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About two months later, Popkin was subpoenaed again. Appearing before the grand jury on October 14, he answered some of the questions put to him but refused to answer others. The grand jury excused Popkin temporarily, only to recall him on October...
...that point, Popkin filed a motion for a protective order, with affidavits from several Harvard colleagues, asking that he not be required to answer questions dealing with "information obtained by him in his capacity as a scholar, author and teacher" and that he not be made to reveal his confidential sources. That motion was also denied...
...October 29 hearing, the government had apparently not yet established within its own ranks its intention to probe Popkin for other possible sources of information. "We are not interested in exposing or compromising miscellaneous sources of information which Mr. Popkin may rely upon in his research and in his writing," Assistant U. S. Attorney Warren P. Reese told Judge W. Arthur Garrity of Boston's Federal District Court. "We are concerned with illegal activity involving the acquisition and dissemination of government documents, and that limits the subject matter of our inquiry...
Later in the investigation, however, the government would be asking Popkin not only whom he knew had possessed the Pentagon Papers in Massachusetts prior to their publication--he replied he knew no one--but also whom he had interviewed in the course of his research who had led him to form an opinion on who may have possessed the papers...
...government said it was not considering this type of question on October 29, and it moved for immunity for Popkin. The court granted that motion, and ordered that Popkin "appear forthwith before the grand jury and testify and produce evidence with respect to all matters under inquiry by the grand jury." Popkin followed the order, appeared before the grand jury and was again excused temporarily...