tl19720211-000 "towerlight Volume XXV No. 16 Towson State College February 11, 1972 Towson, Maryland 21204 Pentagon papers revisited: FBI seeks information on Ellsberg's locations by Trudy Rubin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Federal Bureau of Investigation is apparently still searching for locations where Dr. Daniel Ellsberg hid out during the period when he was distributing the Pentagon papers to the press. (Dr. Ellsberg has told the press that he stayed in five different places during the 10 days last June that he was underground.) While this search is going on, the Boston grand jury investigation of the papers' distribution remains halted by legal appeals. The Grand Jury has also been interested in where Dr. Ellsberg stayed in that 10-day period. On Jan. 13, two FBI agents visited Talbott Huey, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at his home in Newton at 7:45 a.m. They told him they came directly from Robert Mardian, Assistant Attorney General and head of the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department. According to Mr. Huey, the agents seemed very interested in a small summer cabin he owns in New Hampshire. ""They suggested the cabin might have some bearing on the inquiry. ..They never asked directly if Ellsberg had stayed there,"" he said. Parallel careers? Mr. Huey, now working on his Ph.D. in political science, is a former officer of the United States Information Agency, who worked for USIA in Vietnam from 1963-65. During that period he knew Neil Sheehan, the New York Times correspondent who broke the Pentagon papers story ""casually,"" but says he has not seen him since Mr. Sheehan left Vietnam in 1963. After returning to Washington, Mr. Huey met Daniel Ellsberg, then working for Rand Corporation, once at a lunch in 1967 arranged by a mutual friend during a short stay Towson faculty member: by Dr. Ellsberg in the capital. Since coming to MIT, Mr. Huey says he saw Dr. Ellsberg only twice, once at a seminar at MIT in the fall of 1970, and once at a teachin in the spring of 1971. Those are the only three times he ever say Dr. Ellsberg, he says. ""They asked me about my association with Dr. Ellsberg...They suggested that since our careers had paralleled in so many ways.. . insinuating the things they wanted me to say. But our careers hadn't paralleled. They also wanted to know how well I knew Neil Sheehan. ""If there was ever a fishing expedition, this is it,"" insists Mr. 'Huey. Leases retained Meanwhile, Mrs. Idella Marx, stepmother of Mrs. Patricia Ellsberg, who testified before the Boston grand jury in early December after exhausting all legal attempts to have her subpoena quashed, was asked questions about the two Cambridge apartments of her son, Spencer, a 1971 Harvard Photo by Christian Monitor News Service Daniel Ellsberg�Grand Jury investigation continues. graduate who now lives in California. Spencer Marx retained the leases on his apartments over the summer although he had already moved west. Ryon to challenge Long in Congress With the campaign for the 1972 National Elections gaining more momentum every day, the Towson State College community will see one of its own faculty members, Dr. Rod Ryon of the History Department, enter the fray of February 15. On that date at 9:00 a.m. in the new Center, Dr. Ryon will hold a press conference to publicly announce his candidacy for the United States Congress Faculty member Dr. Rod Ryon challenges Clarence Long. from the Second District. He will be challenging Clarence Long. People's platform Dr. Ryon is a candidate of the People's Party which was formed in November in Dallas, Texas as an alternative to the lack of choice provided by the Democratic and Republican machines. The People's Party platform advocates an immediate, unilateral withdrawal of US forces and equipment from East Asia, reduced military spending, and removal of all US forces and equipment from foreign countries. Some of the other planks in the platform are: action against discrimination, segregation and repression of non-white women and workers. Creation of a national health service which will guarantee free physical, mental and preventive medical care, increased taxation of the wealthy and the establishment of minimum income and maximum wealth�this would help break down the existing concentration of economic power, elections by direct vote on all levels, an end to the electoral college and corrupt political machines and an end of defense spending except for the maintenance of a small US based army, controlled by the people. These are a small sampling of the large number of planks in the platform. Native son Dr. Ryon is a, native Marylander and has lived in Baltimore for six years. A graduate from Western Maryland College and Pennsylvania State University, he joined the Towson faculty in 1965. He now teaches courses in early American History and American Radicalism. As an educator, Dr. Ryon, is a proponent of equal and quality education for everyone, void of bureaucratic state control and intervention. He was an organizer of the civil rights movement on campus in 1966 and the anti-ware strike in 1970. Second district candidate An important figure in the development of the Maryland People's Party from its inception, Ryon was the unanimous choice to campaign in the second district. At this time, Dr. Ryon and his workers must collect signatures on petitions in order to have the Party become a legal party in Maryland to place his name and the names of the Presidential and Vice-Presi-dential candidates on the ballot. In his case, 5,5001 names must be gathered by March 7. In an an interview before she testified, Mrs. Marx explained, ""I guess they think maybe Dan (Dr. Ellsberg) stored the papers there. They probably think there's something strange about Spencer's having two apartments with special locks. But he had the locks because his first apartment was robbed once when we had only begun furnishing it, and he had a lot of expensive furniture and oil paintings. So we called a special lock company. ""His other apartment was for encounter groups�he was interested in Eastern religions and the Essalen Institute�and also so he could set himself up for graduate school and not have to rush to get ready at the last minute like Pat (Mrs. Daniel Ellsberg) did when she got married. And the apartments were still under lease during the summer because he couldn't find a sublet because of the recession."" Gravel appeals The boston grand jury investigation has been brought to a halt by legal appeals brought by nearly every witness subpoenaed. The First Circuit Court of Appeals is due to rule on a motion brought by Dr. Ellsberg for a protective order to prevent this grand jury from gathering testimony to be used in prosecuting him in Los Angeles where he has already been indicted. A grand jury cannot legally be used for this purpose. In addition, Sen. Mike Gravel (D) of Alaska is appealing to the Supreme Court for greater protection from grand jury "
