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Bundy, a former dean of the Faculty, testified as a defense witness in the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Anthony Russo. Under questioning by Charles R. Nesson, '60, professor of Law and defense lawyer for Ellsberg and Russo, he listed two other reasons for believing that North Vietnam and other countries had little to gain by reading the Papers...
Bundy said he knew Ellsberg slightly while in Cambridge during the 1950's. He called Ellsberg "one of the most brilliant of students," but Judge Matt Byrne ordered the remark stricken as not responsive to the question...
...battle shaping over the First Amendment derives from two specific cases--the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Anthony Russo in connection with the release of the Pentagon Papers, and the rejection of an appeals case based on confidentiality of news sources filed by New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell. The Ellsberg-Russo ease is an extenuation of the 1971 press "victory" before the Supreme Court. The more recent tumult over confidentiality of sources, growing steadily since last July when the Court rejected Caldwell's final appeal by a 5-4 margin, is at the root of the current...
...government has called ten witnesses in four weeks of testimony trying to prove espionage, conspiracy and theft charges against Ellsberg and Russo in connection with the leak of the Pentagon's top secret war study...
Nissen alleges that the fingerprints of Vu Van Thai, former South Vietnam ambassador to the U.S. are on one of the volumes of the Pentagon Papers which belonged to Ellsberg. The official record of Thai's fingerprints are expected to arrive from Saigon on Tuesday, Bennion said...