OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BOOBS AND UNDERLINGS

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By Art Buckwald
A lot of things were said in 1972 that
people would just as soon forget. For example
how would you have liked to have been .
. . . The person who said to Sen. Edmund ,
Muskie during the primary campaign in New
Hampshire, "Senator, why don't you go down
to Manchester and give publisher William
Loeb a piece of your mind?"
. . . Or the one who asked Maurice Stalls,
"Have you ever thought of opening a bank
account in Mexico City?"
. . . Or the campaign adviser who said to
Sen. George McGovern, "George, if they ask
you about Eagleton, just tell them you sup- ?
port him 1,000 per cent."
... Or the person who called Jack Anderson .
and said, "Have I got a story on Eagleton tor
you!"
And what about the aide who said to,Presi-
dent Nixon, "Thieu is in the bag. He'll agree
to anything we agree to in Paris."
Lest we forget the poor fellow who said to
John Mitchell, "I have this friend who used to
V work for the CIA and he's been casing the
Democratic National Headquarters and . . ."
Or the man who called his friend in Cali-
fornia early this year and asked, "How would
you like to move to New York City and work
for Life magazine?"
Or the officer who said to Gen. Lavelle,
"Don't worry, General, they're vow bombers
and you can send them anywhere you want."
And what about the State Department aide
who said to Secretary of State William Rogers,
. "I just gave Jimmy Hoffa a passport to go
to Hanoi."
Or the person who assured Jean Westwood,
"The Democratic National Committee chair-
manship is yours for the next four years."
Or the person on Henry Kissinger's st,1::1'
who told him, "Make it brief. Just tell the
country peace is at hand."
I wonder where the man is who advised
'Pony Boyle, then United Mine Workers'
dent, ''Don't "Don't worry, Tony, even ii the federal
government supervises the elections you're a
shoo-in to win."
Or the Interior aide who told the White
house, "My advice is to let the Indians :Jay
in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. What harm
can they do?"
Boas and STATINTL
[?Capitol :Punishment
Und
And what ever happened to the man who
said to Egypt's President Sadat, "Ask the
Russians to leave. That will pressure them
into giving us new weapons."
Or the lawyer who told Clifford Irving,
"They can't send you .to jail for faking an
autobiography."
Or the editor at Cosmopolitan who advised
Helen Gurley Brown, "Forget it. Nobody will
pay to see a photo of Burt Reynolds in the
nude."
And what about the man who said to Boris
Spassky, "I think I've found Bobby Fischer's
weakness."
And while we're at it, I wonder what hap-
pened to the man who advised Sammy Davis
Jr., "Now when the President comes on the
stage, throw your arms around him. He really
loves that sort of thing."
And what about .the person who said to
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, "Well, if you feel
that strongly about it, why don't you offer
to give your life for the Thieu regime?"
And finally, let's have a moment of silence
for Martha Mitchell's former bodyguard who
said to her, "Please, Mrs. Mitchell, just lie on
your stomach. This needle won't hurt."
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WILLTAMSBUGR, Va. (AP)
? Is Camp Peary, a hush-hush
Department of Defense instal-
lation in York County, Va., ac-
tually a training camp for the
Central Intelligence Agency?
The Virginia Gazette, a
weekly newspaper published
not far from the camp says it
is, basing its claim princ'pally
on an interview with an ex-
CIA agent turned novelist.
Two reporters for the Ga-
zette contend in an article for
the weekly that the CIA uses
Peary to train teams of assas-
sins, guerrillas, foreign merce-
naries and special warfare
agents, and to test exotic new
weapons.
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They wrote that they were
not permitted to enter the
camp property and received
crisp "no comments" when
they posed questions to offi-
cials there.
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Maggio the Source
Nearly all their information
apparently came from former
CIA man Joe MacTio, who
wrote a novel ? "Company,/
Man" -- which mentioned a
"Camp Perry" at which he
said tactical nuclear weapons
were tested.
The Gazette reported that
Maggio said from his home in
Coral Gables, Fla. that the
"Camp Perry" in his novel in
actuality was Virginia's Camp
Peary, taken over by the De-
partment of Defense 21 years
ago.
The newspaper said it was
told by Maggio that he was at
Camp Peary for three months
in leaa, enrolled in a "special
intelligence tradecraf course"
given CIA recruits.
It said Maggio said in the
interview that the "training
methArlS end techniques Cov-
ered by the CIA" at Camp
Peary included "assassination
training, demolition training,
parachute training, courses in
wiretapping and intelligence-
gathering, and experiments
with special weapons for use
in the field, including what
Maggio labeled as 'mini-
nuclear bombs."
'Disneyland of War'
The Gazette quoted Maggio
as saying, "I'm sure if you
had a blue ribbon committee
go in there, they'd find a
whole new world ? a Disney-
land of war."
The Gazette quoted him as
saying "the information con-
tained on Camp Peary in the
novel is factual."
Among other weapons the
Gazette quoted Maggio as say-
ing are being tested at Camp
Peary were a laser beam
weapon used to cause bodily
deterieration within 24 hours,
experimental f or mulas of
drugs such as LSD, and a vari-
ety of chemical warfare mate-
rials.
"Some day, somewhere,"
the Gazette said it was told by
Maggio in a taped telephone
interview, "that base is going
to have a catastrophe ? some
Dr. Strangelove explosion that
really is going to rock that
area."
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Bought by McCord
By Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
? .y
spokesman for a Rockville no amount resembling the $3,-
electronics firm said yesterday 500 allegedly, paid for the ra-
that James IV. McCord Jr. dio receiver.
cdentified himself as security ? The memo, from Nixon com-
'chief for President Nixon's re- mittee personnel director Rob-
election committee and paid cit C. Odle to deputy cam-
$3.500 in cash when he bought paign director Jeb S. Magni-
tt radio receiver last May. 'der, lists 18 separate payments
:..:The receiver allegedly was :to McCord, the highest being
'Used to pick up wiretapped 51,091.50 for security services.
conversations at the ?Demo- Ralph Grimm, manager of
Oats' Watergate headquarters. the Watkins-Johnson Corn-,
:? John Gearing, of the wat- 'pany, said his company sells
kins-Johnson Company, said :very few of the receivers be-
McCord left a Committee for cause they are handmade,
?the. Re-Election of the Presil, very compact and extra sons!.
dent business card with a ;tive for picking up weak sig-
salesman when the receiver, !nais. ?
wiliCh normally sells for "
I Though not designed to pick
$6,250, was purchased.
'up bugs or telephone wiretaps,
The firm's records say that Grimm said that is "a possible
?
McCord. one of -seven defend-
use" for them.
ants in the Watergate hugging
He said the receivers are
case scheduled for trial Jan. 8,i
normally sold to "government
paid only $3.500 because the 1
and those who work for gov-
receiver was a floor model!
ernment," though there is no
used for sales demonstrations. !
prohibition on selling them to
? The indictment, returned'
Sept. 15, charges that on May others.
Alfred C. Baldwin III, the
10 McCord purchased a radio
former FBI agent who has
receiving system "capable of
said he participated in the
receiving intercepted wire and
.1 Watergate bugging, appar-
oral communications."
ently made reference to the
.1 Sources close to the Water-1
receiver in a copyrighted arti-
gate investigation said the it dc in the Los Angeles Times. .
ceiver mentioned in the indict-'
Baldwin, who is expected to
merit was the one purchased
be the chief government wit-
b'? McCord fromWatkins-
nes in the Watergate trial,
G 1
Johnson. earing said the FBI
gave this description in Thei
had taken copies of his corona-
Times article of monitoring'
ny's records relating to Mc- telephone conversations at the
Cord's purchase. Democrats' headquarters:
Gearing said McCord left "I would keep an eye on the
the impression with the corn- little TV-type screen on the
party sideman that the radio monitoring unit. A constant
receiver was to he used by the line ran across the screen
President's re-election commit- when the tapped phone was
tee. not in use. When .someone
:Records of campaign ex- !started using the phone, the
penditures by the President's line would scatter and I would I
re-election committee how- quickly put on the earphones."
ever, show no payment to Mc- Baldwin described the re?
Cord for such a purchase. Dis- (-river as sophisticated re-
closure of all campaign ex- 1-aaivina, sat: which mccord
penditures is required by law. 'later said was worth $15,000."
An internal "confidential/
eyes only' memo of the Presi-
dent's re-election committee
dated two days after the June
,17 Watergate break-in pur-
ports to list all the committee
payments to McCord and lists
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By WALTER RUGABER An apparently full account of
speciai to The New York Times the eavesdropping and wiretap-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21?The ping operations at Democratic
Los Angeles Times, released headquarters, as described by
from a pledge of confidentiality,,Mr. Baldwin in the interview,
turned over in court today tape:N.vas subsequently published by
recordings of its interview withjhe Los /wades Times.
it central figure in the Water- i Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys
gate bugging case. . !agreed in today's move to al-
The action effectively ended!low the newspaper to make the
contempt-of-court proceeding full recordings available to
in-which the newspaper's Wash-Chief Judge John J. Sirica of
ington bureau chief, John F.: the United States District Court
Lawrence, was jailed briefly on::?
here for a closed-door inspec-
'Tuesday after an initial refusal i lion of the contents.
to surrender the recordings. I
It was understood that the
The Times had promised Al-! judge would edit out any re-
fred C. Baldwin 3d, who was marks on the tapes by Mr.
'questioned last September Baldwin's attorneys or by the
ablaut the break-in at the offices two reporters who conducted
of the Democratic National the interview, Jack Nelson and
Committee and related matters, Ronald J. Ostrow.
that it would not divulge the: The tapes, which had been
Illetaila without his apprwal. turned over by the reporters
to their paper, had been sought'
ktby attorneys for E. Howard
Hunt Jr., - one of seven de-
fendants in the forthcoming
criminal trial.
Mr. Baldwin is expected to
be a major Government wa-
istless, and the defense lawyers
lhad argued successfully that
:they were entitled to review,
his statements for possible use,
in any attacks on his credi-
bility.
Judge Sirica had rejected the
newspaper's argument that to
?. force disclosure of the record-
ings would inhibit its news.
gathering operations and vio-
late the First Amendment's free
press guarantee.
While the United States
Court of Appeals for the Dis-
trict of Columbia had allowed
Mr. Lawrence to remain free,
it issued an order late yester-
day warning that if the case
did not reach the Supreme
Court by tomorrow he could
be jailed again.
No One Had Asked
A member of the three-judge
appeals court panel, liarold
Leventhal, asked at a brief
hearing yesterday whether any-
one had asked Mr. Baldwin to
release The Lns Angeles Times
from the confidentiality agree-
ment.
No one had, but both Earl
J. Silbert, the principal United
State
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were thus prompte
Mr. Silbert said tit<
win "had no hesitancy in
authorizing the release."
In subsequent telegrams
from Mr. Baldwin's attorneys,
the newspaper was allowed to
turn over the recordings "with
the understanding that the
voices . .. other than that of
Mr. Baldwin will be .excised by
the court."
The lawyers, John V. Cassi-
dento and Robert C. Mirtoa
both of New Haven, said in
the telegrams that The
Los Angeles Times had been
freed from the confidentiality
agreement without pressure
from anyone.
Judge Sirica, whose jailing
of Mr. Lawrence had been
criticized in the press and in
Congress, said that he had been
"very sorry" to cite the news-
paperman, and that he was
"very happy to see that this
matter has been settled."
Reporters Not Satisfied
The reporters were less than
satisfied with the outcome. Mr.
Nelson said that it was "a sad
commentary" when a news
source had to give up a privi-
lege to keep a journalist out of
jail.
"It is still not a bell-ringing
day for the First Amendment,"
Mr. Ostrow said. "The issue is
still very much alive.''
The Reporters Committee for
the Freedom of the Press said
that while the two newsmen and,
their bureau chief had escaped
jail, the case nevertheless "rep-
resents a further serious
erosion" of the First Amend-
ment. The committee said:
"After all, two Federal courts
did order The Los Aniaales Times
bureau chief to jail, and the
only reason he escaped further
imprisonment was not by the
protection of the First Amend-
ment hut because a news
source backed down on the con-
fidentiality privilege."
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Time
Chief Jailed in
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conducted the interview, which was
published on Oct. 5, told the court in
'sworn statements that this promise
of confidentiality had helped them
persuade Baldwin to be interviewed.
Tapes Sought by Defense
? The tapes were requested by de-
fense attorney 'William 0. Bittman,
representing E. Howard Hunt ? Jr.,
selc.jv one of seven men indicted in the
break-in and bugging of Democratic
.Committee headquarters (in the -
Watergate complex here) last June
17.
Bittman said the tapes could im-
p ea ch Baldwin, an important
government witness, if his trial tes-
timony differed from statements
made previously.
In the published interview, which
ran several thousand words, Bald-
. ? ? Lawrence, Now. Free on .
Appeal, Refuses Judge's
Order to Submit Data
? BY ROBERT L. JACKSON.
' limes Staff Writer
WASHINGTON---A federal judge
Tuesday jailed John F. Lawrence,
The Times' Washington bureau
chief, after Lawrence refused to sub-
mit tapes and other material material relate
Ing to an interview last October with
a key government witness in the
Watergate bugging .case.
. About 21/2 hours later, the U.S.
Court of Appeals freed Lawrence
from a basement detention cell in
, the federal courthouse until a spe-
cial hearing on the case today.
Lawrence, 38, was cited for civil
contempt by Chief U.S. Dist. Judge
John J. Silica for refusing to comply
with the judge's subpoena, issued
lag Thursday, commanding that the
materials be produced Tuesday.
. "I'm deeply shocked that in Amer- -
Ica a professional journalist can be
put behind bars even before there is
a full hearing on an appeal," Law-
rence said. after his release.
'Issue That Has to Be Fought'
rThis is an issue that has to be
fought. We seem to be in competi-
tion With the free-trial idea, and the
free-press side is not being given
enough weight."
Lawrence said that although he
had been well-treated, "It was a very
emotional experience. I asked if I
could say goodby to my wife and
? they said, 'no.' It really dramatized
that my liberty was being taken
away." . .
Attorneys for The Times argued
that. certain .unpublished portions of
2he five-hour taped interview with
?Alfred C. Baldwin III involved con-
fidential information that the news-
paper, at Baldwin's request, had
agreed to withhold.
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Nelson and Ronald 4. Ostrow. who ?
win told of monitoring
tapped phone conversa-
tions ?from a listening post.
across the street from the
Watergate complex.
? Baldwin said also he had
' delivered sealed logs of
some conversations, to an
official of the sCommittee
for the Reelection. of the
President .but contended
that he could not remem-
ber the man's' name.
Government attorneys,
who have granted Bald- .
win immunity from
prosecution to testify as a
government witness in the
coming. Watergate trial on.
Jan. 8, told Sirica they. had
no objection to the sub-
poena, which the judge
had granted at the request
of the defense.
Earl J. Silbert, chief
assistant U.S. attorney,
said' the government had
expressed its ? "strongest
opposition". to Baldwin's -
granting such ? ari
inter-
view. ,
Sirica, in denying a
Times ? motiOn ea rlier
Tuesday to quash the sub-
poena, said the newspa-
per's tapes could be useful
to defense . attorneys, in
testing the credibility of
Baldwin as a -witness. He
said ? that a jury. might
want to compare Bald-
win's trial testimony with
all prey
had 'made.
Attorney Thnothy Dyk,
arguing for the Times
against the subpoena, said
that confidential . informa-
tion given to reporters
was proiccted by the. First
? Arw,ndinent's ? guarantees
- of freedom of speech and
of the press.
Such a ? "sweeping sub-
poena," he said, could set a.
dangerous precedent and
harm gathering of infor-
mation in the, public inter-
est from government offi-
cials as as from other
news sources.
Lawrence,' although not'
involved in ? interviewing
Baldwin, was named in
Silica's subpoena ? as the
n e wpsaper's representa-
tive. The court was told
that the Times, and not
Nelson and Ostrow as indi-
viduals, had possession of
the Baldwin tapes and re-
notes and materials.
toid Silica he
had custody of a manila
crmtaining the
? snbpoenaed materials but
that he would refuse to
submit it on. constitutional
? . andsother legal grounds.
.; Sirica then placed Law-
rence in the custody of a
. federal marshal to be "in-
'carcerated until such time
as he purges himself of his
contempt." Sirica denied a
..Times motion to stay exec-
s ution of his .order pending
appeal.
Lawrence was the third.
? ' newsman this year, to be
. jailed on the issue ? of
pr oteconfidential.
. sources or confidential
data.
, The others were Peter J.-
. Bridge, a- New -Jersey re-
porter who refused. to an-:
swer grand jury questions
that went beyond his story.
on a housing scandal, and,.
.?William T.? Farr, Times re-
. porter who has refused to
disclose which lawyer in
the Charles :Manson case
? provided him ?w it h
trial' statements in viola-
tion of a court-imposed gag
order. ,at the time, Farr.
was a reporter f or th
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will consider whether .
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By Brit Elam?
WASHINGTON: Ike Kleinerrnan, a C.B.S. News
producer, took a -camera crew through the South
recently to develop material for a documentary on
?
the problems of children in America. He hoped to
arrange an interview with a -mother who could
describe vividly how the welfare system, with its
prohibitions against payments to families with
, working fathers, has encouraged the breakup of
homes. He finally found just such a woman. She
. was a welfare, client who spoke eloquently from
? experience of the system's inequities. She agreed
to be interviewed on camera, but only with her
face averted and with absolute assurances she
:would not be identified by name. She had been
secretly harboring her husband in her home and
feared this would be discovered if she spoke out
publicly. Although promises to withhold names
have traditionally been routine in journalism,
Kleinerman called C.D.S. headquarters in New York
to check. The matter was referred to the legal de-
partment, where the judgment was swift. Kleiner-
man was told not to give the requested. assurance.
The interview. was canceled.
C.B.S.'s lawyers were reacting to the Supreme
Court's 5-to-4 decision last June 29, in the so-called
Caldwell case, that the First Amendment gives
journalists no right to conceal the identity of their
?sources of information from a grand :jury. The
Court acted simultaneously in three cases of news-
Men who had been subpoenaed to appear before
? grand juries tp expand upon information that was
in their stories. Two of the reporters, Earl Caldwell
of The New York Times and Paul Pappas of WTEV-
'TV in New Bedford, Mass., had gained access to
.the inner workings of the Black Panther party. The
other, Paul Branzburg of The Louisville Courier-
Journal, had published an inside story on the drug
trade which named no names. All three refused to
identify their sources or to breach other confidences
.which they felt had made their reports possible in
the first place. Pappas and Branzburg were
.ordered to testify by state courts and appealed to
the Supreme Court. Caldwell was excused from
testifying first by the Federal District Court-in San
Francisco and subsequently by the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals, which ruled that even his appear?
ance behind the closed doors of a grand jury room
'would damage his credibility with his Black Panther
sources. The Government appealed his case to the
.Supreme Court.
Speaking for the: majority, Justice Byron R.
White wrote, "We are asked . . . to grant newsmen
a testimonial privilege that other citizens do not
enjoy. This we decline to do . ? . We cannot accept
the argument that the public interest in possible
future news about crime
from undisclosed, unverified
sources must.take precedence
over the public ? interest in
, prosecuting those crimes re-
ported to the press by in-
formants . . ."
Stewart argued that the Court
"invites state and Federal au-
thorities to undermine the his-
toric independence of the
press by attempting to annex
the journalistic profession as
an investigative arm of Gov-
ernment . . . when govern-
mental officials possess an
unchecked power to compel
newsmen to disclose informa-
tion received, in confidence,
sources will clearly be de-
terred from giving informa-
tion, and reporters will clearly
be deterred from publishing it
because the uncertainty about
the exercise of the power will
lead to 'self-censorship.' "
Justice Stewart's predic-
tion, of course, fits precisely
the circumstances of the can-
celed C.D.S. interview. And
the chilling effect of the deci-
sion on the network does
:not seem to be an isolated ex-
ample. Fr instance, Paul
Branzburg, The Louisville
Courier-Journal reporter
whose case' went to the Su-
preme Court, was also sub-
poenaed by a second :Ken-
tucky grand jury in connec-
tion with another story. At
the height of the controversy,
he learned that marijuana use
had become widespread
'among well-to-do adults in One
large Kentucky community.
He gathered material for a
story on it mainly through in-
terviews with persons who
used the drug. The Courier-
Journal, understandably con-
cerned that this might lead to
conflict with still a third
grand jury, decided- not to
use it. ?
Nicholas von Hoffman, ? the
Washington Post 'columnist
who has written often about
radical political activity, says
he has had a long-standing
policy of trying to avoid be-
ing present during any activ-
ity the Government might
want to investigate. "I always
thought there was no way we
, could resist subpoenas, , even
before the Caldwell case," he
said. "When they first started
: talking , about the Mayday
:demonstration at a Nationa
Student Association conven-
tion a couple of years ago,"
von Hoffman recalls, "I just
got up and left."
A well-known Washington
freelance, whose work has ap-
peared in this Magazine, fold
how he abandoned the idea of
doing a magazine article
about a friend, who he had
discovered, to his astonish-
ment, was deeply involved in
the soft-drug traffic. Because
the Man had strong philosoph-
ical, rather than financial, rea-
sons for his activity, the
writer thought his case would
be interesting. His friend Imes
eager for the public to hear
his views and agreed to co-
operate if he were not identi-
fied. When the Court ruling
came down, however, the
writer changed his mind.. "I
never even considered doing
it after that," he said. In fact,
the writer was so intimidated
by the prospect of being
hauled before a grand jury to
identify his friend that he in-
sisted his name not be used
in this article.
Although there is no indica-
tion that the Government still
wants the testimony it sought
from Earl Caldwell, the long
court battle has left him un-
easy. "When the Government
issued the subpoenas," he
says, "they asked for more
than just my testimony. They
wanted documents, tapes and
notes. Since then, I have de-
stroyed other tapes and notes
and papers that I might have
been able to use for stories.
In some cases, I did taped in-
terviews Where I promised not
to use the material until some
future time. Now I've de-
stroyed these kinds of things
?things that might have been
invaluable to me."
Caldwell thinks the decision
will be especially hard on
newsmen trying to cover the
activities of disaffected blacks,
who tend to be suspicious of
the press. "We could never
promise these people that our
stories would get in the paper,
or even that, if they did, they
, would come out the way they
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WASHINGTON ? A fake passport in the name of Edward Hamil-
ton was reportedly found on Frank Sturgis when he was arrested during
an alleged robbery and bugging of Democratic National Headquarters
at the Watergate Office Building here June 17. The passport was re-
portedly faked by the CIA foriormer White House consultant E. Howard
Hunt Jr., who is under indictment in connection with the scandal. Hunt
is a former CIA operative.
Hunt was hired by Charles W. Colson, special counsel to Nixon and
who also served on his re-election committee and now has tendered his
resignation effective March 1. In addition, Colson was Nixon's labor
liaison. The Teamsters Union has announced that it Will switch its
lucrative legal business to the law firm Colson is expected to join.
Another strange aspect of the Hunt-Sturgis link was brought to
light with the death of Hunt's wife in the United Air Lines crash in
Chicago last Friday. Her purse contained more than $10,000 in neatly
arranged. bills. Police, reported that one of the bills bore a written
inscription: "Good luck. FS" ? same initials as Sturgis'.
The federal indictment charges that Hunt Was present at the Water-
gate at the time of the bugging but left before the police arrived and
arrested five others, including Sturgis. At the time, Hunt was in
charge of security for the Republican National Committee.
The Watergate trial is scheduled to open-next month.
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By Edmund J. Rooney
and Mini!) j. O'Connor
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er four persons were carrying that the $25,000 was part. of , Hunt carried bore inscriptions.
electronic listening devices. $111,000 in donations to Presi-lOne said "Good luck. FS." In-
c a m e r a s for photographing dent Nixon's campaign that vestigators said this apparently
,
CHICAGO, ILL. ,? An in- documents burglary equipment , stoo(, for Frank Sturgis, anoth-
vestigator who helped convict and hand-held radios. The five were used to finance the WatetT cc of those arrested inside
wite In eak-in. Both? Hunt and
one of the Watergate bugging wore surgical gloves.
defendants told the Chicago If n n t was a $1.00-a-day
Daily News Wednesday that White House consultant until
$10,585 found in a wrecked jet- shortly before seven persons Dardis said he. had .done
were indicted Sept. 15 in the
liner here may be part of some investigation of the $100
$109,000 missing in the break-in Watergate break-in. bills that were found in the
case. He and another former White wrecked jetliner in Chicago.
C h i e f Investigator Martin House consultant, G. Gorden Dardis said that at least 20 of
Dardis of the Dade County Liddy, who also was indicted, the bills started with the prefix
s t a t e ' s attorney's office in. were not arrested inside the B, which indicates they came
Miami added that he believes Watergate. from the federal reserve bank
the money came to Chicago vial Dardis played a key role in in New York City. ,
a transaction at a New York the investigation that led to the He also noted that two sets of
City bank, conviction of Barker last month the New York bills were in se-
"We were never able to on. charges of unlawfully nota- que.nce and that this led him to
trace $109,000 of the Water- ming . a $25,000 Republican believe that Mrs. Hunt or who-
gate money. It was all in $100 campaign check, lie received a ever gave her the money had
bills and some, of those bills 00-day suspended jail term in a obtained the cash from a New
found in Chicago could be bench trial. York bank before coming to
part of it," said Dardis. D a d e County State Atty. Chicago.
i c 1.1 a r d Gerstein contended Two of the $100 bills Mrs.
The wi Hfe of E. Howard Hunt,
a defendant in the Watergate i
bugging break-in case in Wash- 1
i n g 1 o n , was carrying the t
$10,585, including 100 bills of :
.$100 denomination.
: Mrs. Doroihy Hunt, 52, of
I Potomac, Md., who was killed
in last Friday's airliner crash,
:was coming to Chicago to visit
:a cousin, Harold A. Carlstead.
Dardis played a key role in
the Dade County investigation
of another of the Watergate de-
fendants, Bernatid Barker. who
deposited $111.000 in the Repub-
lic National Bank in Miami and
then drew it out -- in $100 bills.
Barker and four of the other
defendants were arrested at
2:30 a.m, last dime 17 inside
Democratic National Com-
mittee headquarters in the Wa-1
tergate lintel in lA'allington.
Barker had 53 bills of 8100
denomination in his pvsession
. when arrested. Ile and the oth-
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; KEY. BISCAYNE,. Fla.,
2?Richard Helms will
--..'spon resign. as director of
the Central intelligence
Agency. He has been offer-
ed a new job by President
'Nixon and is expected to
.accept.
, Helms' intentions became
, known in Washington today
while the President was an-
nouncing here that he would
retain his principal White
'House advisers but would ac-
cept the resignation of special
:counsel Charles W. Colson.
Presidential press secretary
;?Ronald..L. Ziegler announced
`. that No. 1 assistant IT. R. (Bob)
Haldeman, domestic affairs as-
!Sistant John D. Ehrlichman
and foreign policy adviser
-Henry A. Kissinger would stay
? on in-the second term.
- Ziegler also announced the
retention of eight other high-
:ranking officials, including
himself, and the anticipated
resignations of counsellor
Robert H. Finch, deputy coun-
-:sel.Harry S. Dent and special'
:assistant Robert J. Brown, the?
highest-ranking black in the
Nixon 'administration.
Donald H. Rumsfeld direc-
signment as the director of California with an eye on run-
tor of the 'Cost of Living . CIA's covert or "black" opera-
Council, will be given an tali- tions.
;fientified "major, new - President Johnson picked
'.ment," Ziegler said. RAW ci him to head the agency in
has been mentioned tr.... 1966 as a replacement for
quently as .a likely choice lAdm. William F. Reborn Jr.
0
TM
3
. Mr. Nixon pledged Monday Washington has been high.
at Camp David that he was go- newspaper columnist wrote a?
ing to "change some of the common judgment in 1966:
'Players and some of the plays" "(Ile) fits none of the stereo-
in an effort to prevent his ad- types of the spy thriller and
ministration from "coasting
downhill" in its second term.
Most of the announcements
during the 'week have been of
administration holdovers, and live of James Bond." I
Ziegler conceded that the ap-i While no information was
pointments have not tanounted: available last night on a new
to a "traditional shakeup." ? ? assignment for the 59-year-old
Instead, Ziegler said, the; Helms, it was determined that
various changes in assign-!
he regards the President's'
the innumerable spy films of
recent years. Slender, soft-spo- RICHARD HELMS
ken, modest in demeanor . . . STATINTL-F"' out of the cold -
he is not even a distant rela-,
ments will produce "more effi-
cleney",. in the White House
and "allow us to get the job'
done better,"
The full list of holdovers an-
that Helms might be replaced
y James Schlesinger, who IS
b
flounced by Ziegler today in-
presently chairman of the At-
Kissinger, Ziegler, congres-
eludes Haldeman, Ehrliehman,
omic Energy Commission.
sional liaison man William E. Schlesinger is highly regarded
Timmons, special consultant by the White House and
played an important role in
evaluating and helping to re.
organize the?government intel-
ligence community after Mr.
Nixon took office.
The Washington Post re-
ported on Nov. 25 that Colson,
a controversial troubleshooter
who served as liaison man to
labor and ethnic groups dur-
ing the ? election campaign,
would he leaving the White .
House to resume private legal ? ,
practice in Washington. He
most likely will join a firm
headed by his old partner,
Charles H. Morin, who said
that he and hiS,partners Would
new offer as a promotion from'
his present job.
There was speculation, too;
Leonard Garment, director of
communications Herbert G-.
Klein, counsel John W. Dean
HT, personal secretary Rose
Mary Woods and speechwri-
ters Raymond K. Price Jr.,
Patrick J. Buchanan -Jr. and
William Safire.
. Ziegler also announced that
Roy L. Ash; the newly ap-
pointed director of the Office
of Management and Budget,
would be made an assistant to
the President, a designation
which means that. he will be.
available to take on special as-
signments in addition. to di?
meting the budget office.
Helms got into intelligence- "welcome him with open
work in. 'World War II as i arms."
young- naval officer assigned Ziegler said that Colson will
to the Office of Strategic remain on the White House
Services. He joined the CIA staff for at least - 60- days to
when it was formed in 1947, help with transition to the see!:',
and has remained there ever and term. . . .,
since. He rose to the position - Finch, who said two weeks
of deputy director after an as- ago that he was returning to
ning for either the . governor-
ship or U.S. Senate, Is to hold?
A news conference in Washing
ton Tuesday to discuss' his for-
Mal plans.
/Dent will return to his legal.
practice in South Carolina and-,
:replace George Romney, who
? Helms' reputation as a Brown to his business In'.
--resigned early last week as. "pt
. ofessional" in the intelli- North'Carolina, Ziegler said.,,,A
Secretary of Housing and lir- gence community and in the
ban Developpent.
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Star?News Staff Writer
? -KEY BISCAYNE?. Fla.?President Nixon dis-
closed yesterday that a dozen senior members of
. his personal Staff at the White House will carry
:on into his second term.
Presidential assistants Henry A: Kissinger,
(Bob) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-and press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler are among
? the best-known names on the still-incomplete list
to be retained in essentially their current posi-
. tions. - ? ?
? Ziegler announced Nixon's decisions regard-
ing the dozen he staffers even as it was learned
authoritatively that what he called the "substan-
tial" cut planned by. the President in the total
personnel of his-executive office could approach ?
59 percent.
? , The press secretary told questioners: "I really
don't want to lock the President or anyone in the
White House to Specific percentage figures."
Personnel Totals 1,600
? Sources familiar with the second-term
plan-
'ning still in process indicated the goal is to cut
as nearly in half as possible the total, of more than
1,900 personnel in the "Executive Office of the
President." That includes such elements as the
'Office of Management and Budget, the Council
of Economic Advisers and so on, as well as the 500
or so in the White House office itself.
Ziegler confirmed yesterday that four staff
members whose departure has been widely an-
ticipated will be leaving soon?Counsellor Robert
H. Finch, special counsels Charles W. Colson and
Harry S. Dent, and special assistant Robert. J.
Brown, who is the highest ranking black on the
-staff: ? ?
Besides Kissinger, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
and Ziegler these listed yesterday as staying on
for the second term were:
? Herbert J. Klein, a long-time Nixon associate
-''serving as director of communications for the Ex-
. ecutive branch.
William E. Timmons, assistant to the Presi-
dent for congressional relations.
Leonard Garment, special consultant to th? e
President who is especially concerned with civil
and human rights affairs.
John W. Dean III, counsel to the President
'whose investigation satisfied Nixon that. none
presently employed by the White House was in-
:volved in the Watergate break-in. case.
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Rose Mary Woods, who has been personal
secretary to Nixon since 1950.. ?
Special assistants Raymond K. Price Jr.,
Patrick J. Buchanan and William L. Safire, who
have made up Nixon's primary speech writing
team but whose roles "may change somewhat,"1
according to Ziegler.
Ehrliehman Role Changed .
Kissinger, ,assistant to the President ,for na-
tional security affairs whose role in Vietnam
peace negotiations and in 'arranging the Peking -
and Moscow summits brought, him much into the
public eye, was getting his final instructions from
Nixon for a new round of secret peace talks. in
Paris Monday when his con-
tinued retention as the Presi-
dent's right-hand man in for ?
cign policy. was announced.
Haldeman, known. as the
White House chief of staff, and
Ehrlichm.an, Nixon's top do-
mestic policy aide, have been ?
working closely with the Presi-
dent here this wee'kend as they
have for weeks on plans for
xestructuring the staff and de-
vising ways to make the gov-
ernment operate more effi-
ciently.
One step Nixon has decided
on, White House officials said,
is to split Ehrliehman's job,
? in effect to free him to devote
more time to managing the?
handling of major policy issues
that cut across departmental
and agency lines.
. Ehdichman will continue to
? act as chairman of the Do-
mestic Connell, but his duties
' as director of the council staff,
overseeing day-to-day activ-
ities, will be taken over 'by
Kenneth R. Cole Jr? who will
be promoted from deputy di-
rector to director of the coun-
cil.'
New Rumsfeld Assignment
Donald Rumsfeld, counsellor
to the President and director
of. the Cost of Living Council,
"will be taking on a major
new assignment" in Nixon's
second term, Ziegler dis-
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Los Angeles, Nov. 29?A former CIA agent, arrested
during the burglary-bugging attempt at Democratic head-
quarters at the Watergate complex in Washington also
plotted to attack and "defame" Daniel Ellsberg at a public
rally in Washington, defense attorneys at the Pentagon
Papers trial here charged.
. At a court hearing tomorrow,
they will ask the trial judge to
hold an evidentiary hearing to
determine
whether the
former agent,
,t Bernard Barker,
was working
under govern-
ment orders at
so, to dismiss
the time and if
the conspiracy-
espionage
indictment
s?.
against Ells-
berg and co-de-
Bernard
lendant An
? thony Russo Jr.
? The defense has also moved to
dismiss the indictment "because
of gross misconduct by the vice
president of the United States"
?who made "hIgh17 prejudicial and
inflammatorg co ments concern-
ing the motives. ;,he guilt and the
patriotism of the defendant."
This was a reference to Spiro
Agnew's remarks on a national
television program, when he in-
timated that he saw no differ-
ence between the Watergate af-
fair and the Pentagon Papers ?
case.
Ellsberg's chief attorney, Leo-
nard Boudin, said in his papers
that "the strong inference exists
from the facts now available that
the responsibility for the said
conspiracy and prejudice rests
with the government."
New Jury Asked
U.S. District Court judge Matt
Byrne Jr. has scheduled argument
tomorrow on a defense motion
for a mistrial and for the swear-
ing in of a new jury.
The defens lawyers contend
that while the trial was delayed
pending litigation over a gov-
ernment wiretap, the jurors could
not avoid becoming prejudiced,
since they were in recess during
the political campaign. The law-
yers said that the Vietnam war
was an issue and the jurors had
to become involved in the political.
debate over it.
They also noted that anew Jury;
now could inClude persons in the
18-to-20-year-old group. When
the present jury was sworn, this
age group had not yet been in-
cluded in federal panels.
Opposing the motion for nils-
trial and dismissal of the indict-
ment, the government has con-
tended that tho jurors were under
orders during the recess not to.
discuss or read about the case,
and that selectioh of a new jury
would create unnecessary delay
and expense.
Judge Byrne has called the 12
regular and six alternate jurors
to his court on Friday, when he -
is expected to question them
about their ability to continue to
serve.
He has set Dec. 6 as the tenta-
tive date for resuming the trial,
with opening statements to the
jury by Assistant U.S. Attorney
David Nissen -
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Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
?
Five months after the attempted .bugging
of the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters in Washington, the American
public remains baffled. Who ordered the
bugging? How widespread is political es-
pionage? And, more important: What is the
likely impact of Watergate on Americans'.
faith in their politiCal process? First of four
articles.
Washington
0 OUTWARD APPEARANCES IT WAS A
typical lazy Saturday, spring's last. Down-
? town in Washington clouds of tourists swirled
ound gleaming monuments. Out in suburbia home-
ownera barbered postdandelion lawns. But for tourists
and Washingtonians alike the news last June 17th would
prove anything but typical. As the day wore on startling
information filtered down to Americans slowly, like rain
through a forest canopy: In the dead of night five men
had been arrested inside Democratic national headquar-
ters. They were carrying ? devices for wiretapping
telephones, Several crisp $100 bills, and cameras. And
they were wearing rubber gloves, which would leave no
fingerprints.
Precisely who had sent them, Americans in and out of
Washington immediately wondered? What were they
trying to find out? Where did their money come from?
Finally ? what part, if any, did the Republican Party
play in all this? It was, after all, an election year.
In the five months since then the issue has waxed and
waned. Days of accusatory headlines have alternated
%Vith oft-limited denials and periods of quiescence.
tharges of politics repeatedly have hurtled through the
air; "Watergate" became a major issue in the McGov-
ern presidential bid.
Issue is rising again ?
Now that the election is over, the -issue is on the
ascendancy again in Washington. In the offing are: trial
of seven Watergate bugging defendants, scheduled to
begin Jan. 8; one or more congressional committee
Investigations, also likely to begin in the near future. '
This time the issue walks hand-in-glove with far deeper
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One of the most serious questions Is: Was Watergate an
isolated incident, as Republicans maintain? Or was there
a widespread Republican effort to conduct espionage
against Democratic presidential candidates this year
and sabotage their campaigns, as several publications
have charged? These journalistic allegations were
followed by 'a series of changes from individual
Americans that efforts had been made to recruit them to
conduct such sabotage.
(Late last month White House press secretary Ronald
L. Ziegler denounced the Washington Post, which has
made many of the charges, for what he called vicious
abuse of the journalistic process" in its allegations of
widespread Republican sabotage against Democratic
candidates.)
But the Republican denials have not as yet covered the
full range of accusations. And if there should be proven to
be any .truth to charges of widespread campaign
sabotage, it is thought here, government and its leaders
will have suffered yet another blow to their credibility ?
a blow they can ill afford.
In Mid-November a Harris poll reported that public
confidence in leaders of government continued at a low
ebb, down significantly from only six years ago.
Public confidence drops
According to this poll only 28 percent of Americans
questioned said they had a great deal of confidence in the
U.S. Supreme Court, only 27 percent in the federal
executive branch (which includes the presidency), and
only 21 percent in the Congress. This was significantly
lower than the support expressed for national leaders in
a 1006 poll; this decline paralleled the drop in public
confidence generally in private institutions, as measured
by the same Harris poll. ? ?
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By ROBERT H. PHELPS
Spwiai to The tiew York Times
.KENNEBUNKFORT, Me., Nov..
12?Charles W. Colson, special
counsel to President Nixon, ac-
cused The 'Washington Post and
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tem last night of "McCarthy-
ism" ? in their reports of the
bugging of the Democratic Na-
'tional Committee and allega-
tions of Republican efforts to
"sabotage" the Democratic
Presidential primaries.
In a rare public appearance,
the key Nixon assistant told the
annual convention of the New
,England Society of Newspaper
!Editors at the Shawmut Inn
ithat The Post and C.B.S. had
been "unconscionable" in the
iway that they had "printed, re-
!printed and eventually reported
.as a fact that which was indeed
not a fact" regarding' the at-
tempted bugging of the
Demo-
cratic; headquarters at the
Watergate. Hotel in Washington
? and the alleged disruption of
the Democratic primary cam-
,
I ?
Snecifically, Mr. Colson cited
a Post article reporting that
H. R. Haldeman, President
Nixon's top assistant, had had
access to a "secret fund" used
Ito disrupt the opposition. Mr.t
Colson complained that The
Post had repeated the charge
without mentioning denials by
Mr. Haldeman and by Hugh.
Sloan, the former finance chair,
man of the Nixon drive, who
allegedly was the original
source of the article.
Mr. Colson, who played a
major role in directing thel
campaign to re-elect President
Nixon, singled out Benjamin',
Bradlee, the executive editorl
of The Post, for his harshest!
criticism.
' Describing Mr. Bradlee as the
'self-appointed leader of a
"tiny fringe of arrogant elitists"
in journalism, Mr. Colson
added;
"If Bradlee ever left the
Georgetown cocktail set where
he and his 6litist buddies dine
on third-hand information, gos-
sip and rumor, he would dis-
cover the real America. lie'
might learn that all truth andi
knowledge does not emanate
exclusively from The Post, The
[New York] Times, and the net-
works; and that all of the rest
of the country isn't just sitting
around waiting tb be told by
these select few what they .are
supposed to think."
Mr. Colson also denounced
C.B.S. Ap prelv6dupor
tR
commentator, for two programs ?
on the Watergate case, "re-
hashing all of the old charges,
coming up with no new infor-
mation and noting only a selec-
tive few denials." Fifteen min-
utes of the 22 minutes of the
first program were "unlabeled
editorial," Mr. Colson said.
"Thus," he charged, "The Post
and C.B.S. employed tactics
similar to those attributed to
their old archenemy of the
nineteen-fifties [the late Sena-
tor Joseph R. McCarthy], engag-
ing in the identical kind of un-
proven innuendo they found so
shocking 20 years ago."
Mr. Colson attributed Thel
Post's handling of the Wateri
gate story to the paper's de-
sire to prop up the saggingt
campaign of Senator. George
McGovern. He suggested no
motivation for C.B.S.'s cover-
.age.
The tragedy of The Past's
handling of the Watergate,
story, Mr. Colson concluded,
was to "erode somewhat pub-
lic confidence in the institu-
tions of government; and it
also eroded as well the confi-
dence of a lot of fair-minded
persons in the objective re-
porting of The Washington
Post." . .
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WASHINGTON ? If tomorrow's ballot-
ing Produces the Nixon landslide which
some. pollsters expect, we may spend a lot
of years asking why the President ran so
scared that he permitted the trampling of
historic principles and protections.
, All incumbent Presidents have used
their appointees.and other resources of gov-
ernment to try to win reelection. They have
fanned surrogates out on the campaign
. trail, but almost always they used only
those Cabinet members (the Attorney Gen-
eral, e.g.) and assistants who were clearly
-understood to be politicians-in-waiting. .
BUT IT BODES future ill for the nation
when the Secretary of State and the Secre-
tary of Defense are pulled into naked politi-
cal hucksterism. It injects a special mea-
sure of political poison into the foreign
poli-
cy dialogue when a political campaign is
festooned with the voice of a Secretary of
. State who has otherwise hardly been heard
: from for four years.
The assumption is that Secretary of
? State William Rogers will now go . back to
civilian pursuits.
The FBI's directive to field stations to
? provide data that John Ehrlichman and
other ? Nixon aides could use in the cam-
paign is an even more serious matter, as
Eludichman admits publicly.
1.
I. Won't ask how, then, in the name of.
sanity, an FBI struggling to regain the con-
fidence and adulation of all the people
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arailna.E.P
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could make the colossal error of helping the
political campaign of the incumbent Presi-
dent, I know how. Ehrlichman and his asso-
ciates in the White House are known to play
rough.
But the FBI will survive this misadven-.
ture. Even though i.t may be pressured to
ward new ,indiScretions if the same insensi-?
five characters hold power for four more
,years, the FBI is going to move back to a
posture where it espouses no social, eco-
nomic or political ideology, and. it plays
footsie with no political party.
Perhaps the most ominous develop-
ment of all is the extent to which 1972
-turned American politics into a sort of .
CIA-vs.-the-KGB .operation ? no ideological
comparisons intended.
Now that we've had the Watergate bur-
glary and bugging caper, the revelations
that Donald Segretti was running a massive
campaign to sabotage Democratic candi-
dates, and overwhelming evidence tying
this espionage, thievery and sabotage to the
White House, you can wager that in future
campaigns anything will go.
? / ?
THE THIRST for power, suspicion, in-
trigue, will combine to diminish the little
respect that remains for rights of privacy
in this society.
- Before this nation pays the final price
even a retired' Richard M. Nixon may ono
day look back and ask: "Was ,winning
worth all that?" ?
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The
dirty tricks Of Presidential politics.
Everybody understands why the Presi-
dent .doesn't agree to debate. George
, McGovern, though most of them think
? he would do all right if he did. And
they're all used to the deceptions of,
campaign finances.
But this campaign .has moved from
Tammany Hall dirty tricks to guer-
rilla warfare, espionage and sabotage,
bugging and burglary, and while the /
Democrats concede that they have run
a poor campaign, and maybe even that
.they deserve not to win, they resent
and even hate the. C.I.A. tactics that
have been used against them, and
will probably carry their resentment
into the next four years.
It will be interesting to see how the
President deals with this dual prob-
lem in the last few days of the cam-
paign. He is insisting that he will not
sigh: an ambiguous peace with the
Communists in Vietnam because, while
this would help him in the election,
it would create trouble later on. Look
to the future, he says.-
At.the same time, he is being asked
to look to the future beyond 'the elec-
? tion at home, answer the charges of
financial corruption, espionage and
sabotage, and go on to an honorable
.victory that will win the respect and
cooperation of the Congress and the
people in the coming years.
The important thing now is that,
if he is going to win, that. he should
win, clean and fair, but while he is
now. riding high, he is in trouble of
winning both in Vietnam and in the
, election under circumstances that will
hound and defeat him in the next
four, years.
For the moment, he is following
what he calls his "game plan," but
this comparison between sports and
politics. is not really very accurate.
For he is playing to win in the elec-
tion and in the Vietnam peace talks, '
but not regarding how he will live
with the consequences.
The polls tell us that he is still not
very popular personally but that he
is going to win by a landslide. They
also tell us that the Democrats have
outregistered the Republicans three to
two, but that Senator McGovern may
lose every state in the Union, and
that .his only chance- of avoiding a
shut-out lies with the people who
knew Mr. Nixon best?in California
and the District of Columbia. It is an
extraordinary paradox.
still, 'when it is all over, Mr. Nixon..
hag' 'to deal with the practical prob-
lems, and will need some trust, if not
affection, to deal with them. His prob-
lem now is not whether he can win
? next week, bet whether he can win
. in :such a way that he will be able
to govern effectively in the next four
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? By James Reston
The two things that have preoccu-
? pied President Nixon most oi' his wak-
ing hours for the last two years have
been winning the war in Vietnam and
winning ye-election to the Presidency.
Both have been hard, ambiguous and
agonizing problems, but the contrast
between his handling of the war and
his direction of the election campaign .
, is startling.
? On Vietnam, he has argued, not for
victory but for. a compromise that .
would endure, not merely for a cease-
fire,- but for practical arrangements
between the contesting forces that -
, would move from confrontation to
,l.negotiation and cooperation but finally
?to 'what he calls. "a generation of
-.peace."
In the election struggle with the
?Democrats, he has much the same
problem. But while he has talked end-
lessly about "peace with honor" and
the future in Vietnam, he has said
nothing about "victory with honor"
in the election, and what may come
after.
While the President has been con-
.siderate of the future in Vietnam, and
,Willing to compromise with the Com-
munists, he has used every, trick in
:the book, and quite 'a few that have
never been in the' book, to defeat the
Democrats in the election, without
regard for the future when they may
still be in control of the Congress.
This is one of the mysteries of this
election. The President has won but
is so used to losing that he doesn't
know it, and is now pressing hard
for a landslide that he may win, but
in the process so antagonize the Demo-
cratic majority in the Congress that
;he cannot govern effectively in the
.next.four years.
On the whole, Washington is very .
joletpt of the easy ethics and even
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By Art Buchtimild .
If. Richard Nixon wins the election nextweek, most of
the Credit will go to Lu Doc Toy who heads the "Com-
... inunists For. Nixon" Committee in Hanoi.
Lu Doc Toy who, until this election, always voted the
straight Communist party ticket,- deeided to support
Nixon this year because he said, "I'm sick and tired of
having my kids bused along the Ho Chi Minh 'Frail."
Having made the decision, Lu Doc Toy contacted the
Committee for the Re-election of the President in
Washington. which sent one of their top CIA men to .
Hanoi to help him in the campaign. ?
, Lit Doc Toy told the CIA man, "I need bumper
,stickers, buttons, posters and a secret fund to get the
Communists For Nixon off the ground."
-
? .? The CIA man said, "We've written off North Vietnam
as far as electoral votes go, but you could help us ?
tremendously in getting the President re-elected with a,
..small favor."
? "What can I do? Lu Doc asked.
... "Arrange a peace treaty with the U.S. .a week before,
.the elections."
"It's done," Lu Doc Toy said. "My cousin is a member
-.,of the Politburo and he owes me a favor."'
Lu Doc Toy went.to see his cousin Ton Son Not in his
bomb shelter .the next day. During a 15-minute break
?. in the bombing he said, "Ton Son Not, as you know I am
? head of the Communists For Nixon and .I have a small
'favor to ask of you." ? -
. "You have dishonored your ancesters, Lu Doe Toy,"
Ton Son Not said. "How can you support a man whose
?? party would bug the Watergate?" . .
"It was a prank," Lu Dec Toy said. "Everyone does
it during an election year. Besides Nixon knew nothing
about it." , .
"Thats 'what all the Communists For Nixon say. But
.
we know differently. Besides, how could you work for
man who said he would stop the war in 1968?"
. "Exactly," Lu Doc Toy said. "That's what I came to
,speak to you about Nixon wants to stop the war again,?
.? only this time before the election."
'"It's a trick," Ton Son Not said. "What does he want
in exchange for it?"
"Nothing we wouldn't have given him in 1968. It's the ,
? same ? deal that was offered to him then."
"But why now? I thought the U.S bombing was ,
Working."
- ? "Who knows what goes on with those cockamamie
Americans? But I'm giving it to you straight. If you
'people ? say - okay Nixon will send what's-his-name to
pails to sign thc,.dcal." ,?
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"Wait a inintie," Ton Son Not said, "If we agree 'to a
peace settlement, that means we'll have four more years
of Nixon."
"Look, Ton Son Not," Lu Doc Toy said, "We hold the
key to the American presidential election in our hands.
We have to decide whether we want Nixon for President
and a generation of peace, or whether we want the mis-
guided, badly thought out, socialistic programs of George
McGovern."
- The bombing started again. "WHAT ABOUT THIEU?
,W1LL HE GO ALONG WITH IT?" Ton Son Not yelled.
"DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIEU," Lu Doc Toy yelled
back. "HE'LL DO ANYTHING NIXON ASKS HIM TO!"
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By JEREMIAH O'LEARY
Star?News Staff Writer
MIAMI, Fla.?Watergate de-
fendant Bernard L. Barker
will go on trial here tomorrow
on a Florida criminal charge
stemming from his handling of
a $25,000 Republican campaign
contribution check two months
before the burglary of Demo-
cratic National Committee
headquarters.
The way was cleared for the
trial to begin berore Dade
County; Criminal Court Judge
Paul Baker when defense at-
torneys headed by Henry
Rothblatt exhausted their at-
tempts to obtain a dismissali of
the charge or a delay in the
trial.
The trial will be the only
public airing of any facet of
the Watergate case before vot-
ers go to the polls next Tues-
day. The criminal trial of Bar-
ker and six others indicted in
the Watergate break-in will
not take place ? until Jan. 8.
Various Congressional com-
mittees have been unable to
get public hearings launched
into the political espionage
case before the national elec-
tion.
Prosecutor David Goodhart
?
and ?Rothblatt appeared before
Baker yesterday and the jurist
denied a defense motion for
dismissal of the charge. Roth-
blatt then went 'before Miami
Federal Court judge Peter
Fay and withdrew an earlier
motion for a temporary in-
junction to restrain the state
of Florida from going ahead
with the trial of Barker tomor-
row.
Barker is charged with vio-
lation of a Florida law which
makes it a third-degree felony
to misuse a notary public seal.
Barker, who is a real estate
man, a notary and a former
operative with the CIA in
anti-Castro Cuban movements,
faces up to five years in prison
if convicted.
The case against Barker
made by State Attorney Rich-
ard E. Gerstein is that the
Miami man attempted to cash
a $25,000 check in a Florida
bank last April by authenticat-
ing with the notary seal the.
endorsement of another. The
cashier's check was made out
to Kenneth Dahlberg, a key
midwest fund-raiser for the
committee for the Re-election
of the President. Gerstein
charges that Barker did not
know Dahlberg and never saw
him endorse the check.
It has never been explained
how the $25,000 check came {
into Barker's possession. Bar-
ker also cashed four other
checks that has passed
through CREP, to
$89,000. These checks origi-
niated in Texas, were reissued
or "laundered" in Mexico
City, and went to CREP head-
quarters in Washington before
ending up in the hands of the
Watergate group leader.
/The trial is expected to be of
if short duration since Rothblatt
has waived a jury trial.
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Mixed Bag of Sleuths
As a reader who occasionally pursues
a news article to the last paragraph, I am
amazed that no government agency, no col-
umnist, no editorial writer, apparently no
citizen, seems to have read the first Post ar-
ticle on the Watergate affair to the end. Did
no one else note that two of the five "bur- .
glars" caught there are longtime friends, as-
sociates, and employees of Jack Anderson,
and that Anderson went their ball and in-
vited them to his home upon their release?
Barker and Sturgis, it was noted casually in
the last paragraph, are "soldiers of forttine,"
? frequently employed by Jack Anderson.
I am an admirer and regular reader of
Anderson's column, but I cannot avoid
the impression that some of his mate-
rial is obtained by means other than. the
"press release." Anderson has been
strangely silent on the subject of the
.affair, offering merely an infrequent
comment on its scandalous nature....
I offer these. observations only to suggest
:that, rather than a wholly. Republican or -
wholly free-lance operation, the Watergate
break-in may have been a mixed bag that in-
cluded "investigators". of- diverse. ? hack-.
grounds and interests.
_ ? : RICHARD E. GRANT. .
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McGovernites' index card on Segretti
The St ry
Of a GOP
Trickster
Thegreat gummy fungus called the
Watergate case refused to curl up
;and die. Day by day, new details ap-
peared., confirming the existence of a
well-financed, well-organized eighteen-
month GOP campaign to defame and con-
fuse the Democratic opposition through
espionage, legal . and otherwise. Last
week NEWSWEEK uncovered a new Re-
publican operative?a Midwestern politi-
cal sabotage agent who says he was
recruited, coached, supplied and paid
at least $2,000 by the GOP's amateurish
spymaster, Donald H. Segretti. A tele-
phone link was established between Se-
gretti and the home and 'White House
office of Dwight Chapin, appointments
secretary to the President. If the Presi-
dent had not been directly soiled by the
case so far, his Administration and party
certainly had been?and George McGov-
ern was riding the issue hard (page 36)
as his last best hope of giving Mr. Nixon
a race by Election Day.
From the White I louse last week came
a new chorus of who-me piety: "If any-
one had been involved in such activities,
they would not long be at the White
llouse," said press secretary Ron Ziegler,
because espionage is "something we don't
condone and won't tolerate." Up Penn-
sylvania Avenue, however, at the offices
of the Committee for the Re-election of
the President, the strain was beginning
to tell. To prevent further leaks to the
press, documents were shredded, and
staffers were put to work spot-tailing oth-
er staffers ("We don't want them sleep-
ing around," said personnel chief Robert
Odle). Campaign manager Clark Mac-
Gregor was trotted out CM White House
orders to denounce The Washington Post,
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which he would field DO questions?t at
Szihlik: $2,000 from a 'chipmunk'
the Democrats were engaged in hanky-
panky themselves. The strains of the
Watergate affair had set off a fiery new
round in the four-year-old running battle
between the Administration and the press,
as well as intense competition among the
media to break the latest tidbit of revela-
tion (page 76).
All week long, fresh details came to
light about .the manifold activities of
the mercurial Segretti, who had gone
into hiding once his name surfaced two
weeks ago. Telephone records disclosed
that at least 28 calls from Segretti's Los
Angeles home?or charged to his toll
card?were put through last spring to
Dwight Chapin's home, or to the White
House, or to the home or office of for-
mer White House consultant E. Howard
Hunt, who was one of the seven men
indicted for the Watergate break-in.
Boss: Chapin's name on the call list
offered circumstantial support, at least,
for the earlier report by a friend of
Segretti's that Segretti had named Chapin
as his White House contact. And political
insiders found it nearly impossible not to
look beyond affable Dwight Chapin to
H.R. (Bob) Ilaldeman, the President's
chief of staff, who has been Chapin's
boss and tutor for ten years, first at the
J. 'Walter Thompson advertising agency
and now at the White House. "Dwight
didn't do a thing without Haldeman's
authority or approval," a former Nixon
aide noted last week. Chapin, who had
been a friend and classmate of Segretti's
at the University of Southern California
where they had played a front-line role
in campus political wars. (following
page), ducked reporters' questions with a
?'no comment," but the 'White House
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to worry, one sta en said, so
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'Oh, you naughty
little devils, you!'
walking around trying not to worry.
Whatever his connection with Chapin,
Segretti clearly had a contact somewhere
in the White Ifouse. Ile had jumped into
big-time politics- in 1962, while still an
undergraduate, working with Chapin and
fellow USC man Ron Ziegler on Mr. Nix-
on's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign.
Segretti spent a year in England after
leaving USC, picked up a law degree at
Berkeley and in 1968 entered the Army
for three years, ending up in the Judge
Advocate General's corps in Vietnam.
Back, in the U.S. in February of 1971,
while still in the service, he was invited
by a White House official to lunch at
the Golden Table, a restaurant just down
he street from the State Department.
A former CIA operative was also present:
the purpose of the lunch was to check
out Segretti for a possible role in the po-
litical intelligence operation then being
put together by Administration aides. The
ex-CIA man seemed unimpressed, but
Segretti was evidently hired anyway. For
the last half of 1971 he waterbugged
around the country?Portland, Ore., Al-
buquerque, N.M., New York City, Man-
chester, N.H., Knoxville, Tenn., Tampa,
Fla., as well as Washington on several
occasions.
Early this year Segretti evidently
turned up in the Middle West with a
supply of funds and authority to hire
agents. One of his top recruits, NEWS-
WEEK'S Nicholas I forrock and Toni Joyce
learned last week, was Charles Szihlik,
2-1, of Indianapolis, a former Young Re-
publican leader and currently a state
deputy GOP chairman. Szihlik told
friends that Segretti, using the cover
name Simmons, called Szihlik in early
3 P319,000kOrTleof Szihlik's
Visny, accord-
continued.
'he ever involved himself beyond that. candidate.
ing to Szihlik, had been hired by Se- . . ,
'I political
ifkoliiiil
The two met for breakfast at the how-
oca. e iss
uA6brciVid ittiiitR61#ap?Obi,
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gretti to r
died in a car crash earner tnis montn.)
cienmerats, other Republicans were oper-
ard Johnson motel in downtown Indian-
a ting in more traditional
but .no less de-
apolis, where "Simmons"?"a short ,?
mierate ways to spike another set of
shrimpy guy with heavy glasses, who ,
rivals, George Wallace's American Party.
looked like a chipmunk," Szihlik told
Wallace, in early White House caleula-
friends?asked if Szihlik would be inter- tions, was seen as a substantial threat to
esfed Mr. Nixon, a drain of right-wing votes
in projects such as disrupting po- ,at could throw a close state contest
ocratic headquarters and getting station-
litical rallies or "planting people in Dein-
that
to the Democrats. Accordingly, in south-
cryCalifornia, from Democratic headquarters." Party has considerable appeal, LOS An-
The object, Simmons said, "is to swing
An-
the convention to McGovern ... to liter- ?
geles adman (and GOP functionary)
ob
ally destroy strong candidates like Mus-
Rert Walters told NEWSWEEK'S Stephan
kie." McGovern was thought to be the Lesher that he hired mercenaries to go
weakest Democratic challenger for Mr.
Nixon in the fall.
Szihlik agreed "for the fun of it" and
was . fitted out with cloak and dagger.
Szihlik told friends that Simmons gave
him two phone numbers where he could
be reached, one in Los Angeles and the
other in Alton, Ill., and a box number
in Los Angeles as a mail drop. Simmons
was never there to receive calls, Szihlik
told friends, but he always got the word
and called back. Simmons told his agent
to recruit only close friends, and to main-
tain a single contact rule?each man was
to know only the man who hired him.
door to door a year ago trying to persuade
American Party members to switch regis-
tration to either major party. Had they
been able to reduce the American Party's
registration to less than 11,000 (it was
then 4-1,000), the party might have been
dropped from the ballot. Then, after Wal-
lace's shooting this year, his campaign
director, Charles Snider, was invited to
Washington by William I?'rance (a former
Wallaceite now tied in with John Con-
nally's Democrats for Nixon) and offered
what Snider called "a rather responsible
position in government" on the under-
standing that he would abandon Wallace.
Money was unlimited, Simmons said, and Snider later called an American Party
leader named William Shearer and told
him he could "write his own ticket" as
a Republican?especially if his own par-
ty decided not to name a Presidential
he would cover all expenses with no
vouchers- necessary.
Simmons's plans were considerably
more grandiose than anything his agents
were able to deliver. Though it isn't
known if he got his hoped-for disruption
of rallies and discombobulation of cam-
paign schedules, he did get a few piles
of stationery and some secondhand dos-
siers?covering everything from bank
loans to sexual peccadilloes?on Indiana's
Democratic convention delegates. Szihlik
and his sub-agents distributed phony
posters sent by Simmons ("A vote for
Muskie is a vote for busing") in the In-
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin primaries in
an effort to sabotage Muskie. But the
Midwestern project did not go well.
Simmons complained to Szihlik that Vis-
ny in Illinois was "bleeding him dry" with
very small results. Szihlik himself began
to feel doubtful about his role ("You re
messing with the very political party
structure of tins country") but he held
on long enough to collect a $2,000 pay-
off "for expenses" from Simmons in Chi-
cago in April. Szihlik did not know "Sim-
mons" as Segretti until newspaper photos
appeared last week; he has confided to
friends that he will testify if subpoenaed.
GOP on Parade: Segretti apparently
also dabbled with the notion of becoming
a political infiltrator himself. A McGovern
campaign worker in California disclosed
last week that someone using Scgretti's
name, address and phone number ap-
peared at McGovern headquarters in
Santa Monica three days before the June
6 primary and volunteered to join a
bicycle parade for the senator. According
to the campaign worker's notes, the Me-
Governites called &Trod at his water-
front home ? r' 1 '
1,645( the two
weeks before Election Day remained to
be seen. A Louis Harris poll released
last week found that 62 per cent of the
voters dismiss the Watergate affair as
"mostly politics" and that a 50-25 majori-
ty - does not believe that "White House
aides ordered the bugging." But the
Harris poll was taken before the latest
revelations of political sabotage and be-
fore the Segretti-Chapin link was dis-
closed. And last week some Republican
campaigners were plainly running slightly
scared. "It could cost Nixon California,"
groaned one anxious GOP man recently
returned from the field, "and it could
cost us the Northeast."
Given the apparently enormous Nixon
lead, it would seem to require a massive
turnaround of public opinion for the
espionage scandal to throw that much
political weight. The Democrats hoped
that perhaps the Watergate hunt might
still bag bigger game. With the telephone
connection established between Segretti
and Chapin, it would not be impossible
for the chain to jump one link higher to
Haldeman. Belling the President would
be something else again?though Mr.
Nixon has already had to make at least
one adjustment. A few months ago, an
awed White House insider said, "There
isn't anything that goes on in the White
House that the President doesn't know
about." That's one boast the GOP isn't
making any more,
THE WHITE HOUSE OLD-BOY NET
Asthe Kennedy Administration bore
the brand of Harvard, so the Nixon
White house carries the unmistakable
stamp of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia. An extraordinary old-boy net links
the campus in Los Angeles with the cur-
rent staff at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
White House praetorians John D. Ehr-
lichman and H.R. (Bob) Haldeman were
USC classmates back in 1946. Presiden-
tial press secretary Ron Ziegler and his
advance man, Tim Elbourne, were fra-
ternity brothers at USC's Sigma Chi chap-
ter. Another of their classmates (1961)
was Michael Guhin, who is now an aero-
space adviser for the National Security
Council. And the same old-school ties
bind the President's personal appoint-
ments secretary, Dwight Chapin, USC
class of '63, Haldeman's assistant, Gordon
Strachan, '63, and Donald II. Segretti,
also '63?the man Federal agents have
fingered as a political espionage agent
for the GOP. Through Haldeman, both
Chapin and Ziegler made their way to
the J. Walter Thompson ad agency?and
later to the White House.
Chapin, Segretti, Guhin and Ziegler
were all big men on campus. They were
members of the campus service organi-
zation called the Trojan Knights, among
whose duties was guarding Tommy Tro-
jan, the campus statue, before the big
foot hal
as*
group called Trojans. for Representative
him to canvass or distribute leaflets. On-
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Government; Guhin was its president,
and Segretti its successful candidate for
the student senate. Among TRG's covert
activities: ripping down campaign post-
ers of opposition candidates, stealing op-
position leaflets, stuffing ballot boxes and
packing the, student court so as to quash
any complaints that were brought against
them.
But the opposition always seemed to
do them one dirtier?and therein, per-
haps; lay a lesson for the future. "We
spent a lot of sleepless hours trying to
keep the opposition from playing dirty
tricks on us," says another Chapin class-
mate, California lawyer Lawrence R.
Young, who first reported the link be-
tween Segretti and the White House.
"We always got trounced. And maybe
that was it. Maybe they learned that
playing it straight doesn't win elections."
the few times he was home, he usually
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By Arthur Siddon .
WASHINGTON?When five men were
arrested inside the Democratic National
Committee headquarters here last June
17, Lawrence O'Brien, then national
committee . chairman, immediately
seized on the incident as a major politi-
cal issue.' .
But even O'Brien himself probably
did not know at the time that he had
stumbled on an incident that would de-
velop links to two former cabinet offi-
cers, top officials of President Nixon's ?
reelection committee, and a host ? of
White House aides.
The- episode, which at first looked
like a.bungled attempt to bug the Dem-
ocratic headquarters, became known as
the Watergate Caper, named after the
posh apartment-hotel-office complex in
which the committee had its offices.
As the investigation into the matter
proceeded, investigators were led into
? what appeared to be a well-planned
end well-financed case of political espi-
onage.
O'Brien called it "the biggest politi-
cal blunder of .Richard Nixon's ca-
reer." .
Despite allegations by O'Brien and
Democratic Presidential candidate Sen.
George McGovern that Nixon is person-
ally responsible for a wide-ranging po-
litical es-image and sabotage cam-
paign, the questions of who was behind
. it and why remain unanswered.
To date, here is the way the Water-
gate Caper has shaped up:
June 17?At 2:30 a. in. a security
guard in the Watergate found doors
taped so they wouldn't lock and called
police'. Five men wearing rubber surgi-
cal gloves and carrying bugging and ?
photographic equipment were surprised
in ?Democratic committee offices and
arrested. The men, also had walkie
talkies and $5,300 in $100 bills.
iThe five men later were identified
?as: James McCord, 53, a former agent
? of both the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation and the Central Intelligence
Agency who was ? then - chief security
man for the Committee for the Reelec-
? lion of the President and a. security
consultant for the Republican National
Committee. e
Bernard L. Barker, 55, a Miami real
estate man who was involved. with the
2 CIA in tAISOPOVerloPorke*SIS
,l lic is a Cuban-born American.
L'Ill ccr,
Eugenio R. Martinez, an employe of
Barker's in Miami. Cuban-born, he
foucht with Fidel Castro's guerrillas
but fled Cuba when Castro took power.
Fraele A. Sturgis, 37, a self-described
soldier of fortune, who once served in
Cuban army intelligence and oversaw
gambling operations for Castro before
fleeing Cuba.
Vireilio R. Gonzales, a locksmith who
arrived in the U. S. before the Castro
revolution.
Teo of the men were found to calry
address hooks listing the name of E.
Howard Hunt Jr.,.54. a former CIA em-
ploye who had been a consultant to
Charles W. Colson, White House special
counsel.
June 19?McCord is fired by both the
Nixon reelection committee and the Re--
publican National Committee. Ronald
Ziegler, White House press secretary,
calls the episode a "third-rate burglary
attempt."
June 20?United States Attorney Har-
old Titus announces a federal grand
jury will investigate the case.
June 21?O'Brien and the Democratic
Party file 'a $1 million damage suit
against the five defendants and the
Committee for the Reelection of the
President. The suit is later revised to
ask for $3.2 million.
June 24?Investigators say the $5.200
in $100 bills found on the defendants
was withdrawn May 8 from Barker's
bank account in Florida. They say it
was part of SCI 000 deposited in. the
account April 24 in four checks from a
Mexican bank.
June 25?O'Brien writes a letter to
Nixon asking a special prosecutor be
appointed.
June 28?G. Gordan Liddy, 42, chief
counsel for finances and contributions
for Nixon's reelection committee, is
fired for failure to cooperate with FBI
agents investigating the case. A former
FBI agent himself. Liddy had been
member of the White House staff work-
ing on an antimarijuana program be-
fore joining the campaign committee.
July 1?John Mitchell, former attor-
ney general, resigns as chairman of the
. Nixon campaign committee, citing his
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da bank account. The check had been
made out to Itienneth H. Dahlberg of
Minneanolis, midwest finance chairman
for the Nixon campaign.
Dahlberg said the check represented
a contritrition and that he had given
the check to 'Maurice Stens, former
secretary of commerce and now fi-
nance chairman of the Nixon cam-
paign.
Aug. 2?It is learned Stens gave in-
vesti a ators the following explanation
concerning the check:
Ile received the check from Dahlberg
on April 11 and turned it over to Hugh
W. Sloan Jr., campaign treasurer.
Sloan reportedly gave the check to Lid-
dy as finance counsel, and Liddy alleg-
edly exchanged the check for S25,000 in
cash. It also was learned Sloan re-
signed from the committee in mid-July.
Aug. 10?It is disclosed federal inves-
tigators found the existence of a
$250,000 special security fund in the
Nixon campaign committee.
Aug. 17--Clark MacGregor, who took'
over as head of the campaign commit-
tee when Mitchell resigned, says Liddy
apparently spent campaign ? money
without authorization. He claims no
such money has been spent since he
took over.
Aug. 19?MacGregor says a commit-
tee investigation of the break-in has
absolved all top White House and com-
mittee officials from involvement.
Aug. 20?The General Accounting Of-
fice says it found violations in the han-
dling of $500,000 in campaign contribu-
tions by the Nixon committee. It, said
several contributions made before April
7 were not included in the committee's
report..
Aug. 25?It is revealed that the
$25,000 that appeared in Barker's Flori-
da account came from Dwayne Au-
dreas, a Minneapolis soybean oil tycoon
who was one of Hubert Humphrey's
key backers in the Democratic prima-
ry. Marvin L. Rye, Minnesota commis-
sioner of banks, said Andreas received
a federal bank charter the week of
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We haven't heard any mighty shout in this campaign to "throw
the rascals out." Are we resigned to rascality as a way of life? Along
with the White House staff, do we think chicanery is not worth digni-
fying by indignation? Early this summer, a former Intelligence
operative, a Democrat, casually suggested to a McGovern staff mem-
ber that they set up an undercover anti-Nixon apparatus. The sugges-
tion, which got nowhere, was made after E. Howard Hunt's name had
l.
surfaced in connection with the bugging of the Democratic national
headquarters. As had Hunt, the proposer of anti-Nixon espionage
had worked for the CIA in the days when the agency was up to its el-
bows in domestic power struggles in foreign countries, secretly coun-
tering Communist dirty tricks with some of its own. The CIA in-
triguers did not regard themselves as corrupt, but as fighting for the
right. If they got the right results and didn't get caught with their
hand in the till, they felt they had done their duty well.
What is unnerving about the series of domestic scandals over this
past year and a half is that they so resemble the "fight-fire-with-fire"
operations of the spy artists, and that the Republican campaign
begins to look like ;'not just gutter politics," in James Reston's words,
"but guerrilla war...." ?
Start with the milk price boost of 1971. On March 12, the then sec-
retary .of agriculture, Clifford Hardin, announced that to keep down
inflation, the government would not allow an increase in milk prices
that year. In the following two weeks, national dairy organizations
gave $35,000 to reelect Republicans in 1972, sent a delegation to Meet
.the President and the secretary of agriculture; on March 25, Secretary
Hardin reversed himself, raising prices to a level that would bring at
least $140 million in additional revenue to the milk industry. In July,
the milk organizations gave another $125,000 to the Republicans,
parceled out in checks of $2500 to 50 dummy fund-raising committees.
A year later, in March 1972, a Senate hearing on Attorney General-
'designate Richard Kleindienst brought to light another coincidence.
The international conglomerate ITT found itself in an awkward bind
in the spring of 1971 because the Justice Department had decided?
after months of threatening? to divorce ITT from the Hartford Fire
Insurance Company. ITT spokesmen approached Attorney General
John Mitchell, his assistant Kleindienst, antitrust prosecutor Richard
:businessmen getting
? shifting that took place while negotiations were in
.progress was remarkable. Businessmen and officials
' changed jobs as follows: 1) an assistant secretary of
agriculture quit the government to become vice presi-
dent of the grain firm that later had the largest sales to
Russia; 2) he was replaced at USDA by a former exec-
utive of another grain firm involved; 3) another USDA
official left to become the Washington agent for yet
another of the grain firms, 4) replacing a man who had
quit the firm to work at USDA five months before. The
vice president of a fourth grain firm quit a month be-
fore that to work at the White House. Conflict of in-
terest? An insulting question, according to the admin-
istration.
McLaren, White I-louse aide Peter Flanigan and other
officials.. Whether or not they came to any discreet
agreement we do not know; we do know the Justice
Department rescihded its antitrust suit, the Republican
convention organizers won a promise of a loan from
- ITT? something between $100,000 and $600,000, de-
'pending on whom you believe. Possibly incriminating
papers in the ITT Washington office were shredded.
Illegal? Not proven. Suspicious? Certainly.
This autumn the Agriculture Department (USDA)
stepped back into the spotlight. The grain sale to
Russia, engineered by USDA, brought sudden profits
to the six largest grain shippers. The farmers them-
selves had not been told that their crops were valuable
this year; most were paid normal prices for their
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hen we come to the wheeler-dealering of the Presi-
dent's reelection committee. The friends of the Presi-
dent contributed $10 million to his candidacy before
April?; we'll never learn their names because the com-
mittee has stood by the letter of the law, which requires
only that contributions given after April 7 be revealed.
An audit last month by the General Accounting Office
(GAO) caught one unhappy man? Dwayne Andreas?
who missed the deadline and now will be remembered
as that "close friend of Hubert Humphrey" who wanted
his $25,000 gift to the Republicans to remain anony-
mous. The GAO also found that the reelection com-
mittee had accepted $100,000 from a Mexican bank, a
gift from some wealthy Texas Democrats who sent the
money through Mexico to assure anonymity.
A campaign with a $40 million budget?like the
Republicans'? must be paid for; the President isn't
supposed to use federal money for campaigning; that
is why his public appearance in Philadelphia last week
was nonpolitical. The readiest source of big money is
big business. According to The Washington Post, about
$700,000 of the Republicans' money was kept in a
controlled by the campaign manager
special
to finance emergency spending and "security opera-
tions" within the Committee to Reelect the President.
The man who. headed the committee until, July 1 was
John Mitchell; the man on the committee's payroll in
charge of security was former CIA agent James McCord.
McCord and four men hired by him or his bosses were
arrested last June 17, carrying spying devices and crisp
$100 bills provided by the committee, just after they
had broken into Democratic national headquarters.
They, along with two former White 1-louse aides, were
indicted last month for conspiring to steal documents
and bug the phones of the Democratic National Com-
mittee. According to police, their mission was to install
or _remove radio transmitters that would allow them,
as spies for the Republicans, to eavesdrop on con-
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Initially the President tried to play down the sig-
name . . . a high placed friend of the President," and
.nificance of the incident as a "third-rate burglar
that "Dwight Chapin was a person I reported to
attempt." Two officials who may have known more in
WaShington." A lawyer in Tennessee has said
dropped from sight. John Mitchell quit as director of
that when he was asked to jciin the undercover team,
the committee and moved to New York. I Iugh Sloan,
Segretti outlined for him a plan of attack in which they
the committee treasurer who supposedly signed the
Would issue false press releases to embarrass -Demo-
money over to McCord and another man arrested in
crats Muskie and Kennedy, sabotage rallies by inviting
the break-in, quit about the same time. When asked
people at the wrong time, and generally wreak havoc
about the case on August 29, the President said, "no
with Democratic schedules in any "legal" way pos-
one in the White House staff, no one in this aciminis-
sible. One of the victims of this campaign ?Senator
tration presently employed, was involved in this very
Edmund Muskie? said when he learned of the Post
bizarre incident." Presently? Bizarre? -
stories that they "suggest a political opposition which
In the absence of an official explanation, reporters
is ruthless and unprincipled." He released a detailed
poked around and discovered that the espionage last
list of sabotage incidents that plagued his campaign,
June was not the first. According to a confession-by a
including the forging of a letter, and asked for some
man named Alfred Baldwin, the men caught in Demo-
response from the President.
cratic headquarters had been spying on the office for
At least seven White House or reelection committee
at least the three weeks Baldwin worked on the job.
aides, now employed, have been named in connection
Baldwin s'aid that he'd been asked by McCord to mon-
with the scandal; none is talking, though most have
itor bugged phone conversations, and that he, Baldwin,
denied the accusations. Segretti can't be found. The
hadn't been arrested because he was across the street
seven men indicted for breaking into Democratic head-
at the time, listening on a walkie-talkie. Other sources
quarters are awaiting trial, but the judge has said it
said that Baldwin sent transcripts of the conversations
won't begin until November 15, the week after the
he monitored to executives on the Committee to Re- ,
: election. Representative Wright Patman (I), Tex.),
elect the President and the White House staff.
chairman of the House Banking and Currency Com-
New research by The Washington Post, The New York
mittoo, tried to launch an inquiry, but was voted down
Times and Time magazine adds plausibility to the
20-15. The FBI has concluded its investigation of the
charge that the White House was more deeply mired
break-in without stirring up enough evidence for more
in this dirty business than suspected. Referring to
indictments. The administration considers the case
"sources in the FBI and Justice Department" the Post
closed.
? said on October 10 that at least 50 agents had been
If this were an Eric Ambler thriller, a fantasy about a
employed by the Republicans in their "offensive secu-
few who burgled, bugged, sabotaged, forged, and used
rity" campaign against the Democrats. Eight people
official position to favor business friends, we could
have told the Post and Time magazine that a man
relish it. It isn't. And it isn't the corruption of a few
named Donald Segretti solicited their help for Nixon
we need worry about; it is the apathetic response to
in disrupting the campaigns of Democratic candidates,
that corruption. For that signifies the corruption of the
A former Treasury Department lawyer, Segretti is a country.
friend of Nixon's appointment secretary, Dwight
Chapin, who with Segretti graduated from the Univer-
sity of Southern California in 1963. According to Time,
the President's personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach,
supplied Segretti with $35,000 from the reelection
committee's funds. Another classmate of Segretti's at
USC has said under oath that Segretti claimed his ex-
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DROWNSVILLE, T e x a s,
Oct. 25?Democratic vice pres-
idential candidate Sargent
Shriver today asked that the
Federal Campaign Expendi-
ture Act be amended to make
"spying, subversion or sabo-
tage" in a political campaign a
crime.
lie also asked for an amend-
"George McGovern did not sit
In some supply depot playing
poker while the war was going
on," in reference to President
Nixon, who Shriver claims
learned to play poker while he
was on duty will" the Navy.
Shriver was not as tough on
Connally as he had been the
day before in Chicago when
ment to the Voting Rights Act he called him a "turncoat,"
to provide injunctive relief as but today be labelled Connally
well as triple damages and a "plutocrat who belongs with
costs for ? any candidate or
campaign committee victim-
ized by sabotage.
He asked for issuance of a
prompt presidential executive
the millionaire Republicans".
Shrivel, said he talked to
former President Johnson. on
the phone this morning. When
asked why Johnson was not ?
campaigning for the ticket,
Shriver said, "Johnson's not
order requiring "a full, report well enough to do it. He'd love
to campaign for us but he only
feels well in the morning. In
the afternoon be doesn't feel
very well and often returns to
his bed. Otherwise I'm sure
on any such activity in politi-
cal campaigns this year."
Shriver again struck at the
use of former CIA agents by
President Nixon's. re-election he'd be out on the hustings for
committee, calling it a "fright- us." ?
ening and deplorable develop.
ment in our free system of gov-
ernment.
"No man who is trained by
our country in the techniques
of espionage can be permitted
to feel that the same work can
be performed to undermine
vital iiistitutions of our so-
ciety," he said.
Shrivel. called for the legis-
lation while campaigning in
Texas, where he repeatedly
charged that Republicans to-
gether with former Texas Gov.'
John Connally, who is heading
Democrats for Nixon, are wag-
ing a "smear campaign"
against George McGovern on
issues such as amnesty, wel-
fare and abortion.
Shriver told sin audience of
about 2,000 at an outdoor rally
at the Denton County court-
house today that he was tired
of "super patriots who were
never in a battle" criticizing
McGovern on his amnesty po-
sition.
lie claimed that McGovern's
stand on amnesty was the
same as President Nixon's, He i
said McGovern would not I
grant amnesty until the war is
over, "the prisoners are
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The judge in the Watergate
break-in case has allawed the
defense to subpoena from The
Los Angeles Times any exist-
ing records of an interview the
newspaper published with a
former employe of the Nixon
re-election committee who
, said he took part in the affair.
The interview, which ap-
peared on Oct. 5, quoted
Alfred C. Baldwin III as say-
ing that he monitored tele-
phone calls to and from Demo-
cratic National Committee
headquarters. while in a motel
across the street, and named
some of the men indicted in
the case as participants.
Baldwin, who MS employed
as a security officer for the
committee, has stated in an
affidavit filed with the court
that he has to written or re-
corded record of the inter-
view, but Chief judge john
J. Sirica of U.S. District Court
allowed the defense to sub-
poena any existing records
from The Times.
Times Editor William Thom-
as, reached in Los Angeles,
said he had only received pre-
liminary word of Sirica's rul-
ing and could not yet comment
fully. However, he raid, "the
reaction will be what it has
been. As in the past, we'll con-
tinue to oppose any effort to
subpoena our source materi-
als, and that goes for this case
and any other case,"
Change of Venue
The ? ruling came during a-
day-long hearing on motions,
during which Sirica denied de-
fense motions for a change of
venue, for dismissal of the in-
dictments, and for a variety of
other matters.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Court of
Appeals turned down an ap-
peal of Sirica's ruling that the
trial begin on Nov. 13. Al-
though the defense said it is
considering a further appeal, The latter five were arrested
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long and hard for the change
of venue, citing the extensive
publicity the case has received
in this area. They also argued
that the predominately Dem-
ocratic registration of Dis-
trict Citizens would make it
impossible for the seven de-
fendants, who have been
linked with the White House
and the Committee for the
Re-election of the President,
to receive an impartial trial.
Would. Do Wonders
But Sirica denied the mo-
tions, saying the real test- of
whether the publicity has
prejudiced the defendants will
come when prospective jurors
are polled prior to the trial.
Henry B. Rothblatt, attorney
for four of the defendants,
again suggested that the feder-
al court in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, would be the ideal place
for the trial.
To this Sirica replied, "I
don't intend to go out of town
to try the case. I'll try it right
here." Only the U.S. Court of
Appeals, or his health ? he is
suffering from an ailing hip ?
could force him to change his
mind, Sirica said.
Rothblatt allowed as how the
weather in San Juan would
probably do wonders for the
judge, but Sirica was un-
moved.
The defendants are E. How-
ard Hunt Jr., former FBI and
- CIA agent and White House
consultant G. Gordon Liddy,
who held similar positions;
James W. McCord Jr., former
head of security for the re-
election committee and the
Republican Naitonal Commit-
tee; and Bernard L. Barker,
Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio
Martinez and Frank R. Stur-
gis, all _active in anti-Castro
circles in ;Olami.
- Classified Material
June 17, bringing the case to
public attention for the first
time.
Sirica left for later a full
hearing on whether articles
taken from Hunt's former of-
fice in the Old Executive Of-
fice Building, and presumably
used as evidence in the case,
should be returned to him.
The government said in
court papers ?that John W.
Dean HI, special counsel to
the President, took the ma-
terials from: Hunt's safe on
June 19, and later turned
them over to law enforcement
officials. Dean, the govern-
ment said, knew Hunt had
quit on March 29 and wanted
to make sure he had held no
classified material in his
office.
But William 0. Dittman-,
Hunt's chief attorney, said in
court yesterday that Bunt was
in his office "on an almost
daily basis after March 29,"
and that Dean's action there-
fore amounted to an unlawful
seizure.?, _ ? v?
? Appeal Expected
Meanwhile, the U.S. Attor-
ney's office is expected to ap-
peal today a D.C. Superior
Court judge's refusal too order
GOP fundraiser Maurice H.
Stans to appear as a witness in
the Oct. 30 trial of Watergate
defendant Barker in Mamie
A source in the U.S. Attor-
ney's Office, which is acting
on behalf of the Miami prose-
cutor, here said that the gov-
ernment would file its appeal
in the court of appeals some-
time today, "as soon as we get
pie papers prepared."
V Judge Paul F. McArdle last
night issued a brief written
opinion stating his reasons for
onally ruling last week that "it
oVas not necessary" for Stalls
to appear -am witness.
McArdle supported Stalls'
contention that he is not a ma-
terial witness in he trial of
Barker who is accused of mis-
using his notary public seal in
cashing a $25,000 chock that
had passed through the Com-
mittee for the Re-election of
the President.
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Another insider's book has
been written about a government
agency that, it is to be. presumed,
was naive enough to expect a certain
degree of loyalty from its employes.
., Patrick J. McGarvey claims he has
written about the Central Intelligence
?
? Agency, with which he spent three
as a service to the public.- He,
wants to "shed some light on the myth
that the CIA is an efficient well-run
machine capable of almost any act of
intrigue."
But why (lid McGarvey call the
book, "CIA?The Myth and The Mad-
ness," when Most of the content is not
about the CIA at all but about other
, intelligence setups, notably in the
? Defense Department? This -violence to
fairness suggests that royalty checks,
.? not civic-mindedness, motivated the
? 'author. ' ?
As for the CIA's comeuppance from
A one-time operative, it seems the
-.agency actually purloined the sputnik
? from under the noses of its guardians,
and dismantled and photographed it
before returning same to the exhibi-
tion chamber. So what? Small re-
turn, we would say, for the priceless
nuclear fission secrets the -Soviet
me
Union gained by the more devious,
and scurrilous method of bribing -,
U.S. citizens.
' The book details how Director Rich-
ard Helms of the CIA has telephones It%
of subordinates tapped, how stiff are
the penalties for leaving around a ,
single scrap of paper and how armed
guards patrol CIA corridors in dark- -
ness. There are Some who may be-?
lieve such precautions especially nec-
essary in view of McGarvey's flight
into print-, with data from the boss'
files. -
McGarvey thinks the CIA is an
inept "morass." A former FBI agent-.
turned-author-thinks the .FBI is inept.,
Congressional hearing rooms have no
trouble getting a Vietnam veteran to
denounce the services (and one, John
F. Kerry, is capitalizing on his expose
by bidding for Congress in Massachu-
setts' 5th District)..
Isn't it possible, we wonder, that
these services and these agencies are
doing their level best to serve the
nation and its people and that the
best available 'brains- and integrity?
including loyalty?are sweating at the
task?
There are deficiencies, it: goes
without saying, and errors,. and mis-
: Ljudgments. The CIA is. especially
- vulnerable to a critic, Since its doesn't
discuss its successes or its errors.
(Although it is worth noting that the
agency deleted only 100 lines from
the manuscript McGarvey submitted
under a secrecy pact he signed when
hired, and which he appears to be
violating in spirit if not in letter.)
But too Many critics like McGarvey
seem to have forgotten that in ap-
praising what happens in war; or in
'? intelligence work, one must start with
- the basic. immise that war is hell
end spying, is a dirty business. Criti-
, sisin of a jli:1-)-leve1 supersecret agency
? ' like the CIA Ihat ,does not document
. incompetence at the top, or venality,
I
iT 110 public service, and may well be
_
a disserVice.
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(From Yesterday's
Late Editions;
.elly RICHARD GRIMES
Of The Daily Mail Staff
Depocratic vice presidential
nominee R. Sargent Shriver
told the. Charleston news me-
dia that it does riot follow
that he and Sen. McGovern
have given up on this state
, because both recently canceled
appearances here.
Ile also said in a telephone
interview from Chicago with
local newsmen that. people
trained by the CentrLIritdlli
gence,AgerteyetorWeirniaer-
Terblry and Rugsia are being
' employed by the White 'louse
to carry off a "comprehensive,
calculated espionage" of the
...US. political system.
"It's like a setting from
Tha. Godfather," he said, re-
.ferring to the Watergate af-
ifair and subsequent charges.
In other matters, Shriver
Said the Kennedy family is
rendering financial support, as -7
well as campaigning support,
to the McGovern ticket and he
mentioned Mrs. Rose Kennedy,
Sen Edward Kennedy, and
Ethel, widow of Robert Ken-
nedy. But, he said he didn't
know amounts.
He also said that some
blacks may support President
Nixon, but most don't. He said
-only those blacks in high-pay-
r". S
s..1\4c ovemHcs Not
West VOMOVIIILMS
. ?
ing jobs, or hired by the gov-
eynment would find the Nxion
administration favorable.
Speaking about West Virgin-
ia, Shriver said the fact that
he P. n d McGovern have can-
Med could mean "we don't
have to go back there."
"We have a good chance to
win there," he said.
"I don't intend .to forget
West Virginia," he added.
Shriver rapped what he
called President Nixon's re-
fusal to disclose the source of
$10 million in campaign funds.
All other candidates, Demo,
crats and Republicans, have
made such disclosures 8nd
Shriver said "It is insulting to
the American people" that
Nixon won't.
He quoted Nixon's speech at
Wheeling in 1952 when, as a
candidate for vice president,
he said it was not a question
of the legality of an $18,000
Nixon fund then under attack,
but a question of whether it
was moral or immoral.
The same Nixon statement
a.pplie.s to today's GOP funds,
Shriver said.
With respect to Watergate,
he said that the man sitting in
the office next to the Presi-
dent is connected with the ,
incident and he says the rea-
son people didn't warm up to
the issue when it first came
up was because they couldn't
believe the White House would
do.such a thing. ? ;
He said that CIA agents
?were told never to practice in :
this country, but now. the peo-
ple who were trained in that
field have been employed to
destroy a political party. -
He said FBI reports now.:
concur with what has turned
up in print.
He then recalled how Sher-
man Adams was chased from
the White House during the
Eisenhower administration for
receiving a vicuna coat. And r
remember, he said when
Ei-
senhower met then Sen. Nixon
k.in West Virginia and asked ;
to "come clean as a 1
:?hound's tooth about a secret
$18,000 fund he had?"
"That's how people felt ;
about morality in government I
then. Now, they drop six and I
eight 'million dollars on the
White House doorstep," and
Nixon thinks it is all right, he
said. ?
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c.,,9-ari 2 Days After Arrests
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By AGIS SALPUKAS whatever documents were. The answer to Mr. Hunt's
there." -- . motion to return the materials
special to iri,t New York Times
, According to the papers, Mr. .tiso broil
; WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 ? Dean wanted to find out if ' " '''eht 'out that Mr. Hunt
The White House made its first Mr. Hunt had turned over all was in \Vashington for two
move to investigate the Water- classified papers and files to days after the break-in and
gate bugging only two days the White House after he ceased that he was questioned by the
after five men Were caught in.heing, a consultant to the While F.B.I. on the same day the five
the headquarters of Inc Denic- House on March 29. men were arrested,
cratic party on June 17, ac- Mr. Hunt had been hired to In another development,
cording to papers fled at United review ew the Pentagon papers to .Frank Mankiewicz, Senator
States District Court here determine which could be de- George McCiovern's national
today, classified, He also worked hi political coordinator, called for
The Papers give drie of the the fiel of narcotics importa-
first glimpses into the activities con.
- of John W. Dean 3d, legal Nun- Mr. Kehrli and an assistant
sel to the President, .who was to Mr. Dean, Fred Fielding, had termed "a clandestine cam-
asked by Mr. Nixon to inves" Mr. Hunt's safe opened .in the paign of bribery and espionage
tigate all leads that might have presence of a Secret Service and sabotage financed with
inc.olved any present members agent and the papers and arti- secret Nixon campaign tunds."
of the White House staff in the cies were moved to Mr. Dean's ti:Nr. Mankiewicz released at
bugging.office. a news conference here the
, On Aug. 29, President Nixon On June 20, Mr. Dean sorted text of a letter to Attorney
.said at a news confe.renee that through the material and foun{ General Richard G. Kliendienst
tile investigation indicated that classified Matter "most of it citing "13 serious charges
"no one in the WhiteHouse relating to the Pentagon against the Republicans, in-
staff, no one in this Administra- papers." chiding violations of the cam-
tion, presently employed, was Black AttacheCase pain finance laws and the
involved in this very bizarre
There was also a. black at- granting of favors by the Nixon
inCident." tache case that was opened Administsation in return for
The court papers were filed
by Mr. Dean, Which contained large contributions to the
"a large amount of electronic President's
today with Judge John J. Sirica,campaign.
. chief of the Federal district
pment, as well as written Among the instances listed
court, by United States attor- equi
matter, pamphlets and instate- on the letter, signed by Mr.
. neys who are prosecuting the'
Lions bookets relating to elec- Mankiew icz and delivered yes-
case. They are answers to mo-
Ironic equipment." terclay, were the following:
Hans filed by the defense law- "An Administration promise
yers on behalf of the seven men Mr. Dean put the ? items in
j indicted in the bugging. a cardboard box and they
In answer to a otion th
by E. turned over to e Federal Bwe re to retain weak rug flammability standards, which was followed
u- by a $94,580 contribution from
m
, Howard Hunt Jr., a former read of investigation.
White House aide indicted in The papers filed by the a carpet company executive. ,
(li:vident relaxation of air
the case, it was disclosed that United States Attornc.,v's office.
pollution standards in the case
Mr. Dean received information argued. that . the judge should
of the Bunker Hill Company,
on Monday, June 19, that Mr. deny Mr. Hunt's moiion that
a subsidiary of the Gulf Re-
Hunt was possibly linked to the the seized articles and papers
sources and Chemical Corpora-
Watergate break-in, be returned to him. Mr. Hunt's
had tion, "which is a strong Nixon
The same day, the papers lawyer argued that they
. contributor." .
filed todiv Ktid. Mr. Dean or- been "improper with
ly scize:1"
q"The unusually quick grant-
dered Bruce Kehrli, a staff sec- out a search warrant. in of a Federal bank charter"
retary to the President, to go A hearingon all the mo -
to a Minnesota businessman,
to Mr. Hunt's former office in tions, which include several to
Dwayne Andreas, after he gave
Room 338 of the old Executive dismiss the indictments, will be.
$25,000 to the Nixon campaign.
. Office Building "to retrieveteld tomorrow.
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Mr. 'Mankiewicz said thatk
Senator McGovern would use ai
half-hour of prime televisionl
time (7:30 to 8:00 on the Amer-I
ican Broadcasting Company) to-1
morrow night for a speech "ont
the subject of corruption in thel
Nixon Administration."
He also disclosed that recent\
reports of Pepublic.an-relatecil
efforts to disrupt an.d confuse!
the Democratic Presidential pri-
mary campaign had promptedl
the McGovern organization to
an immediate and comprehen-
set up a "ballot security s}-s-
sive" investigation by the Jus- tee, on Election Day to ensure
,
tide Department of what he that voters were protected from 1
!
intimidation at the polls and I
that vote tallies were not tam-1
pored with. .I
Gary Hart, the Senator's'
campaign manager, who ap-
peared with Mr. Mankiewiezd
released the partial results of ai
door-to-door canvass - by Mc-
Govern workers that, he -said,I
showed that "ill areas we feel
we should and must win, the;
race is still very . much un-;
....
decided." . .1
The Mankiewicz letter also
pressed Mr. Kleindienst to act
on a number of possible Re-
publican violations of the Fed-
eral Election Campaign Act of
1971, reported to the Justice
Department by the General
Accounting Office on Aug. 26.
The department has said only
that the G.A.O.'s charges are
"under review" by its Criminal
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CIA AGENTS FROM POLITICS
. AURORA, -Ill. (AP) ? Sargent Shriver is proposing that
former CIA agents be legally and permanently banned
from American political campaigns,
The Democratic vice-presidential candidate repeatedly
has attacked the Nixon administration for what he has
called the "ominous" introduction of the techniques of
espionage and sabotage into the current campaign.
Several former CIA agents have been implicated in
connection with the break-in and alleged attempted bugging
of Democratic national headquarters.
Shriver gave a preview of his proposal to several
persons who had been unable to fit into a filled-to-capacity
school auditorium in Aurora Monday night.
Ile said that while he was hozal of the Peace Corps he
barred former CIA agents from the agency on the grounds
? their presence would be misunderstood by host govern-
- ments, and that they might subvert the purpose of the Peace
-Corps.
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Rug Smpeet Tied to Scheme
U.S. Censorship Man Bare
The censorship plan In-
By Bob Woodward N?olving McCord was being
and Carl Bernstein prepared by a special mili?
Vashington Post &ar 1 Wrrl tary reserVe unit of the Of
Rep
William S. Moorhead flee of Ernertnney prepared.
(D-Pa.) said yesterday that !less, according to Rep.
he has uncovered a secret moorhead,
contingene.y plan for na- McCord, a former agent ,now going on in Vietnam.
Urinal censorship involving for the FBI, CIA and former ? :Moorhead said this contra-
Watergate bugging defend- security chief for president; diets testimony by govern-
ant James W. McCord Jr.
Moorhead, chairman of Nixon's re-election commit-
ment officials earlier this
tee, was a member of the year before his Suhcommit-
the House Foreign Opera-
tions and Government Infer-
military unit as a reserve tee that "implied that all of
lieutenant. colonel in the Air their plans were pointed to-
Illation Subcommittee, said Force until he resigned in \yard a censorship system
that an investigation of February.for use only in the event of
McCord shows that he par- McCord was one of five a nuclear attack." ?
tieipated in the drafting of a tn.en arrested June 17 in the He supported this conten-
so-called "National Watch- Watergate bueging incident lion by quoting from a chap-
list" as part of the censor- and has since been indicted tor in the plan, saying that
ship plan. -censorship would be consid-
n charges of conspiring to
"As part of a censorship o ered in "limited war, or eon-
eavesdrop on Democratic
program which will be put flicts of the 'brush fire' type,
national headquarters.
into - effect in a national ?When men like James in which United States
emergency," Moorhead said, forces . are involved else-
the Watchlist would be used McCord are involved in po- where .in the world on land,
as a guide to "information litical espionage and also
gearr.ir -
the censors will look for as are responsible for the offi-
in the air."
'
they open letters, monitor dal collection of inferma- . I he time has come,"
:
broadcasts and question tion through a censorship Moorhead said, "for a -full
study. of both the - plans and
travelers." system," Moorhead said in a practices (for censorship)
"I fear that this Natonal prepared statement, "I have
and, as Subcommittee chair-
Watchlist may . ? . include no doubt that the official
.the names of 'questionable, National Watchlist w man, I . will initiate such a
ill. pin-
individuals, such study immediately, asking as those point individuals slated for formal questions of the een-
The
collected during Army sur- politicalreprisal. . sorship planners in prepara-
ported
veillance activities, and also Associatedtion for full-scale hearino's
Press re-
collect similar types of in- in the next Congress." .-
yesterday that the
formation- about American "lee of Emergency PrePar- He said the existence of
edness said the special re-
citizens," Moorhead said in serve unit's duties were t.0 the 15-member reserve unit
a statement.. which meets monthly in the
"computer proce- annex to the White House
In other matters related Prepare
. dures for compiling a '
offices raises the following
to the Watergate investiga- 'watehlist," but that "no ac- additional "smelly ques-
tion: , . tual watchlist is maintained tions:"
? Newsweek Magazine by the unit." ? Why are military Intel-
said that a deputy state Ile- Moorhead said be began .
public:an chairman in Inch- his inquiry into the reserve ligenee personnel given re-
-ana was recruited as a ,unit after a June 20 story in sponsibility for censorship
Nixon undercover operative . The Washington Post s-aying planning?
0 What sort of informs-
by Donald II. Segretti, who . that McCord was a member
tion, and whose names, will
federal sources say was of the unit. At that time
put on the National
recruited by White House sources inside the unit said 'e
W tchlist'
In citing what, he called
"disturbing facts," Moor-
head said that a copy of the
National Censorship Plan
shows that it could be insti-
tuted by the President dur-
ing a limited war such as is
Newsweek identified the
Indiana GOP leader as
Charles Szihlik. 24, ?and
quoted him as telling
friends that the object of
the Nixon forces' sabotage
campaign was "to swing the
convention to McGovern ...
to literally destroy strong
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candidates like Muskie."
Newsweek said Szihlik's
'work included compiling
dossiers on Indiana's Demo-
cratic convention delegates,
''coyering everything from ?
bank loans to sexual peccad-
illos." -,?
activities is the latest indica-
lion
purported state-
ment about the object of his
tion that the Nixon forees'
Sill) rosa campaign may have
been undertaken ? at least
in part. ? to help Son.
George McGovern win the
Democratic nomination.
McGovern reportedly was
viewed by White House
strategists as the easiest
Democratic opponent for
President Nixon to run
against..
According to information.
in FBI and Justice Depart-
ment files, a "basic strat-
egy" of the Nixon re-elec-
tion campaign was to dis-
rupt' the Democrats during
their pd manes to such an
extent that the ?Democratic
Party could not reunite
after choosing its Presiden-
tial nominee.
According to Newsweek,
"Szihlik and his subagents"
distributed posters saying "a
into for Muskie is a vote for
busing" in the Indiana, Illi-
nois and Wiscosin primaries.
But other activities aimed at
disrupting campaign rallies
and throwing campaign
aides to engage in .sabotage its purpose was to develop a schedules into disarray were !
list of radicals and prepare ? what other facts about unsuccessful, according to ;
.contingency plans for eon- ,,the censorship system have the magazine.
and spying activities agianst
the Democrats. ?sorship of the news media been hidden from the Con- Segretti reportedly told a
? Time Magazine said that and U.S. mail during a war. gross and the public? friend that one of his "con-
Jeb Stuart Magruder, one of In addition to the Water- Meanwhile, Newsweek. tacts"- for spying and sabo-
two deputy directors of the gate bugging, it was re- Magazine reported today tape activities was Dwight
? President's re-cleclion corn- rivaled in September that that a deputy state Republi- Chapin. President Nixon's
mince, "played a key role in "McCord was involved in in- ean chairman in Indiana appointments secretary. Se-
the Watergate case" by au- vestigatine syndicated col- 'as recruited as a Ni gretti hired Szililik early
xon no
the viithdrawal of umnist Jack Anderson and- dereflver operative by Don- this year, according to
secret . funds for political in- had prepared a two-page "in- aid It. Segretti, who federal u pN7i'lseweemkaazine said Sc-
though
gathering, even terim report" on Anderson's sot say is an aeent. --though he may have ap- business and social relation-. ?calm. hired by the White gretti used the "cover"
? proved 1 heexpenditure ship with Anna Chennault, a House to engage in sabotage
Cleaanliengs with Szihlik?the
"Simmons" in his
.without knowing about, the member of the Republican activities against the Demo-
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This kind of activity has no place
whatever in our electoral process or in
our governmental process. And the
White LI ?use had no involvement what-
ever in this particular incident.
CO Richard Nixon told a White House
press conference last summer, just
after the first revelations of the Water-
gate affair. But some incriminating con-
nections soon were made. Two of the
seven men indicted for breaking into
the Democratic National Headquarters
last June to plant bugging devices had
served for a time as White House con-
sultants. The money that financed the
espionage operation was traced to the
Committee for the Re-Election of the
President. Now TIME has learned that
information in the Justice Department's
files establishes a direct link between the
White House and a Los Angeles attor-
ney named Donald H. Segretti, who was
paid more than $35,000 from the
C.R.P.'s funds to subvert and disrupt
Democratic candidates' campaigns this
election year.
The department's files state that
Segretti, a 31-year-old registered Dem-
ocrat and a former Treasury Depart-
ment lawyer, was hired in September
1971 by Dwight Chapin, a deputy as-
sistant to the President, and Gordon
Strachan, a staff assistant at the White
House. Chapin is the President's most
trusted aide-de-camp and acts as a li-
aison between Nixon and his giant Staff.
For his services, Segretti was paid by
Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal
attorney who has handled such matters
as the acquisition of Nixon's estate at
San Clemente, Calif. Segretti's recom-
pense included a $ 6,000-a-year salary
-plus expenses. From Sept. 1, 1971, to
March 15, 1972, Kalmbach gave Seg-
retti more than $35,000, including one
payment of $25,000 in cash. The mon-
ey came from a C.R.P. fund that was
kept in the safe of Maurice Stans, chief
political fund raiser for the President.
Chapin and Strachan did not respond
to efforts to reach them for comment.
It was a record of telephone calls be-
tween E. Howard Hunt, apparently one
. of the chief movers ip the Watergate op-
eration, and Segrctti that first put in-
vestigators on to the scent. Next they
discovered that Segretti went to Miami
to meet with Hunt, one of the two for-
mer White House consultants indicted
in the Watergate affair. The meetings
occurred at the time the Watergate bug-
ging scheme was being planned. The
Justice Department investigators, under
the command of Assistant Attorney
General Henry E. Petersen, did not pur-
sue the Segretti connection.
Segretti divulged to Justice Depart-
among other things, to disrupt the pri-
mary campaigns of Democratic candi-
dates. On one occasion, he said, he went
to California to harass candidates with
telephone calls and feed them false tip-
offs. He also arranged to have embar-
rassing questions put to the Democrats
at their public appearances. The De-
partment of Justice learned that in 1971
Segretti asked a former Army officer
friend to infiltrate the George Wallace
campaign and work as an informant.
An assistant attorney general of
Tennessee, Alex B. Shipley, has said that
Segretti approached him last year and
tried to hire him to disrupt Democratic
campaigners. "It wasn't represented as
a strong-arm operation," said Shipley.
"He stressed what fun we could have."
As an example of the trouble he might
cause, Shipley was told that he could
call the manager of a coliseum where a
Democratic rally was to be held. He
could represent himself as the candi-
date's field manager and report some
threats from hippies or other trouble-
makers, asking that the rally be moved
up to, say, 9 o'clock, thus ensuring that
the coliseum would be padlocked when
the candidate arrived at 7.
Know Nothing. As the fumes of
Watergate continued contaminating the
atmosphere of the election year, there
were other hints of "fun." The Wash-
ington Post reported last week that a let-
ter to New Hampshire's Manchester
Union Leader ? accusing Edmund Mus-
kie of a racial slur against French Ca-
nadians may have been written by Ken
W. Clawson, deputy director of White
House communications. A Post report-
er, Marilyn Berger, claimed that Claw-
son told her that he had written the note,
which said Muskie had condoned the
epithet "Canuck," an insult to New Eng-
land's French Canadians. The letter,
published over the signature of a "Paul
Morrison" in the Union Leader, helped
to precipitate Muskie's famous "crying
speech," when the candidate shed in-
dignant tears and thus damaged his
image of stability. Clawson last week
declared: "I know nothing about it."
Last week Edmund Muskie charged
that his presidential effort was plagued
by a "systematic campaign of sabo-
tage," although he did not specifically
accuse the Republicans. Sometimes, he
said, embarrassing campaign material
was sent to constituents in "Muskie" en-
velopes. Once, before the Florida pri-
mary, a flyer was distributed on Mus-
kie's stationery accusing Senators
Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson
of illicit sexual activities.
TIME has also learned that Bernard
Barker, the former CIA agent who led
the raiding party into the Watergate, re-
Hair
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released
the Pentagon papers to the public. Bar-
ker flew the Cubans to Washington first
class, showed them a picture of Ells-
berg, and told them: "Our mis?ion is to
hit him?to call him a traitor and punch
him in the nose. Hit him and run." The
site chosen was outside the Capitol ro-
tunda, where the body of J. Edgar Hoo-
ver was lying in state. The idea was to
denounce Ellsberg, who was holding a
rally on the steps, and start a riot. As it
turned out, the "riot" ended after a brief
flurry of punches, most of which land-
ed on Ellsberg's bodyguard.
It is difficult to tell just what effect
CONRAD-LOS ANGELES T:MES
. .
more weeks!...Four more weeks!..
the Watergate affair and other episodes
of political sabotage will have upon the
presidential election. It may be that the
entire issue of dirty tricks will only lin-
ger vaguely in the air and then be swept
aside in a Nixon:triumph. Texas Dem-
ocrat Wright Patman, chairman of the
House Banking and Currency Commit-
tee, failed last week in his repeated ef-
forts to open a congressional investiga-
tion of Watergate.
With that, Edward Kennedy, as
chairman of the Senate Subcommittee
on Administrative Practice and Proce-
dure, took the first steps to open an in-
vestigation of his own. Late last week,
the Subcommittee's Democratic major-
ity approved Kennedy's plans to sub-
poena witnesses in an inquiry not only
if Watergate but also of other political
spionage. Whether the investigation
ould be mounted soon enough?or
would uncover enough beyond what is
ment officjals only thebie ouineWi? yd iffe r-
ff
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AhlSkie and the "Canttek" letter: Dirty tricks?
dlerParenn
Ior months, Watergate watchers have
pondered the question of precisely
what the raiders were seeking?and why.
Last week, an answer finally began to
take shape. The predawn raid on the
Democratic National Committee head-
quarters, it appeared likely, was only
part of an elaborate Republican cam-
paign to sow strife and confusion through-
out the Democratic Party?a clandestine
operation extending beyond petty snoop-
Cry into the arcane and disturbing realm
of political sabotage.
Perhaps as many as 25 GOP agents?
some of them former CIA and FBI men
highly skilled in the esoteric arts of elec-
hunie surveillance, psychological warfare
and "dirty tricks"?are believed by Fed-
eral investigators to have been involved.
One of their alleged recruiters came to
light last week when a young Democratic
attorney charged that he had been prop-
ositioned by a former Trea.smy Depart-
ment employee to take part in Republican
espionage. And investigators have con-
cluded that their undercover activities,
antiseptically dubbed "offensive securi-
tY," may have extended to forging letters
under candidates' letterheads, leaking
damaging items to the press, seizing
tonfidential files, disrupting campaign
celiedules and poking into the private
lives of Democratic campaign workers.
One goal seems to have been the dis-
ruption of the Democratic National Con-
vention in Miami Beach last July. Some of
the evidence seized in the Watergate
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.strongly suggests the national committee
ery
nsllVe Secu
the alleged ringleader of the Watergate
Five, was arrested inside DNC head-
quarters, he was carrying documents
that could have been used to foment an
embarrassing. convention fracas. Among
the Democratic papers McCord had
picked up: a sheaf of applications for
college press passes, a DNC memo on
housing and accreditation of college press
representatives, and a staff memo on.
housing and other arrangements for sev-
eral other youth groups. "It was a com-
plete package," a source close to the
investigation told NEWSWEEK'S Nicholas
Horrock, "enough material to forge col-
lege press credentials." Explained a
former CIA agent: "The psy-war oppor-
tunities were endless. You pass off bogus
tickets to a bunch of young people;
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you've got a mini-riot when they try to
get in?and with media coverage, you've
supported a thesis of party disarray."
Even if that alleged GOP scheme mis-
carried, the Democrats suffered more
than their share of mysterious fiascoes
during the campaign year?and some of
them, in the light of last week's re-
ports, do indeed bear suspicious signs of
political sabotage. The celebrated "Ga-
Duck" letter published in the Manchester
Union-Leader before the New Hampshire
primary, implying that Sen. Edmund
Muskie had slurred Americans of French-
Canadian descent, is a case in point. The
letter was one of the causes of NIuskie's
famous tearful outburst against the Un-
ion-Leader, which in turn may have con-
tributed to his disappointing showing at
the polls. Nov there is increasing reason
to believe the letter was a hoax, the
work, perhaps, of a White House aide.
Author: The letter was signed by one
Paul Morrison, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.?
but Morrison has never been found. Sub-.
sequently, someone calling himself Har-
old Eldredge, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
wrote the paper, claiming that a Boston
Democrat had paid him $1,000 to fab-
ricate the letter?but neither Eldredge
nor the Boston Democrat has ever turned
up either. Last week, Washington Post
correspondent .Marilyn Berger reported
that White House Deputy Director of
Communications Ken W. Clawson had
told her flatly, "I wrote the letter." Claw-
son denied the story, and NIuskie, furi-
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tire spate of campaign Misfortunes upon
GOP saboteurs. Doubtless some of the
tales they told simply involved the usual
unexplained foul-ups of any campaign,
and some of the pranks may have origi-
nated with rival Democrats. But Frank
lankiewicz, George NicGovern's politi-
cal director, listed ten specific acts of
alleged sabotage, some of which he said
"must have come from the Republicans."
Among them: a phone call from someone
claiming to be campaign aide Gary Hart
to AFL-CIO chief George Mcany, per-
emptorily ordering Mcany to come to
New York for a meeting with McGovern
?hart denies making such a call; anoth-
er call to CBS's Walter Cronkite from
someone who said he was Nlankiewiez,
thanking Cronkite for loading the net-
work's newscasts in McGovern's favor evi-
dently in the hope that Cronkite would
admit favoritism?instead, Cronkite called
Mankiewicz and discovered the hoax;
and still another call to CBS last week
from .someone claiming to be McGov-
memos to the press and stolen polling
data from his files, and that a charter
Hight bound for Portland, Ore., had
somehow been rerouted to Salem?thus
throwing a whole day's campaigning into
disarray.
COD: The most elaborate incident in-
volved a Muskie fund-raiser at the Wash-
ington Hilton back in April. According
to James Goodbody, .Nluskie's finance
chairman, $300 worth of liquor, a $50
floral arrang,ement, cakes from the Water-
gate pastry shop and 200 steaming pizza
pies?all unordered?arrived COD. A
dozen African diplomats were invited by
people posing as Muskie aides, and
chauffeur-driven limousines were ordered
up to deliver them. And two magicians
?one of whom had flown in from the
Virgin Islands?materialized with instruc-
tions to entertain the children. There
were, of course, no children present.
At one stage, the GOP "offensive se-
curity" network contemplated?and then
rejected?enlisting a computer in its
2
network of alleged saboteurs to light.
According to the attorneys, as reported
by The Washington Post, Donald H. Se-
gretti, 31, a former Treasury Department
lawycr with whom they had served in
Vietnam, approached them in mid-1971
to work for the Nixon re-election cam-
paign as undercover agents. In return,
they said, Segretti promised the lawyers
"big jobs" in Washington after the Presi-
dent's re-election. One of the three, Alex
13. Shipley, now an assistant- attorney
general for the state of Tennessee, said
Segretti told him the work involved po-
litical espionage and sabotage of Demo-
cratic primary campaigns?and might re-
quire false identification papers. Segretti
wanted no strong-arm tactics, Shipley
emphasized. "He stressed what fun we
could have."
Segretti, Shipley said, wanted him to
recruit five more agents, but to keep
their names to himself. Segretti said he
would keep his source of funds secret,
too. "How in hell are we going to be
taken. care of if no onc knows what Nve're
doing?" Shipley asked. Shipley says SO-
, grettit replied: "Nixon knows something
is being done. It's a typical deal: don't-
tell-me-anytliing-and-l-won't-know."
'Fiction': The attorneys said they
turned Segretti down. Segretti, for his
part, has testified before a Federal grand
jury but has been no more forthcoming in
public than to scoff, "This is all ridieu-
; bus," and a spokesman for the Commit-
tee for the Re-election of the President
called the Post's story "a piece of fiction."
Curiously, however, just after the Water-
gate raid, Hunt and Liddy flew to Cali-
fornia and met with Segretti.
Still another lawyer, Lawrence R.
? Young, 31, of North Hollywood, Calif.,
said in a sworn affidavit to the Post that
Segretti
Shipley
Al
Segretti had conic to him "in a panic"
after the Watergate incident and said "he
felt he was being used." Young and
W Al
any eNmnee?Newsweek
Segretti had been undergraduate friends
Mankiewiez: Hoax call to Cronkite at the University of Southern California;
both were also friends there of Dwight
ern's TV buyer, asking to cancel the cause. In February 1971, Administration Chapin, now 31 and deputy assistant to
candidate's Vietnam talk?the network officials invited a former CIA operative the President and a member of the
checked back ?vith McGovern headquar- and computer mathematician to meet \\lite Ilouse palace guard. According to
ters and the ruse failed, with them to discuss the possibility of Young, Segretti said that "Chapin was
Muskie weighed in with his own developing a sophisticated computerized his contact at the White House." Young
charges of sabotage designed to discred- intelligence bank of personal data on po- also swore that Segretti told him he was
it himself and other Democrats. A poll litical friends and enemies. The specialist being paid "by a very close friend of the
showing that 51 per cent of the inter- said he explained that "scientific method- President who is an attorney."
vicwces considered Sen. Edward Ken- ology" could be used to store data so Whi-tther any of the week's stories
? nedy unfit for the Presidency was mailed people could be "leaned on." With dirty would build political espionage into a
to Democrats in NIuskie envelopes last linen available on demand, he told major campaign issue remained to be
year, the senator reported. Another spu- NEWSWEEK last week, "it is conceivable seen?so far, according to the polls, the
rious Muskie mailing just before the that key people could be persuaded to electorate has remained remark-ably un-
Florida primary, he said, had accused repudiate a candidate they had been excited about the whole Watergate af-
Senators Henry (Scoop) Jackson and supporting"?a prospect so unsavory that fair. Sen. Edward Kennedy, chairman
Hubert Humphrey of sexual misconduct. the mathematician's firm backed out. 4
of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, last
And in the New Hampshire campaign,
Not long afterward, a variety of of- week ordered a "preliminary inquiry,"
Musk-ie complained, Manchester resi- fensive security groups came into subpoena power, into the
being
complete with
dents were awakened by middle-of-the- A Nt lute House intelligence unit includ- /snooping and sabotage charges. He dc-
night phone calls from people claiming to ing E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon V dined to commit himself to hold pnblic
represent the Harlem-for-Muskie Corn- Liddy, two of the men indicted in the hearings before Nov. 7, but the Kennedy
on behalf of black people. .Muskie
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By PATRICK COLLINS
::? -
and JOSEPH VOLZ
Star-News Staff Writers
An Air Force officer who
was on active duty and a re-
tired CIA employe were mem-
bers of an undercover security
force operating at the Nixon
campaign headquarters under
the control of Watergate bug-
ging suspect James W. Mc-
Cord, it has been learned.
, The security force apparent-
ly had a different responsibili-
ty than that of the political
?espionage team( also directed
by Mc Cor d, which was
charged in the June 17
break-in at the Democratic
National Committee offices.
' The security squad was not
on the committee payroll and
was paid in advance ? often
In cash ? by McCord, who
was chief security adviser for
the Nixon re-election commit-
tee, until -being fired after his
arrest inside the Democrats'
Watergate offices.
yThe Air Force officer on the
squad has been identified as
Lt. Col. Alfred L. Green, now
retired. The ex-CIA etnploye is
William Shea, who heads the
firm which took over Mc-
Cord's operation,
'McCord's Men'
Committee sources say the
men worked at night on the
-second floor of the campaign
headquarters where G. Gordon
Liddy, former finance commit-
tee counsel also charged in the
bugging case, had his office.
Also on that floor were two
large safes, one containing a
$350,000 secret cash slush fund
from which it has been al-
leged "political espionage"
.activities were financed.
-
The security squad mem-
bers carried no committee
identification and were known
to committee workers only as
"McCord's men."
One of the men on the squad
said his duty was to check
.backgrounds of committee em-
ployes and research left-wing
. organizations which were felt
to pose a threat to Nixon's
re-election.
Beyond this little is known
about the duties the men per-
formed. It is understood that
-McCord identified the men to
some campaign officials as
"building guards."
he served as the chief logis-
tics officer for the Armed
Forces Radio-Biological Insti-
tute in Bethesda, Md., before
retiring in July.
Green denied that he worked
for McCord or the re-election
committee. "That's wrong,"
Green told a reporter, "I nev-
er worked for aCord. He is
just a good friend of mine.
Just leave me out of this. I
don't want my name in-
volved."
A committee spokesman
first said Green had not
worked at the committee, but
later, after checking with
campaign officials, said that
Green had worked there as a
guard last spring. The spokes-
man said Green was paid for
his work by McCord.
Green could not be reached
for comment on this state-
ment. He told a reporter earli-
er that he "may have stopped
by" the committee a couple of
times "But I don't remember
why I went down there."
The committee spokesman
said that he had been told that
"McCord had these men work-
ing for him and they would fill
in when the regular guard
staff couldn't make it,"
Other sources at the com-
mittee said Green and his as-
sociates wer e mysterymen.
They said people working
closely to Green often called
him by a code name "Green
Label."
Navy Capt. Myron Varon,
commander of the radio-active
research center, said he was
"unaware" of Green's activi-
ties with McCord.
"I don't know if there is any-
thing wrong with that," Varon
said. "And if he was doing it,
he was doing it on his own
time because he worked here
during the day."
Varon said Green was a lo-
gistics officer in charge of the
center's modern electronic
equipment and the closed-
circuit television supply.
The military generally dis-
courages officers from taking
an active duty role in politics,
but a spokesman for the Air
Force said he "didn't think"
Active Duty that working as a guard in a
Green waAlaRiMe(dtFOr Reileialktf2001403/04
last spring when he was work- of any regulation.
ing for McCord.
The investigation of the Wa-
tergate bugging case revealed
that McCord had purchased a
sophisticated electronic re-
ceiver for the eavesdropping
equipment planted in the Dem-
ocratic offices. It also showed
that McCord had bought sever-
a I closed-circuit television
sets.
But Varon said that Green
had no technical knowledge
about electronic equipment.
"He just handled the paper
work involved," Varon said.
"Green is not the type of guy
who would get involved in any
complicated operation . . . I
can see him doing guard
work."
Nocturnal Security Force ?
He said Green served as a
supply officer for an air base
in Vietnam before coming to
the center three years ago.
Green retired July I. when
he was passed-over for a pro-
motion to the rank of colonel.
After his retirement, Green
began working with Security
International, the firm which
took over McCord's business
last month.
The head of Security Inter-
national, Shea, also was a
member of McCord's noctur-
nal security force.
In addition to Shea, the team
included Louis James Russell,
former top investigator for the
House Un-American Activities
Committee, and Alfred Bald-
win, a former FBI agent who
has admitted monitoring bugs
implanted in the offices of the
Democratic National Commit-
tee.
Although Baldwin has ad-
mitted that he spent his nights
in the Howard Johnson motel
? across the street from the
Watergate ? listening in on
the Democrats, Shea and Rus-
sell have offered different ver-
sions of their activities in the
weeks before the break-in.
Shea has told friends he was
spending evenings working on
burglar alarm systems. And
Russell has told The Star-News,
that his main function was'
guarding the finance commit-
tee headquarters.
'The Good Times'
etiMPPROrOlogl4R0
Russell decided to go down to
? the Howard Johnson's to get a
snack. He said he went there
because he had a "sentimen-
tal" attachment to the place.
"I used to go with a girl who
had her hair done at the Wa-STATIM
tergate," Russell said, "And
we'd go over to the Howard
Johnson's for dinner after-
wards. I went there that night
to think about the good times
we had."
Russell said he is still work-
ing for McCord helping him
with his legal defense. McCord
and six others including the
Nixon finance co m mitt ee
counsel and E. Howard Hunt,
an ex-White House consultant,
were indicted Sept. 15, on
charges of conspiring to bug
the Watergate.
Russell was questioned by
the FBI but he did.not testify
before a grand jury which
spent months investigating the
case.
A Nixon re-election commit-
tee spokesman, when asked,
acknowledged that both Rus-
sell and Shea had worked at
the committee, but. were paid
by McCord
Guards at the Nixon Re-
election Headquarters receive
$3.50 an hour.
Shea and his wife Terry,
who worked as a secretary for
McCord for about a year, live
in an expensive home in Poto-
mac. Green is building a home
near the Sheas.
Shea declines to discuss
McCord .er Security Interna-
tional with newsmen. He told
The Star-News: "If you don't
leave me alone I'll get you and
your newspaper in a lot of
trouble."
Just why the Nixon commit-
tee did not pay, these men as it
did the rest of the guard force
is unclear. Most GOP security
guards have been named in
the committee reports of ex-
penditures to the General Ac-
counting Office.
- But in the case of this secret
security force, the committee
lists only one payment to Mc-
Cord associates, for $1,091 and
dated April 17.
There is no record of a reim-
bursement to McCord for Rus-
sell, who worked full time at
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By PATRICE COLLINS and
JEREMIAH O'LEARY
Star.News Staff Writers
The grand -jury that indicted
seven men in the Watergate
bugging case has been meet-
ing secretly since the indict-
ments were handed down and
it is believed the jury is inves-
tigating new charges linked to -
the Watergate case.
Shortly after the seven men
were indicted Sept. 15, Henry
E. Petersen, chief of the Jus-
tice Department's Criminal
Division, Said the case was
closed and the investigation
into the incident had been
concluded.
However sources close to the
investigation told the Star-
News today that the grand
jury which probed the Water-
gate case had had several ses-
sions since the Sept. 15 indict-
ments.
Normally, the U.S. attorney
recalls a grand jury on a case
only when new evidence has
been discovered.
Sources close to the investi-
gation said the jury may be
examining several incidents -
related to the Watergate bug-
ging case.
Among the charges the jury
may be probing is the accusa-
tion that the Nixon re-election
committee supported an or-
ganized band of political sab-
oteurs who were assigned to
disrupt the Democratic pri-
mary and sabotage the cam-
paign of Democratic presi-
dential nominee Sen. George
McGovern.
Sources say the jury may ?
also be looking into the
charges by the General Ac-
counting Office that the Fi-
nance Committee to Re-elect
the President committed about
a dozen "apparent" violations
of the federal campaign spend-
ing laws.
Listed in those violations, re-
ported in a GAO audit last
August, was a $3503Ga0 cash
slush fund which was located
in the private safe of Nixon's
rzr,au
terA rsel n
tld
-
the money used by the Water- kinson, Stans' attorney, and
gate seven came from Stans' was told that Stans did not
safe. ? ? appear in court because he
Recently, sources in the Jus- had not been served with a
tice Department have said subpeona.
that any investigation into vio- Until that day no raid had
lations of the campaign spend- ? come closer than five miles to
lag law would be delayed until : the center of Hanoi during the
after the election. current bombing campaign un-
A third reason for the jury der rules originating with the
Meetings, sources say, is the White House and the secretary
speculation that one of the de- of Defense and passing down
fendants in ? the case has through the military chain of
agreed to cooperate with the command.
government. It has been confirmed by a
Till now there has been no ? high ranking Pentagon official
indication that any of the sev- that Defense Secretary Melvin
en men ? indicted have been R. Laird cleared the Gai Lam
Walling to talk about their in- yard as an eligible target less
F. ?
sfplvement in the case. than two weeks before the raid
?The government has only took place.
due inside witness -- Richard Five days before Navy F-4s
Baldwin, a former Flit agent and A-7s from the carrier Mid-
'ho says he monitored trans, way set out to hit the yard
missions from bugs implanted Oct. II, Air Force fighter
iii the phones of the Demo- bombers raided three of the
cratic National Committee. anti-aircraft missle sites that
:Investigators associated ring the city.
sttith the case said it would be In the raid of October 6, ac-
impossible "to take the case cording to Saigon military
any further" unless we can get
command's routine report, the
one of the leaders to talk. Air Force pilots hit five SAMs
:The three most prominent within five miles of the city to
men charged in the case were the south, four more nine
G. Gordon Liddy, former coun- miles southeast of the city and
sel to Nixon's finance commit- tenth five miles northeast of
tee, James McCord, security Jthe city ? within two miles of
advisor to the Nixon re- the Gal Lam yard.
election committee, and E. The only official acknowl-
Howard Hunt, a former White edgement of the incident to
a
House consultant. have -come from the military
Meanwhile, Stans failed to before today had suggested
appear in Superior Court to- that the legation was hit by a
day for extradition proceed- North Vietnamese SAM that
jogs in the Florida trial of Wa- missed its target and "could
tergate defendant Bernard L. have i m p a c t e d on the
Barker. ground."
Members of the police de-
Listed to Appear partment's fugitive squad,
The former secretary of which serves all out of state
commerce had been listed to witness supoenas, had at-
appear this morning in assign- tempted to serve Stans at his
meat court ignore Judge Paul home in the Watergate corn-
McArdle, a routine proceeding, . plex twice on Tuesday, but he
for the designation of a judge was not them
to hear Florida's request to On Wednesday, the U.S. at-
,, ?
extradite Stans to Miami as a torney's office made arrange-
witness in the Oct. 30 trial. meats through Stans attor-
When Stans did not appear
neys for Stans to be served
ch ?
during the first two hours of - `;
chief fund rais m However, the time of service vester '
er, Maurice the session, newsmen called
? was unclear, court sources
Stans. ?
His APPCPYRCIOFRE? Rel041Martl
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Court sources said there was
just a misunderstanding as to
the time and that Stalls was
not attempting to evade serv-
ice.
Superior Court Judge Paul
McArdle was to hold the hear-
ing for Stans this afternoon.
He signed a special appear-
ance order prepared late this
morning by the U.S. attorney's
office after consultation, with
Stalls' attorneys.
Miami State Atty. Richard
B. Gerstein, informed of Stalls'
failure to appear this morning,
commented, "This is really
black humor when it is neces-
sary , for Washington police
fugitive squad men to go out
looking for one of the Presi-
dent's highest confidants. It
would be easier to locate one
of the high-ranking figures of
org?anieed crime."
Moore told reporters only
that Stalls ? had been here
everyday this. week but one
and had been available any-
time for service of the sub-
poena. But neither Stalls nor
his attorneys could be reached
to clarify the situation.
spokesman Powell Moore said p mand 9:13 p.m. yesterday
he had contacted Kenneth Par- ' ?
but Stuns was not there.
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Book says CIA stole
:Sputnik briefly 8.
'Washington T?The 'Central all the targets it was working
Intelligence Agency stole the
Soviet Sputnik to examine it
minutely while it was on a
against were already ade-
quately covered by other intel-
ligence sources.
world tour in 1953, says a new The CIA had no comment on
book by a former intelligence Mr. McGarvey's book. And in
agent. , giving him the go-ahead, the
?
Patrick J. McGarvey. in acrencv wrote Mr. McGarvey if
"CIA?The Myth 8.:, the M;-2d- 0 ?
ness," a book critical of the any claim is made that the
agency, relates: CIA "in any way approves
"The Sputnik display was your book or confirms the ac-
stolen for three hours by a CIA curacy of any information con-
team which completely dist tamed therein, it will be offi-
mantled it, took samples of it cially denied and we will con-
structure, photographed ii,
sider what other action may be
reassembled it and returned i
to its original , place unde- appropriate under the eircum-
tected,'.' :
CIA review required . stances."
' Mr. McGarvey is a 14-year
.. . . , ,
1
veteran in intelligence, three
The country where this cc- 1 years with the CIA, the rest
curred, Mr: McGarvey said, I with the Army's National Secu-1
was among the things in about rity Agency and the Defense I
100 lines the CIA cut out when Intelligence Agency between i
he submitted his manuscript to 1955 and 1969.
the CIA. Review by the CIA He served in intelligence as-
was required under his secrecy signments in Korea, Japan,
agreement signed when he Taiwan and Vietnam.
joined the agency, he said. ?
Other things Mr. MeGarvey
says he is ,revealing for the
first time include:
, bickering
' Battling with 2 authors
Mr. McGarvey's book is one
of three new books on the CIA
but the agency is battling with
nearly .provoked Chinese Com- authors of the other two who
munist entry into the Vietnam did not present theirs for clear-
war in 1966. - - - ance.
2. Richard Helms, director The CIA tried to block the
of ' central intelligence, taps publication several months ago
the phones of his subordinates. of "The Politics of Heroin in
3. The FBI tried to enlist the Southeast Asia" by Alfred
CIA in an attempt to "scandal- McCoy, which accused the CIA
ize" Stokely Carmichael, the of heavy involvement in drug
black civil rights activist, in traffic in that area. The book
Hong Kong during his travels was ? published over CIA pro-
in 1967. test.
4. The ill-fated Pueblo mis-
Last spring, the CIA won a
sion and capture by North federal court injunction to
Korea was unnecessary .since block publication and speeches
by a former high-ranking intel-
ligence official, Victor Mar-
chetti. He is now appealing to
the Supreme Court.
.....
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BOULDER, COLO.
CAMERANT 2 0 19721
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President Should Clarify Watergate
I have just read with deep
concern the account in Satur-
day's Camera of the Watergate
conspiracy, as described by one
of the conspirators, Alfred C.
Baldwin III. It seems to me that
the cavalier attitude of the
Republican Party, including its
chief, Richard Nixon, that this
episode is none of their affair, or
a mere peccadillo, or just "dirty
politics, as usual," or even a
plot of the Democrats (Agnew);
should fill everyone in America,
? of any party, with alarm.
Armored cars, pistol-packing
; ex-FBI and CIA agents, the
: most sophisticated electronic
equipment, including walkie-
talkie and TV surveillance
apparatus, the secrecy even
among the conspirators, the
; easy cash, all add up to
something very like the
? ruthless gangsterism that
characterized Hitler's rise to
power and destroyed all
political parties in Germany,
but one. Those guns described
in the article were only to kill
people; those armored
liinosines were only to escape in
unlawful flight. The money,
electronic equipment, the
planning were all dedicated to
manipulating the American
electorate, to defeating fair
play and decency in democratic
debate, to undermining the
Consititution, which instructs us
in the two-party system.
I do not like to question the
integrity of the President of the
U.S. If I must have him as
President for another four
years, as seems likely, I would
like to believ.e in him, to have
faith that even though I
disagree with him he is an
honorable man. I call on him to
clarify now the responsibility in
this conspiracy, to make public
amends where possible, to take
steps to assure the public that
the Republican Party will never
again indulge in these gestapo
tactics, and to repudiate
publicly all of the rascals in-
volved.
LENORE STEWART
921, Fifth St.
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E 121,726
Kleindk:L,
?
By MARK.MOND
Atty. Gen._ 'Richard
Kleindienst told? a news COD-
ference ip San ..Di:2go last
night that it apPears someone
in the justice Department is
leaking information to the
news media, He has not found
out who it is.
When he does, he intends to
ask for the person's resigna-
tion,
In a news conference in the
Hilton Hotel Kleindienst also:
?Defended the govern-
ment's investigation into the
Watergate bugging case.
- ?Said his department is
,not ? investigating press
charges that a presidential
appointments secretary is
linked indirectly with a figure
in the, Watergate bugging
case.
? ---Disconnted reports that
the CentrALT-Aaie Agen-
cy is linked with traffic in
- hard drugs from Southeast
? Asia.
'? ?Urged California voters
to defeat the marijuana-decr-
? iminalization initiative, Prop.
19.
?Skirted a question as to
what the federal government
. would do if the. initiative were
passed.
? Kleindienst held the confer-
ence before, addressing the
California Narcotic Officers
Assn. at the Hilton.
He told the law officers his
..department is proposing
stricter legislative restric-
tions on the granting of bail
and parole, and mandatory
jail sentences. for sellers of
heroin and cocaine.
Asked if there was any in-
dication that persons in the
Justice Department are leak-
ing information on the Water-
gate bugging case to the
press, Kleindienst responded:
"If you mean do I recognize
(information) when I see it in,
the newspaper, yes."
Kleindienst suggested the
press "curb its temptations"
to get and print such.. con-
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Justice Department.'
? .figucli of what you see hi
an FBI file is rumor.. lienr?;ay
and unsubstantiated gossip,"
he said:
The attorney general said
that, in the course of in-
vestigations, law enforcement
officers have to rely on
people giving them leads ani.
information which may be
only rumor.
He said that if people are
reluctant to assist law-enforce-
ment officers because their
comments and rumor may be
disclosed by the press, "law
enforcement will be set back
a long way,"
Kleindienst denied there is
any footdragging in the in-
vestigation or prosecution of
the Watergate bugging ease,
in which Democratic party
officials have charged that
high-level Republicans were
involved in an effort to spy on
Democratic campaign plan-
ning.
He said FBI agents and
U.S. attorneys involved in the
case are career professionals
and largely Democratic party
oriented.
He added that he has taken
an oath of office which he will
not fail to uphold.
Kleindienst said the best in-
dication that the case is being
well handled and that there
are no political cover-ups is
that no one has leaked any
such information to the news
media.
Asked if any of .his agencies
are investigating newspaper
reports that presidential ap-
pointments secretary Dwight
L. Chapin is linked with a fig-
ure in the Watergate bugging
case, Kleindienst said "it
hasn't come before my de-
partment. No one has alleged
anything is wrong!"
The New York Times has
reported that Donald H. Segr-
etti, a California lawyer who
has been linked to allegations
of political sabotage, had 28
calls charged on his phone
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credit- card' to the White
House ohice of Chapin, Chap-
in's home and to E. Howard
Hunt Jr., a former White
House consultant charged in
the Watergate ease.
Kleindienst also discounted
reports in a recently publish-
ed book that the CIA is linked
with the prUffieliOn and
transporting of hard drugs in
Southeast Asia.
He 'termed the charges "in-
credNe" and said they didn't
deserve rin answer. wile CIA
is no in. the business of fos-
terir..-: people who engage in
narenics traffic," he said.
Of the California marijuana
initiative, he said he is "abso-
lutely, unequivocally 100%
opposed" to the idea.
He said that he could not
imagine the President pro-
posing it at the federal level.
Kleindienst said "everyone
agrees" marijuana is dan-
gerous, that most of the na-
tions in the 'world ban it and
that "you just can't compare
it to alcohol."
The initiative would re-
-
move criminal penalties from
the possession for private use
, of marijuana for those per-
sons 18 or older. The in-
itiative affects only state law
and not federal laws dealing
with possession of marijuana.
Asked what the federal gov-
ernment would do to enforce
its marijuana 'laws should the.
Initiative pass, the attorney
general said it "presents a
pretty difficult question.
There is 'a question of con-
current jurisdiction. I hope
that the people of California
will not present that problem
to the United States."
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Nixon's silence
? Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Sargent
Shriver challenged Nixon's silence Tuesday on the
Watergate bugging of national Democratic Party
headquarters and the evidence that has piled up
of Republican corruption, sabotage, spying and
? other misdeeds.
This is one part of the enormous mass of cor-
ruption and political gangsterism of the Nixon
Administration in which an election campaign is
-conducted like a war..
This grim war of political gunslinging proced-
ures, CIA cloak-and-dagger methods, and FBI po-
llee state style has the stench of incipient fasc-
ism about it. It has its antecedents in the Nixon-
ite political knife-wielding to stifle dissent in
federal circles, the varying forms of repression
of peace, civil rights, democratic and left politi-
cal activities, ranginf from infiltration, widespread
electronic surveillance, provocation to actual phys-
ical extermination, as in the methods used against
the Black Panthers.
It was (he Nixon Administration and the Justice
Department of John Mitchell, then Attorney Gen-
eral, Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy now At-
torney General, and Robert Mardian, then head
of internal security for the Department of Justice
and now a top figure in the Committee to Re-
Elect the President (CREEP), that worked out
the scheme to break up the May Day 1971 peace
demonstration in Washington by unconstitutional
mass arrests which netted 13,040 prisoners, many
of whom were herded into a specially construct-
ed concentration camp. Indeed, Nixon has a rea-
son for silence.
_
Ultra-ric4it plot
. The Nixonites have brushed aside the exposure
of their sabotage, spying and burglary activities
in the election campaign as '.-political pranks," in
the phrases of John D. Ehrlichman. Nixon's top
adviser on domestic matters, on Sunday.
Referring. to the Nixonites, Democratic presi-
dential candidate George McGovern said Tuesday
in San Antonio, Texas, that "These ambitious men
will apparently stop at nothing to preserve their
power."
He said that they had conspired "to.forge let-
ters, impersonate officials of various Democratic
campaigns, incite riots, issue phony press releas-
es in the name of others, withhold evidence from
a grand jury, illegally enter the offices of the
opposition party, steal private files and unlaw-
fully ?wiretap the private conversations of Demo-
cratic officials."
The list is damning, but the Nixonites have
gone further. They established a conspiratorial
network which has sought to poison public opin-
ion.. This network operated in a style and on the
principles of the CIA seeking to subvert'a foreign
government.
Among its exploits, which include the plot to
compomise Sen. Edmund Muskie in the primaries,
particularly in New Hampshire, was the plot to
destroy Sen. Thomas Eagleton. when he was
named the Democratic vice presidential candi-
date, by planting what is now generally regarded
as false charges concerning alleged drunken driv-
ing.
Nixon has something to hide and that is why he
has campaigned mainly by proxy. utilizing dozens
of "surrogates." His press conferences are se-
verely limited also, obviously to avoid searching
questions.
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McCord Office Next: to -Muskie's
By Karlyn Barker
Washington Post Staff Writer
? James W. McCord Jr., one
? of seven men indicted in the
Watergate bugging incident,
apparently leased a K Street
office next door to Sen. Ed-
_ mond S.'.Muskie's campaign
office last spring while Mus-
kie was candidate for the
Democratic presidential
nomination.
? -At the time McCord was
the security coordinator for
the Committee for the Re-
election of the President.
The co-owner and an em-
? ployee of an optician's office
on the ground floor of the
building -at 1908 K. St. NW
said McCord rented the sec-
ond .floor office there in
May or June of this year.
The building's landlord re-
fused. to ,discuss the. matter
but-confirmed that a man
named McCord leased the
office.
, The building is attached
. to the one next door, at 1910
? K St. NW, which served as
?? Muskie headquarters from
January, 1972, until the last
' week in July when it be-
came the main office for the
- presidential campaign of
Sen. George McGovern.
McCord, a former CIA
employee and FBI agent,
has been linked to one other .
spying incident in addition
to the Watergate,. where he
was arrested June 17, Fed-
eral investigators say that
while he was employed by
the President's re-election
committee McCord con-
ducted an investigation of
columnist Jack Anderson,
apparently to yarn where
the columnist was getting
information critical of the
? Nixon administration.
A spokesman for Muskie
. said Tuesday that "every-
thing we had to say (about
campaign plans) was being
?said" at the K Street head-
quarters. "The senator went
in there frequently to make
Leonard M. Gatti, land-
lord of the 1908 K- St.
building, said yesterday that
it was his understanding
that the second floor space
"was to be used as an ac-
counting office." Gatti said
be never met the renter in
P1,1-soil.
Gatti refused to discuss
the circumstances of the
lease agreement or the dura-
tion, saying only, "A man
pays his rent. He get a
key."
- The Washington Post was
told that McCord intended
to use the office on K Street
as a Washington branch of
McCord Associates, Inc., a
security firm he had opened
in Rockville in the spring of
1971.
Paul Pattyson, co-owner
or an optician's office below
the one rented through
Gatti, told The Washington
Post Tuesday that it was
James MeCin?d who rented
the office a few months
after January when it was
vacated by a landscape firm.
"I know it was him. lie
got mail here that had to he
returned to the post office
because he never picked it
Up." said Pattyson.
Pattyson said he was
called by Gatti "in May or
I think, and told the
office had finally been rent-
ed?by a James McCord.
- Maria Musgrave, an em-
ployee of Pattyson, said she
once "loaned a key to get
into the upstairs office" to a
man who said he was jamc.,5
McCord. Miss Musgrave was
unable to identify McCord
from photographs yesterday.'
She said she saw the man
only once, at night.
She said there was no evi-
dence that anyone used the
office during the day be-
cause the mailmen and gas-
men could never find any-
one there.
"I had to let the gas people
in to read the meter," she
said, adding that the up-
stairs office showed no signs
of being either renovated or
occupied when she last saw
it?before the present ten-
ants moved in.
Jean Ballosi, owner of the
Owl and Tortoise Restau-
rant around the corner from
1908 K St., said she leased
the second floor office there
about a month ago.
"It looked just like a land-
scape firm (that left in Janu-
ary) with maps and charts
still on the walls," she said,
"but I've completely redeco-
rated it now."
. Renting a room near the
target of a surveillance op-
eration is a .standard bug-
ging technique. The rented
room is used as a monitor-
ing post. In it. signals trims-
mitted by radio transmitter
bugs planted in the room
under surveillance are
Picked up and recorded.
There is no evidence that
McCord rented. the K
Street office for . bugging
purposes or that the, Muskie
headquarters were bugged.
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phone calls to political
leaders and discussions
about whether we would
stay in the race and what we
might do in Miami took
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How Far1)0:They-Run?
With many of his associates hip-deep
in the 81iille of Watergate, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to believe President
Nixon is unaware of the extralegal activi-
ties undertaken in his behalf.
If it is difficult to excuse the President,
it is well-nigh impossible to assume that
highly placed Republicans very close to
Mr. Nixon have no guilty knowledge in
connection with the mounting evidence of,
immorality and. crime.
Many of the roads from Watergate
lead. directly to the Committee. to Ite-E-.
lect the President, which was beaded by
former Atty. Gem John Mitchell up until
the day his wife, Martha, began publicly
to denounce some, of the dirticr.and more
frightful aspe.e.ts of the political world
into which she had been .thrust.
Mrs. Mitchell's sallies ceased being
funny, or newsworthy. She -,was .whisked
from. view. Simultaneously, her husband
resigned from the committee.. It is inter-
esting to note that the hasty retreat of
the Mitchells followed upon the capture
of the Watergate adventurers.
The disappearance of the Mitchells has
done wonders to stifle _public interest in .
the Watergate -affair. The names that
now pop up daily in connection with the
words.
But they are important names, nonthe-
less, in a Republican administration that
assumes a virtuous face whenever
cal espi.onage is mentioned.
One such name is Dwight L, Chapin.
Who is Dwight L. Chapin? He is the
President's appointments secretary, a
man who meets almost daily with Mr:
Nixon.
Now comes Lawrence Young, a Cali-
fornia lawyer, to tell . us in a sworn
statement that he was told by a client,
Donald H. Segretti, that "Dwight Chapin
was a person I reported to M Washing-
ton." ?
Who is Donald H. 'Segretti? He is a
man who has been identified by federal
investigators as one of 50 undercover
operatives engaged since 1971 in a mam-
moth spying and sabotage offensive by
Nixon aides- against Democratic presi-
dential candidates.
Segretti, the same federal investigators
assert, was paid for his activities from a
seeret cash fund kept in the office safe of
former Secretary of Commerce Maurice
Stalls, finance 'chairman of the Nixon
campaign,
The sordid case has many ramifica-
tions, The California lawyer also swears
that Segretti said he, Segretti, received
political sabotage and spying assign-
ments from E. Howard -Hunt. -
Who is E, HoWard Hunt? He is ?a
former CIA agent and a former White
House aide who was among seven then
indicted in the Watergate bugging case.
The White House piously declares its
innocence, but regardless of the angle
froni which the case is viewed the White
House winds up smack in tne,middle of
t. If the public seems unconcerned, it is
' tribute to the propaganda efforts of the
:Grand Old Party,.?
If Mr. Nixon: is totallyunaware of the
:7-? activity of his ?troops in the field, his
, indifferent reaction suggests that he is,
at best, amoral, and that his "law and
? order" rhetoric is comically hypocritical.
We don't care for the unsavory people
with whom Mr. Nixon has surrounded
. himself. We hope the American .voters
will be shaken into 'a determination to
look closely at. evidence of political foul-
ness that would do credit to 19th century
? European despots.
The voters would do well to rid them-
selves of the Vicious, and un-American
'political apparatus deliberately organized
for the sabotaging of the American sys-
tem of selecting national leadership. The
way to rid themselves of the apparatus
Is to rid themsedves of . the cynical Re-
publican Rd ministra tio'n ..Which fostered.
? As incredible disclosure follows upon
disclosure, Sen. George McGovern stands
out in sharpcontrast. The best saboteurs
and spies Republican money could buy
have been. able to bring against Mc-
Govern. only the most trivial accusations.
The most damning of these is that
George McGovern sometimes changes
his mind on the issues.
If Republican espionage has demon-.,
-strated the depths to which .the Nixon
:team can stoop, it also has been the
ironic means by which George Mc-
Govern's virtues have been affirmed.
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Slugging
? Now,: there, are only 20 days until:
electionith 'sides have teed off,diic
the media. Both skies are shouting fouL
It has been too long a campaign.Tem
pers are thinning,. But the campaigners
are much more impressed with:. their.
own charges against each other than
the voters are.
It should not be forgotten that the
public has been conditioned for a long
time to look upon cloak-and-dagger stuff.
as entertainment,- One cannot watch
"Mission Impossible" week after week,
with the electronic genius. Greg Morris
bugging roorns and installing one-way
mior..\,vindows, without getting to take
such things-,as a Matter of course. The
reaction to. - Watergate ?was less that it
wa4 unethical than that it was done
clumsily.; 'Greg neVer is inept.
461,,pio-Nixon,.CIA4ype counterforce
was aS" logical a develOpment as
Man from U.N.C.L.E." in view of the
pro4Vic.Govern str eet revolutionary
types :which ,published a detailed out-
line of how to wreck the Republican
convention in Miami and the organizers
who utilized McGovern telephones to
round -up recruits for an anti-Nixon
demonstration on the West Coast.
? And who wrote the ?Canuck letter" '
which .a New Hampshire newspaper ran
without checking; causing Senator- Mus-
kie to weep in a Manchester street, will
be -argued for a long time. It certainly
sabotaged Muskiebiit Whom did it help? '
Nixon? Or McGovern?
?-:The point is that skullduggery goes
on: In 'all. political' 6ampaigns----even in
1?64 Yearinpaigns although not on so
sophisticated a scale.. Certainly it is not
the way to run an election Campaign
but the way Americans run all aspects
of Einf election campaiobn-may not be the
b6t.,,ay, either. TIie telltale is that
both sides are shouting' "Foul!" and Un-
doubtedly.both arc right.
The 1972 campaign might make a
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Segretti Is Linked to Calls
To White House in Spring
BY STEVEN V. ROBERTS
Special to The Nes York Times
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17?Donald H. Segretti, the man
identified in news reports as a key figure in a campaign
to sabotage Democratic political activities, has been linked
to a number of telephone calls
made last spring to the White
House and to the home and
office of a man indicted in the
Watergate bugging incident.
.? Some of the calls were made
from his home telephone and
others were charged to his
,credit card.
The New York Times has
learned that at least 28 calls
were made to the White House;
to the home of Dwight L. Cha-
pin,, a close aide to President
Nixon, and to the home and of-
fice of E. Howard Hunt Jr. Mr.
Hunt, a former White House
consultant, has been indicted in
connection with the break-in
June 17 at the headquarters of
the Democratic National Com-
mittee at the Watergate com-
plex in Washington.
News reports have alleged
that Mr. Chapin and Mr. Hunt
served as Washington contacts
for Mr. Segretti, a 31-year-old
lawyer who several persons
have said tried to recruit them
for political espionage. .
I Mr. Segretti denied the initial
reports concerning his involve-
ment in an espionage campaign
but could not be reached for
'comment on the new informa-
tion.
-, Spokesmen for the White
-House and the Committee for
the Re-election of the President
have denounced the press for
printing articles based on what
they call "hearsay" -and "innu-
endo," but they have neither
denied nor rebutted the mate-
rial that has been published.
Mr. Chapin and Mr. Hunt
could not be reached today.
Ronald L. Ziegler, President
Nixon's press secretary, said
that he had "no knowledge" of
the calls to the White House
and "no idea" why they had'
been made.
The Times has learned that
at least six calls were made
to the White House from Mr.
Segretti's phone or were billed ? I but several have said that he
told them he was working for
to his credit card?one in April ;President Nixon's campaign.
ant five in June, the last on
J u
day confirmed that i was MI%
Chapin's home.
Two Calls to Home
On at least 19 occasions from
March to June, the unlisted
number of Mr. Hunt's office at
Robert R. Mullen & Company, a
Washington public relations
firm, was called from the Se-
gretti phone or were billed to
him. Two calls were placed in
that period to Mr. Hunt's home
in Rockville. Md.
It was not known who par-
ticipated in any of the tele-
phone calls.
The calls to Mr. Hunt's home
and office stopped shortly be-
fore June 17, the night five men
were arrested in the offices of
the Democratic National Com-
mittee at the Watergate com-
plex. Mr. Hunt was not among
those arrested that nig,hi, but
he was immediately dismissed
by the Mullen concern, for
- which he worked as a writer.
He was later indicted for con-
- spiracy in the case.
Mr. Hunt worked as a con-
sultant to the White House in
1971 and 1972 mainly on do-
mestic affairs. The White House
has contended that he last
? worked there on March 29;
some sources say he worked
through June. At least two of
the calls from the Segretti home
to Mr. Hunt's phones were
placed before March 29.
The Times has not been able
to learn about any phone calls
made from Mr. Segretti's phone
before mid-March.
Last week, the Washington
Post first named Mr. Segretti as
an important operative in what
it described as a broad cam-
paign conducted by President
Nixon's re-election committee
to disrupt and harass Demo-
I cratic candidates.
At least eight persons around
I the country have told The New
1York Times and other newspa-
pers that they were approached
by Mr. Segretti and asked to
perform undercover work of
various kinds. Most of them
I said they were not sure whom
Segretti was working for,
tin 1 cick irtieltiOaS c
0-#
Akivieg
mn
Time aazine
been paid more than ,.3o,
Maryland was called. A woman
who answered that nhone to-
magazine, Justice Department
files show that the money orig-
inated with the Committee for
?the Re-election of the Presi-
dent and was funneled to Mr.
Segretti through Herbert W.
Kalmbach, a California lawyer
who has often represented
President Nixon in his private
affairs.
According to various ac-
counts, Mr. Segretti's work
included such activities as
obtaining secret information
about Democratic campaigns,
planting false stories about
rival candidates, distributing
bogus. literature, ? and gener-
ally fomenting trouble and
discord among contenders for
the Democratic Presidential
nomination.
Classmates- in College
Mr. Chapin and Mr. Segretti
were college classmates at the
University of Southern Califor-
nia in the class of 1963. While
'there, they joined in a campaign
to overthrow the political. pow-
ers on campus. Mr. Chapin also
worked for Mr. Nixon's unsuc-
cessful campaign for Governor
of California in 1962 and appar-
ently recruited Mr. Segretti to
work in that campaign with
him.
Mr. Chapin ha served Presi-
dent Nixon as a personal aide
and appointments secretary
since the Administration teak
office. Lately he has concen-
trated on political activities.
Mr. Hunt had a colorful
ca-
reer as an agent of the Central
Intelligence Agency and as an
author of mystery novels before
he went to work for the Mullen
firm and the 'White House.
Washington sources have iden-
tified Mr. Hunt as a prime or-
ganizer of the Bay of Pigs inva-
sion against Fidel Castro's
regime in Cuba.
After graduating from law;
school in 1967, Mr. Segretti
spent four years as a captain in
the Judge Advocate General's
Corps, including a year in Viet-
nam. He left the service in
September, 1971, and has lived
in Los Angeles since then.
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citizens, Sargent Shtiveri towaga (Bnic County) town shriven sail.He concluded his
charged today.
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' hail, was described by one or-. speech with a personal attack
In a reference to reeent oe?I nis aides as a calculated effort:00 Prosjdont Njx0o, whom
VelOPInelltS in the Watergate to make people think of the ! shriver compared to a "loop-
burglary ease and to the CIA! Watergate issue Jul terms of its i
background of some of die de.; "Big Brother" espionage ci-!spois,"
I feels ?
,, lard that doesn't change it's
.fenclants, Shriven said:i
on the. ,.\ merican people I "He's still the same NiNtail "
"T II e y 'r e perpetrating rather than as simply an k;U(2 !he always was," said shriven
against the American pi oplc ill Wiliell 011e pOliliCiln does ;olio may dr,..,.ss like a pi.esh
the same techniques that. dirt to another.
, I dent, look li ke a President,
America used ttqtainst. the Rus- The Deirm(Tatic vice Prcs'.!tnIfi: like a President, act like a
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in the micidie of the niaht, 1111-
phasizecl this point and took ideni_but its still :Nixon."
planting electronic bugging cognizance of the fact that
devices, forging letters, bid b., many VOIOIS have dismissed
ing people and then sending the Watergate affair as simply
covert: information, it appears, being typical of American pol-
right up into the office of the itics.
White House, the President's But Watergate 1.s different,
office itself ? . said Shriven, "in a very seri-
"This is the introduction ous and ominous way" because
into the life of the people of it shows that CIA techniques
America of covert, subversive which have been developed to 1 Ai
activities of the type that. have counteract the Russians, the '
only been Permit ted outside techniques of "espionage, brib-
the United States, That devil ery, cajolery, falsification of
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1.1v A land 07. ,..., shut off our sources, 1 burning to dramatize how they copy of the actual study, which
Jack- ndeotort
; A host of investigators par- were cooperating with the U.S. speaks more than five timet;
Men inow -- 1 e
'r dull'i relish i ICP ll ed in the project. Gov- crackdown on drugs. We re- of the violent effects of 'laser
I) i\ their cozy relation- ,ernment a g e n t s ,
cc ,ti ported, however, that the\-beims on eyeballs. Twice, thit
ships exposed, and tlicir, cites "massive blast"
thronh binoculars. from a really burned cheap fodder study
sources of money bared, a11(1 nearby knoll, staked out my mixed with opium effects; in another place, if
their errors and (111)111 ill house. with ,,,,,,ikici ki, li chhi-i... tells of a "IllierC)-:.iXPIOS1011" Ili. ,aeS, NiX0/1 aides r,:cnt to
ments publicized. .they directed waiting govern- rate lemoits to knock th,,?the eyes. The water fluids in
It is not surprising, 1114lieHment security cars to tail me sfor v. do ii They prepared the ?Yes, ach-ls tl-ki stud, would
fore that the NIXOn Ad1111111-'1" wherever E went, sources in... 'rise to about 100 degree-3
pages of refutation for the '
ti ation doesn't like this cols' side iiic ,tustice Dep ii press,the boiling
1111111, So the President's dirty . set up a movie of the.C.-entil:5,racic" ---
provided me with the descripslopium burning and produced Poin?.
tricks department tried to .tions and license numbers an "expert" to testify how. Although we had a copy or
wrojp, we Were. Not onlY the study, we also contacted
play a few tricks on us, . of the cars. So it didn't. take] "'.
'narcotics officials but 1Vbite
co .,U- Force researchers at
The dirt,v, tricks operation,l.lo.ig to loct-tte them lurking in 1
illiouse and ,Tustice Department '
otherwise known as the "?f" hiding, places near my home. 'aides were involved in the right-
Patterson Air Forco
fensive Security Program of -,., y ., ,?r(1.'0 . . arrangements. 'Lase where the research vim
the Nixon Forces," was estab- -leC
But thanks to our advance. reviewed. They would confirm.
-1. HIT"t
? - , associate.Lea wytte - only that they had been in-
lished chiefly to bewitch mull The President's campaign
befoul Democratic presidentiaBsecurity chief, James W. M.c- showed up at the Press on vOlved in elas'ifii'd rc'sc"Irch-
o illser weapons,
ferenee with a stack of secret
candidates. lit was funded out ?Cord Ti joined in the invesd Finally we located the oily..
CIA documents and detailed"
,.. sician-researcher, Dr. i lliito'n'
of a secret, fluctuating Itepub--tigation. In. an "interim re- notes from other doL'm ..
om:its. ,
Bean slush fund, ipoet" to the White House, he lie quoted evidence right from tiara, who directed the study
The Washington Post has accused me of "close associa-the government's secret files for the Air Force'. To rnal:o
Siire
charged that the dirty tricks tion with the operating arm that the Thais had burned . our story was absolutely
included forging phony letters .of the Democratic Party." fodder instead of pure opium. accurate, we 1."(1 it hack to
to embarrass the Democrats,lironically, a Democratic Party An administration spokesman !him \vurd-fur'wurd. nic sugge'
leaking false information to spokesman later accused me sheepishly admitted that Uncle tech a few minor technical
the press, tailing family meni-of close association with Me- Sam had paid a cool $1 million changer., which we made-
hers of Democratic, preside . After Air .Force Magazinst
n- Curd's operation after we pub- for the ashes ;
' ,...
tial candidates and throwingHlished an embarrassing memo I called our story false, 10
Air Force Attack reached editors Claude Witzo
campaign schedules into (1.15- from party files.
array. I Sources inside the White More recently, the Pentagon and john .hrisbee. Tne attack
The Watergate incident? ? Douse, meanwhile, warned us furnished the editors of 1.j!' on US was wri?Iten by Wilzu
b r e a k i n g into Democratic. of attempts to discredit the Force Magazine with material who admitted he had never
s a
Party he tappimf, cob no 'Not long after ward, for a blistering za een the study he ccused INt,..ick on us. , ;
party leaders' telephones amid the Bureau of .tiareoties and They challenged our report o' u hsraill6enting. :.Th also
Oil ha.d never ti id to rea.eh tha
stealing party documents?was Dangerous Drugs called a ihout Ah' Force research
s,
pt-trt of this sordid operation. ,press confer ce. en We were a laser n bem that would ex-
cientist W110 pr epare d it no
-
in our ease, the dirty tricks tipped off that; the bureau plode the eyeballs of enemy for that matter, had he bother
, 4o seek our side of tha
,ca c
were pulled by political opera- would challenge our story soldiers at a distance of more ,c
tires and government gum- about Thailand's great opium than a mile. Blinded soldiers, s'm'Y'
the research noted, would be' "My understanding \v is tha?;',
shoes allice. Lu ii objective,:hoax,
apparently, ',I'm; two-fold; CH; l(the Pentieon Ver 'i011) Wi''' It:
The Thai an with more of a burden to a fight- ; . emit icon - '-' a - `'' "
to discredit the column by I considerable w h o op s d e - d o o ing force than dead soldiers. Iwilule P"elz"ge:' s"i'l ''Vit"e'
I"I rely.on them fairly heavily."
undermining our credibility; staged a million-dollar opium We . based our story ,-
on 'II
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Nouse and the Watergate?al rimh, meGorerii
cilara,e 'Plie Post hitc'\'''s?'-md, Sen. Muskie, about alleged ItnIcs"--a local
half dozen investiaations have campaign disruptions, while ,newspaper.
found---to be false,"
ft proven facts of oppo!,it ion-in. I Sen. Dole, MacGregor and
a statement issued last oiled di,:i.uptions of the prem./Ziegler all sought to tic The
night, Benjamin C. lira:Hee, campai,,,,rn are buried reporting to sun George
executive editor of Tila Post, deep inside the paper:, 11\?JcGovorn's presidential earn-
Said; "Time will :111-IP2.0 bc- 'Ire cited fircdama re and I Paign, charging?in Dole's I
tv.(1'1 a r h-. window-breaking incidnt e at
"given
straits in which the McGovern i
ti? p,,,,,,tSTATI NT
words?that
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hut cc fin. the Re-elcvlion of them, The post is investigating
the Preaident.
CWS i'al v 0 1.",;,e3 .the incidents. ,,
"f'or nca,v it is enouh to g say ,- ,
?- - rairner, at thc daily moi-n-
/ C"' TI-- - ? that not a single .1-c-t con--
11. 1,11 'ail 0 i i't..!..'"..e . mg White Ilonse-
taiiied. in tbe investi,s,alice re- .- ? ? . -, briefing,
Ziegler said, "I will not dig-
- ' -, by this 11(!,,VS0r0),1'
r !;"? [al Tr,,.,,,,, portut, - . -. ? - - . ? ` nifv with comment stories
u..11/4.4.? .; V r....i .1.J. ....,:_ii.1 a tan about It ese ael.m tic,, 1--,m., aeon - ? ? - - -
based on hearsay, character
e -auicksalver
undo' f.r.round
)press releases and Tide, V,1)S11- r .
ington Pest 'S reporting of the in cities and a;aked why
various activities of the Com- The
?
canmaign headquarters
By Carl Bernstein
and Bob Wood \yard
v,a-asal.atoa. ',cat seat writers ?
PrcSitient NixOn's cam-
paign Manager, 1-iiS pness
secretary and the. itenubli-
can National Committee
successfully challenged."
assassination, innuendo or
Bradlee added: "MacGrestor 'guilt by association," a.dding,
and other hig,h administration
officials have called these
stories `a collection of absurd-
ities' and The Post 'malici-
ous,' but the facts are on the.
record, unchallenged by con-
tary evidence."
chairman rondo separate at- In the past week, The Post
tacks OR The 'Washington has linked the President's ap-
post yesterday for "is coy. poinimeots secrelary, another
White House aide and the
Chag,e he Watergate bug- President's personal attorney
ging incident and an alleged ;. to the alleged spying and sabo-
Republican spying and sah- t'age campaign.
MacGregor read a three-
otage operation ag?ainst the page statement at the 5 p.m.
.Democrats,
Tho .attacks, coal a Ming
similar language, were made
by Clark MacGregor, Mr.
,cainpaign finds itself, Mr. Mc-;
t Govern appears to have turned
!over the franchise for his i
;media attack campaign to the!
!editors of The Washington i
!Post." Dole too referred in his!
ispeech to the l'entagon Papers!
H?ano at one point referred tol
eorge McGovern and his
partner-in-mudslinging, T e;
Washington Post."
"That is the White House pa At MacGregor's Pres.s con-
salon: that is my position." ferenee yesterday, Clark Mot--
zie:Jorsi-as ?ked if -prem.. jenhoff, a reporter for the Des
dent Nixon is concerned about !AlcUles negistcr and Tribune
and a former special assistant
tile increasing, number of news
to President Nixon. was an-
gered that MacGregor would
not answer questions.
"What credibility do you
have?" Mollenhoff inte r- ?
"The Presiftrit is concerned 'minted. "What documents
about techniques being ?1)-ise you seen? Because if you
plied by the opposition in the
, can't tell us, you have no right
stories themselves . .," aud- to stand there."
ing;at another Point: "The 0P- MacGregor replied: "That.
reports containing charges of
corruption and unethical cam-
paigning by his administration.
The press secretary replied:
position has been nicking will be a matter you will. have
press conference and refused charges which are not sub- to dc.termirie in consultation
to answer questions because stantiated; stories are written with your editors." He then
of "the unusuat developments which have not been substani. read his three-page statement,
of the past few days," His dated." two pages of which were de-
aides had said earlier that he Ziegler said that the Presi- voted to The Post.
Nixon's campaign manager; would answer questions, dent continues to have "con- When he finished, he walked
Ronald Ziegler, the White Referring to the Post's Pub- fidence in his staff." including from the conference room
house press secretary, and lication of the Pentagon Pa- Dwight L. Chapin, his appoint- with reporters shouting ques-
P1 r. and the seven me
Kansas Sen. Robert J.Dolealta-:- ? - n who ments scerelar,y. Chapin was dons at him.
.
have been indicted in the bug- named in accounts by both the Molterthoff 'got into a dispute
the GOP national chairman.
- grog of the Democrats' Water- Post and Time as a "contact" earlier this month with Ziegler
for Donald II. Segretti, whom about what Ziegler said con-
federal investigators ha v e cerning the Watergate bugging
"While The Post itself open-
"innuendo" and "unsubstan-, identified as one of more than being financed by Mr. Nixon's
tinted" charges relating to the IlY and actively collaborated! 50 Nixon undercover opera- re-election committee.
Watergat.e investigation, Iin the publication of stolen i lives engaged in sabotage Mollenhoff quoted Ziegler in
Neither minciregoi. nor itop secret documents of the against the Democrats. The a front page story on Oct. 6
Zieglertg,overnment of t h e Unitedl
would respond to re- Time account also said Se- as saying: "There is no ques-
porters' questioning about the ;States 1.6 m_onths ago -,--- t?'il gretti had been hired by Cha- tion but. that the money came
specific allegfttions miide in chaY, it is "mg I
butt-age at. sonic 0 OV ions vol-! .
,S 19e1- ari, i I:)in and another White House from the committee,"
Thic Post's stories.
im teers who were aliceedly.
:aide, Gordon Strachan. Ziegler later denied making
The attacks were in reactionta-t ?.- ' ? - ?''? - Sen. Dole's attack on what the statement, and Mollenhoff
The ,FilVi.rig on (former Democratic
to reports?Tarried first in he called -political garhage" said he wouldn't, back away
Post, then in the New....or, ') 1 (_, ?
ina.f.m.nal" cilair man) ll. a r r y printed by The Post and 01 1101' from the story "one bit."
Times and Time mag e
rizin--,:r -Ileturn on
s
ri
omp
to the. , unnamed publications was Although there have been
ingca
1.11111. the FBI's investiFt-dion of t
;lie. said at, another point that made before. an audience of reports linking Nixon cam-.
the Watergate ease had un- "While, . cdch climi
e s reprehen- '-'
black Republicans in Washing- paign funds to the bugging,i
COVered a spying-and-sabotage Isibta v.?,,,,, a., iaa sma,,.! ca,,. ,ton. Ziegler 's all e go d statementt
camp:lig-it against the Demo-- jous`,,' st'o'aTil'Ito7sec"3"-c',`t`do-(`', "Thus far, there have been would have been the first. of-
CrOS, allegedly directed by top f the nents C11011/1011S headlines about ficial acknowledgement that
i o government of the
presidential aides. political disruption and very, the Nixon
n committee financed
In a prepared statement re in litical
act United States; or allegedly steal- little proof," he said. "In the the eavesdropping,
g Larry O'Bien's
to reporters, MacGregor n
mc-? r po
papers? ? , final days of this. campaign, The SOVC11 men indicted in
I10110C1 0/11Y 1 10Post h mim
y e' .... ., ' like the desperate politicians the Watergate bugging, include
,\I'lcGrogor Th P t
and said . . . "The Post has - '''. accused e es- whose fortimes they seek to ? -- ? -
of "hynocrisv" and a "celeb ai-
appearance of a direct: con-
maliciously sought to gi,"e. the -- , , -- ' - 1? save, The Washington Post is
ted donut? standard (that) is rondlletinfalf_ I, ? ? ?,-i
betwAp proved tF tpq Mpr 3o Q41203/04s Ci cG I.A.APIPW
'unprovenjeause i,ourVigRoo02%0011,1880,0101
nection.
mass resignations on
Their statemenk accused The gate headquarters, illaeGreg-
Post of printing "hearsay," or said:
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From observer wire reports
WASHINGTON ? President
. Nixon's 'appointments secretary
was linked to the alleged polit-
ical sabotage of Democratic
campaigns in separate stories
Sunday by Time Magazine and
the Washington Post.
Time said Justice Dspart-,,
.ment files showed that Dwight
L. Chapin, 31, deputy assistant
to the President, hired Donald
Segretti, a Los Angeles
-lawyer who once worked for
the Treasury Department, "to
subvert and disrupt Democrat-
ic candidates' campaigns."
? The magazine said Nixon's
personal lawyer, Herbert
Kalmbach,- paid Segretti more
than $35,000 from Sept 1, 1971
-juntil March 15.
? The Post said that Lawrence
Young, 32, a California lawyer
said in a sworn statement that
Segretti told him: "Dwight
Chapin was a person I report-
ed to In Washington."
The Post 'quoted Young as
saying that Segretti told him
he got his . assignments from
E. Howard Hunt Jr., former
CIA agent and White House
aide who was one of seven
'men indicted in the alleged
bugging of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee.
DeVan L. S is u in w a y, a
spokesman for the Nixon com-
mittee, disclaimed the Post ar-
ticle as "a piece of fiction."
Tithe said the Justice De-
partment began its current in-
vestigation involving Segretti
based on a record of telephone
calls between Segretti and E.
Howard Hunt, one of two for.
mer White horse consultants
indicted in connection with the
break-in last June in the Dem- !.
()evade National Headquarters
at the Watergate complex in
Washington.
9
The investigators later dis-
covered that Segretti went to
Miami last spring to meet
with hunt before the Water-
gat.e.incident, Time said.
Presidential aide John D.
Ehrlichman said Sunday that
published reports purporting to
link Nixon's appointments sec-
retary to a political spying
and sabotage operation were
"hearsay about four times re-
moved." ?
The presidential campaign'
has entered the "mud month,"
said Ehrlichman as he re-
sponded to questions about a
story in Sunday's Washington
Post that appointments secre-
tary Dwight L. Chapin served
as a contact in an operation
aimed at the Democrats.
Ehrlich man said he had no ,
knowledge of the purported
undercover sabotage campaign
so that "I can't affirm or
deny" any Chapin role. But
said it appeared to him it was
an instance of "a lot of
changes" and not much, proof.
Ehrlichman was interviewed
on ABC's TV-radio program
"Issues and Answer."
Roth Time and the Post said
that Segretti's salary came
from a secret cash fund of
$350,000 to $700,000 kept in the
office of former Commerce
Secretary Maurice N. Stans,
now- finance chairman for the
Committee to Re-elect the
President.
In anothdr report, Newsweek
magazine said the goal of the
Watergate raid was to create
a mini-riot at the Democratic
convention by issuing fake
Press passes.
The magazine quoted a ;
source close to the investiga-
tion as saying that when
James W. McCord was arrest-i. in the Watergate building
be was Carrying a sheaf o
?
applications for college press
passes.
The White House said Sunday
it had no comment on the re-
ports.
The Post said Chapin issued
a reply to its story through
the White House press office
saying: "As the Washington
Post reporter has described it,
the story is ? based on 'hearsay
and is fundamentally inaccur-
ate."
The newspaper said that in ?
Miami Beach, 10 days before .
the Republican National Con-
v en tio n, ,presidential aides
briefed Segretti on what to tell a
grand jury looking into the
matter and assured him that
federal prosecutors would ask
"easy ? questions."
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Assurances from the Republican na-
tional campaign committee that the Wa-
tergate bugging incident was an iso-
lated case of bad judgment on the part of
a few overzealous partisans are no longer
acceptable. Neither is further silence on
the sabject from the White House. The
matter must not be left to fade into the
distance on bland assurances that an
investigation has been made and on a few
lower-echelon individuals sacrificed as
scapegoats.
Investigating news reporters have
turned up too much evidence that de-
mands further explanation. The daily
emerging picture is one of an unprece-
dented political espionage setup, fi-
nanced by campaign contributions (in-
cluding $100,000 which the FBI has in-
dicated was a carefully disguised illegal
contribution from a Texas corporation
via a Mexican bank). The spy system is
apparently staffed by professional for-
V mer FBI and -CIA men,- and has sent
regular reports of Democratic campaign
activities to top staff echelons of both the
White House and the Committee to Re-
elect Richard Nixon.
These allegations and more appeared
In an interview given the Los Angeles
Times by Alfred Baldwin III, a former
FBI agent, who told of monitoring wire-
taps for three weeks at the Watergate
Democratic national headquarters. Mr.
Baldwin also told of being paid hundreds
of dollars in crisp new bills by James
McCord, security chief for the Nixon
campaign committee. The payments
.were for his wiretapping surveillance,
and for acting as bodyguard for Martha
and John N. Mitchell, after the former
attorney general had left the govern-
ment. He tells of being given a snub-
ti
nosed .38 police special, although he had
no permit to carry a gun, and of being
assured by Mr. McCord that if ques-
tioned by police Mr. McCord would take
care of it.
Such stories blazoned across the front
pages of nationally distributed news-
papers, if without foundation in fact,
would bring forth instant lawsuits for
libel. Instead there is silence. Mr. Nixon
claims to have investigated the Water-
gate matter more thoroughly than he
went into the Hiss case years ago. Yet it
took the newspapers to bring out details
of a political fifth column operation
dealing in sabotage, theft of confidential
files, publication of a forged letter that
contributed to the wrecking of Sen. Ed-
mund Muskie's bid for the ? presidential
nomination, and spying on Democratic
candidates and their families.
The combined novelty and in-
sidiousness of this departure in political
campaign tactics makes it incumbent on
President Nixon to come out and publicly
denounce and renounce them. Success in
sweeping this affair under the rug would
be a failure for the American political
system, the machinery of which has
known all too much corruptive tamper-
ing. Public cynicism and apathy, already
too apparent, would be fostered and the
working of the democratic system fur-
ther eroded by a whitewash.
Harry Truman, who had his own prob-
lems on a smaller scale with five per-
centers, once observed of the presidency
that "the buck stops here." As head of his
political party, the President must now
accept that burden. He is under obliga-
tion to the people and to his party to speak
out frankly, to give a full accounting of
the whole affair, and to state precisely
how he plans to correct it.
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_ WASHINGTON: On the sixth floor,
police caught five clumsy conspirators,
reputedly linked with the Republican
party, trying to hug Democratic Na-
tional Committee headquarters. On the
seventh floor, Martha Mitchell raised
hell by telephone. On the 14th, thieves
burglarized the penthouse owned by
Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon's
private secretary. And in United States
District Court, a group of apartment
dwellers?claiming to speak for some
half-dozen members of Congress, sev-
eral Cabinet officers, the directors of
the Voice of America, the Agency for
International Development and the
.United States. Mint, at least one am-
bassador and the president of the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences ? filed
suit. They alleged that their luxury
housing in the same building, the most
expensive in town, was afflicted with
? faulty kitchen appliances, cranky air-
conditioning, temperamental plumbing
and a plethora of damp flaws in walls,
.windows and ceilings. In short, the
sound and fury emanating from the
site of all these goings-on .has often
involved prominent or powerful per-
sonalities, has usually been highly
audible, and has frequently received
attention in the press.
There is only one place in the world,
outside of fiction, where such a pre-
tentious pot-au-feu of news and news-
worthy people could simmer so richly
and continuously in such a compact
vessel; Washington, D.C.'s Watergate
complex. The six-year-old, $78-million,
five-building cluster of ostentatious
high-rise apartment, office and hotel
units is anchored on the Potomac River
bank next to the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, just
upstream from the ceremonial steps
that inspired the development's name.
It is not quite complete today, a
dozen years after Italy's giant, 114-
year-old conglomerate, the Soden
Generale Immobiliare, first approached
the Washington architectural firm of
Fischer and Elmore about developing
the old Washington Gas Works prop-
erty in Foggy Bottom. The Watergate
was the first complex built under the
District of Columbia's Article 75, an
ma. umr,eirW
innovat've zoning ordinance designed
to encourage urban redevelopment in
general and combined living/commer-
cial area's in particular: places that
would interact with the city but take
the agony out of urban living.
The Watergate has indeed eased city
life for some 1,500 affluent Washing-
tonians, among them about a dozen
Senators and Representatives; the
Postmaster General; at least two Cabi-
net members; the Treasurer of the
United States; the Directors of the
Census and the Mint; a pride of am-
bassadors, judges and other high-rank-
ing Government officials, and sev-
eral millionaires. Almost everything
they might require for effortless
sustenance is available on the premises.
There are four swimming pools'?one
of them :ndoors--a health club, Ore(
psychiatrists, an internist and a den-
tist. The Watergate's sunken mall
easily accessible to all the building,
and soothed by the sound of wat?
pouring down a graduated series
concrete dishes, features a wide variety
of shops, as well as a Safeway super-
market, a limousine service, travel
agency, bank, two restaurants and a
small post office that looks, rather
surprisingly in these surroundings, just
as sterile and pale green as any post
office in the United States.
Only two of the buildings?Water-
gate East and West?are devoted al,
most exclusively to coopera-
tive apartments; the Water-
gate Hotel and Office Build-
ing form a totally commercial
unit, and the newest building,
Watergate South, is divided
into office and residential sec-
tions. Underlying the totality
is a network of walkways,
tunnels, corridors and malls
where people can shop, eat,
park their cars, reach any
portion of the agglomerate
without surfacing, and al-
most invariably?get lost.
"The Watergate is built like
a rat maze," says columnist
Art Buchwald. "If you walk
out of a door inside the build-
ing, you're trapped."
tive and Democrat in a
bastion where the tone is set
by Republicans, says that the
Watergate is decadent; that
the people who live there are
Prisoners - of their own de-
fenses. And indeed, there does
seem to be a Marienbad, "La
Dolce Vita" quality about the
place, a feeling that is height-
ened by the labyrinthine de-
sign; by the sunken walk-
ways, tiered fountains, stri-
ated arcs and captive
gardens; a Villa d'Este turned
to stone, the Andrea Doria's
superstructure cast in con-
Ceete.
It's unsettling. Once dis-
gorged into an empty hall-
way, visitors are likely to
feel a little desperate. In the
curving beige corridors that
run through the south and
east buildings of the 10-acre,
development, you can see lit-
tle more than four doors at a
time, and if you're looking for
the elevator, there is nothing
to tell you which way it lies.
And of course you've forgot-
ten which way you came
from. Is this what it's like to
be eaten by a snail? You have
the feeling that you could
wander the carpeted halls
endlessly and never find the
elevator. And what if the ele-
vator doors look just like the
apartment doors? Could you
pass by them without no-
ticing what they are?
Thank God. The elevator -
doors are marked by shoe-
box-shaped ashtrays mounted
on the wall. At last. A way
out. Past the peephole-pierced
beige doors discreetly labeled
Long, Morse, Chennault, Di-
Salle, Lasky, Dole, Auchin-
doss, Smathers. Muzak in the
elevator. The glass eye of the
TV camera staring down at
you. Could you hide in a cor-
ner, make a face at the lens?
Will the desk clerk stop you
on the way out and frisk you,
check your hands to see if
they're bloody? Could you
get away with murder at
the Watergate? After all,.
thieves have done pretty well
there, despite magnetic clocks,
guards, alarm tape and elec-
tronic surveillance. Or would
the monitor pick up your
guilty look? Nameless, vague,
unjustified, paranoic go itt.
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These two incidents are part of an embracing pattern
of capitulation to Nixon. without a fight, on the crucial is-
sues of war and social programs.
The situation is far more serious than the Demo-
crats' defection from even partisan politics. let alone
from the public welfare.
The ongoing revelations since the Watergate ex-
posure indicate that the Nixon Administration has or-
ganized a large scale secret political-police operation out-
side the Government structure, directed from the White
House. financed by tens of millions of dollars contributed
to Nixon's bagmen by the richest people in the nation and
using the resources of the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation.- ? ? ? ? ? ? - ?
The purpose of this operation has been to coerce the
opposition into inaction, to encourage the abstention of
anti-Nixon voters.
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A Sinister Affair
The Watergate affair has taken an astonishing and
profoundly disturbing turn: ? .
At first, it seemed that the men arrested for burglariv
Ing and "bugging" the offices of the Democratic National
Committee in the Watergate Building in Washington;
D. C., were engaged in an ugly but isolated act of politi-
cal espionage, But investigative reporting by The Wash-
ington Post and other newspapers has now uncovered
a complex, far-reaching and sinister operation on the?
part of White House aides and the Nixon campaign
organization. This operation involves sabotage, forgery,
theft of confidential files, surveillance of Democratic
candidates and their families and persistent efforts to lay
the basis for possible blackmail and intimidation.
For more than a year, a secret fund existed in the,
Nixon headquarters which financed these "special activi-
ties" and to which only certain key officials had access.
Many hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash flowed
through this secret fund. Dozens of people, including
numerous ex-F.B.I. and ex-C.LA. agents, were employed in
this clandestine work. High-ranking officials including
some still 'employed at the White House and at the
Committee to Re-elect the President received copies -of
the confidential reports prepared by these agents on
, the basis of their wiretapping and their surveillance of
leading Democrats.
A notably dramatic episode involves a letter which
surfaced in the New Hampshire primary last February.
It stated that Senator Edmund S. Muskie, while cam-
paigning in Florida, had made a derogatory reference
to Americans of French-Canadian background. The letter
:never seemed plausible on its face but, played up by
' the scurrilous Manchester Union Leader, it weakened
Mr. Muskie among French-Canadian voters in that city.
It is now asserted that this letter was forged by a
White House staff member in a deliberate effort to
weaken Mr. Muskie, then the front-running Democratic
candidate. The staff man has denied the allegation, but
Senator Muskie is surely right that this serious charge
and the many others which have come to public knowl-
edge in recent weeks demand a personal response by
President Nixon. The veracity and integrity of the Presi-
dent's staff and campaign organization are at stake.
Much of the public has reportedly taken the attitude
pp to now that there is nothing particularly unusual in
the Watergate affair. It cannot be reiterated too strongly
that, on the contrary, such practices are unprecedented
in American politics. No national party and no incum-.
bent Administration have ever set out in this systematic
fashion to invade the privacy, disrupt the activities, and
discredit the leadership of the political'opposition. These
are ambitions and police-state tactics which have no
place in a democracy. .
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The seven men charged in .
the Watergate bugging case
have filed a mountain of mo-
tions asking, among other
? things, for a change of venue
and revealing that three of the
defendants feel they are being
'bugged or followed.
The motions, which roam all
over the legal lot and weigh
over five pounds altogether, .
include one by former White
House aide E. Howard Hunt
Jr. requesting time to study
the feasibility of polling Dis-
trict residents to determine
the effect of pre-trial publici-
ty.
The change-of-venue motion
charged that publicity has
been so voluminous and preju-
dicial that a fair trial is impos-
'sible. Included as evidence
were several hundred pages of
photo-copied newspaper arti-
cles on the bugging of the
'Democrats' headquarters.
The other six men charged
are James W. McCord Jr., for-
? rner security ? chief for the
.Committee for the Re-election
of the President; Bernard L.
Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eu-
genio Martinez and Frank
Sturgis, all active in the Mi-
ami anti-Castro movement,
and G. Gordon Liddy, like
Hunt, a former White House
. aide, FBI and CIA agent.
? Hunt's attorneys asked to
file three motions under seal,
but this was denied by U.S.
District Court Judge john .J
??? Sirica, who is presiding over
-.the case.
? Deadline for Answers
The prosecution filed no mo-
tions by yesterday's deadline,
- but must now answer each de-
fense motion by Oct. 28.
The government is expected
to oppose vigorously some of
the defense motions, including
requests for the grand jury
testimony of Douglas Caddy,
who has represented both
? Hunt and Liddy, and of Alfred
C. Baldwin III, who has re-
vealed his part in the bugging.
? In one motion, Liddy, Hunt
and McCord charge they have
s
Hunt says he was speaking
to his chief counsel, William
0. Bittman, last Sept. 22 when
he "heard someone on the line
make the statement, 'that's
Batman."
At the time, Hunt's affidavit
says, "no one was on any of
the telephone extensions in my
home."
Frequent Intervals
McCord, an expert on elec-
tronic eavesdropping equip-
ment, says he has used a de-
vice on his home and business
phones to detect wiretaps.
"The device utilized . . . in-
dicated that a tap exists, or
has existed, at frequent inter-
vals subsequent to my arrest
in connection with the instant
indictment," his affidavit
says.
Liddy complains of two cas-
es in which he was personally
followed, and outlines how he
shook his tail.
One day in September, his
affidavit says, biddy west:rav-
eling west on the George
Washington Parkway in a
four - wheel -drive vehicle,
when he saw two men tailing
him in a standard American
sedan.
? Liddy "broke the surveil-
lance by undertaking a series
.of maneuvers on the aforesaid
parkway capable of being per-
formed by a four-wheel-drive
vehicle and (Liddy) travel-
sedan, the net effect of which
was to have the surveilling
vehickle and (Liddy) travell:
ling at 180 degrees from each
other."
On Oct. 10, . the affidavit
says, Liddy was walking near
lath and H. Streets NW when
he again felt he was being
followed. He adopted a "stand-
ard counter-surveillance tech-
nique," which included pass-
ing his destination, then duck-
ing into a movie theater. He
was followed by two men who
sat down in front of him..
Near Collision
They all left after about 40
minutes, the affidavit contin-
ues, and Liddy again attempt-
ed to evade them. At one
point, Liddy placed himself in
a doorway near 11th and New
York Avenue NW, and when
F?
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a
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lie finally shook them when
they went into a parking lot
that extends from New York
Avenue to H Street, the affida-
vit says. -
In another motion, Hunt
charges that federal agents
broke into his office in Room
338 of the Old Executive Office
Building between July 6, 1971,
and 'last June, drilled open a
safe and took noteboolts cif his.
The agents, Hunt Lays', had
no search warrants. The mo-
tion asks that the items taken
be turned over to Hunt's attor-
neys for inspection.
It is also revealed that two
of Hunt's children and Hunt's
wife appeared before the
grand ji.u7 investigating the
case on July. 18 and July 19.
Mrs. Hunt claimed the
spouse's privilege not to testi-
fy against-her husband.
Hunt, the motion says, never
actually appebred before the
grand jury himself, but did
give a sworn statement to
AsA. U.S. Atty. Earl J. Silbert
in which Hunt pleaded the
Fifth Amendment against
self-incrimination.
According to letters at-
tached to the motion, Silbert
had agreed that Hunt need not
appear before the grand jury.
But in a letter to Bittman dat-
ed July 25, Silbert said the
grand jury asked about Hunt
and the transcript of his state-
rant was made available.
The motion charged Silbert
with impropriety, saying he
had, in effect, compelled
Hunt" to take the stand
against his wishes."
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FBI agent have establisbed that the
Watergate tediiine, inciclent stemmed
from a reetsive ca p: Of rOUtiCal
spying anti sahotaee coreineted on be-
half of President. Nixoa'a re-election
and direeted by officials of t White
House and the Committee for the Re-
election of the President.
The activities, according to informa-
tion in FM and J-)epartment of Justice
files, were aimed at all the major
Democratic, presidential contenders and
-- since Ifril represented a basic
strategy of the -Nixon re-election effort.
During their WatergaiQ investizat ion,
federal agents established that hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars in Nixen
camPaien contributions had been set
aside to PaY for an extensive unciere0V-
tir eampaien aimed at discredit jug in-
dividual Democratic presidential candi-
dates and disuniting their campadens..
"Intelli:.:enee work" is noercett during
eampaien and is Said to he carried
out by huh political parties. But fed-
eral investieaiors said what thcy un-
covered being done by the Nixon forces
is unprecedented_ in scope and inten-
sity.
They said it included:
Following, members of Democratic
candidates fatili1O'S anti assembline
dossiers on their persormi forein::
letters end ditrit,etinz them Ur.tier 1110
eantlidateS' false
and manufactle-ed items to' the pre,s;
throw:ing campaieu se.le.:eies into d:s?
array; sojaiteconhdcntint teenpaign
files, and inve:eieetamst es of
(107e1tS of Democratic cantpai.tn werk-
erS.
In add:tien, investientors said the ao?
tivities ineleded piarnire:t erovecaleoys
III the rael,c ni per:.N1
to e:q110:1-1::., anti
Democratic co:ii...,etions: end
pmcmial doZIOZ'S to h,.??
fore their contributions
were solicited.
? Informed of the e rteral contents of
?irtiolo, Of, U'Oa forced
all comment to t be CO:11M on for the
Bc-election of the pre,ieane A cpeees-
man there said, 'Thie Pest story is not
onie fietion let a eolleetme ab:eird-
hies." tzl in 'e
Pents r, le the :oory, tbe .zead.ess
DeVal ionised on
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tie handq of the aoteor.res."
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Hease aide--of a celebrated letter to
the (' (ll cli rug that Sen. 1-stimund
S. concloried a raeii,1
slur en Ainericans of Preneh-Canadian
de:?cent as Cantieks."
lie letter Was ptthlisiled in the 'Alan-
ch.'ster l'oion Leader lob. 24. has than
eeks before the Now liainoishire
It in part triee.eaed
pan:i.ellly (Min.-tent.; -cria;t? :Terkel"
Wn.-,hingtooPct 9-af.c wetter. Mat+.
\yin $eqice cepeeteel.Lhait. ken clzyte.
s-oti, el,eooqj atreerce-
ceenneincetezeis,ts'Act lAer tn ISconUe-v--
sation on Sept. 25 n:: c. Warhe
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son denied t !In+ hE.hact deice e, audhcf-
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"i nrn conetnc..0 that: vi_tc,a(ectioit,e.-
ilowe?vr, 1.00b Said he ItIVL:iigat -
10:z the that letter is a
fabrication hecaose of another letter he
tined% ed about two weeks nee. The re-
cent letter, Loeb said, maintains that
another tier: oil was paid $1,Ce0 to assist
with the "Cannek" hoax,
B..1. Mtt---,m7dd. editet-in-chicf of the
Vnion headcr. said earlier ilos year
that t'ia..vae l)-(1 been ett,-?rftil to the
panel- in teleeecioet c iih tic erareicl.;?
letter. .,-,1cfluaid did not etch-
it.- ton s-dd that im helieved the
ornzinal leiter was authentic.
Clawson. a fornarr Washineton Net
retuorl or. said yesterday that he met
'AlcQtiald only ledeity during Ihe NOW
P????mrY?ltire leiroary while Iliechlite in
the state with ers of the nowy.pwer.
fir deni;^(t that 1-,f, provided all ;1?77iSt-
Olt the letter. Ilium said the
first lime hr heard cif the ?
l'tier was when "I saw it on television"
follow:me the ."'.1tiskze speech.
Imieediately bloom ins "crying
soorch.". 1\11ishie's standing in the New
liampshite ptimary polls began to slip
and he ft/mined with only 43 per cent
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of the Democratic primary vote'
?far short of his expectations.
Three attorneys have told STATINTL
The Washin.-;ton Post that, as
early as mid-1071, they were
asked to. work as egents pro-
vocateurs on behalf.. of.. the
Nixon campaign.. They said
they were asked to undermine
the primary campaigns of
Democratic candidates by a
man who. has. been identified
in FBI reports as an operative.
of the Nixon re-election orga?-,
ization. '
All three 1a.\4'yQrS, including
one Wi1Q iS an assistant attorney
general 0,Tenne6600. sz,id they
turned down the offers, which
purportedly included the prom-
ise of "big jobs" 'in Washington
after President 'Nixon's re-elec-
tion. They ? said the overtures
were made by Donald -IL
Segretti, 31, a former Treasury
DepartMent lawyer who lives
in Monad Del Ray, Calif.
Segretti denied making the
offers and refused to ahswer
a reporter's questions.
One federal investigative of-
ficial said that Seerelli played.'
the role of "just a small fish
in a big pond." According to
FBI reports, at least 50 under-
cover Nixon operatives traveled.
throughout the country trying
to disrupt and spy on Demo-
cratic campaigns. -
Both at the White House and
within the President's re-elec-
tion committee.. the intern-
gence,sabotage operation was
commonly called the "otrene
sive se.eurity" program of the;
Nixon forcei,-aceording to in-i
vesti gators.
Perhaps the most significant'
findiDg of the whole Watergate
Investigation, the investigators
say, was that numerous speci-
fic acts of political sabotage
and spYing Were all tracedto.
this "offensive security," which
haw eviiinctioiret that
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Q. I note in the Watergate caper, in which five men
invaded Democratic National Headquarters, several
former FBI and CIA men are involved. I thought the
FBI and C/A hired men of high honor who believed
in upholding, not violating, the law. All these years
have I been living in ignorance??Mrs. R.T.T., Chevy
Chase, Md.
A. The FBI and CIA try to hire honorable men, but in
the course of their activities, some agents learn to
violate the law with impunity. Later when these men
leave the FBI and CIA, they are hired exactly for that
reason. In some instances the FBI and CIA hold their
agencies above the law. When, last, for example,
has Congress investigated the CIA or the FBI?
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By Bob Woodward
moaned E. Howard Hunt. Then he muttered "no
comment" and slammed down the phone.
It was a balmy spring day, June 19, 1972. And
"Hunt, the former CIA operative and White House
consultant, had just been informed that his name
and home telephone number were in the address
books of two of the five men arrested two days
earlier at the Democrats' Watergate headquar-
ters.
For Hunt that phone call, that rare June day,
that sudden exclamation must now be an espe-
cially bitter memory. It was, apparently, the first
he knew of any public connection between him
and the Watergate bugging; three months later
he was indicted by a federal grand jury for playing
a part in that alleged conspiracy. By then he had
lost his jobs, been hounded by photographers
and reporters, been the object of considerable
unkind speculation and joking, been plastered
across front pages.
He was, in short, suffering the woes common
to Washington figures caught up in the furies of a
? political scandal. If for no other reason, the sheer
0 inelegance, the slipshod quality of the break-in
pd its aftermath must have rankled Hunt be-
cause, on the surface at least, he has a lot of daz-
zle?as do the heroes of his 40-plus novels, many
of which are tales of suspense and spying. Now,
associated not with a coup but with a calamity he
has emerged reluctantly into the harsh limelight;
he came out of a session of early testimony be-
hind shades and beneath a straw hat, looking
more like a Florida motel manager than a superspy.
But he has remained in many respects?as he
wished?a Mystery Man, a Gatsby of the cloak-
and-wal kie-tal kie set. ?
After Hunt's name was linked with the sus-
pects, he abruptly dropped from sight. At one
point 150 FBI agents were reliably reported to be
searching for him here and abroad.
In July he re-surfaced and appeared before the
grand jury. Repeated attempts to reach him di-
rectly or through his lawyer (William 0. Bittman,
a former Justice Department attorney who suc-
cessfully prosecuted former Teamster chief James
Hoffa) have been unsuccessful.
As of this writing in mid-September, Howard
Hunt has maintained his no-comment posture--
unflinchingly.
0 Bob Woodward is a writer on the Metropolitan
staff of The Washington Post
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Everett Howard Hunt Jr. is 54 years old. He lives
in a $125,000 house in Potomac, Maryland. He is
the father of four. He smokes a pipe. He is an only
child. He plays jazz on the piano. He attended
Brown University, graduating with a B.A. in 1940.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II
and was decorated. The CIA acknowledges that
he was in their employ from 1949 until 1970. Be-
fore the Watergate affair he was a $100-a-day
White House consultant and a writer for the pub-
lic relations firm of Robert R. Mullen & Co. Today
he is neither. An unloaded .25 caliber pistol was?
found by Federal investigators in his desk at the
White House. Friends call him urbane and witty.
The Past
"Someone would mention a country abroad,
almost any country,and then Howard would start
his 'I-served-there' routine." ,
?A Friend
According to Who's Who, Hunt serv-
ed: Paris, attache American embassy, 1948-49; Vi-
enna, 1949-50; Mexico City, 1950-53; The Far East,
Uruguay, and the Defense Department as a
consultant. "Howard always brought up the CIA,
recalls the 'friend.'
"He was fascinated with his association with
them and would bring it up in any conversation.
He was never important at the CIA. He was never
able to do all the things he thought up. I recall
once he got down to the issue. Someone was
talking about the slowness of government and
Howard perked up. He said the CIA used to have
guts but then it got bureaucratic and hierarchical.
The CIA, he said, has lost its guts and ,that's too
bad.
"Well," the friend continued, "I take that to
mean they became responsible and wouldn't let
him run wild." (Atypically harsh comment from
former Hunt friends with a stake in remaining po-
litically alive.)
What was Hunt doing in all those places?
A State Department spokesman was asked if the
embassy jobs and that title "consultant" had any-
thing to do with a CIA cover.
"You'd never get me to say that out loud, but
that's the net effect," the spokesman replied.
According to Hunt's associates, Hunt was a po-
litical conservative with right wing leanings.
The New York Times went so far as to quote
sources who said that Hunt, using the code name
"Eduardo," was in charge of the abortive Bay of
Pigs invasion in 1961.
This is just not so, according to government
sources and friends.
Hunt was never really in charge of much, they
say, and though several compared him to James
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BY JACK NELSON and RONALD J. 'OSTROW
Times Staff Writers
NEW/ HAVEN, Conn,?A partici-
pant, in the bugging incident at
Democratic National Headquarters,
has told The Times that he delivered
sealed sets of eavesdropping logs to
the Committee for the Reelection of
the President less than two weeks
before police closed in on the illegal
operation.
? / Alfred C. Baldwin IH, a key
'v government witness in the ease, said.
Baldwin describes bugging
.of Democrai-ic headquarters.
Part 2, Page 7.
the logs were addressed to a commit-
tee official who is not among the
seven men indicted last month in
the incident, Baldwin said he could
not remember the identity of the of-
ficial.
Baldwin said he was instructed to
deliver the logs in early June by
James "W. McCord jr. McCord was
security coordinator for the Nixon
committee then and one of those in-
dicted in the ,Ione 17 incident at the
Watergate apartment complex in
Washington, D.C.
McCord gave him the instructions
from Miami, Baldwin said, after
Baldwin had told him that he had
recorded "some important conversa-
tions" while monitoring the wire tap
on Democratic national headquar-
ters. ?
Baldwin, 3G, a former FBI agent
and security guard for Martha
Mitchell, spoke about his role in the
bizarre case last weekend in .more
than five hours of tape-recorded in-
tcroiew with The Times. Baldwin
monitored the telephone tap at the
Democratic headquarters last May
and June from a listening post in the
Howard Johnson Motel, across the
street from the Watergate.
Baldwin's attorneys, John V. Cas-
sidento .and Robert C. Mirto, urged
The Times Wednesday not to print
their client's interview or any -sto-
ries based on it. They did so after be-
ing contacted by Earl Silbert, chief
?
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cials involved in the inves-
Silbert warned Cassiden- tigatien have said that the
to that, the government real motivation for the hi-
might consider its agree- zarre incident may never
ment not to prosecute emerge.
Bald win broken if be But for Baldwin. the
purpose was clear at the
spoke out on the case and outeet..., Thai was emav 2.1
also said Baldwin mi`..l.111 ,when McCord reassig?ed
be held in contempt of ."Baldwin from reporting
court, according, to Casaei.. on anti - Administration
'dente). ? . demonstrations to moni-
SeyMOU r Glanzer. the t ori lig the phone t a p.
Baldwin said he kept logs -
other main government al- on about 900 telephone
torne.? in .the ease, later conversations he had mon-
read Baldwin's lawyers an itored over a three-week
order issued Wetinesdav Period.
McCord, Baldwin said;
by U.S. Dist. Judge John
would leave his desk at
Silica barring' Pr:nclPill,' the Nixon committee to vi-
from making statements it the listening post once
on the case. ? or twice a day, )ie said ..\ic.. i used in the. Watergale
Story Not Sold Cord, a former CIA agent,4 ' Nivesd.ropping, toi Ld in
would often rewrite the 'McCord's cifii'e at. Nixon
Although t h e r e have locos in inemorandum form malmil?tee ?Bice'''.
Gordon Liddy, anot ler
former FBI. agent and a
White House aide and fi-
nonce. counsel at the Com-
mittee for the Reelection
of .the President, and B.
Howard Hunt Jr., On ex-
CIA agent and. former
White House consultant.
The Balchvin interviews
shed new light the po-
litically charged case, -
Which is unlikely to pro-
ceed in civil or criminal
courts. until 11'01 after the
election.
Prospects for pre-Nov. 7
congressional hearings on
the incident dimmed con-
siderably Tuesday when
the House ollani:ing and
Currency Committee de-
feated a motion to sob-
- peona Baldwin and 2'3 oth-
er persons said to have
knowledge about the case.
Chief among Balciw:in's
new disclosures were:
?Baldwin that he
saw electronic equipment,
some which was later
been widespread reports when they discio?cd
that Baldwin was attempt- ?,,,,t?f G f)
trig to sell his story, lie re- - ''-
ceived no remuneration strategy or of O'fit:ien's ac-
from The Times. His sole
On the advice of his law-.
request was that he be
Permitted to tell the story vers, Baldwin declined to
? fj 'Sped fieS Oil the con-
the way he saw it.
In the interviews, Bald- Yersations he monitored.
Nvin said he put the eaves- The attorneys told him
dropping logs in an enve- that he would be violating
lope, which he addressed the federal wiretanotqg
to the official, taped and statute if he disclosed the
stapled and took to the . contents of those conver-
Nixon committee offices sat ions. -
seven blocks away, in the interviews, Bald-
!'An elderly guard was Will dismissed published
on ,duty in the building rePerts that the eaves-
and he took the envelope. droppers sought to di-
recognized the name on it. cover a link between the
and said he would ,..,ce to it Cuban government and
that the official received the McGovern-Democratic
it," Baldwin said: campaig,n efforts.
Baldwin said he believed Although four of the five
the eavesdroppers were men arrested on June 17
interested in?imarilv in in- were born in Cuba and all
,
f o r m a t i o n about Sen. had been deeply illYofted
George S. McGovern, l.aw- in anti-Castro activities,
renee F. O'Brien, then Baldwin said he never
Democratic Party chair- hrard the three (Well-
man, and about Democrat- darn's' with whim he had
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watched from acrosse the
street on May 25 as .
COM entered Democratic
headquarters and installed
two wiretaps.
McCoi?d was aceompa-
nied by at least: one other
person, perhaps two, Bald-
win said, adding he was
not close enough to identi-
Iv anyone other thanMc-
Cord. (The indictment al-
leged that the eavesdrop-
ping began on or about
May 25.)
?The tap installed on
the telephone of Spencer
Olive r, coordinator of
Democratic state chai r-
men, worked well. Bat the
device planted on what
t h e .eavesdroppers
lieved to be O'Brien's tele-
phone failed to transmit
because it %vies too shield-
ed by the building and of-
fice equipment.
?As a result. Baldwin
said he was ordered by
McCord to enter Demo-
wassistant to the U.S Attore in c ? ot- ? ?
government's case. ln addition to Mecord,
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As told to Jack Nebon
? Times Staff Write? ?
NEW HAVEN, Conn,?Across the
street in the Democratic National
Committee offices 1 could see Men
with guns and flashlights looking
. behind desks and out on the balco-
ny.
It was a weird scene at Washing-
ton's Watergate complex. The men.
.; were looking for several persons, in- ?
lyluding my boss?James W. McCord
jr., who was security director for
both President Nixon's Reelection
Committee and the Republican
tional Committee. .
; A short while later McCord and
four other men, all in handcuffs,
would be led by police to patrol cars
and taken to jail. And . a White
.1-louse consultant would rush into
:My' motel room across the street
from the ? Democratic offices and
- peer. down on the scene before flee-
ing the area,
tI bad been using a VI'alkie-talkie
sand acting as a lookout for .Mc(.7ord'
? and his men, who were engaged in a
- bugging operation. For three weeks.
Baldwin was. ,0 key government
:witness before the grout jury that
:indicted seven ?ten in the Watergate
'case.
. ?
'I had monitored- coversations on a
.tapped phone in the Democratic of-
fices.
My mission had been to record all
'conversations. McCord appeared to
be especially interested in any infor-
mation- on Sen. George AlcGovern
and the Democratic Party chairm.an,
Lawrence O'Brien, and anything
having to do with political strategy.
WHEN THE Committee for the
Reelection of the President hired me
for security .work with Mrs. Martha
Mitchell, nothing was said about
evehtual espionage missions involv-
ing electronic eavesdropping.
But then the man I worked direct-
ly under, Jim McCord. was not given
to long explanations about anything.
? 'You would have to know McCord to
'understand what. I mean.
Like myself, McCord is an ex-FBI
agent. But he also served 20 years in
the CentralApprovedkRorAelei
he is one of those ex-CIA. agents who t.)
? do more listening than talking. f
'ou t d
1Vhen he wants
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"V nig
r;r)
o o someth ng
aell17t,hhinegjust tells you. No buildup or
When McCord was ready to switch
me. from protecting john
wife to other security work, he
simply told MC that the President's
reelection committee had ot he r.
work for me. Contrary to some press
reports. I got along fine with Mrs.
Mitchell during the days 1 protected
her. She is a vivacious person and I
found working with her fascinating.
But I felt any work with the re-
election committee would be fas-
cinating and I like Jim McCord.
I NEVER questioned McCord's
? orders. I felt he was acting under or-
:dors and with full authority. After
all, his boss was John Mitchell, the
, committee director and former at-
torney general of the United States.
, ? And his superior was President Nix-
on.
If that was not enough to impress
me with McCord's authority and of-
ficial standing, we were surrounded
by former 'White house aides. Mc-
Cord said were "on loan' to the coni-
mittee.
My involvement with the commit-
tee began Max' 1 when McCord tele-
phoned my home in Ha. Wen, Conn.
He had secured a resume I had filed
with the Society of Ex-I0131 Agents
in New York and had reviewed it
and . several other resumes on file
with this society. He felt that be-
cause of my age, background and
marital status?I am 36 and single?
I was best. suited for the position.
he said they (the committee)
needed someone immediately so I
took a plane to Washington -that
night and registered at the Roger
Smith Hotel where we met the next
morning. He emphasized that al-
though the job was temporary, it
could lie a stepping-stone to a per-
manent position after President
Nixon's reelection. ?
WE WALKED a block down the
street to the Reelection Committee
headquarters at 1701 Pennsylvania
Ave., a.block from the White House,
and McCord took me on a tour of
committee offices on several floors.
As different persons missed. MeCord
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r "there's another one who's on loan
rom the White House."
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We went to the office of Fred
LaRue to get approval for my em-
ployment and McCord said, "Mr.
LaRue is over from the White
House.. He's John Mitchell's right-
hand man."
LaRue was friendly enough, but
ver y businesslike. McCord r ea d
some brief data he .had jotted down
on the back of an envelope: "Al
Baldwin, ex-F131 agent, former Ma-
rine captain, law degree, taught po-
lice science . . ." - ?
LaRue looked me up and clown. I
was in standard FBI dress?conser-
vative suit, white shirt and tie and
black, wing-tipped shoes. Our con-
versation was brief. I think he asked
if I was prepared to travel and I
said, "yes sir." He replied, 'okay,
that's fine."
? McCORD LATER issued me a ?.
loaded .3S-snub:nosed police special
- and said, "you'll wear this." I had no
permit or official 'identification f and ?
questioned whether I was author-
- ized to carry it. - .
Ire handed me a ctird bearing his
name and the name of the reelection.
? committee and said: "You're work-
. ing for the former -attorney general
and there's no way a policeman or
any -other. law enforcement officer is
. going to question your right to carry ?
that weapon. But if you have any
problem, have them call me."
In -McCord's office at committee ?
? headquarters I- noticed extensive
electronic etatipme.nt ? walkie-
talkies, teleyision surveillance units
and variOus other devices. The top
.to a fancy briefcase was open, expos-
ing considerable electronic equip-
ment. I. was. told: it ,was a debugging
unit: .. , ?
McCord told me I would be accom-
panying Mrs. Mitchell on a trip to
Michigan and New York. He issued
me :s-S00?eight brand new S100 bills
?and said it was for food, drinks,
tips and .incidental expenses for the
trip.
In Michigan, where Mrs. Mitchell
attended several affairs, we were
joined by LaRue. Ile mentioned to
me at_one 12oint that thennstol I was ?
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By Lawrence Meyer
' Wtshingtoa-Post Staff Writer
The federal judge presid-
ing over the criminal trial
' of seven men charged in the
Attie 17 break-in at Demo-
cratic national headquarters
in the Watergate issued a
broad order yesterday pro-
hibiting anyone connected
with the case from making
. public statements about it.
?The order, Judge John . J.
Sirius acknowledged, is broad
enough that it possibly could
. apply to Democratic presiden-
tial candidate Sen. George
McGovern and other political
figures.
?Sirica's order prohibits all
law enforcement agencies, the
defendants,. witnesses, poten-
tial witnesses "including com-
plaining witnesses and alleged
victims, their attorneys and all
persons acting for or with
them in connection with this
case" from making statements
to anyone, "including the news
media," outside of court.
. Sirica, who was ill yesterday
and signed the order at home,
was asked in a telephone in-
terview by a reporter if the
order covered McGovern, who
Jas discussed the Watergate
case in speeches. Sirica re-
plied: '
..
"That's a good question. 'I
tried to make it (the order) as
broad as I could. I. hadn't
thought about it. I frankly
hadn't given that a thought.
I'll have to deal with that at
some time I suppose, but I'd
rather not answer that ques-
tion now." '
S. Sirica said that the order
could conceivably result in a
situation where "we get into
et_he campaign and free speech
and that business." .Paus he
. said that Apprsoveldnf. or
have to meet at the proper
time. I have. no comment. It
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raised."
Sirica went on to say that
someone could raise a ques-
tion about newspapers and
other media discussing the
ease. "I think I better wait
and answer that question if
it's ever raised," Sirica said, "I
don't think frankly I should go
outside what I raised in that
order. I think it's pretty broad.
I. don't know what you think
about it."
. The order came a day after
the House Banking and Cur-
rency Committee voted 20 to
15 against holding public hear-
ings on the Watergate bugging
and alleged irregularities in
President Nixon's re-election
campaign financing.
It is considered highly un-
likely that the criminal trial
will begin before the Nov. 7
presidential election. U.S. Dis-
trict Court Judge Charles R.
Richey, presiding over a $3.2
million civil damage suit
brought by the Democratic
Party over the Watergate af-
ocratie Party headquarters, I
intend to pursue and exercise
to the full extent of the Con-
stitution our First Amendment
rights to conduct a political
dialogue to Inform the public
about this net of political espi-
onage as well as all other evi-
dence of corruption in high
places in the Nixon adminis-
tration."
McGovern said, "It is .a sad
time for America when 'White
House pressure can turn off a
congressional investigation
and when the Attorney Gen-
eral of the United States and
his agents can enter into a po-
litical agreement with the
seven men charged with the
burglary and bugging of Dem-
ocratic headquarters?an
agreement that no one should
be permitted to speak to the
American people about these
acts; who authorized and paid
for them, and who received
the information stolen from
our headquarters."
Sirica's order was issued
fair, announced two weeks ago under a federal court rule that
that it will be "impossible" to allows a judge in a "widely
begin that case until after the publicized or sensational civil
election. All depositions for or criminal case" to issue a
the civil case have been stayed special order at the requisst of
by Richey until the comple- either the defense or prosecu-
tion of the criminal trial. tion or on his own motion.
McGovern issued a state- The order may cover "such
Mont yesterday evening saying matters as extrajudicial state-
that he respects the rights of , merits by parties and wit-
the seven men charged with nesses likely to interfere with
the break-in, but adding, "I ? the rights of the accused to a
will not allow myself to be , fair trial by an impartial jury
muzzled or intimidated by any n . . . and any otter matters
politically motivated directive which the court may deem ap-
from Richard Nixon."
McGovern said that he had
consulted with Democratic
. lawyers and concluded that
Sirica's order does not inhibit
"the right of candidates for
public office to discuss the
burglary and bugging of Dein-
preprint? for inclusion in such
an order."
, The motion requesting the
order was filed by William 0.
Bittman, the lawyer for E.
Howard Hunt Jr. Hunt, one of
the seven defendants, is a for-
mer White House aide, as is G.
Gordon Liddy, also a defend-
ant in the case.
A notation on the bottom of
'Sirica's order indicates that
:Earl J. Silbert, principal as-
sistant United States attorney,
had no objection to the order
Sirica, who holds his posi-
tion as chief judge by virtue
-of seniority, was appointed to
the U.S. District Court in 1957
by the late President Dwight
Eisenhower. . Sirica assigned
himself the criminal trial of
the seven defendants after Sil-
bert, acting under another fed-
eral rule, reqttested that Sirica
appoint 'the best available
judge" to preside in the case.
In a related matter, Rep
Wright Patman (D-Tex.), chair-
man of the House Banking
and Currency Committee,
asked the General Accounting
Office yesterday to open an
"immediate investigation" into
Republican campaign financial,
matters relating to the Water-
gate. incident.
In a letter to Elmer B.
Stoats, head of the GAO?the
investigative arm of Congress
?Patman asked that he re-
ceive a "preliminary report in
writing" by Oct. 20. Patman's
request followed the rejection
of an investigation by his own
committee. .
In yesterday's letter to the
GAO, Patman asked that it in-
vestigate essentially the same
matters that he had unsuccess-
fully proposed that his Com-
mittee deal with in public
hearings.
Those matters include the
$114,000 of President Nixon's
campaign funds traced to the
bank account of one of the
Watergate suspects; the use of
a Mexican bank to transfer
the funds, and the unusual
speed in granting a federal
bank charter to a large Nixon
campaign donor.
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Eltsburg, Russo sue ? . 1
Pentagon- Papers defendants Daniel ?
.Ellsberg and Anthony Russo filed suit
Sept. 19 against 10 top federal officials
whom they charged with illegal
wiretapping. The suit was brought
under the 1968 wiretap law which
permits officials to use taps but also
. permits damage suits for unauthorized
eavesdropping.The Ellsberg-Russo trial
has been postponed indefinitely until
the supreme court rules on their claim
that the wiretapping interfered with
their defense. The Justice Department
admitted in July that an unnamed
defense lawyer had been the subject of
.a tap. placed "in the national interest."
. Cited in the suit are the heads of the
Justice Department, State Department,
Defense Department, FBI, CIA and
other federal agencies. Damages
? demanded amount to several million
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Radicals across the country are taking note of an increasing number of
!coincidences involved in the "Watergate Bugging Caper" that lead some to con-
clude that the attempted break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters was
pert of an elaborate plot to smash left-wing activiSts.
Coincidence, facts and some unconfimred statements are all detailed in
the August, 1972 edition of The Realist, available for 50 cents from The Real-
1st, Box 379, Stuyvesant Station, New York, NY 10009.
Because of the length of the material in the Realist article, SPARK will
concern itself only with.the briefest outline of the plot and James McCord's
involvement with it. Further information should be obtained from the Realist
There has been some evi- James McCord, Jr., held three
dence, some circumstantial and important jobs at the time of his
some coincidential, which point arrest (He was Chief of Security
in the direction that James Mc- for the Committee to Re-Elect Nix-
Cord may still have been employed on; the biggest contract a secur-
by the CIA, and was on a CIA mis- ity agent could receive went to
sion when he was arrested in the McCord Associates, selected by Se-
Watergate. cret Service agent Al Wong, to pro-
The plot, extremely simpli7 ;vide all security for the Republi-
fied, is thaf;the five men were can Convention in Miami; McCord
part of a.larger.CIA plot headed was a member of a special 16-man
by McCord and Bernard Barker (an- unit, concerned with plans and pre-
other of the five arrested inside paredness, which is part of the
the Watergate) that would. have Executive.Office of the President. ,
attempted to foment such.violent 'This unit's purpose was concerned
disruptions at the Republican , with radicals and contingency plans
Convention that Nixon would have for the radicals.
an excuse to declare martial law,. Arrested with McCord were right
cancel the '72 elections and ar- wing extremists, violently anti- ,
rest all militants and radicals. Communist.intelligence agents. They
The plot theory is based were all planning to hold right- .
partly on testimony s year ago wing convention demonstrations.
by Louis Tackwood, a former paid ;Each of these men would make Mc-
agent of the.Los,Angeles Police 'Cord's job more difficult in Miami
Department for 9 years who held a yet they were working together.
press conference and charged .that The plot advocates content
LAPD was part of a remarkably that McCord's job on the 16-Man
similar plot to the one briefly Contingency Unit on Radicals was
outlined above. . to develop plans to insure the
In addition, those arrested level of violence necessary. for
in the case had extensive CIA Nixon to declare martial law. They
contacts. The Watergate Caper .contend that his role as Security
figures fit into the plot des- Chief for the convention and his ar-
'cribed by Tackwood in numerous rest:with the CIA-associated right-
ways (see Realist article). wing Cubans all fit into this role.
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revealed a further outrage in the
Montgomery College-Rockville Crimi-
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.recruited one of his students at
lecture on bugging. It was illus-
MC to help him plant eavesdropping
trated with slides and a handful of
,equipment in McGovern 'headquarters,
then on Capitol Hill. , - bugs, one student said.
This violation of all academic The industrial and retail se-
principles -- liberal, conservative;rity course that McCord "taught"
radical or reactionary -- only fur-
was a seminar that featured guest
ther exposes the blatantly repress-
speakers from government and in-
iv nature of this program. it .?s dustry; including former CIA offi7
e
clearly a program designed to train.cials. .
students to become criminals -- Two of. the former CIA men who
criminals like McCord, Mitchell and spoke to the class were William J. .../
Nixon. . iCotter, assistant postmaster gener-
McCord is the former FBI agent, al for security, and George P.
former CIA agent, Lieutenant Colonnl Morse, former director of protec-
in the Air Force Reserves, and for- tion and safety for the National
mer Security Chief for President Institutes of Health. In addition,
.Nixon's re-election committee who he also brought in top brass from
was one of five arrested inside the the Army, including Lt. Gen. Benja-
Watergate in an attempt to bug the min Davis, now assistant secretary
Democratic Party's national head- of Transportation.
quarters . . Besides.being a proven pig and
This effort to recruit studentshaving broughtother pigs in to
at Montgomery College for police- teach the course, McCord was .a ter-
state actions was revealed by the rible instructor. It should be re-
Washington Post September 19 in an membered, however, that academic
article about McCord's Montgomery incompetence in Criminal Justice '
College activities: "At least one programs is widespread (see SPARK,
student was excited enough to agree Vol. I, No.5), and McCord is not an
.to join McCord, 53, in a late May isolated case. e .
attempt to plant eavesdropping According to the Washington
equipment in McGovern headquarters, Post, "The notes of a student who
then on Capitol Hill, according to took the course and review questions
a source close to the Watergate in- passed out by McCord suggest a dry,
vestigation. But the student fail- factual, statistical approach to the
ed to show." clandestine business. 'What were ?
It is heartening to know that the total costs of crime cited by
the unidentified student thought ? one recent news journal article?'
better of going through with the one review question asks." .
act; however, it repulses a person The absurdity, of this type of
to'know that McCord .used the class- questioning has caused nearly all
room in an attempt to further hie? college teachers across the country
own fascist goals, to drop it (although it is still a
In another attempt to utilize ' pervasive element in primary and
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alicrescop!c tr..insinIttc?rs to act as tz-dios.
'chose win:ect s the
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to the inr.c2rrnost circles a the enemy's govern-
montal and inilitary.',2,1:1;-hin.....nts----or at least
to the kitchens and (!nst.:;imi. It b not recorded
?vhether they belon:.),.- to the poiit-1)171:
of insects. But -it !:.-:cy,,,Tt that tlIcy a touch
of the kanirr.ne ahoi; tHm, rhich c:von. China's
,kill-a-f1Y-a-daY drive (instit'-'ted 7art O the
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Nixon awaF'..in2; the k7iCIOW:i o. thC:;-;42, tless
patriots transi;itor.1 Purple Si-lc:Arts on 'the White
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by Thomas Powprs
any Americans take their notions of life in a
police state from George Orwell's 1984, a
bitter vision of unrelenting institutional
malevolence. The state, Orwell feared, would intrude
into every corner of life with the purpose of direct
and total control. Every room would be wired for
sound, every move scanned by cameras, every ac-
quaintance a potential informer, every thought a po-
tential crime. Orwell's vision was based on certain
? harsh realities: the Germany and Russia of the 1930s
. and 1940s, and the growing technology of surveil-
lance available to policemen. He assumed, with rea-
son,. that police would do it if they could do it, and
?, foresaw a time, quickly approaching, when nothing
would be technically beyond them. Orwell was a
man who brooded, working his thoughts over in his
mind for years, and the visionary force of 1984 has
left its readers with the assumption that the police
state of the future must include midnight knocks on
the door, interrogation by torture, and pistol bullets
in the back of the head.
Much of what Orwell envisioned for the world is
now fact, but veiled and muted fact,: with the effect
, that even in this country police activity which would
have seemed inconceivable in earlier decades now
strikes many otherwise skeptical people as prudent
watchfulness, at worst only trivial and overcautious,
and perhaps even necessary. Everyone knows
vaguely that the FBI keeps an eye on things, that lo-
cal police departments watch radicals, that even the
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sidered possible troublemakers. But the reality of this
political spying has been so much less sinister than
Orwell anticipated, so fumbling and occasional, that
even those most concerned, its targets or "victims," if
you will, have difficulty in maintaining their sense of
alarm. Those in favor of this incessant watching ar-
gue lamely that one has nothing to fear so long as
one has nothing to hide; and those who oppose it still
speak more of future rather than present dangers in
'the use of police procedures for political purposes.
Even this writer, when he began, thought other prob-
lems more urgent than political surveillance, and yet,
when you begin to add everything up, not only what
is known, which is plenty, but what is not known,
which might be . . . anything . . .Well, let us not
anticipate, but proceed.
Perhaps the best place to begin is with the experi-
ences of a single organization, Vietnam Veterans
Against the War, a group of several hundred activists
and perhaps twenty thousand members all told, of
whom very few had taken part in any sort of politics
before joining VVAW. The group came to life in
April, 1967, when 'six veterans found themselves
marching together in a huge antiwar demonstration
in New York. Its official existence has been fitful ever
since, growing and subsiding more or less in time
with the antiwar movement as a whole. Their best-
known action was Operation Dewey Canyon III in
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Daniel Ellsberg, Anthony
Russo and 17 of their attorneys
and advisers in the Pentagon
Papers case filed a lawsuit in
federal court here yesterday,
claiming they are victims of il-
legal government wiretapping.
Naming as defendants Attor-
ney General Richard G. Klein-
dienst, his predecessor John
N. Mitchell and the heads of
.eight other federal agencies,
they demanded hundreds of
thousands of dollars in dam-
ages.
Similar to the civil com-
plaint filed by the Democratic
National Committee over the
Watergate bugging incident,
the .suit is a strategic attack
on the electronic surveillance
that has postponed the Los
Angeles trial of Ellsberg and
Russo on conspiracy, espio-
nage and theft charges.
It is aimed at obtaining,
through the "discovery" pence-
dureS of civil litigation, details
on the wiretapping thus far
denied to the defense
? Prosecutors in the Pentagon
Papers case have revealed to
the courts that a defense aide
was overheard orra wiretap of
someone else's phone. As a
"foreign intelligence" wiretap,
it was authorized by the Alton:
ney General without a court
order,
Supreme Court justice Wil-
liam 0. Douglas has halted the
criminal trial pending a deci-
sion by the full. Supreme
Court next month whether to
consider an Ellsberg-Russo ap-
peal over the wiretapping.
But the defense staff
does not know who among
them was overheard 'in the
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under what circumstances.
Yesterday's lawsuit sought
to get at that information by
claiming. that the government
wiretapping in the case vio-
lated the First., Fourth and
Sixth Amendments to the con-
stitution, as well as the Omni-
hi ,s crime Control and Safe
St reels Act of 1968.
That act provided for the re-
covery of civil damages by any-
one who is the subject of il-
legal wh?etapping not covered
by a court order or legislative
an
The Stiffen) 0 Court has
banned "national security"
wire tapping without. court
order, but has left open the .
question of whether such sur-
veillance may be. conducted
for alleged "foreign intelli-
gence" purposes.
'Along with the lawsuit, the
19 plaintiffs filed Interrogato-
ries yesterday, asking the FBI,
the Secret Service, the inter-
nal Bevenue Service, the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency and
other agencies to provide full
_details of any surveillance
they might have conducted in
which the plaintiffs were over-
heard since June 19, 1968,
.when t h e crime control act
was signed into law by Presi-
dent Johnson.
! Should they prevail in the
lawsuit, each person wire-
tapped could be awarded dam-
ages of $100 a day, up to a
maximum of $1,000. Ellsburg;
Russo and their aides also de-
manded punitive damages of
. $50,000 each..
The civil case was assigned
to U. S. District Court judge
.Thomas Flannery, formerly
U. S. attorney for the District
of Columbia..
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By Russell Sackett
. Newsday Washington Bureau Chief ?
Washington?Just about any noninvolved law-
yer, and a few who are involved and not too uptight
s
to talk about it, will concur in this opinion of the
? =Watergate affair: Whatever else it is, the case is
r.ithe solidest proof yet of the unevenness, if not the
.::..,impossibility, of election-year justice.
In the blizzard of arrests, investigations, suits
-':and
countersuits, accusations and counteraccusa-
tions, briefs, intervenors and theories without end,
i_ where is the Watergate case? Well, the five men
who were caught, with their surgical-gloved hands
in the air, in the Watergate offices of the Democratic
? I, National Committee at around 3 AM on June 17
r were indicted here Sept. 15 by a U.S. grand jury.
Indicted With the' five were two former White
House aides, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt
Jr. Liddy, a former FBI agent, was financial counsel
? for the Nixon campaign committee until he was
t. fired for refusing to answer FBI agents' questior!.s
regarding the Watergate affair. Hunt, a veteran of
the CIA and a novelist, was an investigative con-
sultafir attached at one time to the office of
ts presidential assistant John Ehrlichman. Liddy and
? Hunt are charged with entering the Democratic
i offices on the same night as the other five "with the ?
:?intent to steal property." One thing is clear: The
case is political.
? The Democrats, who not surprisingly see it as
campaign issue, have been doing their utmost to
i? push things along, all the while claiming that the
f. Justice Department is dragging its feet and avoid-
ing the real issue of who was behind the break-in at
? the Watergate.
Attorney General Kleindienst, who is in charge
?-'of federal investigations, has insisted that the Dem-
? ? ocrats are trying to make the Watergate a political
issue. The Democrats counter that the attorney gen-
eral is a Republican, a surrogate campaigner for
, President Nixon arid a political creature. Both
? . claims have considerable merit.
- The matter of a political attorney general is con-
stantly at issue in the break-in case. Kleindienst
campaigned for Nixon in 1968 and even more
.strongly for Barry Goldwater in 1964. His prede-
cessor, John N. Mitchell, was Nixon's '68 campaign
manager. The practice is a good deal older than the
Nixon administration. Robert Kennedy directed his
brother's presidential campaign and served as his
chief political consultant before becoming attorney
general. And so on.
Frank Mankiewicz, political director for George
ILIcGovern, compared an investigation headed by
? Kleindienst to asking a fox who broke into the
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"Who are you going to 'substitute for the FBI?"
? he asked. More rhetoric: The FBI would be as avail-
able to a special prosecutor as it would be to the
attorney general.
Lawrence F. O'Brien, campaign chairman for
? McGovern, filed a damage suit against the Commit-
tee to Reelect the President; its finance chairman,
former Commerce Secretary Maurice Shins, and
assorted others?for $3,200,000 at last reading. The
,amount of the suit is about as important as "list
prices" in a discount house. The suit was intended
to smoke out facts and figures, before the election in
November, by taking testimony under oath in pre-
trial depositions.
Starts countered with two suits of his own?one
for $5,000,000 against O'Brien and another for
$2,500.000 against O'Brien and his attorneys?
? charging libel and misuse of the courts for headline
purposes. Again, the amounts and the specific
charges were less important than the publicity they
achieved.
Last week, in the wake of the federal indictment,
, Kleindienst took to television to speak with pride
; of his achievements: "One of the most intensive
? [investigations] that the Department of Justice and
the FBI have ever been involved in . .. some 1,500
persons were interviewed, 1,800 leads were followed,
33 agents were involved, 14,000 man hours, 51 of the
? 59 FBI field offices were involved."
? "And that," he told his interviewer, Elizabeth
? Drew, "is a great credit to justice in this country."
Nevertheless, the Justice Department investiga-
tion gave no answers to questions raised among
lawyers concerning its deviation from standard pro-
secuting procedures in the Watergate case.
There was no finding, for example, concerning
? who instigated the break-in and alleged bugging of
-? Democratic headquarters, or who financed it. None
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To anyone who has spent much time close to
the center of a campaign, the so-called
Watergate "caper" is a. puzzlement. Like
Inspector Maigret, one looks first for the
motive.
Why bug Larry O'Brien's office? Everything
that occurs inside the Democratic National
Committee is public knowledge wiihin about
half an hour, and if anybody thinks that the
real deals would take place ?there, he needs a
good course in politics. The serious stuff is
discussed in a Senate "hide-away," or in a liv-
ing room in Chevy Chase, or even on the golf
links. .
Thus, for openers, it would seem that
whoever laid this one, had an I. Q. problem.
Now whatever you may think about President.
Nixon's other dimensions, one thing he does not
have is an I.Q. problem. Moreover, if Mr. Nix-
on has "Ifitlerian" tendencies (as some Demo-
crats have absurdly suggested), the bugging
would have been a real professional job ? it
would never have been turned over to that crew
of incompetents. In short, I believe that the
President was as shocked as the rest of us and
I believe in his personal innocence.
HOWEVER, as the head of his party, Mr.
Nixon has a professional obli2ation to keep Ids
troops in line, and here ?I suspect ? is where
the real problem arose. Partly this 'is because
the Republicans , have so much money they
don't know what to do with it, and money
draws marginal character S into politics like a
passive magnet.
In 1964, when we were wallowing in green
stuff, not a day passed without a dozen
characters turning up with "projects," and
there were always empire builders in the
Democratic organization willing at least to
Somehow or other; for example, we used to
get advance texts of Sen. Goldwater's key
speeches. The consequence of this was that.
before Goldwater had even opened his mouth,
we had five speakers primed to reply. Maybe
a
he sent them over as a courtesy, but all I know
is that when I innocently inquired how we got
them, the reply was "Don't ask."
GOING BACK TO 1960, in both primaries
and the general election the late Joseph P.
Kennedy Sr. had an intelligence network that
put the FBI to shame.
WITHOUT GOING INTO DETAILS on a
matter that is currently in the courts, I have a
hunch that the Watergate "caper" developed
along the lines of the following scenario:
I. A group of men with intelligence ex-
perience approach a middle-level, but upwardly
mobile member of the President's political ap-
paratus. In effect, they tell him that they have
reason to believe they can prove that Demoe
'eratic Chairman Lawrence O'Brien is on the
take, that is, that he is engaged in yarious
private cleals. It will take a little money, but
they are sure they can bag O'Brien. FM the
record, J believe O'Brien is clean?but given the
background of the men involved, my guess is
that they would look for personal rather than
'political dirt.)
2. The political operative is queried as to
how this can be done. He is told "Don't ask.'
Ile doesn't. Instead he meditates on what a
feather it would be in his cap to get O'Brien in
a suitcase, on how rapidly he would rise in the
esteem of his superiors. True these guys want
$100,000 plus, but they must know their
business, those CIA connections, and besides
? . . what's $100,000?
3. The political operative goes to the direc-
tor, of "Black Operations" and informs him
that, with $100,000, he can bring O'Brien down.
"How? . . . "Don't ,ask." He doesn't ask either,
but digs up a' miserly $100,000. And the game is ?
on. . .
As 'I said, I'm certain that the President
knew nOthing about the business, but his cam-
paign staff seems to have recruited some pret-
ty strange mess troopers. It is certainly Ids
responsibility to clean house.
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NEW YORK ? The U.S. public may never learn the most impor-
tant facts about the Republican plot to bug Democratic party national
headquarters in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.,
the New York Post reported Monday in a story from Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, chief of the Justice
Department's criminal division, who directed the "investigation" of
the Watergate plot, told Federal prosecutors gathered at a national
conference there that a three month "probe" had not revealed the "real
reason" for the plot or the identity of other persons who may have
been involved. He also said he expects that "the jail doors will close"
behind the seven men indicted without their revealing what they know.
Bernard Barker, one .of the seven, a former CIAagent, has already
said that; in this kind of business, the persons involved are ready to
take the consequences without exposing the "higher-ups,"
Petersen's statements leave unanswered such questions as how
funds contributed to the campaign fund of the Committee to Re-elect
the President 'got into Barker's Miami bank account after $89,000 had,
been ."laundered" by being passed through a Mexican bank account
and other known facts which link the seven directly to the committeeand the White House.
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Not only have two former White House aides '?
former only because they were transferred to work on
the Committee to Re-Elect the President ? been in-
dicted in the Watergate political spying scandal, but
links lead directly to high officials of the White House
and Administration. The links lead to the CIA, FBI, De,'
partment of Justice and the political underworld of
counterrevolutionary Cubans, Mexican "connections"
and other elements linked by their ultrarightist, fascistic
political views. ?
One line leads from the Watergate scandal to the
scandal of the $10 million collected by the Republicans
before the April 7 deadline when the new law which re-
quires publication of the names of contributors and the
amounts went into effect. Charges of irregularities have
been made by the General Accounting Office (GAO) and
are still being investigated.
Destruction of ?records to hide. the Republicans'
operations has been reported by the Washington Post.
"Following the Watergate break-in, two of President
Nixon's top campaign officials directed a massive
'house cleaning' in which financial records were de-
stroyed and staff members were told- to 'close ranks' in
? preparing a public response toethe incident, according
:to sources;" the paper reported (Sept. 20).
'The two campaign officials were former Assistant
? ? Attorney General Robert C. Mardian, now political co-
ordinator of the Nixon re-election campaign committee.
and Frederick La Rue, a former White House aide, now
special assistant to Craig McGregor, director of Nix-
ons campaign. According to the Washington Post's
sources, Mardian and La Rue Were instructed by John
N. Mitchell, former Attorney General, former campaign
manager, to take charge of "developing the committee's
response," that is, covering up.
What the Nixonites did in this case was to take the
police-state, fascistic type of operations, for which the
CIA and FBI are notorious, into the democratic, political
arena ? just as the Nixonites have used such methods
against the peace forces, workingclass leaders, dissent-
ers and Communists. This marks a dangerous extension
of developing police-state tendencies.
The Watergate bugging scandal, the $10 million sec-
ret election fund and the favors promised in return for it
are two aspects of the cesspool of corruption.
The ITT (International Telephone & Telegraph)
scandal of the Spring is fresh in our memories, in which
ITT pledged a huge sum of money put at the minimum at
$200,000 in return for favorable treatment in anti-trust
action by the Justice Department, according to charges
made by Jack Anderson, nationally syndicated column-
"' 1st.
In this case, the corruption involved the Justice
. Departnient and reached the White Housealso.
Another in the stream of scandals which victimize
the masses of people and enrich those who alrcaliy have
too much is the big grain shell-out of 1072, whereby
grain traders (not the farmers) benefited by an esti-
mated $132 million above the normal profit in the sale
of wheat to the Soviet Union. The difference was the
amount of the subsidy paid by the government on sales
made abroad. It represents the difference between
the domestic and world market prices.
The grain dealers benefited from inside information
? that a subsidy of what came to 47 cents a bushel would be
paid for grain registered as sold during a- period speci-
fied by the Agriculture Department.. The National Farm-
ers Union charged (Sept. 18) that the six private grain
traders involved in the sale of the 400 million bushels of
grain to the Soviet Union could have benefited by as
much as $100 million (another estimate is given above)
by careful timing of their purchases and applications for
government export subsidies.
The phone ,call which Carroll G. Brunthaver, assist-
ant Secretary. of Agriculture, admits was made was one
way this information may have been gained. But the
links between grain exporters and the Agriculture De-
partment are very close, as witness the move made by ?
Clarence D. Palmby from a post as Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture to a top post with Continental Grain
Company, one of the companies which sold wheat to the
Soviet Union.
Palrnby accompanied Secretary of Agriculture
Earl Butz in April to Moscow for talks on U.S. credits
for the purchase of grain, lie protested he had not used
any special knowledge he had. Whether he did or not is
not the main issue. The Department of Agriculture
serves the biggest monopoly interests in farming, not the
rank-and-file of farmers. Under the Nixon. Administrae
tion this prevailing situation has been swung even more
to the benefit of the agribusiness interests.
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"Now this is the kind of thing you expect under a
person like Hitler." ?Sen. George McGovern
Operating within the Republican Party is 'a relatively un-
controlled group of right wingers, the ideological heirs of
the Joseph McCarthy Death's Head units (Totenkopfver-
blinde) of the mid-1.950s and of Goldwater's ill-fated
Putsch in 1964. They do influence policy at the highest
levels, but they have recently become much more restless
and much more frantic to widen their sphere of influelice
as they unhappily .watch President Nixon venturing off to
Peking and Moscow and taking actions that they hardly
recognize as coming from the, Dick they thought they
knew, but now aren't so sure.
They operate along the fine edge of fanaticism, and as
is always the case in, such an environment they sometimes
fall off, not only to their embarrassment but to the extreme
embarrassment of the very person they most want to
influence. Such an event occurred in unforgettable style
in the early morning hours, ,beginning between 2 A.M.
and 2:30 A.M. on June 17, in what is known
Night of the Corporals" (Nacht der Korporalen).
At about that hour the Washington police cornered five
men inside the Democratic National Committee headquar-
ters in the Watergate office building. They might have
claimed they had come by to see 'former Chairman
Lawrence O'Brien during the day and, falling asleep, had
been locked in by mistake; but it's not likely that that
story Would have gone over with the cops, since the five
were wearing surgeons' rubber gloves, were weighted down
with eavesdropping equipment and burglary tools, and
were armed with Mace. They also carried fifty-three $100
/
bills?which, the experts say, is the denomination favored
by the CIA in financing its covert operations.
Diligent newsmen later discovered that the five intruders
were in fact only part of a group?the others got away?
who had been flown in from Miami, whisked in a 1972
Chrysler to luxurious quarters - in the Watergate Hotel
and fed an elegant lobster dinner before being put to
their Spionieren inside Democratic headquarters. The com-
mon denominator of the group was Cuba. Each of the
five reportedly had been involved in some way in the
disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Two of the intrud-
ers are worth special attention.
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James W. McCord, 53, Texan, Baptist, Air Force re-
serve colonel, and for nineteen years an employee of the /-
CIA before?the agency claims?he left it in 1970. Mc-
Cord was security consultant to the Republican National
Committee and to the Committee to Re-elect the President,
the l'atter hiring him last January at a take-home salary of
$1,209 a month. He had an office in the committee's.
headquarters at 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, kittycorner
from the White House,
Colonel McCord's Air Force reserve assignment (which
they claim he quit four months ago) was to a special,
secret fifteen-man squad which spent its time making up
a list of "radicals" who presumably would be put in
"camps" in the event of war; the unit also set up plans
for censoring news and -mail, and in other ways suppressing
dissent during the next war.
Tad Szulc of The New York Times reported that two
of the Watergate intruders were known to have connec-
tions with an extremist right-wing group of Cuban ex-
patriates known as the"Ex-Combatientes Cubanos de Fort
Jackson," about 800 strong, sonic of whom are committed
to "direct action to combat what they viewed as left-wing
causes in the United States." Szulc's sources also told him
that these right-wing Cuban nuts had "some contact" with
the military reserve unit to which McCord had at one
time belonged.
:The second of the Watergate Five worth special. nortiee
? is Bernard L. Barker, 55, an American citizen born and
raised in Cuba who served with Castro's forces before the
revolution came to a head, but later fell out with the
Cuban Prime Minister and moved to the United States;
reputedly, he was the CIA's finance officer (Schatzmeister)
in the Bay of Pigs .organization, and since 1961 has been
on the CIA's payroll. In an interview with Walter Rugaber
of The New York Times (September 12) Barker portrayed
himself as motivated by patriotism, not profit, and re,
peatedly stressed his fortitude under interrogation. Having
;! resisted Nazi coercion (a bombardier in World War II, he
4, was shot down over enemy territory), Barker expressed
confidence in his ability to withstand American methods
? of questioning. Indeed, he so preened himself on his
taciturnity under duress, agreeing proudly with Rugaber
that he is no "squealer," that one is forced to the con-
'elusion that he is choking back information that would
rock the country and shatter the GOP.
Two of the Watergate Five were carrying little -
address books in which appeared the name E. Howard ,
Hunt, Jr., and after it the notation "W. House" in oneA/
book and "W.H." in the other. Could that W., by any
chance, stand for White? For twenty-one years, from
1949 to 1970, Hunt had been with the CIA?he was
another of the key organizers of the Bay of Pigs thing,
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20?Charging illegal electronic
against them, Daniel Ellsberg, Anthony Russo? Tr. and
Pentagon Papers case have filed suit seeking almost $1
federal government.
Named in the suit, filed yester-
day in U.S. District Court in Wash-
ington, were _10 government offi-
cials, including Defense Secretary
Melvin.Laird, Secretary of State
William Rogers, FBI director
Patrick Gray Iii and CIA direc-
tor Richard Helms.
David Rein, Washington counsel
for the National Emergency Civ-
il Liberties Committee, represent-
ing the plaintiffs, said the suit
grew out of admissions by govern-
ment, attorneys in the trial of.
Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, Jr.,
in Los Angeles on July 21.
The wiretap in question is the
same that halted the Pentagon
? Papers trial in Los Angeles after
a jury was sworn, when the de-
fense learned that the government
had overheard through a wiretap
either a defense lawyer or con-
sultant in a conversation with an
outside party.
. Not approved by a judge
The suit charges that the wire-
tap was not approved by a judge.
The Government claims that the
tap was part of "foreign intelli-
gence" work and did not need
court approval.
Because the Government has
? not disclosed which agency plant-
ed the wiretap, or which lawyer
or consultant was overheard, all
lawyers and consultants for the
defense sued the top officials of
all Federal agencies that use
wiretaps.
Plaintiffs in the suit, including
chief defense attorneys Leonard
Boudin ? and. Leonard Weinglass,
alleged that members of the de-
fense team, except Ellsberg and
Russo, "have been overheard by
unwarranted electronic surveil-
lance. . :from June 19, 1968, to the
.date of this complaint, and that
such overheard conversations in-
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surveillance had been used
17 of their associates in the
million in damages from the
Such eavesdropping, they said,
violated the defendants' rights "to
the effective assistance of coun-
sel guaranteed by the Sixth Am-
endment," and their own rights
to "freedom of speech guaranteed
by the First Amendment and seiz-
ure guaranteed by the Fourth
Amendment."
Ellsberg and Russo asked for
$50,000 each, to be paid jointly
by the defendants. Each of the 17
other plaintiffs asked individually
for $50,000 punitive damages and
$100 per day of surveillance since
June 19, 1968, or $1,000, whichever
is higher.
Former Senator Charles Good-
ell (R-NY) is also a plaintiff.
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WASHINGTON An assortment of former White House aides and
Nixon re-election campaign officials, former CIA and FBI operatives
and counter-revolutionary Cubans pleaded 'not guilty" yesterday to
charges they conspired to spy on the national' Democratic Party heath
quarters. Of the seven arraigned, five were arrested at gun point in
the headquarters in the early hours of June 17, with bugging equipment
in their possession. The two others are alleged to have been on guard
outside.
Howard E. Hunt, who worked for the White House until March, on
entering the courtroom said aloud to his attorney, "I've never even been
in a traffic court before." Prosecuting attorney Earl Silbert said Hunt
had traveled under an assumed name to New York and California when,
the FBI tried to question him about the case. Hunt spent 21 years Work-
ing for the CIA and has underground contacts.
G. Gordon, Liddy, a former White House aide who resigned his post
to take the job of financial counsel for the Committee to Re-Elect the
President, is a _former FBI agent who wrote a movie still used by the
FBI and police in training. In 1909 he was appointed assistant to the
Secretary of the Treasury and worked on task forces on organized
crime, drug abuse and explosives control.
At the White House, Nixon conferred with Republican congression-
al leaders Tuesday to assess the effects of the latest development,
exposure of the upwards of $350,000 secret fund for various kinds of poli-
tical dirty work, the Watergate scandal and related issues. The Repub-
licans continue to insist that the White House is in the clear, although
the links extend right into the offices of high aides.
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come to light. that Odle removed records!
By Carl BernsteM and Nixon committee sources, Spokesmen for the Nixon that weekend from McCord's!
' and. 13011 Woodward included the following: committee have not contested office.
. Washington Pot,t, mall Wriiers
0 Alcmos dc!scribi n
ng wire- ,, .
ie existence of memos made "Everytime Rob (Odle)
Following the Watergate tapped telephone converse- from the alleged wiretapping would go into McCord's office
break-in, two of President tions of Democieitie Party offi-
Nixon's top campaign officials dials at the Watergate. The at the Wtttergate, although he would order everybody else
several top campaign officials out of the area," said one
directed a massive "house- memos each began with the have denied receiving thein. source,
'cleaninp," in which financial lphrase "Confidential in for- ,i'he memos, according to ex- Later, when the FBI began
records were destroyed and
linant saYs," therebY making it FIB aeent Alfred Baldwin, a looking at committee records
staff members were "d to I possible that ilimse wiln road self-described participant in in its ievestigatioe of the Wal-
"close ranks" in PreParing a them did not necessarily real- the wiretapping operation,
evi
it was Odle
public response to the :1116. in the contents had come were sent to several tot) offi- who dibriCIZIellg' investigators
dent, according to sources, from wiretapping. cials of the Nixon campaign from office to office, accord-
The two campaign officials * A list showing that three' and at least one White ltouse log to several sources.
. were identified by the sources (Op Nixon campaign officials eakie,
'as former Assistant Attorney withdrelv -about $300,000 from 1 As for the secret fund,
During the week following
_ General Robert C. Mardian,
a secret fund earmarked for 1 spokesmen f r ti . N'? - . the break-in, said one source,
now political coordinate] of especially sensilive political paign organization have never "ittardian and LaRue went
the Nixon re-clection commit.- projects ? including intelli?I described its purpose, except HloiceeildtiWata)).iloillidV bier'irlicIel?lifm?1i')nilaat--
'tee, and Frederick. La Rue, pence
gathering about the to say that it was used for ing,"
including
a former White House coun T
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Democrats. he three"records
officials, legal ends. The existence of "re- of
is memos and
se.1 to the President mid sPe- all ex-White House aides, arc the fund, which apparently payments to peo-
eial assistant to the director Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy contained as much as ?$700,000 pie." By the time FBI agents .
of the Nixon campaign. , Corn- director of the Nixon re-elee- at some moots, was described arrived in the company of
C.
A spokesman for the
lion committee; Herbert le by th e e General Accountin Of- Odle, the relevant records hadbeen .
destroyed,.. sources
mittee for the Reelection of
Porter, scheduling director cif lice as an "apparent" violation said,
the President said the commit, the campaign; and G. Gordon of the new campaign disclo-
tee would have no response
, Liddy, the former finance sure law. People known to have infor-
other than to say that t" counsel of the Nixon commit- On June 10, the Monday motion about the destroyed
sources of The Washington . records were advised by
tee. (Liddy was indicted with after the Watergate break-in
Post are "a fountain of mism-
six other persons last week on several meetings v,:cre called Mardian, La Rue - and others
formation." charges of conspiring to bur to tell the committee sole, "to stay away from certain
the headquarters of the Demo- that the Nixon campaign or-
" areas" ,when being questioned
The sources said the "house-
cleaning" resuited 'after Mar- by investigators, said another
ci."atic National Committee in- ganization had nothing todo source,.
than and La Rue were in- , ? Watergate)
With the incident, according to
structed by John Nl. Mitchell, suo'e the .
then campaign chairman, to
books listing. cainPaig:m co.n?tri- At one sue'h meeting, Biddy worked in offices where ice-
Sortie employees who
As many as seven ledeer sources.
- take charge of developing the
, butors and the amount the v made a brief speech denyine ,ords were destroyed suddenly
committee's response to tile
gave before April 7, the e ny ffec- that a
bugging at the Watergate Live date of a new federal c had ec-ci.dhpaign officilis I received unexpected knowledgepromo-
of the wate),_ promo-
( ions including aides to Mc.
June 17. Con disclosure law requiring gate bugging, the sources said. Cord and employees in the fi-
The destroyed records, c
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a- full public accounting of all He went on to describe James
cordieg to law nforcement li
na ice division, several sources
contributions and exPencli- W. McCord, the Nixon Com- '
"We were never told in so
tures. (Previously, it has beetn mittee security coordinator ar-
were destroyed in April.) many words, 'Don't talk,' said
reported that these records rested inside the Watergate,
as a "bad apple who had a committee employee. "It was
- According to sources, an In- acted on his own 'authority. always, 'Hold ranks,' or, 'keep ,
'tergral part of the re-election Among those who partici- the ship together.' " ? i
committee's response to the pated in the destruction of Steps were taken to insulate.
',rune 17 break-in involved for- committee records, according the Nixon campaign staff from
!bidding employees to talk to to Nixon campaign employees, the 1.?..ess. Sally Harmony, who
;the news media without spe- was Robert Odle, the person-
had served as Liddy s secre-
cific clearance?even to the nel director of the re-election tarY,
'
became Odle's secretary
:extent of giving their job ti- eommittee, and told a reporter: Im under
tles, in. some instances. Following the arrest of five
strictinstructions from the
Some - employees, particu- persons inside the Watergate committee not to talk to any-
larly those who were aware at 2:30 a.m. on june 1'7, body. You'll have to call the
.. that documents had - been de- sources reported, Odle' spent Press office if you want to
stroyed in their offices, said virtually the remainder Of the know anything." ?
:they were offered advice from weekend moving from office Another employee of an of-
superiors on how to respond to office inside the headquar, Lice where records were de-
inquiries from FBI agents and ters of the Committee for the stroyed complained of being
others investigating the Wa- Ite-election of the President at i followed recently to a lunch-
tergate case. 1701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, eon appointment with an old
. Other employees received Some sources said Odle's friend who happened to be a
unexpected promotions in the weekend activities constituted' reporter. The reporter ex-
weeks following the break-in, an "inventorying" of what was pressed skepticism 'but *that
according to colleagues. -contained in committee files, afternoonthe employee
Partly because of the effec- and th'at no records were ac- phoned back to say a superior
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James W. McCord Jr., in-
dicted Friday by a federal
grand jury on eight counts
relating to an appa'rent bug-
ging attempt on Democratic
national headquarters at the
Watergate, spent 1971 teach-
ing college students how to
make buildings secure from
intruders..
For two semesters, the
former high-ranking CIA se-
curity official introduced
students to law enforcement
and criminal justice and "in-
dustrial and retail security"
at Montgomery College in
Rockville.
At least one student was
excited enough to agree to
join McCord, 53, in a late
May attempt to plant eaves-
dropping equipment in sistant administrator for
McGovern headquarters, crime insurance in the De-
then on Capitol Hill, accord- partment of Housing and
ing to a source close to the Urban Development, also
Watergate investigation. But spoke.
the student failed to show, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Davis,
The industrial and retail assistant secretary of Trans-
security course was a semi- portation, was listed as aschespeakernar, featuring guest speak- scheduled speaker asfall,
era from government and in. but didn't talk. The notes of a student
dustry, including former Most of those contacted who took the course and re-
CIA officials, with McCord who lectured McCord's view questions passed out
as moderator. classes said they speak to by McCord suggest a dry,
other stuclent groups, train- factual, statistical approach 1:1
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tigator for the Senate Select didn't know McCord before news journal article?" one
Committee on Small Busi.- the former FBI and CIA . review question asks. "What
ness; Wilfred J. Garvin, as- agent got in touch with him . special sales and Profit
sistant administrator for the about the course, problem does' the sole pro-
Small Business Administra- ell, blow my mind when I prietor-retailer in a ghetto
tion, now on leave on fellow- found out he was involved area face from crime
ship to Brookings Institute iin the Watergate business," losses?" another asks.
and William J. Cotter, assist- Evans said. McCord was "a McCord, who had degrees
ant postmaster general for fantastically nice guy" who from the U n i v e r s it y of
security, lectured the class was trying to give his stu- Texas and George Washing-
in spring and fall of 1971. dents .. a modern attitude ton University (not Baylor,
A senior special agent in about crime prevention, he as earlier accounts have
charge of training for thesaid. . said) seemed committed to
U.S. Bureau of Customs, Cotter, who a p o k a to academic interests, accord-
someone from the justice Mr-Cord's students once Mg, to George P. Morse, who
Department's Bureau of about mail and postal sr- also spoke to the course.
Narcotics and Dangerous rity, said he knew McCord Morse, former director of
Drugs, and James Rose, as- when they both worked for V protection and safety for the
the CIA. McCord worked in National . Institutes of
the CIA's security division Health, who knew McCord
for 19 years. The second only slighlty from when he
time he was invited to speak worked for the CIA, said he
to the class, Cotter turned
the honor over to a subordi-
nate, he said. "Frankly, the
group didn't stimulate me," ?
he said.
lecture on bugging by a MAI- ing sessions or classes and to the clandestine business.
. were not going out of their "What were the total costs
dent who was also a profe.s
sional security man. It was way for McCord. None re-
ceived a fee for his efforts,
illustrated with Slides and a
according to their own ac-
handful of bugs another counts,
student remeMbered.
Evans, a Democrat who
Among other things,' the helped put together the Sen-
course focused on "residen- ate committee's report on
and multistory secu
tia-- how to protect buildings "The Impact of Crime on
l. rity'
like the Watergate, accord-
ing to a topic outline,
McCord didn't talk poli-
ties but came across as con-
?servative nonetheless, a stu-
dent said. "I got the impres-
sion he was a strict conserv-
ative. I don't think I ever
saw him wear a colored
shirt," said the student, who
also said McCord Seemed ex
tremely competent in the se-
curity field.
"I was surprised that the
'gear he was suppOsed to
have been picked up with.
was obsolete," he said. "I
had the idea he could have
gotten the most modern
equipment."
McCord hinted at friends
in high places but didn't
name them, the same stu7
dent said.App
found it out of character for
McCord to be involved in ci
their the security consulting
business or the Watergate
affair.
Mc Cord ran a security
consulting business, McCord
Associates, inc., in Rock-
ville, and coordinated seen-
Tity efforts for the Nixon.
re-election campaign before
his arrest in June.
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0The- Spies Who olioeos,terheiira c,\'neard bteof jme e
Came in
For the Heat
Three months ago, the predawn raid
on the Democratic National Com-
mittee headquarters inside Washington's
elegant Watergate complex seemed lit-
tle more than clumsy political derring-do
pulled off by overzealous, aging and in-
ept James Bonds. In the time since, the
tangled affair has turned into the politi-
cal hydra of the Presidential campaign.
The tearh's report: ?
THE WHITE HOUSE 'PLUMBERS'
The four former CIA operatives and
- the cuban locksmith arrested at gun-?
point inside the Democratic National.
Committee headquarters vere 110 is0-? ?
lated band of zealots. And the Water-
gate raid was by no means an isolated
?incident. As early as the summer of 1971,
a small, tight, political intelligence team
was forming up in the basement of-
fiees of the Executive Office Building
next door to the White House. And its -
impact would soon .be felt all across the
1972 election .campaign.
The team was originally formed strict-
Each time Republicans have tried to ly as a pack of in-house watchdogs. in
smother the controversy, some fresh em- the fall of 1971, increasingly concerned .
barrassment has popped up to bring it ? about a rash of security leaks that began
back to life. And as the revelations con- with the Pentagon Papers, Presidential
tinue to pile up, the Watergate affair has assistant John D. Ehrlichman quietly
emerged as the most dramatic clear-cut tapped his able, aggressive deputy, Egil
disclosure of major politica] espionage in (Bud) Krogh, 31, to plug the leaks. Thus .
the history of U.S. Presidential elections. the White House "plumbing" crew was
It is a curious and instructive tale, of- born. Presidential troubleshooter Charles
fering rare glimpses into the back rooms V. Colson rang in an old Army-Navy
of American politics and the antics of Club friend named E. Howard Hunt, a
obscure soldiers of fortune embarked on retired CIA career spy, prolific pulp
a spy-thriller escapade. It features, in . novelist and public-relations speech-
0 addition to the bizarre Watergate break-
in, a special squad of White House in- writer, as a $100-a-day consultant. From
Treasury came G. Gordon Liddy, 42,
vestigators eavesdropping on the Admin- a bright, ambitious former FBI agent
istration's own telephone calls; a se Ties and Duteliess. County, N.Y., prosecutor
- of espionage coups against the Demo- with a flair for the . dramatic (once,
crats involving electronic eavesdropping
to make a point in a summation, Liddy
and photographs of documents from fired off a pistol loaded with blanks in .
Democratic files; $114,000 in GOP cam-
s the courtroom).
i paign contributions apparently divertedj
The pluinbers stuck to their assigned
1 to one of a team of adventurers with
! task?tracing leaks in the newspapers and
v CIA and anti-Castro connections; an in- ii
., eavesdropping on the phone conversa-
tricate "money washing" operation aimed
/ tions of White House staffers to detect?
' at. hiding the identities of political donors ,
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by channeling funds through a Mexican signs of disloyalty. But as ?fall turned to
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bank; the secret transfer of $25,00 in winter and re-election strategy became a
cash on a Miami golf course, and
:1 more urgent concern, Hunt's and Liddy s
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$350,000 stashed?and apparently unac- ,-En???;itt.ention began to shift from internal Ad-
counted for?in a Republican Party of- ?
mistration security to intelligence-gath-
fice safe.
The affair has been painfully embar-
rassing to the Administration on several'
counts. Besides the spying issue, it has
focused attention on the whole Nixon
campaign fund-raising operation?espe-
cially the $10 million raised from big
' givers before the April 7 deadline under
the new law that requires donors to be
listed. It has also put the Administration
into the position of having to investigate
itself while resisting demands for a spe- j newly formed ComMittee to Re-elect
, the President. In October, a husky, bald-
dal independent inquiry.
The full scope of the Watergate caper ing ? electronic eavesdropping specialist
itself will be charted only when indict- named James V. McCord Jr., 53, who
ments are returned and the case comes had spent nineteen years debugging
to trial?and even then some of its dark- , CIA installations, joined ' the committee
er byways may never be illuminated. , as security coordinator. In December,.
But for a period of weeks, a special Liddy himself moved over to the corn-
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NEWSWEEK investigative team led by mittee. In November, Hunt begana series
Nicholas I forrock and Evert Clark has of phone conversations with a Miami man
ering that might be used against the
Democrats. They began carefully assem-
bling potentially damaging doSsiers on
any and all possible Democratic Presiden-
tial and Vice Presidential candidates?
and Hunt in particular launched a fresh
investigation into Sen. Edward Ken-
nedy's tragic automobile accident at
Chappaquiddick.
At about the same time, the focus of
the operation began to shift toward the
ar, er, the moneyedson o a u
mother and an American father, began
assembling a loosely knit team of his own
from the Cuban community in Miami.
From his own real-estate filen, Barker
tapped Eugenio Martinez, a friend of
fifteen years who, like Barker, had
helped smuggle refugees out of post-
Batista Cuba. Frank Sturgis, 219, (former-
ly Frank Fiorini), an ex-marine given to
gun running and girls, joined him, And at
Miami's Missing Link Key Shop Barker
found a 45-year-old locksmith named
Virgilio Gonzales,
'10 what extent GOP higher-ups .knew
of the team?and approved of its activi-
ties-is unclear. "I suppose it VVaS a 'Do it,
don't tell me how you do it' situation,"
'said an insider. The full extent of the
team's operations will likely remain a
mystery, too. But by last spring a pat-
tern of anti-Democratic espionage had
begun to unfold in Washington.
- On May 36, the law offices of the
eventual Democratic Vice Presidential
candidate, R. Sargent Shriver, and the
party's credentials committee chief, Pa-
tricia Harris, across the yard from the
Watergate, were broken into?though
nothing appeared to have been stolen.
There is no proof that the Watergate five
were involved- in this or any other break-
in before June 17. But on May 26, five
men checked into the \Vatergate Hotel
under the same names that the Water-
gate Five were first to give to the police
after their arrest.* They stayed through
the Memorial Day hohday. While they
'were there, two attempts were made to
break into the DNC.
.? On the night of the 27th, Lawrence
O'Brien charged last week, some of .the
same people later arrested at Watergate.
made an abortive attempt to plant an
eavesdropping device in Sen. George
1\1eGovern's preconvention headquarters
on Capitol Hill. O'Brien also charged that
hfs own phone and another DNC line
had been tapped for weeks before the
raid, and: monitored "on a regular daily
basis", from Room 723 in the Howard
Johnson Motor Lodge across the street. ?
Only a single hint as to the fruits of
all this snooping has so far come to light.
A fortnight ago, Michael Richardson, 29,
who works in a Miami photo shop, told
Miami' authorities that two men came to
his shop on June 10?a week be,fore the
Watergate arrests?with 38 frames of .35-
mm. film to be rush-developed. The pic-
tures, said Richardson, showed surgical
gloved hands holding a series of docu-
ments against a shag rug. Some bore
the DNC letterhead; some, the signature
of Larry O'Brien. At least one, Richardson
states], appeared to be a dossier on a
prominent woman Democrat?possihly Pa-
tricia Harris. Shown a random assortment:
of mug shots, Richardson unhesitatingly
identified Bernard Barker and Frank
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elsewhere?to try to stitch together the Cuban-born Bernard L. Barker.
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pick up the developed pictures.
While all this was going on, the Demo-
crats?incredibly enough?teok no steps
to beef up their own office security
despite evidence of break-ins. Demo-
non- THE MONEY LAUNDRY
It was the 53 $100 bills that opened
up one of the first big leads. U.S. Treas-
ury records showed that the bills had
been part of a batch of crisp new hun-
dreds that had been sent to Miami banks
?including Republic National of Miami,
where Barker's real-estate firm kept an
account. And a check of Republic's pho-
tostats opened up a new dimension in
the ease.
On April 20, it turned out, Barker de-
posited four checks totaling $89,000 that
had been drawn on the Banco Inter-
nacional, S.A., in Mexico City, by a
wealthy, 69-year-old labor lawyer named
Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre. Through his
son, Ogarrio repudiated the signature on
the checks and denied any hand in the
entire affair. But the "washing" of cam-
paign contributions by funneling them
through obscure surrogate "donors" to
shield contributors demanding anonymity
has long been a common campaign prac-
tice. And Ogarrio's name on the checks
seemed more than coincidental. Until re-
cently, his firm, Creel and Ogarrio, op-
erated out of a suite of offices in the same
building as the Banco Internacional
branch from which the checks originated.
And Creel and Ogarrio represented a
number of prominent U.S. corporations?
including Gulf Resources and Chemical'
Co., whose president, Robert II. Allen,
happens to be the Texas finance chair-
man for the Re-election Committee,
Curiously, the day before the four
checks were drawn, Gulf Resources and
Chemical, which closed its Mexican op-
in fact, was virtually
the events of the early
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fered the Nixon campaign a. strictly
anonymous contribution of $25,000. The
money, Andreas said, would be left in a
safety deposit box in Dahlberg's name at
the Sea View Hotel in Bal Harbour.
Dahlberg later claimed that he immedi-
ately phoned finance chief Maurice
Stalls in Washington to have the sum
recorded--thus beating the disclosure
deadline. According to Dahlberg, he ar-
rived at the hotel on April 7?the dead-
line day?too late to pick up the money,
and Andreas turned it over to him on a
golf course two days later. Dahlberg said.
that he converted the cash to a bank
check for safekeeping the next morning,
then flew to Washington and handed it
to Stans.
Stans told General Accounting Office
investigators that he immediately gave
the check to Sloan, and Sloan declared
that he gave it, along with the four
Mexican checks totaling $89,000, to the
committee's finance counsel, who was G.
Gordon Liddy. Whatever Liddy then
did with the checks, neither he nor any-
one else has made clear. But a little
More than a week later, Bernard Barker
walked into Republic National Bank of
Miami with all five of them. When a
2
1,131 questions about the raid. Over the
next two weeks, both Re-election Com-
mittee treasurer Hugh W. Sloan Jr. and
Mitchell himself resigned, both citing
"personal reasons.
cratie security,
existent--until
morning hours
'YOU'VE GOT US'
It was just after midnight on a balmy
summer night. James McCord, Bernard
Barker and his three Miami teammates
had registered in the elegant Watergate
Hotel earlier in the day and had con-
sumed a hearty lobster dinner in the
Watergate Terrace restaurant. Wearing
rubber gloves to guard against finger-
prints, they jimmied a stairwell door, in-
vestigators say, and slipped quietly up-
stairs to the sixth-floor headquarters of
the Democratic National Committee in
the Watergate Office Building next door.
The intruders taped the door latches
open behind them so they could go out
and come back in again with ease. Some-
one filled cardboard cartons with papers
from the DNC files, evidently intending
to photograph them. Others slid back a
ceiling panel in the office of the secretary
to DNC chairman Larry O'Brien; investi-
gators believe that they planned to re-
move for repairs an electronic bugging
device they had installed earlier. And
somewhere else in the darkened com-
plex, Federal authorities have conclud-
ed, Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy
sat awaiting word from Barker's end that
the mission was accomplished.
They never got it. The only message
was a signal that the jig was up. While
the raiders toiled, private security guard
Frank Wills, 24, spotted the tape on the
basement door and removed it. When he
came back twenty minutes later and
found the tape had been replaced, Wills
-, called the police. Three cruising plain-
clothes men from the Capital's "mod
squad" burst into the DNC with guns?
drawn. From behind a partition, one of
the intruders shouted, "Don't shoot!
You've got us." The police found, either
in the five men's possession or in their
hotel rooms, a kitful of burglary tools, two
35-mm. cameras, 40 rolls of unexposed
film, three tear-gas pens, a radio trans-
mitter-receiver, two bugging devices, a
wig, and $5,300 in freshly minted $100
orations in 1969, telephoned $100,000
to the very same branch of Banco In-
ternacional?to the account of a Mexi-
can firm owned in part by Allen and
Ogarrio's law partner. And the day after
they were issued, Ogarrio's checks were
personally carried to Washington by Al-
len's Republican colleague, Roy J. Win-
chester of Houston, the co-chairrnan of
the GOP fund-raising drive for the ? en-
tire Southwest. Winchester delivered the
checks to committee treasurer Hugh W.
Sloan Jr. The money originally came from
four Texas Democrats.
bills. Federal investigators believe that
Liddy and Hunt fled the Watergate for THE DAHLBERG CONNECTION
the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge acros ,
the street, where they are thought tc: The fifth laundered,check that Barker deposited
was too. Two days before
have maintained a monitoring station ir the new campaign spending law went
room 723. Barker and his crew were left into effect, prohibiting large anonymous
holding the bag alone.
. donations, Dwayne 0. Andreas, a Min-
But not for long. Among the burglars' neapolis-based soybean millionaire and
possessions, police discovered two small longtime Hubert Humphrey supporter,
black address books listing the name phoned ?Kenneth Dahlberg, Mr. Nixon's
Everette Howard Hunt, along with the Midwestern fund-raising chief, from his
notations "\V.11." and "W. House." And
eleven days after the arrests, Liddy was
fired from the Re-election Committee by continued
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bank vice president balked at accepting
the Dahlberg check on the ground he
could not verify the endorsement, Barker
resourcefully?but probably illegally?
used his power as a notary to authenti-
cate the signature and deposited all
$114,000 in Barker Associates' account.
Over the next two weeks, Barker
withdrew exactly $114,000 in three sepL
arate drafts: $25,000 on April 24;
$33,000 on May 1, and the final $56,000
one week later. Meanwhile, Sloan told
GAO investigators, he was trying to get
the money back from Liddy?and having
trouble doing it. Sloan said that Liddy
finally returned the money (less about
$2,500 in what were said by Liddy to be
cheek-cashing charges) around the mid-
dle of May?a full month after he had
received it. Interestingly enough, on the
day Barker made his last withdrawal his
office made two telephone calls to How-
ard Hunt and one to the offices of the
Re-election Committee in Washington.
When he finally managed to get the cash
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back, Sloan said, he stashed it along with
other funds in Stans's office safe. And on
May 25, he related, he and Liddy per-
sonally walked the safe's entire con-
tents?$350,000?over to the First Na-
tional Bank of Washington, counted the
money out before a bank officer, and
deposited it in the Re-election Commit-
tee's media account. As evidence that
the money had been collected before
April 7, Sloan could offer the GAO only
a duplicate deposit slip bearing the no-
tation: "Cash on hand prior to 4/7/72
from 1968 campaign Per Hugh Sloan."
And Stan.s told the GAO he believed
that all other records pertaining to the
origin of the money had been destroyed
after April 7,
Unimpressed, the GAO issued a sting-
ing report charging the Re-election Com-
mittee with three "apparent" and two
"possible" violations of the campaign-
spending law and recommending a jus-
tice Department investigation to deter-
mine whether there had been criminal
violations as well. The justice Depart-
ment has yet to act on the recommenda-
tion. But the GAO report thrust the
whole Watergate affair back into the
spotlight just when public attention was
beginning to wane. .
THE FALLOUT
The Democrats have tried hard to
make political mileage out of the case.
But in the weeks since the raid, they
have tasted anew the frustration of being
the party out of power. A fortnight: ago,
Attorney General Richard Kleindienst
pledged "the most extensive, thorough
and comprehensive investigation since
the assassination of President Kennedy."
Except, to answer direct queries from
Washington, however, the FBI bureau
in Miami was called off the case more
than a month ago. At least one key
witness?the Miami photo-shop technician
?has yet to be called before a grand -jury.
The indictments expected this week,
will probably name seven persons, but it
is unlikely that their trial will get under
way before Election Day. A Federal law
requires that major criminal trials must
begin within 60 days of indictments?and
the Republicans are in no hurry to ad-
vance the deadline. As a consequence,
the Democrats' $1 million -civil suit
against the GOP Re-election Committee
is . stalled too. -Federal District Judge
Charles Richey has ordered that all dep-
ositions must remain sealed pending the
outcome of criminal proceedings, and has
yet to rule whether the civil case ? may
proceed at all before that trial. Mean-
while, the Democrats' attorney Edward
? Bennett Williams has taken testimony on
the case from eight persons, including
Mitchell last week. A surprise witness
coming up: Richard Nixon's old cam-
paign infighter, Murray Chotiner.
While the legal maneuverings contin-
ue, a number of investigations are still
under way. Dade County Prosecutor
Richard Gerstein, who first made public
the five checks totaling $114,000, is look-
ing into possible violations of the Florida
banking laws. Rep. Wright Patman's
house Banking and Currency Commit-
tee is examining the money-washing op-
eration south of the border. Tim justice
Department, at least officially, is still
checking for criminal violations of the
1971 Federal Elections Campaign Act.
There are certainly enough unan-
swered questions in the case for them
all. Who ordered the espionage cam-
paign against the Democrats? How far
did it go? And what was contained in
the tapes and documents seized in the
Watergate arrests (which the justice De-
partment refuses to reveal even to the
DNC, their rightful owners)? What did
Barker do with the $114,000, and, if he
did not return it, from what source was
the amount made up in the Committee
to Re-elect's coffers? Why should Mau-
rice Stans keep so substantial an amount
of campaign money as $350,000 lying
around in cash in an office safe? Who
besides Dwayne Andreas are the GOP
contributors so eager to keep their names._
secret? The Watergate saga continues?
and promises to color the tone and tem-
per, conceivably even the odds, of the
Presidential campaign into which it so
dramatically intruded.
*Curiously, seydral of these names weave through
the pages of Hunt's novels, which are otten set in
the Miami-Cuba area. tvleCord, for example, first
told police he was Edward Martin?the SZLITIC pseu-
donym at least two of Hunt's characters adopted in
fictional jams. In "Stranger In Town," a beautiful
woman named Valdes reminds the hero of a girl
named Jean. Martinez, when arrested, gave police
the name Jean Valdes. The hero of a novel called
"Bimini. Run" is a man named Hank Sturgis,
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Colson
McCord
Hunt
The cast of characters in the Water-
gate affair has come to assume the pro-
portions of a Russian novel's. here is a
guide to some of the key figures:
CHARLES W. COLSON, 40, special
etmnsel to the President, general
White House troubleshooter and hatchet
man, who recommen (led fellow Brown
alumnus E. }Toward Hunt for a $100-a-
day job in the White House plugging
Administration leaks.
EGIL (BUD) KROGH, 31, Deputy As-
sistant to the President for Domestic
Affairs and chief of the White house
leak-plugging "plumbers."
E. HOWARD HUNT, 54, public-relations
man, mystery novelist (some 45 titles),
CIA operative (1949-1970), mid-
level planner of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
As a member of the "plumbers" unit, he
had an ear on eavesdropping operations
on White House staffers, and is believed
to have been at the Watergate on the
night of the break-in. Variously described
as 'a very Foreign Service type who . . .
knew how to operate" and "the dumbest
son-of-a-bitch I ever worked with."
G. GORDON LIDDY, 42, ex-FBI agent,
ex-Treasury official (eased out for ex-
cessive ardor in fighting gun controls),
former colleague of Hunt's in the White
House, former counsel to the finance arm
of the Committee to Re-elect the Presi-
dent (fired for refusing to answer ques-
tions about the Watergate affair).
KENNETH H. DAHLBERG, 54, million-
aire hearing-aid manufacturer and chief
midwest money-raiser for the Committee
to Re-elect. Twenty-five thousand dol-
lars in cash handed to him on a golf
course by Humphrey supporter Dwayne
Andreas dragged him into the affair.
MANUEL OGARRIO DAGUERRE, 69,
Mexico City attorney with American cor-
porate clients. His purported signature
appeared on $89,000 worth of south-
western GOP campaign money chan-
neled to Liddy and eventually to Barker.
BERNARD L. BARKER, 55, Cuban-born,
Miami-based real-estate developer with
a taste for intrigue: in Cuba he worked
for the Batista secret police, in Miami he
helped channel finances for the Bay of
Pigs operation (under the nickname
"NIabho"). Probably the leader of the
Watergate five, he made more than 40
telephone calls to Hunt and CRP offices
the months before the raid, received
$114,000 in Republican campaign checks
?and was arrested with four others at
the Watergate on June 17.
JAMES W. McCORD, JR., 53, former
FBI agent, nineteen-year security spe-
cialist for the CIA and "security coordi-
nator" for the Committee to Re-elect.
After leaving the CIA, McCord last year
set up his own business, McCord Asso-
ciates, Inc., whose first and only client
was the Republican party?until McCord
was arrested at the Watergate.
FRANK STURGIS, 37, ex-Marine soldier
of fortune with a string of aliases and a
reputation as a braggart. He smuggled
guns for Castro's rebels in Cuba, then
switched sides and helped train anti-
Castro guerrillas in Guatemala. Seven
days before he was arrested at the Wa-
tergate, according to a clerk in a Miami
photography shop, he and Barker
brought in some intriguing film that sug-
gested the extent of the espionage
against the Democrats.
EUGENIO MARTINEZ, 49, former CIA
operative involved in smuggling refugees
out of Cuba, now a real-estate man in
Barker's employ--and a member of his
Watergate task force.
VIRGILIO R. GONZALES, 45, Cuban-born
locksmith at Miami's Missing Link Key
Shop, where he was unhappy and sought
an opportunity for new and more adven-
turous employment with Barker.
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By Carl Bernstein
and Bob Woodward
Washington Post.Staff Writer
Funds for the Watergate
espionage operation were con-
trolled, by the principal assis-
tants of John N. Mitchell, the
former manager of President
Nixon's campaign, and were
kept in a special account at the
Committee for the Re-election finance chiarman of the Pres-
of the President, The Washing.!
,ident's campaign. It is pre.
, ton Post has learned,
. sources, including investiga- Inage campaign against the
tors, other federal sources and ID c m 0 e r a ts, according to
officials and employees of the I sources,
Committee for the lte-election Mitchell, formerly Attorney
of the President. General, resigned as the Presi-
dent's campaign manager on
The S300,000 fund also was , count, McCord brought him
used for travel and entertain- July 1, saying it was because into the espionage operation.
Trent Ilmt campaign officials his wife, Martha, insIsted hes,
las a wiretap monitor on May 1_0
did not want known outside.i or 31 and told him that he i
leave.t
the. campaign organization, pol ics. " ? ? ! would be assigned the seine '
One source said the money was She- said at. the time that"I
, task in Miami during the Dem-
love my husband very much, i-ieratic , National Conventidn.
but Pm not going to stand for 'thddwie aise said he was asei
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:White House aide and several
high officials in the Nixon
icampaign ? including the
Mitchell aides,
According to Baldv,,in's ac-
flina lily the same money
- The Mitchell assistants, all ?
in part used for routine and
of whom still hold policy-make?
legal intelligence 'gathering
ing positions on a high level in
at Democrats.
President Nixon's re-election
campaign, were among 15 per. The fund was kept in the
Sons who had access to the se- safe of former SecretarY or
Commerce Maurice H. Stens,
cret fund of more titan' Commerce
chief Nixon fund-raiser. It
$300,000 earmarked for sensi- is presumably the same money
tive political projects. that the General Accounting
Included. in those projects Office cited in an Aug. 2(1 re-
was . the espionage campaien Port as a violation of the new
campaign disclosure law, be-
against the Democrats, ?for cause it had not been properly
Which seven Persons?Anc111d- accounted for, The GAO, the
jug two former White House ; Investigative at-in of Congress,
aides?were indicted Friday said the fund contained
by a federal grand jury, 1$350,000.
It could not be learned; Sources said that Stems had
whether the Mitchell aides, mo previous knowledge of the
who include persons who once Watergate bugging?a position
worked at the White House, he has taken in public on nu-
knew, that funds would specifi- I merous occasions, though he
cally be expended for the pur-1 has not answered reporters
pose of illegal. electronic sur- questions directly.
all those dirty things that go signed by McCord infiltratel
On." The former Attorney
General has repeatedly denied Vietnam Veterans Against the
any knowledf.m of the \Vetere War for the purpose of "em-
gate bugging. barrassing, the Democrats" if
?The Mitchell aides who re-1 the veterans clemonstrated at
ceived money from the secret the ,
account include individuals ltepublican convention,
who reportedly were sent con- I 'Diesecret fund that --sup-
fidential memos containing in- i \pliedj the money for Baldwin's
formation obtained from a!) ter etc activities and other
tapped telephone at Demo- aspects of the . inte:iligen,ce-
medic headquarters. gathering campaig?. was mon-
The names of those Mitchell aged ItY the "Political side" of
aid-es .also appear in an ac- the Nixon re-election commit-
count of the espinage opera- tee?that part directly under
tion- told by Alfred Baldwin, a 'Ne,t.i,t.;',Itell's e?ntr?1---4t't Pili-
self-described participant in the I kept on the financial
Watergate affair who has been 1 LIIL',,,,,,,i10`0"`ctr'e`-i'ai7, st'ans.
,C:'',1'-, 1,-,,,,4,') l''' former Com-
interviewed by both the FBI, kne"' ''
and lawyers for the Democratic ,In some cases, individual.
Party, aides to Mitchell received
Baldwin reportedly was nearly $50,000 from the secret
granted immunity from
prose- haccount.otlsea aide
extGiept6 of10,[1.0enx-11,iclii,iityo,
icntnthe?xne. iini:lant,i,lee IfVelrltell:egl7iti.engcatsiei the former finiince counsel of
veillance. However, zissocuites , Starts, according to the federal grand jury his version the Nixon campidgii who was
told 'Ehe Post that the itides 1 sources, was,aware of the ee.e of the espionage conspiracy. indicted in the Watergate Hi
it
of the secret fund and He has described himself as a day, no other officials of the
were aware that the money I
would be spent generally "flknew that large amounts of former FBI agent who was finance operation are known
, gathering information about 1 money had been. withdrawn . hired as a security guard for to have obtained money front
the Demociats.in the names of Mitchell aides. Martha Mitchell and subse- the account.
Some. of the Mitchell aide Only Only one accounting of theThe actual distribution of
quently was assigned to moni-
are among the pen-sons named special fund?a single piece of from the fund to the
tor conversations intercepted ,- money
- lined lede'er p frOm the tele phone of
aper listing - the . De iintelligence operation was cie,
a nte- ?
by a self-described participant . - ' - e cram official with offices in
names of la persons with ac- .
inet,he . Watergate operation. i the Watergate. ;
cots to the money and the - ?
I
as -recipients of confidential 5amount ? rdaY the FBI said thd maintained It was purposely, only agent who ever worked
memos based on the tapped each received?was ' Yeste
Jelephone conversations . of Odestroyed shortly , before pi iii for the Bureau with the samo
-Democrate Party officialS.
A spokontan for -1 1 i 17, t?he date that the new cam- i name is Alfred C. Baldwin III,
,2res-c-en.inaignfinance law requiring w
(ie.! age 37, who was. an agent from
:- '
Nixon s re-elNetion cOmmittec,ii tailed accounting of election 1963 to 19kb it fliwl mh, a
.informed of The Post's story,
.said late yesterday ,afternoon
;that "there have been and are
cash funds in this committee;
used, for various legitimate ;
put-poses such as reimburse-
mentf for expenditures for ad- '
winces on travel. However, no
one employed by this_ commit-.
tee at this time has used any
funds (for purposes) that were
illegal or improper."
The PADD rovedryrF
about the f IBM and their rela-
tionship to the Watergate ease
funds took effect, the Sources spokesman for the Nixon IT-Ct-
told the Post. . leetion committee confirmed
A spokesman for the Nixon that an Alfred Baldwin
re-election committee denied
"worked ? briefly" as a security
late yesterday that such a list
guard for Mrs.
ever existed. s not ap-
On the day it was destroyed though his name dop eMitchell,
ear cm the committee's pay-
the list:showed that the lar-g-
roll.
est individual sums of money
In his account to the IMMO-
were distributed to a handful
crats, Baldwin said that one of
of campaign aides closest to
the men indicted. Friday in the
1
Mitchell, then still the Presi-
Vatergate case ?James W.
kotipoklogyaw daottgicirmitae,.efilarilicis-
e n
al s that, Nixon comm r-el e ti o committee--sentit( ce
was obtained from a variety of money was used for the espio-
memos and transcript of the
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btar-News Stall Wril.er
Sen. George McGovern
charged yesterday that the
Nixon administration "com-
manded the Jtistice Depart-
ment to whitewash" the Wa-
tergate bugging case.
The Democratic presidential
candidate said the indictment
Friday of two former White
House aides?the former Nix-
on campaign security chief
and four others?is "an insult
to the intelligence of the
American people."
In a hastily called press con-
ference on the front porch of
his home here, McGovern con-
tended the three-month Justice
Department investigation into
the break-in of Democratic
headquarters left some "stag-
gering questions" unanswered.
Socks Campaign issue
McGovern has been attempt-
ing to make the Watergate
case a major campaign issue,
arguing that electronic eaves-
dropping of his party's head-
quarters "goes right to the
heart of the morality of, the
nation."
Among the questions unan-
swered by the return of the
indictments, McGovern said,
was who ordered ancl paid for
"this act of political espionage
and - who received the stolen
information?" ?
He said that "at all stages of
the investigation, it remained
a political case under the total
direction and control of Mr.
Nixon's political operatives,
working through Atty. Gen.
Richard Kleindienst."
He renewed a call for Nixon
to appoint a special prosecutor
for the case.
. Denial From Justice
?
The Justice Department de-
nied McGovern's allegations,
saying it had conducted a thor-
ough investigation of the case
including financial 'aspects.
Earlier a department spokes-
man had said finances were
being looked into by another
division of Justice.
"All aspects of the break-in
and bugging were studied in
detai I, including questions
about the source and distribu-
tion of any funds relating to
the incident," said Asst. Atty.
G-en. Henry C. Petersen, chief
of the criminal division.
"This investigatian has been
conducted under my supervi-
sion," Petersen said. "In no
instance has there been any
limitation of any kind by any-
one on the conduct of this in-
vestigation."
Indicted. Friday by a federal
grand jury here were E. How-
ard Hunt, a former $100-a-day
White House consultant; G.
Gordon Liddy, who quit as
counsel to the Nixon finance :
c 0111 ni i t t e- e last summer;
James McCord, former CIA
operative who was Nixon cam-
paign security chief at the
time of the break-in.
Vote, ens of Invasion
Also indicted were four men
arrested inside the Watergate
with McCord that night: Ber-
nard Barker, a participant in
the abortive Bay of Pigs inva-
sion of Cuba a decade ago, and
three Miami men also active
in the anti-Castro movement.,
Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonza-
lez and Eugenio Martinez.
Liddy and Hunt are expect-
-ed to surrender to federal au-
thorities here Tuesday.
The following day, U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Charles Richey
will probably rule on whether
a related "invasion of priva-
cy" civil damage suit, filed by
the Democrats, should be con-
tinued. Henry Rothblatt, attor-
ney for Barker and the three
other Miamians, has moved to
dismiss the suit.
In his press conference,
McGovern made it clear he
does not intend to dismiss the
bugging incident as just the
work of minor party function-
aries acting on their own.
Democrats have decided to
focus on a still unanswered
question: Who decided that
$>1.14,000 in campaign contribu-
tions should be given to Bar-
ker.
Hints of Finances
:The only hint in the indict-
ments of financing is a nota-
tion that Liddy gave McCord
in cash in mid-June at a
ineeting with Hunt. About a
month earlier McCord alleged-
ly paid $3,500 for a receiving
levice.
McGovern argued! "The ad-
ministration, with its total
Dontrol of the grand jury, asks
ns to ignore the diversion of
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partner and personal friend, Despite his involvement in the much publicized
IIMPirje'r11.1Thlt Cuban "Bebe Rebozo is im- burglary, bugging and wiretapping of the Demo-
plicated ? in the Watergate cratic National Committee headquarters, White
caper, according to Cuban exile sources. Report- House Special Counsel to the President, Charles STATINTL
edly the Democratic organization had a damaging W. ("Chuck") Colson, is still held in high esteem
investigation file on the Nixon-Rebozo business by President Nixon; he accompanies Nixon on his
partnership; also, the Democrats have acquired frequent trips as an adviser, along with Henry
new evidence on the ITT scandal and inside in- A. Kissinger.
formation on the Nixon-Mitchell law firm?am- The justice Department, which is supposedly
munition that Democratic strategists intended to prosecuting five men in connection with the
drop as bombshell in the campaign. This was the alleged electronic bugging incident at the Demo-
urgency that prompted James W. McCord. Jr., cratie headquarters in the Watergate Building
chief security coordinator of both the Republican assigned a lawyer from its Civil Division to defend
National. Committee and the Committee to Re- "Chuck" Colson in a civil suit stemming out of the
elect the President, to personally participate in. case. Government attorney Irwin. Goldhloom was
the Watergate burglary? he did not trust his assigned by Attorney General Richard G. Klein-
Cuban cohorts to steal such highly incriminating dienst to represent Colson and Alfred Wong, a
documents?they might be tempted to peddle their special agent of the U.S. Secret Service, who had
wares to the highest bidder. recommended James W. McCord, former CIA of-
Friends of McCord say that there was a double- ficial, to the position of security chief of the Com-
cross, at the White House level. Two Democrat mittee for the Re-Election of the President.
stool pigeons were planted on the staff of the (McCord was one of the five men arrested in the
CoMmittee to Re-elect the President, but enemies Watergate break-in). Ironically, a Federal judge
of "Chuck" Colson in the White House were the appointed by Nixon, Charles R. Richey, ruled that
real culprits who put the finger on the Watergate the Justice Department attorney, Goldbloom,
operation according to persons now under inten- could not represent Colson since the latter was
sive 'investigation in connection with the caper. obviously implicated in the Watergate caper.
. Frank. Fiorini, alias Frank Sturgis, who was one While he was forced by law to make this ad-
of the five arrested at the Watergate, was for 20 verse ruling against the Nixon Administration,
years a confidential informant of columnist jack Judge Richey did so with misgivings, and is doing
4 Anderson. He kept Anderson advised on the ac- the best he can to protect Richard Nixon. He has
tivities of the. several rival Cuban exile groups. taken the unusual step of sealing the transcriptions
Thus far Anderson has been strangely quiet about of the depositions in the civil action instituted by
the Watergate incident. Larry O'Brien, former Democratic National Com-
As of now it appears that the Nixon Administra_ mittee Chairman, until after the election in No-
, / tion is going to make E. Howard Hunt, Jr., and vember. He is also stalling the current grand jury
G. Gordon Liddy scapegoats in the case. Liddy, proceedings relative to the Watergate incident.
a former FBI. agent, who was working as financial A former high CIA official, Torn Braden, who
counsel for the Finance Committee to Re-elect now writes a syndicated newspaper column, says:
the President, was fired by former Attorney Gen- "Mr. Colson is Mr. Nixon's man of the sword;
that is to say he has replaced Murray Chotiner as
Mr. Nixon's principal exponent of dirty tricks. It
is worth noting that at the very moment when
Colson was being mentioned in the press in con-
nection with the wiretapping incident at the
Democratic National Committee, he was also
being mentioned in the press as one of those who
traveled back. to Washington with the President
? on the trip home from San Clemente.
"Whether the President chose to have Colson
? STATINTL with him because he likes his company or whether
he decided that it might cast more suspicion upon
Colson if Colson were suddenly dropped from
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Bugs and charges
We can't recall a presidential cam-
paign where there was so much fighting
between the political parties' staffs,
rather than between the candidates.
And the exchanges between the party
functionaries are getting more and
more sordid and silly.
It started with the Watergate caper.
It seems fairly clear now that soine Re-
publican zealot or zealots commis-
sioned the bugging of. the Democratic
- headquarters in Washington. It's hard
to believe the Democrats had secrets
worth such measures, but it's in the na-
ture of zealous activists, especially if
__CIA:trained, to enjoy their James Bond ;
worfil-66thuch to question it.
The Democrats have filed a civil suit
against the Republicans, asking up-
wards of a million dollars in damages,'
and incidentally tying in one of the big- .
ger figures in the Nixon campaign, for-
mer Commerce Secretary Maurice
Stans, to the bugging incident, and also
? to charges of misconduct with cam-
paign funds. The Grand Old Party has
struck back with a countersuit. Mean-
time, the Democrats report finding still
more bugs in their office phones, and
have turned them o'er to the FBI.
Perhaps the climax of silliness was
reached Wednesday when Republican
National Chairman .Robert Dole ac- '
cused the General Accounting drivide,
which is a congressional agency, of
showing partiality to the Democrats
who dominate Congress. And how did it
do that? Why, by "leaking" its findings
on his, Dole's, charges of fund viola- '
tions by the McGovern People. And
what were those findings? Why, that
the 14 allegations trumpeted forth by
Senator Dole included only minor viola-
tions of the campaign fund law.
George McGovern is. right. We
should get back to discussing issues.
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four former CIA.agents and a counterrevolutionary Cuban---who were
arrested at gunpoint in the headquarters of the Democratic party in the
early hours of June 17 with bugging equipment in their possession, were
part of a "political intelligence" team formed in the basement of the
White House in the summer of 1971.
The report by Newsweek Washington correspondents Nicholas
llorrock and Evert Clark discloses that the secret group was formed at
the. request of a top Nixon assistant, John D. 1-.!;hrlichman. According to
.Newsweek, its purpose was to spy on-White House personnel for signs of
disloyalty, plug leaks to the press and similar "dirty work." For pur-
poses of the election campaign, the group applied its CIA know-how to
spying on the Democrats.
The New York Times Tuesday published an interview with Bernard
I,. Barker, one of the five men arrested at the Watergate hotel, in which
he admitted his participation but refused to name others or to disclose
the reasons for the break-in. Barker said he and his associates consider
, that the election of George McGovern would r'nlect the beginning of a
; trend that would lead "to socialism or communism, or whatever you.
want to call it."
Barker is a registered Republican in Florida. One of the main
reasons given for his action is his agreement with Nixon's ultra-rightist
policies, including continuation and escalation of the war in Indochina
and opposition to socialism in Cuba. Although the interview does not
? make clear what role Barker played in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba,
lie is known to have been a CIA agent in that plot.
Barker told the Times that he joined the Cuban National Police
before the revolution "with the full consent and cooperation of the FBI."
It was through Barker's bank account and through his hands that
$10,000 in funds contributed t.o the Committee to Re-elect the President
passed after at least. $89,000 had been "laundered" to hide its source
by being passed througha Mexican go-between.
In other developments, lawyers for the DeMocrats charged that
Maurice Stalls, who resigned his post as Secretary of Commerce to
.work on the campaign to reelect Nixon, paid a "political espionage
squad" to spy oh leading Democrats and increased the sum demanded
as damages from $1 million to $3.2 million. They also charged that other
bugging attempts were made, including telephone tapping, with tran?
scripts of converation,s passed to the Republicans.
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and Bob Woodward
WashincJon Poi.t, Staff Writers
It was exactly il weeks
ago today that the story
burst across the. front pages
for the first time: five men
arrested in the early morn-
ing hours inside the offices
of the Democratic National
? Committee at the 'Watergate
Wearing rubber surgical
gloves. Carrying burglary
' News Analysis
?
gem', electronic eavesdrop-
ping equipment, cameras for
photographing documents,
. walkie-talkies, and consecu-
tively numbered 000 bills,
:Included among the live, was
the chief security consultant
to the Committee for the
? Re-eleetion of the President.
The investigation of the
break-in. took A curious path,
leading from Washington to
, Miami td Mexico to Minne-
sota and elsewhere', involv-
ing everything from foreign
bank accounts and hidden
j- fund stashes to the Bay of
Pigs invasion and the CIA.
Somewhere along the line,
it became known as the
"Watergate Caper"--a
major issue in the 1972 pres-
idential campaign.
Yet after all the disclo-
sures, publicity and furor of
the past 11 weeks, almost all
? the principal questions
raised by the incident re-
main unanSwered:
0 What were those five
men doing inside the Water-
gate? What was the Purpose
of Allegedly bugging and
collecting information on
the Democrats? And were
they attempting to remove,
not plant, a bug? ?
0 What was the extent of
involvement of officials of.
the Nixon re-election cam-
paign or of the Nixon ad-
ministration?
0 What effect will it all ker. in the
have on the presidential the break-in.
campaign this fall? . Hunt, by most accounts,
was a friend and consultant
to White House. .sPecial
counsel Charles W. Colson
and ? was brought to the
White House on Colson's
recommendation, Shortly
after Hunt's name was
linked to the case, he disap-
peared, and according to au-
thorities, 150 FBI agents
began a nationwide search
for him. It ended when his
Washington attorney told
authorities- that Hunt would
agree to return :and answer
questions.
Adding to the intrigue
was a tidbit of the kind that
began to' come ott,(; every few
days in the ensuing weeks:
hunt, according to others in
the White Ilouse, had spent
months _quietly doing re-
search' on Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy (D-Maas.) and his
1960 Chappaquiddiek auto-
mobile! accident:
Yet another link to the
campaign was pro-
vided by late July, when it
was revealed that G. Gordon.
months before
L Purgose and Seqpc
Ever since the break-in, a
I) umber of theories have
been advanced regarding its
purpose.
First, there was what
might be called the "Cuban
refugee" theory, which as-
sumed that the men ar-
rested inside the Watergate
were members of a fringe
Cuban group -perhaps wor-
ried that the Democrats
inight be seeking friendlier
relations with Cuban Pre-
mier Fidel Castro. Among
those advancing this idea in
the days after the break-in
was at least one staff mem-
ber at the White House.
The Cuban theory. is
based primarily on the fact
that four of the five men ar-
rested June l.7-.?Bernard
Barker, Frank Sturgis, En-
-genie) Martinez and Virgin()
Gonzales?lived in 31-liami
and were either Cubans or
had extensive contacts with
Cuban ekiles there.
Arguing Against the
Cuban theory has been the
accumulation of evidence
that members of President
Nixon's own campaign staff,
the Committee for the Re-
election of the President
(CRP), were -involved in the
break-in.
The man providing the in-
itial chic to Republican in-
volvement was the fifth per,
son arrested in the break-in,
James W. McCord Jr., a re-
tired CIA employee who
was the chief of security for
the Nixon campaign. ?
On the day after the ar-
rests, John N, Mitchell, then
the Nixon campaign chair-
man, sought to disassociate
the campaign staff from Mc-
Cord, saying, "He (McCord)
has, as we understand it, a
number of business. clients.
and interests, and we have -
no knowledge of these rela-
tionships."
The next clue was the dis-
covery, two days after the
break-in, that another for-
men CIA ernployee, E. How-
ard Hunt Jr:, who had been
a $100-a-day White House
consultant, was listed in ad-
dress books taken from two
of the five arrested men.
.Next to Hunt's name in the
address books were the no-
tations "W.House" and
"W.H." It was later deter-
How thoroughly an.d nun' ed.' that Hnut haL had Another link between the
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'lions being conducted?
Liddy was firan by mac:Ian
June 28 for refusing to an-
swer IFBI questions about
the Watergate incident.
(Mitchell himself resigned
two clays ? later, ?? asserting
that he wanted to. accede to
Ins- wife's wishes and return
to private life.) ?
Liddy, a one-time White.
House aide, was the chief
adviser to the Nixon cam-
paign staff on the new con-
gressional statute requiring
stricter reporting of cam-
paign contributions. In the
eyes of some people on the
campaign staff Thud others
close to the investigation of
the Watergate ? incident,
Liddy was probably the; sec-
ond-ranking policy-maker in
the Nixon fund-raising ef-
fort, next to. finance .chair-
man Maurice Stmts.
Telephone records of the
Miami home and office of
Barker (one of the five ar-
ested men) revealed that
Barker had placed at least
15 long-distance calls to the
Nixon campaign offices be-
tween 'March 15 and June
16, most of them to Liddy's
extension there. The records
also showed that Barker had
made 29 long-distance calls
to Hunt's home and offices
from Nov. 3.9 to June 16.
7X011 re-election smnit was
provided Aug. 1 when it was
reported that a $25,000
check representing funds
raised for the Nixon cam-
paign was deposited in April
in )3arker's bank account.
It was this revelation, six?
weeks after the incident it-
self, that seemed to give the
Watergate caper ? a new,
more important twist. The
Democrats, trying to recu-
perate from the Eagleton af-
fair, began to seize on it
daily.
The check represented a .
contribution from Dwayne .
Andreas, a Minnesota inves-
tor, who reportedly gave the
$25,000 in cash to I?fenneth
IT. Dahlberg, the President's
chief fund-raiser in the Mid-
west. Dahlberg said that he
used the cash to obtain a
cashier'S check made out to
himself from a Florida bank,
and that he personally
handed that check to Maur-
dee Stalls, the finance chair-
man for the Nixon cam-
paign.
Stans later said that he ?
held the ? check for a few
minutes and then turned it
over to Nixon campaign
treasurer Hugh W. Sloan
who in turn gave it to
Liddy. No one has explained
the exact details of how the
money ended up in Barker's
bank account, or how much
of it Barker actually kept. .
Sloan resigned from the
Nixon campaign staff over
the summer, ?
It later developed that an-
other $89,000, also deposited
in .Barker's bank account,
represented contributions to
the Nixon campaign that
were raised in. the South-
west and ? were moved
through a Mexico City bank
to insure that the donors -
would remain anonymous.
According to investigators,
this money, like the other
$25,000, passed through the
Washington office of the
Nixon re-election committee.
All of these links smuggest
strongly that the alleged
bugging may have been con-
cocted not by some Cuban ?
exile group,. but by at least
some individuals connected
with the Nixon campaign
staff and the White House
(such as Liddy, Hunt and .
McCord). A fewdays ago, in .
fact, a source close to the in-
vestigation reported that
Liddy and Hunt were ac-
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 ? Dwayne Andreas, .the Midwest "Soy Bean King," with
wa linked to the June 17 aborted burglary of Democratic headquarters, is a ldng-time
financial angel of Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) and a backer of anti-communist
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Operations.
These facts, either buried .or
completely ignored in press ac-
cOunts? of the break-in, are devel-
oped in an exclusive -story in the
. Sept. 2 issue of the ' People's
World, workingelass weekly pub-
lished here.
?. A.ndrcas tried to keep secret a
$25,04 contribution to the Nixon
? re-election fund but the story
leaked out after money.in the pos-
session of one of the arrested
burglars, Bernard L. Barker; a
Miami real, estate dealer,' was
traced to (lie Andreas gift.
Hitherto, Andreas had been a
Humphrey sugar daddy, aiditig?
The Minnesota senator and many
of his political associates through
? the Andreas Foundation.
-Thei how come the shift by
Ahdreas to the Nixon crOwd?
What follows is from the People's
World account:
. Got bank charter ? fast
The hint carried by the Assoc-
iated Press- Aug. 27 concerned a
much coveted federal, bank char-
ter speedily given to Andreas
two weeks ago for his Hidgcdale
National Bank in the Minnetonka
shopping center near Minneap-
olis.
However, not mentioned in any.
of the wire service reports at the
time of this writing are the
following interesting .dealings
between Andreas and the Nikon
Administration:
?
0 Last year when a. banking
operation Andreas heads sought
to. forin a new giant financial
conglomerate in Minnesota it was
found they could not do so without
violating amendments passed in
? 1970 to the Bank holding Act. The
companies involved. sought and.
got. federal approval for an
intricate juggling and hand
changing of millions of dollars in
order to comply with the law.
A company Andreas heads
has a suit pending against it, filed
by the Justice .Dept. charging
violations of the Sherman: Anti-
Trust Act.
0 The man who received
Anreas' $25,000 contribution and
passed it on to the Republicans is
, a director of the Andreas bank
which is involved in both of the
''above dealings.
Pending anti-trust suit'
Andreas is the president. of the
? Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the
largest domestic soybean proces-
sor. In September, 1971, the
Justice Dept.. filed a civil anti-
trust suit against the company
charging its 1970 acquisition of
'two soybean companies, one in
Nebraska and one in Kansas,
.violates the Sherman Anti-
Trust Act. The suit is still pending
Taking over the two companies
meant that. Archer-Daniels-
Midland could control two-thirds
of the Kansas soybean crop and
over 90 percent of the beans
_grovin and pro?cessed in .Nebraska.
On Oct. 1, 1971, plans .were
'announced for formation of the
'Independent Bancorporation, a
holding company. It was env's-
ioned ? as joining as many as 10
Minnesota banks and 35 other
poration when it wa' s formed was
the First Interoceanic? Corp., of
which Andreas is chairman..
'First Interoceanic, in turn,
controls 84 percent of the National
City .Bank of Minneapolis 'where
Andreas and his brother, .Lowell
Willard Andreas, ? are. directors. ?
First Interoceanic is a wholly
owned subsidiary of, Archer-
Daniels-Midland,
Subtle shuffle ?
Money dealings at that level of
the capitalist pyramid are pretty
complicated, but . simply stated
the arrangement Was in violation
of the law. So, with government
approval, the Andreas-Archer-
Daniels-Midland Co. had to divest
itself of its banking' interests.
This was done by distributing the
Independent Bancorporation shar-
es to' individual Archer-Daniels-
Midland shareholders'.
On June 14, 1972 the Internal
Revenue Service ruled. .the above
maneuvers were all right and the
Company had complied with the
Kenneth H., Dahlberg, chairman
of the Minnesota Committee to
Re-elect President Nixon,' told the
General Accounting Office that
Andreas had called him June?5 and
offered the contribution.' That.
would plaice it two days before
new laws went into effect which
would have 'made it impossible
for Andreas to contribute anony-
mously. Dahlberg said he picked
up the money on June 9, as ar-
ranged, from a third party in a
Miami hotel: ?
The' news reports so far have
not mentioned the fact that
Dahlberg is a director of Andreas'
National City Bank.
Andreas is known to have 'only
? recently become the president of
the Sea View Hotel Corp. in the
Miami Reach-Bal Harbour area.
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? WASHINGTON ? President Nixon and the White House staff are
"bewildered" and "bemused," according to Robert H. Finch, counsel-,
or to Nixon, by what some people call the "Watergate caper" but
which has turned out to be more of a conspiracy. The comment was
typical of the many attempts by the White House to downgrade an amaz-
ing scandal which leads right to the Committee to Re-elect the Presi-
dent and the White house itself.
Since one aspect of the scandal is an alleged misuse of $350,000 of
re-election funds, the Republicans have tried to take the heat off them
by 'claiming that the Democrats have also violated ths new election
law. But much more than this aspect is involved; the issues go deep into .
the rightwing and ultraright character of the Administration, its per-
sonnel and policies.
The latest disclosures reveal that the june 17 break-in .at national
Democratic party headquarters by persons connected with the White
House and the Committee to Re-elect the President was not the first
attempt. The Miami Herald reported Friday that, seven days before
the Watergate break-in, a commercial photographer processed spy
films takettinside the Democratic party headquarters. The film.was of
prjvato correspondence of Lawrence O'Brien, then Democratic party
national' chairnian, and was ordered processed by Bernard L. Barker,
a former CIA agent who was arrested with four other men on June 17 at
the headquarters. Barker is the man who deposited $114,000 into his
account from funds diverted from the campaign funds collected by the
Committee to Re-elect the President.
The Washington Post reported Priday additional information ?
that' G.. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr. were also inside the
Watergate Hotel on June 17 and narrowly escaped arrest when police
arrived. Liddy and Hunt were warned by lookouts in the Howard John-
son Motel across the street, where a listening post was maintained by
the conspirators. Liddy and Hunt both worked for the White House
.and Liddy, a former FBI agent, was employed at the time, of the ar-
rests by Nixon's re-election, committee.
John N. Mitchell, former U.S. Attorney General and Nixon's
? campaign manager, made a deposition Friday in the case, saying that
he had "no advance knowledge" of the break-in; bugging and "no
knowledge" about how the $114,000 wound up in Barker's hank account.
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Times SIMI Writers .
'WASHING-TON?G. 'Gordon Lid- ?1 Liddy,'.'whO-lhaS :refused
dy, a suspect in the . Democratic 'all coMment in the past on
headquarters bugging case, pro- , ?
the breakdn could not be?
posed during the 1971 Pentagon 17a-.
d We dnesday nic,ht.-
pers incident that the justice Be- . reache - - , ? - - - ? L' ? -
partment bug the offices of the New ,,Ip another. development-,
York Times, an 'informed source said ,..c.t.ing" FBI director L. Pa-
Wednesday. trick: Gary -.lit rejected
? ., Liddy made the proposal last sum- ?stiggeStienSil$'''Democrats
"mer when he was serving as the that- &??--wilite House
White House coordinator for an in-
teragency group set up by the' Ad- would try to influence the
? ministration to investigate leaks of justice Department's in-
government information. vestigation of the Demo-
- Liddy was said to have approached cratic headquarters ?bug-.
'Justice Department attorneys with
the proposal, calling it "a great idea" - gi?ng case.
. to discover who gave the secret doe-
H would be impossible,
? uments to the newspaper.. he. said in an interview, for
' 'When the attorneys ascertained - the White. House to con-
thit Liddy was serious, the in-' t-r o I ? t h e investigation,
formed source ? said, ' they stopped ' even/if it-wanted to;
dealing with him. They did not men- ,
tion his suggestion to Robert C. Mar- .- Too Many In volved ,
? dian, then head of the justice_ De- Gray said too many Jus,
partment's internal secttrity division flee Department attorneys -
, and now an official of the Commit- and FBI agents were in-
tee to Reelect President Nixon.?
i
'But when ,the bug volvedn the investigation
ging of the for any attempt ? at in-
Democratic headquarters took place, fluence to escape public
' one of the Justice Department attor- attention. , ?
neys learned, that' Liddy was ? work- . If this were being done,
lug at the Nixon comniittee and told y -
oIt. would have to control' .Mardian of the Pentagon Paper in-.
. cident. Mardian informed others at too many people," Gray. said. Be added that he had
the commit:tee, and the FBI was ad-
vised. ? received no instructions
? ' .
Mardian declined to comment on froM anyone" on the polit-
ically sensitive case. '
the incident Wednesday. TWeenn.
mittee Jired Liddy as its financial Lawrence F. O'Brien,
campaign manager f o r
ccrunsel jUne 28 after. he refused to
S - ?
?. answer FBI 'queStions. He later re-
en. George S. McGovern,
have '
. fused to answer question before the and other Democrats.
federal grand jury investigating the Called for appoint:Mat Of
.
case . an outside prosecutor,. to..
insure, they .,Said, that the-
?. . .
The General Accounting Office
?,
said in a report Saturday that Liddy White House exerted no.
,-
. had a ,hand in f loan c i al trans:, influence. ? on the probe;
President, Nixon. Tuesday
? actions ,in which checks totaling.
rejetted, .this - suggestion,
rc$11.4,00.0 in GOP catnpaii.D pledging there wOuld be .
?dse-wound up' .in the
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,bank account ? of? -Bernand
X.,..13a*er. ?
. ?
:?;Barkei',..a.e.Miami re-al es-
tatete broker, was arrested
im the ',Tithe 17 'break-in at .
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assassination.. of 'President: 1
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no cove rup:
? ? Tells of Leads ?
,Gray, supporting --Atty. !
Gen. Richard- ?G, Klein, 1
dienst's statement Monday !
that the probe of the Dem-
ocratic bugging attempt
John F. Kennedy, said the 1
FBI had -?, received ? "in- .1
nurnerahle 'leads that af-
feet- (FBI) field 'offices:a
throughout the nation."
Cities where agents are ,
pqrauing leads, Gray said,
Include Los Angeles, Min-
r p o 1 i's, Chicago, St.
Louis and Mexico City, as
well as Washington and ?1
Gray said he had ordered ?
special agents in charge of
FI31 field offices in these -
cities, and others to as-
sume personal responsibil-
itY for inquiries in the
bugging case.
?"The office of the Pres-
idency is at stake," Gray
said. "The FBI's .credibili-
ty is at stake."
:Asked ? if he had taken
action to assure agents
that- there was no political
pressure, in the case. Gray
questioned. wbether he
eptild go beyond the steps
h6: had already taken.
"1 Unusual Meeting.
:These included classi-
? fying the investigation as
'major" and an unusual
Meeting in Grays office of
? Washington field agents
on June 21, a week after
the bugging attempt. ?
'At the Saturday ' meet-
log, Gray cautioned agents
about leaks in the investi-
gation that he said could.
only have come from the
? FBI, and stressed that the
case was to receive No. 1.
priority. ?
? ;ln 'another development
Wednesday, records of the
Committee to Reelect ?
President Nixon showed
that FBI agents had pro-..
vided security for ? Martha
Mitchell for up to two
Weeks, after her husband,.
Amer Atty. Gen. John N.
? Mitchell, left- government
? Service. The records dis-
? closed that the committee
? reiinbursed two agents for
$243 in personal' expenses,
behalf of the til April 9: ln?Ahe interim,
incurred on
Called ,IMproner
!;Gray, informed of this
situation ..by -The Times,
said: "Of ,.course it was im- ?
proper. -We're not in a
good position,"
He said he assumed the
Service was arranged for
?the Mitchells by his prede-
cessor, the late' J. Edgar
Hoover, until the, commit:,
? tee -could,-arrange- for pri-
vate security.
The FBI 'began provid-
aing ti3e MitcheilS with
:protection in 1969 after.
threats had been made
'against them. Such protec- ,
, lion for high government .
officials.isenot unusual.
'The FBI men reim-
bursed by the Nixon come? mittee were two Washing- -
ton-based agents?Francis
M. Jr., -now ,with -
the Burcau.'s ;inspect-ion -
staff. a-and ? ',Fred_? Wood-,
worth.- -Neither agent '
.Would :comniente' -
But Gray incl DeVan L.
Shumway, spokesman for
the Nixon Committee, con-
firmed the details. Mullen-
: was .paid .$107.71. ?on JClv
19 for Meals and other ex-
.-Tenses? -he incurred,' for
Mrs. Mitchell on a trip to
Ntilw.aukee from March 13
to 17.
Woodworth drew
$135.35 on July 26 for ex-
penses he incurred on be-
half of both Mitchells on a
Feb. 24-23 trip to New
York, a Feb. 29-March 6 -
trip to Key Biscayne and
another ?New York trip
March 10-12.,
Gray said that before
Mitchell left the Justice
Department his practice
had been to personally
reimburse the agents for
expenses they incurred
on his and his wife's be-
half.
Mitchell resigned as at-
torney general effective
.March '1, but did not join
the Nixon committee un-
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In his acceptance speech last week. President Nixon
avowed his belief in the doctrine that "here in America a
person should get what he w.orks for.- ,
That is undoubtedly why the public is having such
difficulty in learning the sources of the special $350.000
bundle contributed to the Republican campaign. commit-
tee.. why it was not'recorded as the law requires. or what
part of the $350,000 was devoted to the, effort to "hug"
the Democratic national headquarters.
This is the second case in which the \Vhite House's
hatchet men on the home front are simultaneously cut- .
throats in its imperialist aggression. ?
The other was the White House complicity with
International Telephone and Telegraph , Company, That
included ITT's bid of $400.000 to the Republican national
convention.: the attempt to overthrow, with CIA help, the /
Allende government of Chile: and the Justice Depart-
ment's approval of ITT's acquisition of the $2-billion. Hart-
ford Fire Insurance Company.
Unable to concoct a credible tale. the White House
has taken refuge in the age-old brigand cry: "Stop Thief ! -
Maurice Stans. former Secretary of Commerce and now
finance chairman of Nixon's campaign committee de-
mands that the General Accounting Off ice_of CQI1greSS quit
"pursuing the dirty $350,000 trail, and pursue. instead, his
?aljegations of corruption among the Democrats.
The possibility of . such a switchover is not to be dis-
missed. for.GAO has turned over the pursuit of the scum-
my trail to the Justice Department ? the outfit whose past.
and. present ?, chiefs. John Mitchell and Richard Klein-
dienst. have been up to their elbows in the Administra-
tion's dirtiest dirty work. ? -
The vision of the Justice Department investigating
the Republican National Committee's source and use of
funds compels one to ask. with the bard. "which is the
justice. which is the thief?"
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t-ame were depoSited
' :campaign. The Democrats have been in Barker's Miami account.
The Watergate Issue moving methodically. As O'Brien puts As it turns out, one of Ogarrio's
it: "This is an unprecedented case of p6- 'principal clients is the Gulf Resources &
It began as an odd, Bondian episode litical espionage. We have been very, Chemical Corp. of Houston, Texas. The
greeted with amused stupefaction in very careful in every step we've made." ? firm's president, Robert H. Allen, also
Washington. Now the Watergate affair Care is the last thing the Republi- happens to be chairman of the Texas
promises to be the scandal of the year. cans exercised. The great embarrass- finance committee to re-elect Nixon
:Justice Department officials found that ment began the night of June 17, when Further, Nixon's re-election campai6.
the ' receiving end ?of bugs planted in police arrested the five inen,as they tried in Texas is supervised by Robert Mar-
the Democratic National Committee's to remove bugging devices from the dian of the C.R,P.
headquarters was located just across the Democratic headquarters. As the cops The Democrats are suspecting the
street in two rooms in the Howard John- moved in, Justice Department officials best. They theorize that the Republicans
son's motel. There members of the se- have learned, the recording equipment might have fantasized a convention pro-
curity intelligence squad of the Corn- in the Howard Johnson's motel was be- posal that a new Democratic adminis-
mittee for the Re-Election of the. ing hurriedly removed. One of the men /tration open dialogues. with Fidel Cas-
President were clearing out their rec- arrested was James W. McCord Jr. tro, thus leaving itself open to attack in
ords and tapes minutes after the cops ar- chief security coordinator for the Com- Miami Beach last month by anti-Castro
rested the Wate.rgate Five, rnittee for the Re-Election of the Pres- Cubans. Although the Democrats
There Were other iridescent traces ident. The eavesdroppers across the grudgingly trusted Kleindienst On secti-
leading to the C.R.P.: a possibility that street had apparently been assigned rity measures, O'Brien and others were.
the Watergate forces. planned to plant their tasks by McCord. only too aware that he was Nixon's man.
incendiary bombs in the hall during the The intelligence squad grew out of Still, the man they really want?because
Democratic Convention, or conspired he is so closely tied with the Ad ministra-.
to have the hall stormed by paid Cuban . tion?is former Attorney General John
exile mereenaries. The Administrtition N. Mitchell. As Nixon's campaign man
maintained 'silence, ?although Attorney.ager, 1Slitchell dismissed Liddy from the
General Richard Kleindienst did yen- .C.R.P. after Liddy had refused to an-
. titre that the bugging was "just about the swer FBI questions about the Watergate
stupidest goddam thing I ever heard of bugging. Mitchell resigned from his post
?The incident has given the Demo- ? two days later, ostensibly at his Wife ?
crats ammunition they could not Martha's insistence. But Democrats
? think that Mitchell was trying to extri-
cate himself from Watergate. before the
situation blew up. By corning down hard
on Mitchell, the Democrats hope they ?
can make Watergate a devastating
?and durable?campaign issue..
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL MITCHELL
a' team of so-called "plumbers," origi-
nally?recruited by the Administration to STATINTL
investigate leaks to the media. They in-
eluded G. Gordon Liddy, a former
White House.staffer and then attorney
for the, C.R.P.'s finance committee;
? Robert ardian, a former assistant U.S.
Attorney-General and an official for the,
C.R.P., andT.(Howard Hunt, a former ,1
White Rouse consultant. The lead man
have imagined for themselves. Larry in the Watergate caper 'was Bernard
O'Brien, the Democratic National Barker, an ex-CIA agent. Feleral inves-
Chairman afthe time five men were ar- tigators learned that $114,000 from the
rested for possession of bugging devices C.R.P. had found its Way into Barker's
at his Watergate headquarters, last Miami bank account.
? week .refiled his $1,000,000 suit far vi- Early on the Justice Department
()Won of ciVil, rights in Washington's discovered that $25,000 Of that money
federal district court. His attorney, Ed- had been collected by Kenneth H. Dahl-
ward Bennett,Williams, a crack crimi- berg, the. Republican finance chairman
nal lawyer who is working on the -case in the Midwest, who told the FBI that he
without pay, has asked for subpoenas had rounded up the cash from G.O.P.
requiring the principals named in the - contributors early in April. -The other
case to submit to questioning under oath $89,000 apparently came through a
this week. The aim is to preoccupy the Mexico City attorney, Manuel Ogarrio
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The mysterious $25,000 that
apparently helped finance the
bugging incident at the Demo-
cratic National. Headquarters
has.now been traced to Hubert
Humphreys biggest.. financial
backer,* ? soybean oil; tycoon
Dwayne Andreas.
Andreas delivered the cash,
according to secret sworn'tea-
timony,_ to President Nixon's
chief fund raiser in the Mid-
west, Kenneth Dahlberg. Both
men are Minneapolis ?million-
aires. . ? ? ?
FULI, Traced tt 111111 itadll?
The next day Andreas with- walkie-talkie Anned to a spe-
drew $25,000 in cash from the cial GOP security frequency.
safety deposit box and gave it 'Dahlberg's sworn testimony,
to Dahlberg, according to the identifying ? Andreas as the
sworn testimony. Dahlberg, source of ' the $25,000, differs
converted the money on April from his statement to federal
10 into a cashier's cheek auditors Who are investigating
drawn on .the -First Bank and whether the new campaign Li-
Trust Company of Boca Raton, wince law has been-violated.
Fla. ? . He told them, according to
He handed the check to an ' investigator, that he had
Maurice Stalls, top fund raiser collected the $25,000 from van
for the Nixon campaign, on ions sources before the cam-
April 11 at a Republican meet- paign reporting law went into
lug at the Washington Hilton effect. But under oath, in
.
Hotel. Afiami, he admitted the money.
The $25,000 check later had been turned over to him
turned up in the bank account by Andreas two days after the
of. Bernard Barker, a former) deadline.
CIA undercover man, who rcti In his opinion, he testified,
cruited a Mission Impossible Andreas had no knowledge of
team allegedly ? to bug the how his money was used. INC
Democratic premises. Some of tried repeatedly to reach both
them had been involved in the Andreas and Dahlberg but nei-
Bay of Pigs fiasco with Bar- they returned our calls. /
key, who is known to the CIA Stalls; whose sworn testi-
by. the code name "Macho". many Iva& also taken in
In the early morning hours Miami, claimed he passed the
of June?17, five inen, including $25,000 cashier's check along
Barker, were arrested at gun: to Hugh W. Sloan Jr., former
point inside the Democratic campaign treasurer. Stans said
office complex at the Water- he had no idea what Sloan did
gate, Towers. They.were wear- with the check or hew it
ing rubber surgical gloves and ended. up in Barker's bank ac-
carrying electronic eavesdrop- count. .
ping devices. ? Footnote: With only chief
They were also caught with Investigator, Martin Dardis as-
view Hotel. The hotel's safety $5,300 in crisp new $100 bills, a signed to the case, Gerstein is
deposit box,.. however, .,- was couple of address books listing ahead of the FBI in tracking
closed for thd night. a White 'House contact and a down some of the bizarre de-
, - ---- -
? - The testimony ' 'was taken
from Dahlberg in Miami by
State's Attorney Richard Ger-
stein, Who is investigating al-
leged violations- of Florida
laws in the .bizarre ease,
Under oath, -Dahlberg .?also
admitted that he didn't pick
up the. cash from Andreas
imtil April 9, two days after
the new campaign ? reporting
!law went into effect. The law ?
requires ? a public accounting
of political contributions, but
the $25,000 . was never re-
ported.- , ?
. Dahlberg .,testified that he
flew* into ? Miami on, April 8
and met Andreas in. his .pent-
house at the fashionable ?Sea-
?
tails of the Watergate caper.
Not only FBI agents, but con-
gressional investigators have
come to Gerstein for informa-
lion.
'Facing An Emergency'
Money is pouring in for
President Nixon's re-election .
campaign, but Republican con-
gressional_ fund-raisers are
finding the going rough.
The result is that the Repub.-
lican Congressional Commit-
tee is making its appeals .for .
moneY. sound as desperate as ,
possible.
Its latest appeal says GOP ,
congreSsmen are "facing an
emergency. We are out of
funds for incumbent Republi-
can congressmen. They are
begging for funds . . . The
Radicals-Liberals are joining
forces to -defeat them."
To make sure that prospec-
tive donors don't throw away
the appeal without opening it,
the GOP. has put it in a highly
official-looking brown manila
envelope.
Instead of the Republican
Congressional Committee, the
envelope is marked With the
return address of the ."U.S.
House ? of Representatives."
Thus it appears to be an offi- ?
cial communication from the
entire. House rather than just
one party's .plea for cash.
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Nixoni Committee Source Says Devices
Were Acquired for 'Defensive' Purposes.
tY RONALD J.? OSTROW AND ROBERT L. JACKSON
Times?Staff Writers ?
House consultant E. HOw-
ard Bunt Jr., who dropped
from public view immedi-
ately after the case broke.
It could not be learned
w h e. ther 'these walkie-
talkies were among items
listed in sales records sub-
poenaed by the grand
jury. .
Most of the electronic
WASHINGTON ? The
?
Comthittee for the .Reelec-
tion of the President
? bought thousands 'of .dol-
Jars worth of electronic se-
curity equipthent' in the
in Onths? preceding t h e
aune bugging Of Demo-
. cratie NationalHeadquar-
ters, it Was learned Mon-
day. ?? equipment .- suppliers who
Sales records sub- dealt with the Nixon corn-
poenaed by . the federal miteee refused to discuss
grand jury investigating the nature of the commit-
The incident; show the tee's purchases.
items included ,w alki c- Robert E:. Slye, pros-
talkies and noise detection ident of Concord ?COmmu-
devices. . nications Systems of sub-
A committee source said urban Arlington, Va., said
:the devices, ? which Were of, the committee's April
purchased from at least order of $1,113 worth of
I rye- Washington area sup- equipment: ?
-pliers April and May, "We don't diSclose that
were "defensive." They kind of information about
were designed to protect our customers."
Republican offices against
Slye said his firth sells
bugging and' illegal entry,
"'television and audio ? rec-
not to engage in such acti-
ording equipment as well
vities, he said, as "entire ? security . sys-
"None of the purchases
tens." He would not say
to my knowledge was for
whether FBI agents had
offensive equipment," said
contacted him about the
the .official, who declined
to be identified. investigation. .
, :Amongb suspects arrested ' Detects Noises
in the June 17 break-in of . Some of the equipment
the Democratic 'National - purchased by ._the' Nixon
Cominittee off ices .was committee is :ted to de
James NV. McCord Jr.,
tect noises after. a room
then the ? Nixon commit- has been locked for ?the
tee's security director.. ? night, but not to pick up
conversation, one commit-
tee source said.
? ? In another development,
? Robert C. Mardian, a for
mer Justice ? Department
- official now with the Nix-
on- committee, denOunced
- as a "baldlaced lie" a re-
port, in Time magazine'
linking him to, the bugging
incident.
. Fired June.28
Another committee offi-
cial, G. Gordon Liddy, was
fired June 28 as financial
counsel for refusing to
talk to FBI 'agents about
the case.
Along with bugging de:
Vices, police 'seiced five
walkieltalkies from those
arrested in the Democratic
Mardian Said in an iSTATINTL
n-
terview he had.no contact
with any principal in the
case 'prior .to the break-in,
with the possible excep-
tion of a ? discussion with
McCord ?about hiring . a
driver for the 'GOP 'com-
mittee. .
After the incident,.-Mar-
dian said, he dikussed the
bugging affair with Liddy..
But this ?.conversation, he
said, was covered by the
la w yer -? client privilege
which ? prevents him from
talking about It.
The ma g a zine said
. members ? of the Nixon'
?
committee's Intelligene
squad" had set up a listen-
ing post in a Howard
Johnson motel acrosS the
street .from the Watergate
apartment complex where
the democratic comniittee
office are located.
?- Declines. Photo
Paul Chapman, the mo-
t e s manager, declined
Monday to examine a photo
of Mardian offered by re-
porters. Chapman also re-
fused to say whether com-
mittee officials ?had rented
a .room the day of the
break-in, but did confirm
that he was questioned by
FBI agents,
Meanwhile, U.S. Dist.
Judge 'Charles R. Richey,
who is hearing a $1 million
civil damage suit filed by
Democratic officials
against the Nixon commit-
tee, ordered sealed from
public examination all de-
positions to be taken in
the case.
Richey noted earlier that
a federal grand jury is
pursuing a parallel crimin-
al investigation.
Edward Bennett ? Wil-
liams, attorney for the
.Democrat, said be would
begin taking depositions
Wednesday. .Among those
to be questioned are for-
mer Atty. Gen. John N.
Mitchell, -who resigned as
head of the Nixon commit-
tee in late June; presiden-
tial aide Charles W. Col-
son, and fo r in c r Corn-
mere Secretary Maurice.
IL Stalls, the eommittee's
iipance director..
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0 findings became known yester- Committee, meanwhile, con-
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; these additional developments rnittee were "deeply troubled"
? X' '40 rt related to the Watergate case: by the GAO information.,
O An examination of court The committee official said
Ni ?
. , papers reveals that a federal- .. that the Nixon committee will
Fund Cited
By Bob Woodward ?
? and Carl Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
The General Accounting Of-
fice has discovered violations
in ? the handling of nearly
i$500,000 of campaign contribu-
tions and expenditures by
?President Nixon's re-election
-committees, wording to sev-
eral reliable sources. . ? ?
Among the irregularities.
'found by GAO investigators is
avhat they describe as
$100,000 "campaign security
_fund," from which $25,000 was
deposited in. the bank account
.of one of the 'suspects in the
;Watergate break-in, according
to the sources.
Violations cited by ? the
Isources include failure to re-
'port receipts and expenditure
of funds received by. the Com-
mittee for the. Re-election of
the President after April 7?
the effective date of the new
campaign finance disclosure
law, under which the GAO is
currently conducting an -audit.
The $500,000 in question, ac-
cording to the sources, repre-
sents the following: about
$200,000 in unreported contri-
butions; another $200,000 in,
unreported expenditures
?(some of which probably over-
laps the unreported contribu-
tions); :the $100,000 campaign
security fund; some . errors,
apparently technical in report-
ing a $50,000 itemization; and
,an undisclosed amount?prob-
ably small?of loose cash at
the Nixon committee.
Tcip Nixon committee of-
ficials would not comment on
the report of the. alleged vie-
Jations in handling, the $500,-
900, DeVan L. Shumway, chief
? 'spokesman for the Nixon com-
mittee, said in Miami yester-
day.
? But Republican sources .said..
presecutor 'has told the attor-
ney for G. Gordon Liddy (a
former. White House, aide and
former attorney for the Nixon
re-election committee) that he
feels a grand jury has enough
evidence to return a felony in-
dictment against Liddy.
? A spokesman for the Ches-
apeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Co. said yesterday that
the company will comply with
a subpoena. and provide the
Democrats with a record of
toll phone calls Made from
John Mitchell's Watergate
apartment between April 1,
July 1 this year. The request
Is part of the Democrats' $1
million civil suit filed follow-
ing the 'June 17 Watergate
incident.
The attorney for the Derno-
crats, Edward Bennett Wil-
liams, had asked for Mitchell's
telephone records last Friday,
along with the phone records
for the home of White House
aide Charles W. Colso and
argue- that the questioned
funds were, collected before
April 7 and therefore do not
fall under- the jurisdiction of
the GAO audit,
The sources and .the Nixon
campaign officials ? were in
dispute about 'whether. inost1
violations were technical in!
nature or more serious ones'
that could be referred to thel
Justice Department for crimi-
nal action. ? -!
Philip S.. Hughes, director of
the new office of federal dee-.
tions in the GAO,'said yester-
day that he could not confirm
or deny the report of- the al-
leged violations by the Nixon
re-election committee.. ?
. He ordered a run audit of
the President's campaign fia
inances on Aug. 1 following
1The Washington Post's dis-
closure that a $25,000 cam-.
paign. .check ended up in the
bank account of one of the
Watergate suspects.
, Yesterday, Hughes said that
e governmen s pro em
compounded by the difficulty
of enforcing a new election law
that ,Itas not yet been inter-
preted by the courts:
, Meanwhile, Hughes has made
it clear that he intends to fully
audit the finance records of the
Democrats and their presiden-
tial candidate, ?Sen. George Mc-
Govern.
As the Republicans gather
in Miami for their convention,
two camps of opinion se-ein to
be developing about the Wa-
tergate incident and the Nixon
committee's bookkeeping.
One, backed by Clark Mac-
Gregor, director of the Presi-
dent's re-election ? committee,
holds. that major disclosures
about both matters have run
their course and that neither ,
will be a dominant issue in the ;
presidential campaign:
The other camp ? believes .1
that additional , disclosures? '
inchiding links to other Nixon
campaign officials?are forth-
coming and will play a major
part in the campaign.
The disclosures began on
June 17, when five men with
bugging and photographic
equipment were arrested in-
side - Democratic National
Committee headquarters here
of the office of the Committee his office would issue a report at the Watergate.
for the Re-election of the on its audit this week. "We're
? ? One of the 'men, James W.
President. trying to figure out what's to
The C.& P:.spokesman said be said. It's a meas. Same of
the company willprovide the all of 'this is obviously a coin-
Democrats with all the tele- cidence, some of it isn't," said
phone records. "We will com-
ply with the subpoenas," he
said. ?
In disclosing details of the
GAO investigation, sources
said the audit turned up jury that is still investigating
dence of several special ac-1 the Watergate incident for
counts or accumulations of1 possible ariminal indictments.
cash that they described as "But, I hope the report will be
"slush funds." Such items did clear," he said.
not appear to. be included in: Sources close to the GAO
the regular bookkeeping Mania !investigation r e p t e d that
tamed by the President's:- ref- Hughes is uncertain which as-
election committ e e, the peetS of the audit should be
sources said. made public at this time, a p0-
One such fund of about litically sensitive period in the
$100,000 was designated for midst of a presidential cam-
campaign security, the sources palm
said. A $25,000 campaign check At the same time, GAO law-
deposited in the 'Miami bank yers were reportedly going
account of one of the suspects over the list of alleged viola-
in the Watergate break-in was tions yesterday to determine
taken from this fund, the the strength of charges that
sources Said. could be made on each one.
One source said. that the In some cases, the sources
that if there were any viola-
GAO has found a "rat's.nesta' said the alleged violations may
tions, they wouldprove to be behind the surface ?efficiency never become public because
only tech:111617)04w of computerized financial re- the GAO?which is the investi-
nothing Rete4rsebs200149t104,e:felkalKsteVircAtikak0
trative oversights. , the Re-election o ie rest- o
publicizing violations.
Hughes. ? . ?
He said ,the audit_ report
would contain "some gaps" be-
cause he alid not want to inter-
fere. with the federal grand
dent. ? ? ? compliance with the law than
McCord Jr., was identified as
the security chief of the Nixon
re-election committee. In the
next week it was revealed that
at least two of the suspects
had close ties to a White
House consultant and former
Central Intelligence Agency,
employee, E. Howard Hunt Jr.
Hunt was relieved of his du-
ties at the White House,
dropped from sight for several
weeks and surfaced in an ap-
pearance before the grand
jury investigating the case.
In July, it was revealed that
Liddy?a former White House
aide and the finance counsel
for the Nixon campaign?was
fired because he refused to an-
swer FBI questions about the
Watergate incident. ?
In court papers examined
yesterday, Liddy's lawyer said
that Assistant U.S. Attorney
Donald E. Campbell "related
to me that, in his opinion,
there was sufficient evidence
before the grand jury to result
in a felony indictment of my
client."
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Members of "the security in.
telligence squad" of the Com-
mittee for the Re-election of
. the President, according to
Time magazine, were on the
receiving end of electronic de-
vices planted in the Democrat-
ic National Committee offices
. in the Watergate.
But Robert Mardian, a for-
.
. -rner assistant 'U.S. attorney
general named by Timb in its
? - current. issue as a member of
the team that became their,-
? telligeno squad, said last
night that he has never heard
' of such a squad. He also said
he does not know the other
? Persons the magafiine said
were fellow members of the
.team. '
Paul L. Chapman, manager
of the motel, confirmed last
night that the FBI had
checked some of his records
and had questioned him, but
he refused to say what names
were mentioned, what time pe-
riod was discussed or whether
he knew anything about the
affair.
As police were arresting five
men inside the Democratic of-
fices, according to Time, "the
recording equipment in the
Howard Johnson's motel was
being hurriedly removed."
James W: McCord Jr., secu-
rity coordinator for the. Nixon
campaign committee at the
time and one of the five men
arrested, "apparently'? as-
signed jobs to "the eavesdrop-
pers across the street," Time
said.
The magazine linked Mardi- ?
an to the bugging ineident by a
thread of relationships stem-
ming from the fact that, it
said, Mardian and Robert H.
Allen are top officials of the
Nixon campaign in Texas.
Allen, ; it said, is president of
Gulf Resources & Chemical
Corp.. of Houston, Tex.' a firm
it said is a "principal client"
of Mexico City attorney Man-
uel Ogarrio Daguerre.
' ? In Miami Beach, Atty. Gen.
Richard Kleindienst said yes-
terday grand jury action in the.
Watergate incident is immi-
nent, according to the Asso-
ciated Press., ?
"It (the grand jury) could
act within a NiTeek or it may
delay until around Labor
Day," Kleindienst' told a news
conference..
Time said the members of
the ,original security team in-
cludes G. Gordon Liddy, who
was fired as GOP committee
attorney for refusing to coop-
erate with FBI agents in the
investigation of the June
j break-in, and E. Howard Hunt,
?,..) a former White House aide
and CIA agent.
Both Liddy and Hunt are un-
der subpoena by the Demo-
cratic Party in a civil suit
growing out of.the affair.
But the Time 'story was the
first time Mardian, currently
an 'official of the Committee
? for the Re-election of the Pres-
ident, has been mentioned.
Time said members of the
Intelligence squad were tuned
into the bugs in the Democrat-
ic offices in positions in a
Howard Johnson motel just
across Virginia Avenue NW
.from the Watergate.
,Daguerre'S name has come
up in connection with $89,000
deposited in a Miami bank ac-'
count in the name of Bernard.
Barker, an ex-CIA agent who
was among the five arrested
in the Watergate.
Mardian, Hunt and Liddy;
Time said, were mernberS of a
? team originally recruited to in-
vestigate information leaks.
from the government to the
news media.
Mardian said early today in
Miami Beach, where he is at
the Republican convention,
that the FBI had been asked to
investigate leaks from the Na-
tional Security Council to
newsmen. But, he said, that
was the only effort to plug
leaks of? which he was aware.
. In the Dark
He said he does not know
Barker Or HUM, and knew Lid-
dy only slightly 'from his Jus-
tice Department days.
"I. am surprised Time would
print such a thing," he said.
'Whoever wrote it is'. full of
He said the first he knew of -
the Watergate incident was
through the news media and
added: ".Anybody Who knows
me ought to know better than
to write anything like that."
Until the resigned last April
o work for the Committee for
thb Re-election of the Presi-
dent, Mardian waS in charge
of the Justice Department's
internal security division.
Argued for Wiretaps
In that post, he .argued be-
fore the Supreme Court that
the "integrity" Of the Justice
? Department, should be relied
upon and the government
should be allowed to wiretap
without court order when do,
mestic ? security is threatened.
The court disagreed.
?When he came to the Justice
Department fr.= a Health,
Education and Welfare De-
partment post, where he had
been a leading proponent of
antibusing measures, Mardian
was described as "an intimate
policy adviser" to then-Atty.
Gen. John Mitchell.
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To Remove Them
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Members of the Committee
fOr the Reelection of the
President were on the receiv%
big end of bugs planted in
the national headquarters of
the Democratic Party,, ac-
cording to Tim G magazine.
Also,. the five persons ar-
rested during a break-in at
the plush Watergate offices
where. the headquarters were
' located were removing the
-bugs when caught in the act,
Time.. says ? in its issue that
goes.on sale today.
. As they were being arrest-.
ed the night of June 17, the
magazine reports, members
? of the Nixon . committee's
"security-intelligence" squad
were packing up tapes and
note S and leaving the place
where they had set up moni-
toring headquArters ? a
Motel across the street from
the Watergate complex.
- TIME .DID NOT say how.
long, long the bugging de-
vices allegedly were in the
Democratic National Com-
mittee headquarters. Time
said the JuStice Department
was aware of the information
in its article.
. Former Democratic Na-
tional.Chairman Lawrence F.
O'Brien has charged that the
bugs were in the 'offices for
some time before being dis-
covered.
The committee has filed a
? $1-million suit in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Washington,
'charging that ? the party's
civil rights were violated by
the break-in and alleged bug-
ging. ?
- .One of 'those arrested was
James W. McCord Jr., then a / TIME ALSO said .
security coordinator for the was "a possibility that the
reelection committee. ? "The Watergate forces planned to
eavesdroppers .. across tho , plant incendiary bombs in
Democrat-
street had apparently. been. the hall daring the Convetion or conspired to
assigned their tasks by Mc- ? have the hall stormed . by
Cord," Time said, . paid Cuban exile. mercenar-
ies,"
IT SAID the intelligence
squad grew out of a -team "The DemacratS are sus-
Originally recruited by the pecting the best," the maga-
N ixon Administration to zine wrote.
probe leaks to the thedia. "They theorize that. the
Time said the "team Of media Republicans might have fan-
"plumbers" -- but, n6t ncces- tasized a. convention propos-
sarily those in the motel ? al that a new Democratic ad- ,
included C. Gordon Liddy, a ministration open ? dialogues
former White House staffer ?wfth Fidel Castro, thus leav-
who was then attorney for jog itself Open to attack in
the reelection committee's fi- I Miami 13each last month by
nance unit, and E. HowardV anti-Castro Cubans." - ?
Hunt, a former White house
consultant. Several of those arrested
at the Watergate reportedly
Time also.. said that the had ties to anti-Castro move-
'Justice Department had dis- ments.
.covered that $89,000 of the
money found in the bank ac;
count 'of one Of those arrest-
ed, former CIA agent Ber-
nard?Barker, came through a
Mexico City attorney, Mann-
er Ogarrio Daguerre. "As it
turns out," Time said, "one
of Ogarrio's principal clients
is the Gulf Resource. Chemi-
cal Corp. of Houston, Tex.
The firm's president, Robert
H. Allen, also happens to be
chairman of the. Texas fi-
nance Committee to reelect
,Nixon."
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There is one political serial running
in Washington which lifts up the spirits )11
of the most depressed Democrat and ?I
frt
fr `1,1 f43I r1
which Senator McGovern is exploiting
?
ielentlessly. It is the sequel to thc
clumsy break-in at the Watergate
bt,
headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee in June by five
en with wire-tapping implements?
/
,, and with connections reaching into the
Central Intelligence Agency,. the Com-
? mittee for the Re-election of the Presi-
dent, the Republican National Com-
mittee and the White House itself.
Suspicions of a link to someone high up
in the Republican establishment have
. been strengthened by the revelation
that a cheque for $25,000, representing
contributions to the Republican presi-.
lenfial campaign, turned up in the
. Florida bank account of Mr Bernard
3arker ; he is one of the five suspects
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Some
. time of the break-in), has refused to
postpone the trial. But next week Mr
O'Brien's lawyers are to begin taking
.formal 'statements from over a dozen
Republicans, including Mr Stang and
Mr John Mitchell, the former Attorney
General and subsequently, for a time,
head of the Committee to Re-elect the
President. Meanwhile Senator Prox-
mire, a Democrat, is threatening that
the Senate will. institute its .own bipar-
tisan examination, to be completed in
30 days, unless President Nixon
arranges for an independent inquiry.
in the bugging incident and apparently
their leader.
A cheque for $25,000 is small beer,
no doubt, to a party Whose national
:presidential committees have just
reported collecting $3.8m and spending
'$5.9m in June and July alone and
which, on August 1st, still had $7.7m
in the kitty. But the awkward fact is
that a midwestern r fund-raiser gave
the cheque to Mr Maurice Stans, the
'President's fund-raiser-in-chief, on
;April loth, three days after the, report-
ing requirements . of the new federal
elections act went into effect. Yet there
is no record of it in the party's reports
to the Office of Federal Elections. That
office's head is now suggesting that
- several violations of the act may have
been committed. Wore still, Mr Stans?
, has failed so far to make any public
statement about what he did with the
cheque. He is supposed to have told
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
that he turned it over to Mr G. Gordon
Liddy, financial counsel tu the Com-
mittee to Re-elect the President, and
. that it was eventually exchanged for
cash, which was paid into party funds.
But this account raises new questions.
Mr Liddy has since. been fired by the
committee for refusing to answer the
FBI's questions.'
The Republicans, ostensibly to ensure
that political passions do not intrude,
want any trial or inquiry arising out of
this affair to be postponed until 'after
the election. They are likely to have
? .their wish, even if the grand jury now
? looking into the case brings in criminal
indictments and even though the judge
Who is to hear a $ j m civil suit (brought
by Mr Lawrence O'Brien, head of the
tic, National 'Committee at the
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Cases move slowly
By Courtney R. Sheldon
Staff correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
Washington
The shadow of the Watergate mystery
lengthens. It may linger for the whole
presidential campaign,
The civil and criminal court cases probing
the: five-man break-in of the Democratic
headquarters the night of June 17 move e'er
so slowly.
? ?
, Request for blockage denied. - Mr. Sloan was said to have given it to G.
'Gordon Liddy, lawyer for the finance corn-
mittee for the Re-election of the President Clark MacGregor, chairman' of the Com- :mittee of the Nixon campaign. According to
, ?
,-
? says that he and other Republican leaders Mr. MacGregor, the $25000 was properly
aecounted for as a contribution.
are justifiably concerned about the rights of
? ' the accused. Calth judicial adjudica.tion is the Disclosure aspect. checked
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Lawyers for the committee tried to block - He also said that no laws were violated
.
the civil suit until. after thewhen Mr. Dahlberg gave the $25,000, which
election because,.
lic
it was said, it would caue "incalculable collected from others earlier, to Mr. Stone
e
damage." The courts refined thi Republican on April 10, three days after the deadline for
s
request. anonymous contributions. After April 7, all
contributions inus t be identified. The General
The plausible assuraption hhre now is that-
Aecounting Office is investigating this as-
no big-name polit'(.al rigure was directly
involved in what ?????-nite 11.a.h.ia officials have Peet-
Mr. Liddy was fired ? by the re eleetion
called a "bizarre and stupid" act. Only a few
challenge this.
? . committee after he refused to cooperate with
'
FI31 agents working on the case.. Mr. Sioan
It is not clear whether officials of the ? re- F131
for what he said were "personal
-election corn h ham ? such as Maurice H..resi?
_ .
Stans, former - eecretary of commerce and reasons unrelated to the incident."
e ? - ? -
currently Mr. Nixon's chief fund raiser, and _
John N. Mitchell, former attorney general
and nhahanan of th re-elect Nixon corn-
Mti ei at the time of the Watergate incident,
dr-egged still deeper into the affair
becauee el their overall responsibilities for
-the w oint of their subordinates.
. Presumably the qUintet, with their surgical
gloves and eavesdropping marvels, was
trying to bug Democratic offices, or renew
earlier bugging, or abscond with Democratic
documents.
? In the absence of full exposure the tempo of
the -trial by headlines accelerates in the
? ; campaign arena.
?2, Sen, George 3,1cGc7vern demands ex-
. planations -from President Nixon on the
alleged involvement of Republican personnel
and finances. ?
It is political espionage "that you expect
? under a person like Hitler," he charges.
,. In return Mr. McGovern is accused by
Republicans of slurring Mr. Nixon.
The Democratic nominee also feels he has
? a. handy entree for calling attention to Mr.
Nixon's. refusal t.? publicize the names of all
Republican contributors, as Mr.. McGovern
_has disclosed the Democratic ones.
Washington looks on with more knowledge
of the political ramifications than of the legal
facts., There is fascination with the drama,
and engrossing uncertainty over the final act.
. Is it in President ,Nixon's -interest to have
the soiled?linen? whomever it belongs to ?
draped on the political laundry line soon? ?
Every visible White House effort thus far
.has been to delay the investigations or push
the whole affair into the background.
.. However, White House officials say that
? there has been no administration pressure on
the Federal Bureau of Investigation to curb
its investigation. They say the FBI's findings
.should be made available to the public before
:Election Day.
Lawrence F. O'Brien, former chairman of
? - the Democratic National Committee, pleaded
for Mr. Nixon to appoint a special nonparti-
san prosecutor to replace the Republican-
- 'controlled department investigators. He was
disdainfully rebuffed at the White House.
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?
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?
tcn?eeirrity division tie-in
From the evidence available it , appears
that the break-in was financed from re-elect
Nixon committee funds designated for "se-
curity purposes.".
The walkie-talkies used by the rather inept
Invaders of the Democratic headquarters
were set for channels assigned to the security
division of the Committee for the Re-election
of the President.
There is some indication that they may, ,
have been in search of documents that could
somehow link the Democrats to expected
provocative protests at the Republican Na- ? ?
tional Convention.
The political naivete of the quintet and its
sponsors astounds almost everyone in Wash-,
ington. Only persons addicted to espionage
ld have
ia,tionsure. At
re that
ubvert-
ocratic
h Corn-
and paramilitary-type operations won
thought such a risk worthwhile.
Indeed, those arrested had assoc.
with the calamitous Bay of Pigs vent
one time, it was generally thoughthe
the arrested men were interested in s
ing anything that looked like a Dem
movement to warm up relations wit
munist Cuba.
Former FBI and CIA agent
?
One Of the men accused in the Watergate
case is James W. McCord Jr., security
coordinator for the re-election committee at
the time. Mr. McCord is a former agent of the'
FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency.
? Huge sums were reported involved, with
? !some $114,000 ending up in the Florida bank
laccount of Bernard L. Barker, another of the
five arrested. ?
By admission of those involved, some
05,000 of this was deposited in the form of a
' $25,000 Cashier's check originally earmarked
? for Mr. Nixon's re-election campaign.
? Kenneth , H. Dahlberg, the campaign fi-.
ranee chairman, for the Midwest, says he
gave the cheek to Mr. Stans.
Mr. Stans stays discreetly out of public
view, but committee sources say that he
- turned the check over to Hugh W. Sloan,
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Star:News Staff Writer
. ;. ? MIAMI BEACH -- The Wa-
tergate caper is bugging Re-
publicans gathering here to re-
komlnate President Nixon.
Party Chairman Robert
. . Dole told several newsmen
? last night he is sure NiXen is
? going to be re - elected but he
wishes the break in at the
Democratic headquarters was
? "behind us." .
? Elliot Richardson, Health,
, ,Education , and Welfare secre-
? . tary, said here he was sure no
one in authority .would have?
been so "stupid" as* to have
authorized, it and if they had it
wouldn't have been carried out
So Ineptly. ? '
Atty, Gen. Richard G. Klein-
dienst was scheduled to have a
?:press conference yesterday
. but he sent Richardson instead,
and everyone there but Rich-
? ardson thought Kleindienst
? bugged out. because he didn't
want to answer questions
about the alleged bugging.
? , Dole started things off
Thursday when ho asked Re.-
publican. state chairmen at a
closed meeting if the Water-
gate controversy was having
? .any Impact in their states,
Some ? thought it was. That
prompted Dole to observe that
"something has to be done and
done soon", and that if any-
thing more is going to come
out to connect Republican of fi-
? cials with the incident, "it
Iought to come out now and not
; on the 2,8th of October."
Wants it Over With
He talked 'about it further
last night with a group of
newsmen. ?
: Although some state GOP
chairmen apparently think the
,affair has been mishandled by
Republican officials in Wash-
ington, Dole didn't accuse any-
one of bungling.
"I would ? just 'hope it would
' get over. I wish It were behind,
us," he Said. .
But he said the Republican
National Committee wasn't in-
volved, in any way and he
?
Hiereford 'doesn't have "any
authority to do anything about
it." ?
He said he didn't think tho.
incident would have a "major
impact" on the Nixon cam-
paign but that as long as it
"boils and festers" it will be
an irritant.
- Richardson,: substitultig for
Kleindienst, said he had "no.
reason to think the campaign
has been hurt!' by.the Water-
'gate affair.
Moreover, he said, there is
'no' reason" to connect it with
President Nixon or the Repub-
lican National Committee or
the Committee for the Re -
election of the President as
the Democratic presidential
candidate, Sen. George S.
McGovern, has. alluded.
"I don't think they \..-ould be
that stupid," he said.. ''If they
did, I don't. think it would be
h a n- died that ineptly....
Therefore, it .seems to inc im-*
probable that they did in fact
do it." ?
Richardson based his con-
clusion on the fact that he has
been involved in politics for
some time and that "experi7
enced politicians" of his ac-
?
quaintance always overruled
schemes aimed at "spying" on
the opposition.
"Experienced
he said, "know you can get too
smart for yourself." ?
Richardson was asked if he
had any idea what the Water-
gate intruders had in mind
and who sent them. He said he,
didn't know enough about it to
have a firm opinion but he had
seen reports linking them to
Castro's Cuba. .
? Aside from the handling of
the Watergate incident, GOP
Chairman Dole indicated that
some of the state chairmen
were not exactly happy about
the way the Committtee for
the Re-election of the presi-
dent is handling things in gen:.
era'. ? ?
He said they didn't come to
the Thursday meeting to
c o in p 1 a 1 n. but that there
seemed ? to be a feeling among
some that "we need closer co-
ordination."
Look Beyond
- Actually, he said, there is a
univerS'al feeling. among Re-
publicans that Nixon is going
to Win- re-election. But he said
Republican leaders Want to
look beyond ?the re-election of
the President to building the
Republican party into a ma-
jority party.
? "What they (the state chair-
men) were trying to say is
that this is an excellent year
.to build the party?'-a golden
? opportunity that doesn't come
along Very often," he said.
He indicated they wanted to
get a bigger input from the
"basic organization of the Re-
publican party" and not just
from the "superstructure
thrown up on a temporary ba-
sis" .for the re-election of the
President.
Ile said he and regional par-
ty chairmen plan to get togeth-
er today with Clark Mac-
Gregor, chairman of the Nixon
re-election committee, to dis-
cuss how they can achieve
closer cooperation.
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Corweolibn, a press confor'ence. held
.at the Los Angeles Press Club heard
?, woman i speaker say that the five
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rrio.n caught wiretapping the ..... _ ___ . . . ...a. .
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tee headquarters in Washington's
. :.Voted in the. Central Intelligence
j Watergate Hotel were not only in-
; Agency, the Say bf Pigs invasion
- !and. ' President Kennedy'. removing parts Of the ceiyng. from -
?
?
?the ixth floor panels in the- khown that at least 12 men and
- ; assass s '
.ination but ' also with plans 6114,000 were involved, and that the
, I first revealed last year tv t os Democratic National Headquarters. . invaders were discovered putting, ? .
: Angeles Police informer Louis Tack- .
- - --'? --- - These men possessed expensive- forged documents of some kind into
.files, not taking papers out. They
other James Bond accessories. were not burglars, they were not.
? Angeles Free Press, October 22, . functioning with a "bugging" budget ? .
Two of the men arrested had. in
'1971.) 'or with the numbers usually.
:1
These Charges were made by Mae their poasession .lie telephone num- ? associated with mere 'wiretapping. .
. ?
? : ber of :Howard Hunt White HouseV . (We must- caution, however, that
?Brus,sell, a well. known private in- . consuitant who had the past nine previously
'veStigator into . American political work-
? the Free Press, has no means at
ed With the- CIA for 21 years.
assassinations for. /? present of independently verifying
James McCord, Jr.. empldyed asi/ facts such as documents ? being
:years. She was accompanied by Chief of Security for Mitchell's Corn-
' :Michael McCarthy 'of The Citizen's planted instead of being removed,
ResearCh Investigation Committee, mittee to Re-Elect Richard Nixon, ? and that Don Freed, evidently, bases
'. was one of the? five men arrested.
ione of the CNC investigators who ' much . of ? his information on a
McCord was formerly employed by ? collation from such sources as the ?
,origin&Ily. checked 'out Tack wood's the CIA for nineteen years, having ? Washington Post, which . has '
'charges, and Paul Krassner, editor laft two years' 'previously at ap- ? published carefully documented .ar-
? 'of The Realist. The current issue of
i M proximately the same time as Hunt.
?'20-page article by Ms. Brussels
b Realist (August, 1972) contains a 'tides on the 'raid. Freed has also.
McCord's position withthe CIA was
Which was distributed to the thief of Security over -the entire : .
, . made n g ti no vn. e,
s t Di g. ca t. i)v. e trips _ t o
newsmen af the press conference as groUnds of the imMeriSetiA corn- ? -'. Following. the raid, a million dollar
?:the :basis for Ms. Brussels asser-. pound at Langley. Virgini6. Accord- ! suit was fled by the Democrats
a ,tions. - ing to Mae Brussel!, this Out McCord .. against the Committee for the Re-
in a very high, responsible position , Election of the President for corn-
According to Ms. .Brussell the
WaterQate Hotel, locatpd : in in relation to.CIA Director Helms ipensatory and punitive damages to
Washington, p.p., was the home of who could not conceivably carry out . the Democratic headquarters. The
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!John and Martha Mitchell at the time ? any intelligence, planning without, Nixon CoMmittee then asked a U.S.
relying On McCord to ensure that District Court to postpone the it su
Also housed in the Watergate
lalotbl complex are the offices of the
Democratic National Committee.
' In the early morning hours of June
17, 1972, five men were arrested
According to Don Freed of CHIC
. (who was not at the press con-
ference but submitted:, additional
material to the Free Press), within
six weeks of the first arrests it was'
-wood to: disrupt the Republican electronic equipment, cameras;
National Convention. (See the Los
walkie-talkies, burglary tools, and
:of the attempted wiretapping of the CIA plans were kept secret. ?? Until after 'the November 7th eleo-
pemocratie Party .National Commit- . Nine persons (all registered with lion. To hear the suit before the
tee. John Mitchell, former Attorney false names suspiciously similar to election, the CoMmittee
said,' coula1
General of the United States, had names used in novels written ,by doter campaign workers and con-
Shortly before resigned that HoWard Hunt) stayed at the tributions, force disclosure of con-
prestigious position to head the Watergate Hotel May 26 to 29, and . fidential information and otherwise
Portant Committee to Re-Elect the again June 17 and 18. Five of them,bause "incalculable damage" to
President.
'the night of their arrest, were President Nixon's campaign.
discovered in the Democratic Party ?
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? - over the doOr locks. Washingt-on
police arrived and ma-le the arrests .
inued:
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JAMES J. K1VATTICK
SOTribe SpSall cracks. on
SCRABBLE, Va. ? We had
as .Our guest one night last
week . a gentleman, now
retired, who had spent
his life in intelligence work.
The after-dinner conversation
turned to the Watergate caper.
.uur guest had a few specula-
.' Hops 'to offer. I pass them
? along.
By the Way of background:
?,This bizarre affair broke into
the news hi the early hours of
. June 17, when five men were
caught red-handed in the of-
fices of the 'Democratic Na-
tional Committee, located in
. the plush Watergate apart-
merit complex in Washington,
?.Their mission, by every inch-
cation, -was political espion-
age. f?
? Four of the five men had
backgrounds in Miami, where-
' .they were identified with the
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Free Cuba, a,ati-Castro move-
' merit. The fifth was a for-
'per CIA employe, James W.
.McCord 'Jr.; now a private
consultant on security proce-
dures,
, When it transpired that Mc-
"'Cent numbered among his
clients ..both the . Committee
for the, Re-election of the
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