A woman's decision to inform others of her condition must be dictated by realism, said Cynthia Secor, the director of a management training program who is currently recovering from inflammatory breast cancer.

"Tell as many people as you want, but know who your enemies are and figure out how to neutralize them," Secord said.

Radcliffe Career Services sponsored the forum, the first installment of "Towards an Open Workplace."

Ellsberg Speaks At K-School Forum

The obligation to expose government wrongdoing should always supersede classified information laws, Daniel Ellsberg '52 told an audience of 150 at the Kennedy School yesterday.

"Whatever the state of the law is, even if the Constitution is reamended and the First Amendment gutted, it doesn't give anyone the right, or obligation, to keep U.S. operations secret," Ellsberg said.

The former Defense Department official who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, the federal government's secret account of its entrance into the Vietnam War to newspapers, said that he did so partly to relieve guilt over his role in wartime planning, but also to help prevent the war's escalation.

Ellsberg said that the conflict between his job as a defense adviser and his shock at military plans had surfaced several times before, particularly upon learning that America's nuclear strike strategy was projected to cause 600 million deaths worldwide.

"I assumed I was breaking the law," Ellsberg said. "Many of you have studied the question of when to resign [and also divulge secrets]....I hope you will all consider risking jail in certain circumstances, and I hope you will indeed do it in certain circumstances."