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After taking over as acting FBI director, Gray gave his approval of the wiretaps, and they were continued tor a month and a half of his tenure. The operation, which never uncovered any White House leaks, ended after the Supreme Court overruled Mitchell's wiretap policy last June. It declared that even in domestic security cases, a court order was necessary for wiretapping...
...threat. The press has been chummier with past administrators; some bureaucracies have been freer with information. But pressure on journalists to hold off on criticism or to stick to already public sources of information has always existed. The panic is misleading because the government's ability to wiretap, to classify documents over-zealously, and to regulate the electronic media through licensing investigations pose more immediate threats to the public's access to information. No one is advocating outright censorship or the licensing of newspapers. The pressures confronting the press are less direct, if not less dangerous...
...them, but Mr. Agnew misses the point: they are not my people. I don't want my men to commit My Lai massacres, my generals to conduct unauthorized bombing raids, my pilots to bomb dikes against orders. I don't want my President to let his people wiretap, sabotage the opposition and misinform the public on his behalf. I don't want the traditional warm human values of the American ideal subverted by cold corporations...
When the organizations suspected the wiretap last February, they tested the phones with a relative field strength meter, designed by Clyde Wallace, owner of the Spy Shop in Washington, D.C. The meter revealed the presence of a radio frequency used only for wiretapping on all of the telephones at 67 Winthrop St., Cambridge, where the four organizations had offices. Wallace retested the phones Thursday and said he found the radio signal "still emanating...
Most of Boudin's union clients left him after he was assigned by the trial court to represent Judith Coplon, a Justice Department analyst charged with espionage for the Soviet Union. (Ironically, her case, like the Ellsberg impasse last week, turned on a wiretap; Boudin won the Coplon appeal because authorities had eavesdropped on lawyer-client conversations.) Filling the gap in his practice, he began to make a name for himself in a series of passport cases: he diligently represented such noted left-wingers as Corliss Lamont, Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent in proceedings that finally resulted...