Jack Anderson Aide Charged With Holding Stolen Documents; To Examine Papers Comments by Whitten
Date: 01 February 1973
Special to The New York Times
L H Whitten, reporter employed by columnist J Anderson, is arrested on Jan 31 by FBI agents on charges of receiving and possessing documents stolen by group of mil Indians during 6-day occupation of Bur of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, in Nov '72; FBI spokesman says agents seized Whitten outside apt of H Adams, 1 of Indian leaders of orgn that planned occupation; repts D Pigeon and A Cerri were arrested on same theft charges; Anderson says in statement issued after arrest that Whitten's arrest is violation of 1st Amendment rights; says that Whitten was meeting with Adams to examine documents, about which Anderson has written number of articles; repts that neither he nor Whitten had actually taken possession of stolen materials and says they did not ask Indians to steal papers; Adams and Whitten are released on their personal recognizance; charges against Cerri and Pigeon are dropped; 5th person arrested, A Collins, also on theft charges, is released on $1,000 bond; Whitten illus
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Ellsberg Judge Says U. S. Must Give Data to Defense; Ellsberg Judge Says U.S, Must Give Data to Defense Secret Analyses Suppression Charged Spare Time Exercise
Date: 31 January 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Judge Byrne on Jan 30 rules that Govt has some evidence tending to prove innocence of defendants D Ellsberg and A J Russo, contained in Govt's analyses of effect that disclosure of papers had on natl defense; defense atty says they will move for mistrial tomorrow and that they will ask for sanctions against Govt for many mos that it denied that such evidence existed; Byrne may dismiss some of 15 counts against defendants of espionage and conspiracy; defense will now be able to use some of prosecution's own materials when questioning witnesses; Byrne says that portions of Govt's analyses show that disclosure of 11 of 20 top secret documents in case did not affect natl defense; material that Byrne ruled exculpatory is contained in repts written by J F Buzhardt, Natl Security Agency official, who put together analyses; Buzhardt says that until Security Rev Office analyses arrived in Los Angeles from Washignton yesterday, he did not know that they even existed; holds that are not official
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Ellsberg Witness Testifies Pentagon Asked Cover-Up; Ellsberg Witness Asserts Pentagon Asked for Cover-Up on Studies of Papers Witness Becomes Nervous
Date: 01 February 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Retired Lt Col E A Miller testifies on Jan 31 that he had seen Defense Dept memorandum ordering that Govt studies of Pentagon papers be removed from the files, Pentagon papers trial; says he saw memo some time around Christmas '71 and took it to mean that studies were 'to disappear' because they concluded that disclosure of papers had not damaged natl defense; says he had done studies himself when he was asked to rev papers by Defense Dept to determine whether their release would harm natl security; repts that other Govt reviewers had previously said that there were about 800 items in papers that were damaging to US, but that he had found that only 140 or 150 of these items were correctly classified 'top secret'; Says it was his understanding that directive had come from Defense Dept gen counsel J F Buzhardt, although it was signed by Defense Dept dir of security rev C Hinkle; Buzhardt has testified that he never knew that Miller had done any analyses of Pentagon papers
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Newspaper Guild Honors 2 for Series on Watergate
Date: 31 January 1973
Newspaper Guild announces that C Bernstein and B Woodward of Washington Post are winners of Guild's '72 Heywood Broun award for their series on Watergate break-in and bugging of Dem Natl hq
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Movements of Newsmen Being Curbed by Saigon; Newsman Is Arrested
Date: 01 February 1973
By JOSEPH B. TREASTERSpecial to The New York Times
illus of S Vietnamese soldier heading for post near Trang Bang
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Public TV's Freedom Is Called Stunted; Special Interests et al.
Date: 31 January 1973
By ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
Former Public Broadcasting Corp (PBC) pres J W Macy Jr on Jan 30 says 'the endeavor to establish freedom of expression, with balance and responsibility, has at this point failed' in public TV, speech, 4th annual A I duPont-Columbia Univ Awards in Broadcast Journalism; says public TV's failure in area of public affairs was possibly 'inevitable'; holds Pres Nixon has displayed 'accentuated distaste' for media that began in '71 with all-out attack on public TV's journalism; contends Adm is is unwilling to accept free video journalism supported by Fed funds; maintains he resigned last summer after Nixon's veto of 2-yr public TV funding bill, followed by take-over of PBC bd by Nixon appointees; says cause of public-affairs programing should not be abandoned
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Press Center Files Suit To Assist N.B.C. Reporter
Date: 01 February 1973
Press Information Center files its 1st Freedom of Information suit on Jan 31 in US Dist ct in Washington, DC, on behalf of NBC broadcast reporter C L Stern, who has been trying since '71 to get FBI and Justice Dept documents relating to activities of New Left; suit names Atty Gen Kleindienst as defendant
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