he gave the U.K. or U.S. was "true" because he was a "reliable source." He had every Western agent who was being sent into Communist areas "fingered" and shot. Psychiatrists are "authorities" on the mind. Yet insanity and criminality soar. They are the "reliable sources" on the mind. (HCO PL 17 May 70)