Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government, attained a new plateau of ludicrousness yesterday when government attorneys filed a second contempt motion in Federal District Court. Popkin had agreed, following a citation for contempt of court last week, to answer those questions already posed to him by the Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers leak. Yesterday he did just that for over five hours. Yet he refused, as he has all along during the five months of the investigation, to answer questions which pertained to his academic contacts and sources...
...lowest blow of all didn't come until the next day. Someone in Muskie's entourage leaked to the phalanx of reporters that follows the Maine Senator the interesting fact that the Muskie staff had letters from two well-known contributors to liberal causes, saying that each planned to contribute $1000 to both the Muskie and McGovern campaigns. Hearing this, the two philanthropists were outraged and denied the rumor. McGovern himself vehemently denied the claim, and Mankiewicz called the rumor "scandalous." Even Dick Stewart, in Muskie's press room, said that no one in the Muskie office had any knowledge...
...GOVERNMENT'S harrassment of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, has reached absurdity. Last week, government attorneys served Popkin with a contempt citation for his failure to testify before a Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers leak. Popkin--whose only apparent connection with the case is his association with Dr. Daniel Ellsberg '52--now faces possible imprisonment...
...Pentagon's leak about the mysterious ship at Nikolayev was obviously timed to coincide with President Nixon's request for more defense funds. It is possible that the vessel, which is about half complete, may turn out to be a tanker or a big cargo freighter. But some Allied naval experts are already willing to bet that the Pentagon is right, and that the ship really is Russia's first attack carrier (it already has two cruiser-sized helicopter carriers). If so, the decision to build an attack carrier represents a dramatic and fundamental shift in Moscow...
...access to classified material for some time," he says. "The difference is that until now they have been very wary of letting me quote directly. But they became gravely concerned about what seemed to them a colossal moral blunder in the India-Pakistan situation." There is suspicion that the leak happened in the Defense Department. Anderson says that his sources at first would tell him only the general content of the documents, then consented to let him quote from them. When he insisted, "I must document this; you have to go all the way," they turned over copies of "dozens...