Ellsberg Witness Testifies Pentagon Asked CoverâUp
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
