Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...government's dogged pursuit of Popkin has caused him considerable anguish since October, when he was first called before the grand jury here. He has had to engage a lawyer full-time, and he has spent countless hours haggling out responses to the government's repeated attempts to force testimony from him. The resultant mental duress has no doubt affected Popkin's work as a professor and a scholar, and the delays the government investigation has caused him in completing a book could diminish his chances for tenure...
...realm of the Papers investigation. A separate grand jury in Los Angeles is considering the main case against Ellsberg, who has admitted to leaking the Pentagon study. Yet the Boston grand jury continues to sit. It is becoming increasingly evident that it now sits only to intimidate persons like Popkin, Noam Chomsky, Neil Sheehan, Susan Sheehan, Richard Falk and those legislators--such as Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Ala.)--who see through the government's tactics. Not only does the government lack justification for a Boston investigation: it seeks to question witnesses behind closed doors and on its own terms...
...Popkin, who has been subpoenaed several times by the Boston grand jury, attempted to seek exemption from questions relating to his academic work on grounds that information from his scholarly sources is privileged...
...Popkin said the notes he had taken on the grand jury proceedings were confiscated by the government after yesterday's hearing...