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PETITION OF CRAIG

No. M-11-189.

942 F.Supp. 881 (1996)

In re Petition of Bruce CRAIG for Order Directing Release of Grand Jury Minutes.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

August 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debra L. Raskin, J.P. Levy-Warren, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., New York City and Lucinda A. Sikes, David Vladeck, Public Citizens Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Jennifer L. Borum, Merlin Kwan-Gett, Assistant United States Attorneys, United States Attorney's Office, New York City, for Respondent.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:

Petitioner Bruce Craig, a doctoral candidate at American University, seeks an order directing the release of grand jury records pertaining to a McCarthy-era espionage investigation. Petitioner is writing a dissertation on Harry Dexter White, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who was accused of being a Communist spy. In 1948, White appeared before a special grand jury to answer these allegations...

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