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...surprise climax to a long series of legal hanky-panky, Samuvel L. Popkin, lecturer in Government, was freed from Norfolk County Correctional Institute after a week of imprisonment...
...Popkin had been sent to jail the previous week by District court Judge W. Arthur Garrity as a penalty for his continual refusal to answer certain questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the distribution of Pentagon Papers. The sentence was set to expire at the scheduled end of the grand jury's term, on January...
...government's steadfast refusal in court to take any compromise in order to reduce or eliminate popkin's sentence seemed to indicate that it had a definite idea of what he could provide for them, and that it was willing to wait to get it. Nevertheless, in an extremely surprising move, representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office asked District Judge Frank J. Murray to disband the grand jury, thus automatically freeing popkin...
More surprising, perhaps, were statements by several sources that Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, had played a "highly significant" part in negotiations with the government to free Popkin...
Despite his astonishment at being released six weeks early, Popkin was hardly at a loss for words. Grand juries, he told a group of reporters shortly after his release, "have become the government's tool for gathering intelligence." He further warned that "today we may be faced with as great a threat from the use of grand juries as was ever posed by Joe McCarthy...