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Approved For Release.2(~nA ‘9 P3, CIA-RDP88-01314R t1 ice’ . S r /~ 39 A federal grand jury ill Bos- ton is investigating possible criminal charges against The New York Times, The Wash, ‘ington Post and The I3oston’ Globe in connection with the publication of secret Pentagon documents on Vietnam. Neil Sheehan, a New York Times reporter credited with breaking the story about the U.S. decision-making process on Vietnam, and his wife Susan, a magazine writer and author,- were also named in the government’s case before the Boston grand jury last week, The Post has learned. Government , officials have hinted at the possibility of ell- paneling an Past Coast grand jury to seek criminal. charges against those who conveyed and accepted the top?secret Pentagon papers along with 1) r. Daniel L1lsberg, who has admitted leaking the papers to the press, lie has been charged with unauthorized possessiohi of classified docu- ments.

Sources said last night that the government in utmost Se- 7crecy started its criminal in- speculation that the govern- – ment believes she may have been a conduit through which the documents passed to The Now York Times. She has not. been mentioned in any Times account of the incident. Nori is she identified in the newt Bantam book, “The Pentagon! Papers,” based on “investiga- tive reporting by Neil Shee- han.” Mrs. Sheehan is a contrib- utor to the Talk of the Town column for The New Yorker’ maga.?:ih1c. She has written major stories on the Buckley women, ‘Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Ethel Kennedy for the Ladies Home Journal and McCall’s. She has also written a book, “Ten Vietna- mese,” through which she re- counts the tragedy of the war on the people of South Viet-. nam. Material for the book was gathered during 1965 and 1966 while her husband was a New York Times correspondent in (Saigon.

It was published in 11967. vestigation by presenting evi. These government sources ~dence before a federal brand said that Attorney General ijury that has been ers ~ ill John N. Mitchell had not dc- Boston on other lnatteh’s since tided whether to proceed early April. el;iminally when he left last Two persons employed by Week for an American Bar, different printing firms rms testified the week Week Association meeting in Lon greater Boston a (loll. before the grand jury last week. Sources said the prin- The Internal Security divi- ters apparently were involved sion reportedly was charged in copying parts of the 47- with developing evidence to volume Pentagon study that present to Mitchell when he ultimately ended lip in posses- returnsT+on July 2$ to nttt’c 1t1. -The same sources said that Ellsberg was not involved in early, testimony and that the government seemed to be con- centrating initially on how the documents were duplicated and how they came into pos- session of The Times.

Two unidentified lawyers from the Justice Department’s .Internal Security Division and Richard E. Bachman, 36, an assistant! provef iFoitiRtle ton, reportedly stressed to the grand jury that the criminal . rnnnrriin~c were senarate in By Ken W. Clawson W i,inaton Post Sta,f writer themselves and did not con’ ? flict with the Supreme Court decision permitting the news- papers to publish the con- tents of the. documents. Secrecy of the proceedings was stringent, with U.S. At- torney llerbert F. Travers Jr.. discarding the usual, policy of making public both witness; lists and the subject of a grand jury probe. In Washington, Justice Dc partment officials would not disclose the names of the in- ternal, security lawyers who appeared before the, grand jury. “I don’t think I ought to comment on the comings and goings of our attorneys,” a Justice official said. “Why possibly tip our hand?” The sources said it was not immediately clear what sort of crinlnal charges the gov- ernngent is seeking.

“It looks like a fishing expedition to me,” said one source. “They don’t seem to have much.” Use of the grand jury’s sub- poena power to compile infor- mation on the leaked papers was in line with beliefs of other government sources that the Justice Department will prosecute some newspapers and individuals if it can build le11h1011 W piunccu.w .. u.. “` ly stated July 1 when Mitchell said, “Since the beginning of the investigation of the Pen- tagon’s classified documents, all avenues of criminal prose- cution have remained open. “A review of the Court’s opinions indicates that there is nothing in them to affect this situation. The Department of Justice is continuing its in- vest’ l’1 1 and will prosecute iQa(O3im IA4R 8-01314R000100160007-1 federal criminal laws in con- nection with this matter.” The mention of Susan Shee

• Creator/s: CIA Reading Room
• Date: 7/13/1971
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