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...Commission on Campus Unrest, came to his decision after 4½ long months of trial. Not until its final weeks were the murky beginnings of the case disclosed. Perhaps as early as 1969, and certainly by early 1970, the FBI knew that Ellsberg, then a consultant with the Rand Corp. "think tank" in Santa Monica, Calif., was copying parts of the Pentagon papers at night on a Xerox machine in an advertising-agency office...
...Government had been determined to prosecute Ellsberg and Russo as criminals. The defense was equally determined to raise the broadest legal and constitutional issues. Was a charge of espionage valid when the defendants had given no information to a foreign power? (Ellsberg had returned the actual papers to the Rand Corp. files.) Could theft be alleged when the culprits had stolen nothing but information? Could conspiracy be proved if, as many lawyers believe, the statute defining it is so loosely drawn as to be unconstitutional...
...shake up the CIA. A seasoned scholar, bureaucrat and Republican, he enjoys the confidence of President Nixon. He was graduated summa cum laude from Harvard ('50), later got his Ph.D. in economics there, taught at the University of Virginia, and was director of strategic studies at the Rand Corp. He joined the old Bureau of the Budget in 1969, and two years later was named chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. His prodding of utility executives to pay more attention to environmental safeguards impressed the President. When industry leaders complained, Schlesinger told them: "Gentlemen, I'm not here...
Russo, 36, testified first. A balding, horn-rimmed aeronautics engineer, he explained that, when he was first in Viet Nam as a Rand Corp. researcher, he had believed Viet Cong cadre to be "in doctrinated fanatics." But his gradual conversion to an antiwar activist was brought about in part by an interview with one memorable Viet Cong prisoner. Russo told how the prisoner vowed that "he would never give up, no matter how badly they tortured him. It was here I learned the difference between in doctrination and commitment. He was committed." Russo told the jury: "It was very moving...
...them. I'm not denying anything. It's an honor to have Xeroxed the Pentagon Papers." When Prosecutor David R. Nissen asked Russo whether he was aware that access to the papers was on a strict "need to know" basis, Russo responded: "I was aware of Rand's need to know rules. But I thought that the American people had a real need to know...