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LEONARD BOUDIN, attorney for Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon Papers case and professional champion of unpopular causes, admits he was "amused a little bit" when he read a profile of himself prepared for the White House three years ago by E. Howard Hunt and released last week by the House Judiciary Committee. If you don't take the whole thing too seriously, the profile, written with the intent of discrediting Ellsberg and Boudin in the press, is more than just a little amusing. With a title like "Devil's Advocate" and subheadings to the tune of "The Strange Affinities...
After The Boston Globe ran the text of the CIA's famous profile of Daniel Ellsberg last week, it printed a public apology to Ellsberg for publishing with little background material the vicious half-truths that the government collected in order to shore up its case at the Pentagon Papers trial. Boudin, Countryman and Nesson all think that it would have been appropriate for The Times to run the same sort of public apology when it ran the Boudin memorandum. Nesson says that it's still not too late for The Times to follow The Globe's example and Boudin...
Fascism, Fascism, Fascism!, after hit runs in Greece, Chile, Brazil, South Vietnam and a few other places, moved into Cyprus for a trial performance early this week. Critics at ITT and the Pentagon give it good notices, and are thinking of bringing it here when audience surveys show the time is right. Sources say that a wave of resistance will eliminate the show from the political arena in the near future...
...resistance to change in large institutions). Long regarded as Chief of Staff material, Lieut. Colonel Dawkins, currently one of 18 White House Fellows, was in Viet Nam as an ARVN adviser in 1965-66 and again the next summer, when he collaborated on an Army "pacification" study. In the Pentagon in 1970, he helped refine the concept of an all-volunteer army. Last summer he finished a stint as commander of a battalion in Korea...
...University of Chicago. He went to the Times in 1963 as general attorney, six years later was named one of the company's then half-dozen vice presidents. As top adviser to President Arthur ("Punch") Sulzberger, he led the company's executives in urging publication of the Pentagon papers in 1972. With a reorganization of management last year, he was picked by Sulzberger to be one of three executive vice presidents and to handle legal, financial and other corporate affairs...