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Date: 16 December 1974
Documents stolen from Mill Valley, Calif, home of Daniel Ellsberg are turned over to atty for HR Subcom on Foreign Operations and Govt Information after Ellsberg's atty Benjamin Dreyfus served subpoena on Police Chief William Walsh; Walsh says documents will be returned to 'their rightful owner, whoever that is' after they have been viewed by Congressmen; Dreyfus says his only apprehension is that Justice Dept will destroy papers (S)
Date: 17 December 1974
Dr Daniel Ellsberg and HR Subcom on Foreign Operations chmn Repr William S Moorhead reveal existence of Oct '67 cable allegedly aimed at misleading public about progress of Vietnam war during Pres Lyndon B Johnson's adm; cable reptdly was written 3 mos before Communists' '68 Tet offensive; sources say cable dealt with '64 Tonkin Gulf attack on Amer vessels that led to large-scale commitment of US troops; Ellsberg says he does not recall any cable on material dealing with Tonkin Gulf; document was among those stolen from Ellsberg's home; police recovered documents and turned them over to Moorhead's com; Moorhead says he and staff had been able only to glance through documents; adds 'Dr Ellsberg says they're as significant as the Pentagon papers and considering his track record I believe him' (S)
Date: 16 December 1974
Trial of 8 Campisi family members enters 14th wk of preliminary hearings; jurors, empaneled Oct 23, have heard no testimony yet and 5 reptdly want to withdraw from case; defense lawyers have contested state treatment of prosecution witness Ira Pecznick, who reptdly admitted taking part in 4 of 5 murders of which Campisis are accused; he has been under special guard and granted special privileges such as conjugal visits with girlfriends, steak dinners in restaurants and bar-hopping with captors; defense has been arguing over access to state-made tapes of Pecznick's telephone conversations, his destruction of 1 tape and machine's failure to operate on June 5 and 6; Pecznick testified at hearing that he destroyed tape because he disclosed his hideaway to Natl Star reporter Peter Bridge; on Dec 13, Judge W Thomas McGann denied defense motion to dismiss all charges on ground of prosecutorial misconduct for failing to prosecute him for destroying tape and abetting his high-living activities (M)
Date: 17 December 1974
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker tongue-in-cheek article on proposal that Shah of Iran invest idle funds in restoring liner France to trans-Atlantic service; contends France's annual $20-million deficit, caused by oil and caviar prices, could be eliminated as Shah owns both oil and caviar (M)