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...Popkin were an Italian-American trucker whom the authorities believed to have useful information about the operation of the Mafia, he might very well be summoned before a grand jury. He might also refuse to answer, might be sentenced to jail for contempt, and the public might be generally delighted at the spectacle of a criminal brought to justice. But Sam Popkin, 30, is not a Mafioso. He is a lecturer on government at Harvard, a recognized expert on Vietnamese village life, and the Government seems to believe he knows something useful to the prosecution of the Pentagon papers case...
...Popkin is no flaming radical. Though an opponent of the Viet Nam War, he has received Government funds to support research visits to South Viet Nam. He is also a friend of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, now under indictment for giving the Pentagon papers to the press. When a Boston federal grand jury asked Popkin what he knew about the papers, he answered that he had not read them before their publication and had no knowledge of how they had been leaked (he was in Hong Kong at the time). After some complicated legal maneuvering, he refused to answer two questions...
...Popkin denied that he had martyred himself for a cuase, saying that he had just been in a certain position at a certain time and felt that the had to adhere to his ethical principles...
...week. Popkin was vacationing in the Virgin Islands with his wife, Susan Shirk...
...Popkin also cautioned that if scholars and journalists cannot talk confidentially with officials, "the First Amendment will protect nothing more than polemics and official handouts...