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Tobel told the audience that the Federal government subpoenaed the bank records of Beacon Press after they announced that they were publishing Gravel's papers...
...three-judge court heard arguments from attorneys for Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) which alleged that the grand jury may violate his legislative immunity. Attorneys for Idella Marx, step-mother of Patricia Marx Ellsberg, wife of Daniel Ellsberg '52, argued in a separate motion that the court must decide whether the government conducted illegal wiretapping before she will testify before the grand jury...
...Gravel's motion arises from a grand jury subpoena served on Leonard S. Rodberg, a physicist at the Institute for Policy Studies whom Gravel hired as an administrative aide to help publish his edition of the Pentagon study...
Rodberg asked Garrity to quash the subpoena last month on the grounds that it violated Gravel's legislative immunity, Garrity ruled that Rodberg could refuse to discuss actual Congressional business but that he must still testify. Gravel and Rodberg then appealed to the circuit court...
...Gravel's attorney argued yesterday that Garrity's ruling provides no prior determination of either the scope of the government's inquiry or the legitimacy of its questioning. They maintained that Garrity had not established a safeguard to prevent the grand jury from becoming "an oppressive instrument" that would "conduct a total fishing expedition into the activities of the legislative branch...