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...Dirk Jan Struik, professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Saturday that he will fight his indictment of conspiracy to overthrow "by force" the governments of Massachusetts and the United States--to the highest courts in the land if necessary...
...Struik, indicted last Thursday by a Middlesex County Grand Jury, pleaded innocent in Superior Court Friday and was freed on $10,000 bail. Later, his lawyer hinted that political pressure had been brought on the District Attorney to get the indictment...
Although the Grand Jury charges have been a closely guarded secret, it is rumored that six new indictments will follow soon. Like Struik, several University faculty members have been publicly charged with "subversive activities...
...Struik, an internationally known mathematician, specializing in geometry, has been on M.I.T.'s faculty for 25 years. He was officially charged with violating a Massachusetts' General Law, entitled "Prohibition of Anarchy...
...charges developed from testimony delivered during July by Herbert A. Philbrick, an F.B.I. agent who operated incognito for nine years within the Communist party. Philbrick contended that Struik and Harry E. Winner of Malden, Mass, who also has been indicted, belonged to the same secret cell he belonged...