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[i]...the largely forgotten story of the first leak prosecution — United States v. John C. Nickerson Jr. The case — predating the Pentagon Papers trial by more than 15 years—turned Nickerson into a national hero. Newspaper readers were riveted by his story — a story replete with Cold War intrigue and a cast of characters that included former Nazi rocket scientists, a widely read syndicated columnist, top military officials, and a nationally renowned defense attorney. "There are occasions when in a single human drama all the conflicts of an era are concentrated," wrote a columnist for The Washington Post and Times-Herald in 1957. "The Nickerson trial seems likely to be one of those."[/i]
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