WHICH WATERGATE STORY WILL NIXON TAPES TELL?

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hid]. atergate Story
Will Nixon Tapes Ten?
During his Aug. 15 speech in relation
.to hearings being conducted by the Sen-
to a t e Watergate committee, ? President
Nixon had this to say:
"In all of the millions of words of tes-
timony, there is not the slightest sugges-
tion that I had any knowledge of the
.planning for the Watergate break-in. As
for the'coverup my statement has been
challenged by only one of the 35 wietness-
es who appeared-ea witness who offered
no evidence beyond his own impressions,
and whose testimony has been contra-
dicted by every other witness in a posi-
tion to know the facts."
Mr. Nixon obviously was referring to
his former White House counsel, John
W. Dean III,. who had told of coming
away from a meeting last Sept. 15 "with
the -impression that the President was
well aware of what had been going on..."
B u t somehow, the President over-
looked or chose to ignore L. Patrick
Gray HI.
Mr. Nixon, in his Aug. 15 speech on
Watergate, also had this to say:
"From the time when the break-in
occurred, I pressed repeatedly to know
the facts, and particularly whether there
was any involvement by anyone at the
White House."
Gray testified before the Senate com-
mittee about a. telephone call he re-
ceived from the President on July 6,
1972, at a time when Gray was acting di-
rector of the FBI. lie said he told the
_president at that time that he and Lt.
L.----Gen. Vernon A. Walters, deputy director
of the-CIA, believed that persons on Nix-
o n ' a staff were trying to "mortally
wound" the President by confusing the
question of CIA interest in persons the
FBI wanted to investigate in its Water-
gate probe.
Did the President, so solicitous about
pressing repeatedly to know the facts,
press Gray for more information as to
the persons who were trying to mortally
wound him?
There followed, during Gray's Water-
gate testimony on Aug. 6, this exchange
between Sen. Herman E. 'Talmadge and
Gray:
Talmadge: "Did you think that your
conversation with the President on July
6, 1972, was sufficient to adequately put
him on notice that the White House staff
was engaged in obstructing justice?"
Gray: "I don't know that I thought in
terms of obstruction of justice, but I cer-
tainly think there was, it was adequate
to put him on the notice that the mem-
bers of the White House staff were using
the FBI and the CIA."
Talmadge: "D-o--o-rthy ink it adequate,
do you think a reasonable and prudent
man, on the basis of the warning that
you' gave him at the time, would have
been alerted to the fact that his staff
w a s engaged in something improper,
unlawful and illegal?"
Gray: "I do because frankly I expect-
ed the President to ask me some ques-
tions for two weeks after that ..." And
Gray went on to explain that the Presi-
dent never told him anything except to
pursue his investigation.
President Nixon, in his Aug. 15 speech
on Watergate, had this to say:
"Because I trusted the agencies con-
ducting the investigations, and because I
believed the reports I was getting, I did
not believe the newspaper accounts that
suggested a eoverup because I was con-
vinced that no one had anything to cover
up.
"It was not until March 21 of this year
that I received new information from
the White House counsel that led me to
conclude that the reports I had been get-
ting for over nine months were not
true."
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Dean, testifying before the Senate
Watergate committee, told of a meeting
he had with Mr. Nixon in the President's
Oval Office on Sept. 15, 1972, and he con-
cluded with this obversation:
"I left the meeting with the impres-
sion that the President was well aware
of what had been going on regarding the
success of keeping the White House out
of the Watergate scandal, and I also had
expressed to him my concern that I
was not confident that the coverup could
be maintained indefinitely."
What story would the White House
tapes tell?
No. After a slight pause, said Gray,
the map who knew oer
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being taped simply sailTr'rat, you jinit
contintic to conduct your aggressive and
tharough investigation."
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STAT
" Trilie Hey etineodialm(5-?
"'Fo most of us, 'Watergate' has come to mean not just a burglary and bugging
... but a whole series of acts that either represent or appear to represent an abuse
of trust. It has Conic to stand for excessive partisanship, for 'enemy lists,' for efforts
to use the great institutions of government for partisan political purposes ... Because
the abuses occurred during my Administration, and in the campaign for my re-
election, I accept full responsibility for them. I regret that these events took place."
As a summation for the defense in the Watergate case Richard Nixon's report to
the nation last week came to little more than a replay of his past speeches and
statements. Once again, Mr. Nixon accepted a sort of distant responsibility for the
scandals and assigned the real blame to overzealous aides; otherwise, he spoke
largely in generalities about the charges accumulated against him over the 37 days
of Sam Ervin's Senate inquiry into the Watergate raid and its corollary 'White
House horrors." Even Mr. Nixon's accompanying White Paper?a document billed in
advance as his definitive response to the case?turned out to be sparse at 2,800
words, repetitive and determinedly unspecific. "It would be neither fair nor ap-
propriate for me to assess the evidence or comment on specific witnesses," the
President said. Thus, he did almost nothing to settle the maze of conflicts and con-
tradictions in the hearing record?and so left behind more questions than an-
swers about his own role in those abuses of trust called Watergate.
I IITEP.e 111311Reltrall
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"In the summer of 1972, I had given
orders to the justice Department and
the 1111 to conduct a . thorough and
aggressive investigation of the Water-
gate break-in ... My only concern about
the scope of the investigation was that
it might lead into CIA or other national
security operations of a sensitive nature."
Whatever their motives, the President
and some of the men closest to him did
take steps that helped to frustrate the
original Watergate investigation. Assist-
ant Attorney General Henry Petersen,
who directed that first inquiry, testified
that the President himself warned him
to steer clear of previous plumhini2; mis-
sions by Cordon Liddy and E. Howard
Ihmt. And it was on orders from the
President that Haldeman and
Eici lieu-
roan met in June 1972 with CIA director
Richard ilehus and his iissistant, iitj.
Gen. Vernon \\rollers, to get them ti
suade Pat Cray from doing anything .
might expose possible agency (meiotic
Moi;ico. The CM, as it happened,
WaS toiL etMCUrlied al amt Gray's imkiny:
around soolh or iho borde,, wiLct
liii eveuhr.1;y did cxpo.,:e iiiNI(Aico
was a polilicul loculey-lannderimi: opera-
tion through whieh cinnpaiti
funds flowed to the \latciiiate kz_antt?
The incluiry w;e; narrimed Ic ccher
v.itys, tin 5100if.s olayed bv Petvisen
from thi? White II,inse to the ii Cyst
Dean :id\ isid Petersen not to 1+.1:
the inSe.;ti..y.atiori nun into it
11 1111 into (ill lila ii cut is it is it
the \Vhite House; Petersen passed that
along: Ehrlichman applied pressure to
allow wi..6.4.11.1,-.4,01rpiAAcl.i...i.i.rwilio.
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outside the presence of the v,ratal jury;
Putt:I-sell went along with that, too,
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STAT
Transcript- of President's News Conference
on Foreign and Domestic Matters
Specialto The New YOrk Times
?
Fol/owing is a transcript of Presi-
dent Nixon's . broadcast. news confer-
ence from San Clemente, Calif., yester-
day, as recorded by The New York
Times:
- OPENING STATEMENT
First, gentlemen, I have an an-
nouncement before going to your
questions.
. It is with the deep sense of not
anlY official regret but personal regret
that I announce the resignation of
Secretary of State William Rogers,
effective Sept. 3.
A -letter which will be released to
the press after this conference will
indicate my appraisal of his work as
Secretary of State.
will simply say at this time that
he wanted to leave at the conclusion
of the first four years.
He agreed to stay on because, we
had some enormously important prob-
lems coming up including the negotia-
tions which resulted in the end of the
war in Vietnam, the Soviet summit,
the European Security Conference as
well as in other areas, Latin America
and in Asia where the Secretary of
State as you know has been quite
busy over these past eight months.
As he returns to private life we will
not only miss him in terms of his offi-
cial service but I shall particularly miss
him because of his having been through
the years a very close personal friend
and adviser. That personal friendship
and advice, however, I hope still to have
the benefit of and I know that I will.
Kissinger to Be Named
As his successor I shall nominate and
.send to the Senate for confirmation the
name of Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Dr. Kissinger will become Secretary
of State, assume the duties of the office
after he is confirmed by the Senate.
I trust the Senate will move expedi-
tiously on the confirmation hearings be-
cause there are a number of matters of
very great importance that are coming
up. There are, Inc example, some mat-
ters that might even involve, some for-
eign travel by Dr. Kis-anger that will
have to he delayed in the evt-nt. that the
Senate herniaas are I.:eleven.
Dr, Nissinaer's gin:ilia...um:is for this
post I think are v.-ell known tea all of
you laches and .aentlerrien as well as
there locking to a; end icon .n to US
on television in i
He will 1.:1:101 the no,itien, after he
becomes Secretary of State, of assistant
to the President for national security
affairs. In other woAppiroved FFereRelesaaisdeth2005/031/04n:LEIWIRliii41-(00901R000700100001-2
somewhat a parallel relationship to the
White House which George Shultz has.
George Shultz as you know is Secretary
.of the Treasury but is also an assistant
to the President in the field of economic
affairs.
The purpose of this arrangement is
to have a closer coordination between
the White House and the departments
and in this case between the White
House and the National Security Af-
fairs, the N.S.C. and the State Depart-
ment, which carries a major load in
this area.
Another Pfirpose
And also another purpose is to get
the work out in the departments where
it belongs and I believe that this change
in this respect of Dr. Kissinger moving
in as Secretary of State and still retain-
ing the position as Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs
will serve the interest not only of co-
ordination but also of the interests of
an effective foreign policy.
I will simply say finally with regard
to Secretary Rogers that he can look
back on what I think and I suppose it
is a self-serving statement, but I will
say it about him rather than about my-
self at the moment, one of the most
successful eras of foreign policy in any
Administration in history, an era in
which we ended a war, the longest war
in America's history, an era in addition
in which we began to build a structure
of peace, particularly involving the two
great powers, the People's Republic of
China and the Soviet Union. where be-
fore there had been nothing but ugly
and at sometimes very, very difficult
confrontation.
We still have a long vvay to ge. There
are trouble spots in the area of the Mid-
east, otheis, Southeast Asia which we
could go into in detail. Put as Secretary
Rogers looks back on his years, four
and a half years of service as Secretary
of State, he can be very proud that he
was one of the major architeets of what
I think was a very successful foreign
And now we'll go to the question. I
think, A.P.
2. Why Gray Was Tailored
Q. cm July 6, 1n7d urcu e?xre warned
by Patrick Gray you 111(.411)-
1y xv,--mildirid he- i--(;rne it sour ten
Can yen explai'e why you didn't ask
who they were, arid why, what was get-
jug
A. `a%-ll, in the t?:leellinne ceeversltion
yeu rensr to le it cle deee, of
coarse. nici vlr rena: i in the
Ness as well as on television. Mr. Gray
as the investigation that he had respon-
sibility for, that some of my top aides'
were not cooperating. Whether the term
used was mortally wounded or not. I do
not know. Some believe that it was.
Some believe that it wasn't. That is ir-
relevant. He could have said that.
? The main point, however, I asked him
whether or not he had discussed this
matter with General Walters because
knew that there had been meetings be-
tween General Walters representing the
C.I.A. to be sure that the C.I.A. did not
become involved in the investigation
and between the director of thF.II.I.
He said that he had. He told me that
General Walters agreed that the inves-
tigation should be pursued and I told
him to go forward with a full press on ?
the inveatigation, to which he has so
testified. It seemed to me that with that
kind of directive to Mr. Gray that that
was adequate for the purpose of carry-
ing out the responsibilities. As far as
the individuals were concerned. I as-
sume that the individuals that he was
referring to involved this operation with
the C.I.A.
That's who I asked him the Walters
question. When he cleared that up, he
went forward with the investigation
and he must have thought that it was
a very good investigation because when
I sent his name down to the Senate for
confirmation the next year, I asked him
about his investigation and he Said he
,.vas very proud of it and he said it
was the most thorough investigation
that had ever taken place since the as-
sassination of President Kennedy, that
he could defend it with enthusiasm and
that under the circumstances, therefore,
he had carried nut the directive that
I had given him on July 6. So there
was no question about Mr. Gray having
direct orders from the President to
carry out an investigation that was
thorough.
Mr. Jerrold.
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? UNDISPUTED FACTS. Shortly after the Watergate arrests, Nixon or-
dered Haldeman and Ehrlichman to meet with top officials of
the CIA. They did so. Later that same day, newly installed Dep-
i----uty CIA Director Vernon Walters told Gray that FBI attempts to
trace money used by the wiretappers through Mexico might in-
terfere with a covert CIA operation there. This slowed the FBI
probe. Later Dean asked Walters whether the CIA might pro-
vide bail money and support the wiretappers if they were im-
prisoned. Both Walters and CIA Director Richard Helms de-
cided that the White House was trying "to use" the agency.
Walters, after checking further on what the agency was actu-
ally doing in Mexico, told Gray that there was no CIA operation
in Mexico that could be compromised by the FBI. Gray con-
cluded that there had been an attempt to interfere with the FBI in-
vestigation, and he warned the President on July 6, 1972, that
"people on your staff are trying to mortally wound you." Nixon
asked no questions, but told Gray to continue his investigation.
IN DISPUTE. Fiaidenian contended that he merely asked the CIA
officials to find out whether the CIA had been involved in Wa-
tergate and whether they had some operation in Mexico that
might be exposed. Both Helms and Walters claimed that Hal-
deman had introduced the subject as a potential political em-
barrassment, not a security flatter. Walters said he. N.vos not
asked to deter tnine fact. but \Vas [Ad by Haidenlail to tell
Gray to hold back the ritis in\ esti2ation in Nlexiet.).
WEI0111 or EML1:CE. ThkIs aniOng the earliest and clearest in-
stances of a I lowe eljort to impede the invociigation.
The past CIA serviec of several of the arrested Wirot;trpc[s madc
it seem ocucil :it first that the CIA could provide a convenient
cover for the Watergate operation. hut I feints' instant denials
to Haldeman of any ctA involvement promptly squelched any
such notion.
WHAT DID N:XON ITITOW? Nixon Slid on May 22 that he had no in-
tention-of impeding any Water,,j,ate invest(tiation, but was con-
cei nod about an I'M probe interfcrin,i-.! \\ jib inatters of national
security. II his intent really ss is only to protect national secu-
rity secrets, he filled to com.ev that to I Itildentan on, ihrouli
Ehrlichnt..th, to lietin. As these aides rtd.ived the ['resider:Cs
instructions to Gras'. I ichns and \Valters, the \\lite I louse in-
terest impressed those od',eials. as highly roilik-al. The fact that
Nixon asked no questions w hen Gr,ty w,trned him about .his
acti \ ities 1.:..ggests that Nixon might well have known what
thw,e aides were i us mg to do.
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17 AUG 1973
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Enters
Ple,does
Admits to Joining Massive
Conspiracy; Will Testify
at Future.Watergate Trials
.BY RICHARD T. COOPER
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON?Former - Nixon
campaign official Jeh Stuart Ma-
gruder pleaded. guilty Thursday to
joining a massive Watergate con-
piracy that. federal prosecutors said
began with bugging plans and went
on to perjury, pay offs, coverups,
and misuse of the CIA.
Magruder. tanned and relaxed af-
ter a vacation in West Germany
with his family, was allowed to
plead guilty to one count of con-
spiracy to eavesdrop, obstruct jus-
tice and defraud the United States
in return for the limited charge, he
agreed to testify for the government
.at the future trials of other alleged
conSpirators.
U.S. Dist. Judge John .T. Sirica,
who has presided over Watergate
prosecution matters here from the
beginning. released Magruder on his
own recogni!.-ance and loft him free
to travel within the. United 'es:tates.
Viewed as Single Conspiracy
Documents outlining the. case
against Magruder revealed for the
first time that ArcIiihald Cox's: soe-
cial proecuti,m force views 1Vater-
gate as a 5!:.1-":r, thot-Th
elect conspir,cy that ap-,cars idcclv
to end r;.-a.-;! mo..zt of the major fi.,:p..ires
implicated thus Car,
prosecutiim charges, that the
conspir,icy heoriniu 1.1e fan of 1fr71
and erintiniva through l"...larch
n7:;, embrco:mg thase gencro I areas
of
'to tinliv,-fully obtain
and use. for means and for il-
lecEd cods" ilo-ornration from f.'n/-
Wateroyto
s..af.t.:es
l'h.forts "to
I? it vi'r in..
fluence" the in
and prot;ecotion of 'Tett 7.1ri
of the
volved
rp
Plea
Prosecution
forbidding obstruction of
justice were alleged.
?Violations of the fed-
eral conspiracy ? statute,
which makes it a separate
crime for two or more peo-
ple to plan illegal activi-
ties and take action in fur-
therance of the plans. In
this case Magruder and
the "coconspirators ? un-
named" were accused of
hindering the Justice De-
partment's operations "by
craft, deceit and dishonest-
means."
The allegations were
contained in a "criminal
Information," a legal doc-
ument used with Magrud-
er's consent in place of an
indictment returned by -a
grand jury. ?
Planning Meetings
As part of the conspira-
cy, Magruder and others
"would meet at divers
places in the District of
Columbia and elsewhere"
to plan and finance the
Watergate burglary and
his the information
said.
That was apparently a
reference to the series of
meetings in January, Feb-
ruary, and March, 1972, at-
tended variously by Ma-
gruder, former Atty. Gen.
John N. Mitchell. former
White 3-louse counsel John
W. Dean Di, Watergate
burglar G. Gordon Liddy,
and campaign aide Fred-
rick C. L,J.i'aie.
Magruder a n d others
have testified that propos-
als by Liddy for Han,.
and Br a i n g were dis-
cus,eci. ,\Iegruder testified
arit
PIV:.ovc'd the Pl
MifelH1 testified that he
did not.
T 11 e .1 u tie' 17, 1972,
W.oe:
::.to bre ah-in
alleged to he part of the
conspirec.v,
"To ccal the :4'?')nr:
individuals in- and ode of (ha con-
in nning and
spiracy" after the V.'itc-r-
carrying out tl t.: gale burglars had lien A.
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acy. i ol a ( i on sirt:I.YITC't M10 a
leged, thi?!..estogrgipm
ators embarked on a
coverup that included in-
fluencing witnesses to
give false and misleading
testimony, concealing
evidence and the giving of
perjured testimony.
. Magruder has admitted
that he gave -false state-
.ments to investigators and
perjured himself in his
.first grand. jury appear-
ance last year, as well as
at the Watergate trials.
Rehermed Testimony
? In-addition, he has testi-
fied before the Senate
Watergate committee that
he rehearsed his grand
jury testimony with Dean,
Mitchell and others.
"It was a further part of
the conspiracy that, cer-
tain coconspirators would
misrepresent that the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency
had an interest in limiting
the investigation," the in-
formation said.
? That allegation appeared
to touch former White
House chief of staff H. R.
I-tadesi.ar end f o ra isr
anftf; :xlvieer
Jo h n is: Ehrlie't,en,
among others.
1-laidceeen and Ehrlich-
man testified before the
Senate committee that
they had instructed Lt.
Gen. Vernon A. Walters,
then ileputy director of
the CIA, to warn actin:,
Fill Director L. l'airiek-
Gray HT :rooa after the
breakin tint.
could he if. the
FBI pursued its Water-
gate leads in .I.;exico.
Delayed If nvisti7,-etiaa
Gray has testifird that
Walters' rries:;:iT:e, which
was not lahaled as
fromI lie Widts Iioust'.
ale-
layed the
lion.
Ehrlichman and linide-
man, that thi-,.y
mo,n-d. to :do:: itawn the
1.1-d inouiry, :nat.
;old
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c?-yern tror enial e-c-
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*Ts
-,rron s Statement on \i atergate
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clat to The New York Tinanz
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15?Following
is the text of President Nixon's state-
* ?Tient on the Watergate scanda/ as is-
sued by the.- White House tonight just
before the President began speaking
to the nation:
On May 17 the Senate Select Com-
mittee began its hearings on Watergate.
Five days later, on May 22, I issued
.a detailed statement discussing my
relationship to the matter. I stated cate-
gorically that I had no prior knowledge
of the Watergate operation .and that
I neither kmr.v of nor took part in any
subsequent efforts to cover it up.
I also stated that I would not invoke
executive privilege as to testimony by
present and former members of my
'White House staff with respect to pos-
sible criminal acts then under investiga-
tion. ?
, Thirty-five witnesses .1save testified
so far. The record is more than 7,500
pages and some two million words long.
The allegations are many, the. facts are
complicated, and the evidence is not
only eNtenstve but very much in con-,.
It would be neither fair nor appro-
priate foe me to assess the evidence
or comment ce, specific witnesses or
their credihiFty. That is the fencti:m
of the Senate committee and the courts.
What'. I loft.t.ind td do here 55 to cover
tins l'.,:cirteipal issues relatin:Y, to my own
conduct which have 1.)7iert raised since
Ely sii:Atcment n May 22, and thereby
to pine the testimony on Ihrjse
Jit p,:,,Isr,ective,
1 said art I.Itify 22 that. I had is prior
knov.'1,t.';e Of 0,0
In all tho.
slightest: eLidebee to the CII! is.
a Fin;:ile tetilfri.i.1 that
any itroi.vleitic Si tlic pl.innin-;;; tot the
It is also toe, as 1501 on May 22,
that I took ;.a p.,rt in, and s- -as not
aware o, iti;%; effile-,-ts
cover up the acts aitsocitcd with
? the Water;-,,,te
Jen'
In the ' 1iD2 1 hiifi
01 C!e! in: ; at;
to -'naILtr.-J.:on:a ? ? 1
:ice as if
h. c?; t-in ? ;i :htid
Issued by
problems that Mr. Gray, may have had
in coordinating with the C.I.A. were
moot. I concluded by instructing him
to press forward vigorously- with his
own investigation.
During the summer of 1972, I re-
peatedly asked for reports on the prog.-
IPE`.SS, of the investigation. Every report
k received was that no persons, other
r-tart the seven who were subsequently
indicted, were Involved in the Water.-
(?,ate operation. On Sept. 12, at a meet-
1.1.1g attended by me, and by the Cabinet,
.".enicit.? members of the White House
titatf end a number of legislative leaders,
Atorney General Kleindicnst reported on
ho investigation. He informed us that
-bad been the most intensive investi-
gation since the assassination of Presi-
dent Kennedy, and. that it had been
.t:stablished that. no one at the, White
Ifouse, and no higher-ups in the cam-
vaign committee, were involved. His re-
poa seemed to be confirmed by the
Petion of Ihe grand jury on Sept. 15,
c.'iten it indicted only the five persons
err:sted at the Viater:-;ate, plus Messrs.
and limit.
Thwati; indintincrits also seemed to me
confirol the validity of tile repOlt..S
Dean had been providing to
forougis other mernitins of the White
.1 hose staff-----aed on which I had based
ttw Aug. 23 siaterner.t thas no one then
employed at the White Itonse was in-
volved, lt was in that et:lade-A that_ I.
?net with Mr. Dean on Se-21:. 15, and
to gave ate no lCaS011 'Clat meeting
to btlicwe any othef's were in VC)1Ved.
Not only VOL 1 unav of any cove.--
hut :A that titan, and ticitil I%Dirch
21, 1 W",11,1 unaware that there was any-
,i,tfttlg- to cover up.
Full Faith lteports
Then and 1st t. 1 cominued to heve
ruin fan th1_115,51
cohductcc!atsd ri th.- reports I
had received hosed on those in\
lions. On Feb. 15, I met with Mr. Cray
prior to submitting bit. mime 10 100
SrT,711.n for at, pin-mans:int
i.f th? to him
111.t. I-
.1;.1:1r, clf
't:.:.-
:5)1 1`:-11,1J il1111 If
1!11'.1 1;111 (11_,;11,!: 111 it.
1 113 1!./11C1 It
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bet- 1 cwiw.;(1:1,-;, I rc.",:.,1
would show that persons in the White
House and at the Committee for the
Re-election of the President were the
victims of unjustified innuendoes in the
press. I was searching for a. way to
.disclose all of the facts without dis-
turbing the confidentiality of commu-
nications with and among my personal
staff, since that confidentiality is essen-
tial to the functioning of any President.
IL was on March 21 that I was given
n,ew information that indicated that the
reports I had been getting were not
true. I was told then for. the first time
that the planning of the Watergate
break-in went beyond those who had
been tried and convicted, and that at
least one, and possibly more, persons
at the re-election committee were in-
volved.
It was on that day also that I learned
of some of the activities upon which
charges of- cover-up are now based.' I
was told that funds had been raised
for p.:iyments to the defendants, with
the Jnowledge and approval of persons
both on the White House: staff and at
the re-election -committee. BLit. 1 was
only told that the money Itid been
used for .-:tiOrticys' ft:.es and ftfinily sup-
port, not that it had ken pdid to pro-
cure silence 110ra the recipirftltr.;. 1
also told that a member 01 my stroll had
talked to one of the cialerytanK about
clemency, hut not that offers of clemenc.
had been made. I t'.-as teid that one of
the et.ifencients cutrently .1.:itcrript-
itT 10 hiachinail tot' White Itnnse by
paymeut of..fI2.::),t.)it)i) as the
price of not tell:Mg abbut other
unrelated to v..'ntcrate, lii -?ehich
he ;lad ebi2ceed. These tilic..:,,ittions ..yere
mode in general terms, they were pot-
trayed to me as hased in part oft
sunpoiittc?ri, and tittly 1,',.ers 1 i-fTcly
siippticic ti by dctalls or CL .5050.
were vetiv
and they \e! dimel:siOn Ii
1.117:11.CU. Thee also rtsinforced
my detet nor',! iii that the init facts
must be made available to the grand
jury or to the Senate committca. If a.?.,?-
thinp, 1?;:c1 Itt.ppefied._ I v,m.nted it
to le:- 515'ce,rd-
Sq:
if, 1ic.1;; 1;1.j,
ontA..nue(i.
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PBI declines
?
sharply an
public favor
By GEORGE GALLUP
PRINCETON, N.J. ? New-
ly-selected FBI director Clar-
ence M. Kelley faces a diffi-
cult task if he is to restore
his organization to the high
level of public esteem in
which it was held ,until the
late '60s.
The percentage of Ameri-
cans who give the FBI a
"highly favorable" rating has
declined from S1 per cent in a
1965 survey to 71 per cent in
1970 and finally to .52 per cent
in a survey conducted in ear-
ly July.
While enthusiasm for the
FBI has declined over the
last eight years, it still com-
maeds the broad respect of
the population as a whole.
Overall. favorable oi ..........
outweigh neeative tese.enses
by nearly a Line.to-ene ratio.
T:atines in this report were
oleed mcans of a soi,si.
five att'eeie seele 1:61
Stapel Scaleteeter, hien ccr,
sists of 10 squat es or iw,es,
The person Le :ne te:;;cd s.
given a card showing the
squares ?and told tile top
square reetesents the h'eihret
deerce ol le*,.e,
50?Jnre 1:10
\VD.S 'then ihdiC,17e
he'.e far trd er t.' ii the
he v.ceed it,ee thc.
veis .1 49 n?:e.
1L:Hy
4:1'e to ?
171 lb too zy:a
Here are the latest nation-
wide results on the FBI:
Rating of FBI
Highly favorable 52%
Mildly favorable 33
Mildly unfavorable 7
Highly unfavorable 4
No opinion 4
The decline since 1063 in
"hiehly favorable" attitudes
has come about among all
major population groups but
is most pronounced among
younger adults, persons living
in the West and in the East
and those who have a college
background.
The view that the FBI is a
ul w a rk of the "estab-
lishment" and that it has
been too closely allied with
the Nixon administration are
factors which have contrib-
uted to a decline in ''highly
favorable" attitudes.
The FBI receives a consid-
erably better public rating
than does the CIA, another
organization which has fig-
ured prominently in the Wa-
tergate investigations.
Only 23 per cent in the lat-
est survey give ti:is oreazdza-
lion a "i,iehly 1;:vol.:tNe- tat-
Mr.% Ali:1011:711 (.1\17i'lii favor-
tde oueves cern-
live ceinlon by nearly three-
to-cat'.
Litile d]ferer.c..e is found on
the basis of eee or political
as 11-.e
c?C cti,er inejor popu-
latioe
'I n . !i,eed from
letc'st :-..ervev;
. Rating
Highly favorabl
? Mildly favorable
Mildly unfavorable
Highly unfavorable
No opinion
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12
14
To provide a comparison
between the FBI and law en-
forcement at the. local level,
all persons in the current sur-
vey were asked to rate the
police in their communities.
As in the case of the FBI, a
slight majority give their lo-
cal police a "highly favor-
able" rating.
The national findings:
? ?
_Rating of Local Police
Ili el tly favorable
53%
Mildly favorable
31
Mildly unfavorable
8
highly unfavorable
5
No opinion
3
The findings for the latest
survey are based on inter-
views with 1.514 adults, 1S
and older, in more than :360
scientifically selected local-
ides across the nation during
the period July 6.9.
Interviewing was conducted
before the appearance before
the Ervin committee of Rich- ,
ard Helms, former CIA direc-
tor; Con. Vernon Walters,
present deetity director of the
CIA; and Cen. Robert Cush-
man, former deputy dif42C101'
of the CIA.
*Highly
Rating
Dec.
1965
RATIONAT 54%
Under 30 years 65
30-49 years 54
SO & over 84
Fepuhlirans 67
T'ist
wt'w^st 61
West
"
Cc11,41e b.?clyInnun4
C
Favorable"
of FBI
Aug. Latest
1970
711 52%
62 42
73 52
73 61
73 57
74 51
E3 49
74 56
76 Sc'
69 45
57 35
75 .!-; ?
75 51
Point Change
since 1965
-32
-43
-32
-23
-30
-33
-40
-27
-23
-40
-40
-13
- :5
si
lions th ;11 :.?
prominently itt tie Water:ate.
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In all the discussion of the Wa- paign funds were turned over to G.
* tergate and related horrors. one Gordon Liddy, who organized the
. point, it seems to us, has not been burglary. . Unfortunately, he was
emphasized enough ? that there not believed.
' were several men who refused to A fourth was J. Edgar Hoover.
go along with the misuse of execu- the late FBI director, who eppoed
tive power, who found it possible to the secret 1970 White House plan
distinguish between right and for domestic spying. It was his'op-
wrong, and who were as much de- position, President Nixon says?
voted to their duties as to the re- which caused the plan to be aban-
election of the President. doned.
Two of these were the director
and deputy director of the CIA, . And then there .were Randolph
Richard Helms and Lieut. --GM:? Turner and Johnnie Walters. ap-
Vernon Walters, who resisted Pointed by Nixon in succession to
White House pressure to have the head the Internal Revenue Ser-
agency take responsibility for the vice. They resisted repeated White ?
Watergate break-in: Walters House attempts to use the IRS to
, swore he would resign, if any at- persecute political enemies of the
tempt to blame the CIA were administration.
made. Certainly there were others
, Another of these men was Hugh who similarly refused to go
Sloan Jr., treasurer of the Finance along with the flagrant abuses of.
. Committee to Re-Elect the Presi- power which were the essence of
dent, who suspected committee in- what. is broadly termed the Water-
volvement as soon as news of the gate affair. And that is extremely
break-in broke. Told to "take a va- fortunate, for the number of future
. cation" when he expressed his eon- Watergates will surely be in in-
,
!erns to superiors, he resigned his verse proportion to the number of
Job and testified truthfully that such highly principled men who en-,
kusands of dollars in Nixon cam- ter politics and government -'
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FORMER CIA DIRECTOR HELMS
FORMER DEPUTY CIA ERECTOR CUSHMAN
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DEPUTY CIA DIRECTOR WALTERS
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dispatch, the Ervin committee next ever, take full responsibility for some
turned to witnesses who could deal with of the CIA aid given to Hunt, the-White
one of the earliest and clearest instanc- I louse "plumber.- This included a tape
es of the cover-up: efforts by the Pres- recorder, camera, wig, voice-alteration
ident, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean device and false identification. Ervin
to get the CIA to hinder or halt the FBI's saw these as rather sinister "undercov-
probe of Nixon campaign. funds that cc" aids and asked whether the wig was
had been channeled through Mexico to designed to "improve the pulchritude
obscure their source. Those moneys of Mr. Hunt" and the voice disguiser
wound up in the pockets of the Wa- to help him "sing a different part in the
tergate burglars. The pretext was that. choir." Helms said they were consistent
some CIA operation in Mexico might with Hunt's contention that he needed
be compromised by the FBI investiga- them for a "one-time" interview. The
tion. Nixon had said in his May 22 state- wig was apparently used by liunt to vis- .
ment that he had ordered Ehrlichman it 111- Lobbyist Dita Beard in a Den-
and Haldeman to talk to the CIA about ver hospital, and the other gear was used
this only for "national-security" rea- to disguise himself in directing a raid
sons, not to impede a Watergate inves- on the Los Angeles psychiatric files of
tigation. Both Ehrlichman and Halde- Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel
man said that they merely asked CIA Ellsberg.
officials to find out 1) if there had been Helms readily admitted furnishing
any CIA involvement in the Watergate the White House with "a psychological
break-in itself and 2) whether there was protle on Ellsberg compiled in 1971
any covert CIA activity that could be ex- from nonpsychiatric data by CIA ex-
posed by an FBI probe. perts. White House Plumber David
In their testimony before the Ervin Young found this so unsaUsfactory that
committee, neither former CIA Director another one was requested. That was
Richard Helms nor the deputy CIA di- also rejected. and eventually Ellsberg's
ector, Lieut. General Vernon Walters, psychiatrist's office was burglarized by
saw it that way. Pounding the witness ta- a plumb,: rS' te:1111. A copy of the first
ble and nearly shouting, the normally- study indicated why the White 1-1b:use
cool Helms declared: "The aNncy had
nothing to do with the Watergate break-
in.- He said he had told that to FBI Act-
ing Director L. Patrick Gray before he
was summoned to a White llouse meet-
ing with Ehrlichman and Haldeman on
June 23, 1972, shortly after the break-
in. He said that he emphatically told the
same thing to the White House aides.
Both Walters and Helms contended
that Haldeman, who did most of the
talking at the meeting, had put the mat-
ter in a political rather than a national-
security context by describing how Wa-
tergate -was creating a lot ot none and
might lead to some important people."
Nevertheless. Wid tors was told by Ilal-
deman, accordim; to the deputy ciA
chief's testimony, to go to Gray and tell
him that ''further pursuit of this im es-
ligation in Nlexico could jf:fopardize
some assets of the Central Intellifzenee
Agency.- Dutifully, Walters dkl so.
Both 11cl its and Vi tCrS oroniptly
checked, however, :m..1 founsi that no
Nic%ican operation could be jed2ar-
dized. Waiters informedDcan ot ti.:
and assumed that It-can would tell C.i;-:fy.
Means bile, some taf!
about the W::terr.:1:c money v crc he],!
up by Gray under this pre.ssure,
Grm" and \\'a ten, were retti-,?., iip.ktent
inquiries from De..-in.Wh,:n Den tossed
out "feelers- mi 1,e!h-
sulqdyi);:il for the ;:i-re-.ted H..;, and
s:Ak:,es for t!.e:n if the, were i.,nvie!-
ed, the ( tA mendec;aed that the
ks was itho,,t to he
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probably was dissatisfied: it portrayed
Ellsberg as "extremely intelligent and
talented" and said that he released the
Pentagon papers mainly in response
"to what he deemed a higher order of
patriotism."
The brunt of responsibility for sup-
plying Hunt with gear was borne by an-
other witness, General Robert Cush-
man. now commandant of the Marine
Corps. A CIA official at the time. Cush-
man promptly shifted the blame to John
Ehrlichman. Earlier memos by Cush-
man had been unclear on the point, and
Ehrlichman had protested--erroneous-
ly?that he was out of town at the time.
But a taped conversation between Cush-
man and Hunt and minutes of a CIA
staff meeting clearly indicated that Ehr-
lichman had called Cushman to seek the
help for Hunt. Both Cushman and
Helms rebelled, however, when Hunt's
requests rose to the point of wanting a
New York office and a particular CIA
woman stenographer f10111 Paris.
The week's final witness, Pat Gray,
disputed some Walters memos about
the precise nature of their conversations
about holding back the Mexican [non-
ey investigations. The differences in
each case seemed mainly self-protec-
tive; there was no doubt that both final-
ly reali .t:.k1 that they were being used
by White I louse aides. Yet on the basis
of his opening statement, Gray's ver-
acity is in great doubt, and his ques-
tioning this week may be rocky.
Backing Dean against Ehrlichman,
-oaeo1R00070011000?14--
2 two aides
gave him some documents from low-
ard Hunt's safe, he had no doubt "that
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'Washington Post Staff Writer
It took 10 weeks and
nearly 2 million words of re-
corded public testimony, 35
witnesses and thousands of
questions and maybe half as
many answers, but the Sen-
t ate '.select Watergate com-
mittee ? accomplished some-
thing unprecedented before
it recessed last week.
'It gave the millions of
.people who followed the
hearings on television or in
the newspapers something
they had never-seen before
.and may never see again?a
look of the White House, a
mysterious place with an ar-
cane language and rituals all
its own, and the activities of
the men who worked there
for Richard M. Nixon. -
As witness followed wit-
ness, certain themes began
10 emerge from the
? One of these was
p ower, how it was exercised
and how delegated: how
hues of authority traveled
vt-dttically within the Whit c-
Hooee and horizontally out-
ward to the rest of the gov-
ernment.
Former presidential coun-
sel John W. Dean Ill, whose
o
testimny became a bench-
mark against. which the ver-
sions of other witnesses
were constantly compared.
described the men who
worked directly for the
President. as a etio-it?vone-
self White House state"
But Dean and other
younger staff members
made it clear that while
they might indeed do things
themselves. it was firmly es-
tablished custom to check
with a superior first. The
chain of command was
la -' wit bin tile
White llouse.
It was between the White
House and Whet attenci,ia
that lines of notherity some-
times 1,itirred, 1.11,'Ii?s111e0ie ?
101(0,1 the cotinnitIta?
? E m
xopit's trietion
I.
? I (;,-,1 Vecn0n
ti!0 6c-plIty
?.11,o
seoloe wn sante
IT g.,4
,5
.Ateelbeel &Lae
"
I /HE
1
headquarters in the Water-
gate \viten he was sum-
moned to the W'hittt House
by Dean, a staff man hither-
to unknown to him and 20
years his junior.
Walters let his :indigna-
tion bubble over during a
conversation with 'acting
FBI Director . L. Patrick
Gray lfl, Gray recalled. The
general said he had come
into an inheritance and, in
Gray's words, "wasn't going
to let these kids kick him
around any more."
Richard G. Kleindienst,
the former Attorney Gen-
eral, told the committee how
angry he became ? to the
point of threatening to re-
sign--when he learned that
former presidential domes-
tic adviser John D. Ehrlich-
roan had sought to give a di-
rect order to one of Iclein-
dienst's key assistants at the
Justice Department.
Gordon C. Strachan, the
young White House aide to
whom deputy director Job
Stuart :Magruder of the
Committee to Re-elect the
President was nominally
supposed to report. de-
scribed his frustration as
Magruder consistently by-
passed Itim and reported di-
rectly to White Ifonse chief
of staff H. II, (nob) Halde- Strachan, came to tlic.
man. White I-louse at 27. and an-
Harry S. Truman said of pearecl before the Wateritate
the toae.siciency that ''ti" committee the day before
buck slops liere"?but the his 30th birthday, said he at
WaterLiate hearines showed tirst loi.,nd it "a pretty ewe-
that ender the White ihmse inspiring, expeeience"
staff syslcia, as in any Ito iee tA-ore in such raritied set'-
it
hicrerchical organin- roundintis, but it could be
lion, the buck could be terrifying, too, he said.
passed in two directions. De said he was "scared to
death" when Ifaldemt.n sum
moiled him to his olfien
i,i,oitly after the atet "tale
mitt lary: saii eaee,
I.' dintthe ineitiont
that
n:Ildellian to it, liii a5011t,
iThrliCh(n;o1 appears to
neye uu ?i0ei?e0 fett...er pec
taut Haldema:t. II,-
'i'' imit?
esess, hot lin:e have inath.
mieet? titt
ieem eitert.
sisantiol cssiloded this
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in themabout it, has not
been viewed with charity by
the witnesses who were ,
among those taped.
Gray, Kalmbach and Klein-
dienst?who called the tap-
ing "reprehensible"?were
recorded by Ehrlichman and -
had transcripts of their con-
versations read to them by
the committee. Transcripts
of Ehrliehman's recordings
of Dean, former White House
special. counsel Charles W.
Colson and White House
aide Ken Clat,vson have also
been placed in evidence.
- "Loyally is the name of
the game," Haldeman's for-
mer deputy Alexander But-
terfield wrote in a memo-
randum, and the White
House described in the
Watergate hoarin..ts appears
to have beim tf-iffect with
strong Nixon loyalists.
Many, thoa.et eat all, of the
V, iLlle;,-eS ',, .i.,', _
ported to Eludichman. And
two witnesses, Walters and
Herbert W. Kalmbach, the
President's personal lawyer
who distributed clandestine
payments to the Watergate
? defendants, told the commit-
tee how when they dealt
with Dean they first
checked to make sure that it
was with Ehrliehman's ap-
proval.
The White House de-
scribed by the witnesses be-
fore the Senate committee
was at once exciting and for-
bidding, different things to
different people.
To Haldeman, it was an
organization that existed to
serve Richard Nixon, "one
of America's greatest presi-
dents," and to Co_ it with
flawless efficiency?"a zero-
defect system," he said was
his objective.
"Ell approve whatever
will work, and I'm con-
cerned with results,. not
riti?thods," he wrote On a
me morandUrn.
Though to Ehrlichman the
question of White House
rank was "a metaphysical
concept," those who wcesked
for Haldeman were to-
minded (Oen 80(1 fdrCeildi)
Where authority lay.
'Besett activities oil the
part of their sul)ordinet
both inorliclimen and
man testified, sinmly did 11,0.
Corn,: sttention until
In:! April.
Ehrliehman, partienlarly,
described Di?an as an alit",
stair. nnin v, let cod:ft
\vith
1, CF(', it 1.V.:1, !.'C'1.!;:11:40 Ii,
\;:i!er. i
Ineeas'tot,
did not lneol;,? Ionised
with it until aeldal to do so
italdernan and Ehrlich-
can have praised the Presi
lent in unequivocal terms.
from a perspective out?
lde the White House, have
isleindienst, 1Valters and
itesner Attorney General
and Nixon campaign teen-
.:'_'m' john N. :Mitchell.
(;ray, whom tee President
toecorcling, to Dean in
conversat ion taped by
Ffirlieliman) saki he doubt-
( was -smart enough to
run" the has been non-
cotemittal. Ati.c.1 Dean, though
ii,' has spoken kindly of Mr.
??:ixest, implicated hint by
tits. testimony in the official
?over-up that followcd the
a.:create burglary. -
The hearings helocid to fo-
the way the While
'Hu,e Aaff divided its time
matteiet that v.-ere
and those that
vren't.
alion.?h in ItriT, WaS
1..1.1;;ed
tiLt' lit jut
,:,??
:i:1
11011,0
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The sterling defense of the Fed-
ral Bureau of Investigation and
ft he Central Intelligence Agency
imade by representatives of those
$ two agencies in the Watergate
hearings must have impressed
everyone who followed the testi-
mony.
Former Attorney General Ri-
chard Kleindienst and Henry Pe-
tersen, chief of the Justice De-
partment's criminal division, and
L. Patrick Gray, former acting
FBI director, eloquently defended
the FBI's integrity, while Gen.
(--IVernon Walters of the CIA and
4...---:Richard Helms, former CIA direc-
'tor, were just as fervent in their
:insiStence that the intelligence
:agency was untarnished.
? The testimony pretty well estab-
lished that the CIA was not in-
nd CEA
volved in the Watergate burglary
and that it firmly and successfully
resisted alleged attempts to sh-
oulder it with blame for the
breakin. '
Likewise, the integrity of the
FBI enierged unscathed despite
the fact that Gray admitted erring
in allowing raw files to be seen by
White' House 'aides and then ad-
mitted burning other files that
were embarrassingly sensitive.
'Gray was a proud and able man
caught in a mistake of judgment
which he made under highly unu-
?sual circumstances in which he
thought he was receiving orders
from the highest executive office
in the land. He was an unwitting
victim of circumstances, and it is
regrettable that a bizarre sit-
uation cost the country the ser-
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vices of this competent man.
Kleindienst, Petersen, Gray,
Gen. Walters and Helms all were
alarmed by the Watergate-
breakin and the subsequent eve-
nts, and sought to warn President
Nixon.
The significance of their testi-
mony is that the FBI and the CIA
are being operated by dedicated
and incorruptible men. Another
important evidence that this is
true was the fact that the FBI re-
fused to engage in political es-
pionage, and this led to the forma-
tion of a special intelligence group
? "the plumbers" ? in the White
House. Unable to persuade the
FBRoparticipateinpoliticalactivit-
ies, the White House aides created
a cadre of their own to pursue
these operations.
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()venting up the cover- u
, by Lucian K. Truscott IV
,- In the days immediately following the break-in of Dem-
ocratic. National Party Headquarters at the Watergate in
_June 1972, Richard M. Nixon met repeatedly with the one
i man to whom he would turn time and time again as the
; scandal surrounding what he that Nixon went Rebozoless last
i would call ."this very bizarre oc- weekend at the end of a 'week
f currence" unfolded. And yet it is which saw his name raised twice
' only now, more than a year after in the press with respect to Water-
? the burglary and bugging . at- : gate: First in'a story by Carl Ber-
tempt, that the complicity of this, stein and Bob Woodward in the
. most secretive individual in the Washington Post which reported
, events surrounding Watergate is that Rebozo received secret
. being exposed. ? reports from Tony Ulasewicz, the
I -Presidential counsels Ehr- I retired New York City policeman,
? Liebman and Haldeman have been . regarding the accident of Senator
? orced out of government; John '
\fl,, Edward M. Kennedy at Chap-
, litchell and former Commerce. paquiddick which -resulted in the
fiecr et ar y Maurice Stans have i death of Mary .10 Kopechne. The
been disgraced and indicted; in second report, from. sources ,in-
all, more than 20 top-level of- side the Senate Select Committee
ficials in the first Nixon adminiS- on Watergate, revealed that the
tration ' have left their jobs committee has subpoenaed
because of Watergate. But the
records of Rebozo's Key Biscayne
man who has interests closest to
bank a: part of a probe of his pos-
those of the President with regard
sible involvement in the ??laun-
to the Watergate scandal sur-
dering- of secret campaign dona-
vives. Should the Senate Select
tions to Nixon's re-dee:firm cam-
Committee ever succeed in ob- -
'-'rsaign. .
taming the tapes of Presidential
And if may be yet another coin-
conversations they seek, his name
cidence that Rebozo's nim" waa
will not be on them, nor will he be
raised for the first time in connec-
a participant in any of them. He
had no job in the first Nixon ad-?
tion with alleged laundering of
campaign funds one week after
ministration, nor does he have a
... .. . . .. .. testimony was given by former
_ _ :
President's constant companion Presidential counsel John D.
when he is out of Washington, a
circumstance which has seemed
the rule rather than the exception
since June 17, 1972. In fact, ac- ?
cording to. one veteran Nixon
watcher, who has. traveled with
the Presidential party nearly ev-
erywhere it has gone over the
past four and a .half years, last
weekend was the first time he
could recall that Nixon went to his
retreat in Camp David, Mary-
land, without the ubiquitous
Rebozo.
It may be just a coincidence
job in the current one, lie did not
meet with the President in the
bug-ridden councils of govern-
ment. But little by little the name
of the President's closest friend
and most, steady business as-
sociate over the years is seeing
the light at the end of the Water-
His name is Charles G. "Bebe"
Rebozo. Ile. lives within the
Presidential compoApprOVI?cly
Biscayne, Florida, and be is the,\
the bank account of Waterga e
fendant Bernard Barker, and the
Bay of Pigs. Ehrlichman went on
to say that in a July 6 meeting
with the President. he -became
convinced" that the President's
'concerti about the possible com-
promising of CIA' activities came
-from an outside source." Voice
sources in Washington have con-
firmed speculation that the "out-
side source- of the President's
concern was C. G. "Bebe"
RebozO. And in fact, in both the
-Mexican money" and the pecu-
liar raising of the spectre of the
Bay of Pigs more than 10 years
after the fact, Rebozo had an in-
terest. So did Nixon. .
The interest of the two friends
and business partners is compli-
cated, and goes back many years,
to the early days of the develop-
ment of Key Biscayne. among
other matters. But the pressures
both men must have felt in the
? -days immediately following, the
arrest of four Cuban Americans
and James McCord in the offices
of the Democratic National Party
had their roots in these facts:
?-
o Rebozo. Nixon; and former
Florida Senator George A.
Smatliep, vwned undisclosed in-
pre-Castro Cuba in the
Ehrlichman which, according to. 1.;50s, according to a former high
Voice sources in Washington: law enforcement official dose to
implicates Rebozo behind the investigations which touched on
scenes in a cover-up behind the the holdings Of American citizens.
cover-up of Watergate. in Caribbean countries. When
The apparent reference to Castro ousted Cuban dictator Ba-
Rebozo came in answer to a ques- tista, the three partners were
tion regarding a June 23, 1972, forced to liquidate -their holdings,
meeting between Ehrlichman, and according to the same source,
Haldeman..C.I.A.Lidrector Richard transferred them to interests in
Helms, and his deputy, General the Dominican Republic.
Smathers has told syndicated col-
Vernon E. Walters. Nixon. as he umnist Jack Anderson that Pres-
has admitted in his l aV 22 state- Went Kennedy believed the CIA to
ment on Watergate, had ordered be responsible for the assassi-
his two top aides -to insure that nation of Rafael Trujillo in 1961.
the investigation of the break-in Smathers's willingness to talk on
not expose either an unrelated this subject is peculiar in two re-
covert oPerat ion of the CIA or the spects: first because the assassi-
activities of the White louse in- nation of Trujillo doubtlessly af-
vestigat 1011S unit." fected his. Nixon's, and Rebozo's
The President gave Ehrlichman holdings in the Dominican Re-
and Haldeman examples of CIA public, and second, because nei-
operat ions which might possibly tiler Robert nor Ted Kennedy was
he compromised by an -all-out- known to be aware of their
FBI investigation of Watergate. brother's alleged belief of CIA in-
('gi(k,11,44,4 in the assassination.
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,ican money" which ended up in Smathers's invocation of Kennedy
continued.
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Not a Heroic Figure
.Several members of the Ervin com-
imittee lavished praise on CIA Deputy
Director Vernon Walters for keeping the
agency free of implication in the Water-
gate cover-up.
The praise is undeserved. The testi-
, mony last week of Walters and former
!.-/ CIA Director Richard Helms shows that
both men allowed themselves to be used
by the White House in a cover-up at,
tempt.
They testified that on June 23, 1972,
White House Chief of Staff H.R. Heide-
man, accompanied by John Ehrlichman,
directed Walters to get the FBI to drop
Its inquiry into money traced to the
Watergate burglars on the ground that
this would compromise CIA activities in
Mexico.
Walt er s did Haldeman's bidding
though he and Helms knew of no CIA
activity in Mexico that could be uncov-
ered. Walters testified he "presumed
Mr. Haldeman had information that I
did not have."
The deputy director said that after
telling Acting FBI Director L. Patrick
Gray about the non-existent CIA in-
volvement in Mexico, Walters checked
with CIA officials and found no such
CIA activity. But Walters did not tell
Gray the truth until July (;, and then
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only because Gray was pressing Walters
to put in writing his request that the
FBI curtail its probe in Mexico.
Between June 23 and July 6 Walters
did rebuff efforts by John Dean to get
the CIA to put up bail money and to
further involve it in a Watergate cover-
up. It seems clear that these efforts
were made after it became evident from
Haldeman's success in using the CIA
that the agency was susceptible to being
used.
It is shameful that Helms and Walters
followed Haldeman's order and allowed
the FBI to be told a phony story. How
could the two top men in the CIA as-
sume that IIaldeman knew more than
they did about CIA activities? Their
testimony raistrterrolis.question wheth-
er Gray ever would have been told the
truth if White House aides hadn't over-
reached and attempted to drag the CIA
deeply into the Watergate scandal.
After hearing a succession of wit-
nesses tell of their participation in
seamy goings-on, the Ervin committee
members perhaps were eager to find
someone to praise. But Walters was a
poor choice. His part in misleading the
FBI makes him a considerably tar-
nished hero,
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xcei pi
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From Tst. oly Before the Sc
nate
. Special to The. New Yerk Times '----:
; ' 'WASHINGTON, Aug. 6? '
C .1.4
t '1 (-1 ? ?
'A 6 STA"
'Fallowing are excerpts from '',. ,ommi,,,e Investigating Water aie
-testimony by L. Patrick Gray ?,.-- . .
3d. former acting director of tha-t this committee has had
tions were -being taped but,
to date implicating the Presi-
nevertheless, I had that eerie Hunt's Job Authority
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
dent of the United States is
Option, on the 3tith day of that of John Dean and you feeling that the President is Q. We have been .trying--
-di' hearings on. the Watergate and General Walters. Did reminding me of something this committee has been try-
case before the Senate Select you think that your conver- and why. That was. my reac- ing to find out who kept Mr.
Committee on Presidential sation with the President on tion. But at that time I didn't Hunt on the White House-
July 6, 1972, was sufficient know that these were on tape. payroll after Mr. Ehrlichman
Campaign Activities: admitted that he had learned
to adequately put him on . AFTERNOON ? about his participation in the
notice that the White House .
staff was engaged in ob- SESSION .. burglary [of the offict of Dr.
SENATOR TALMADGE:1
structing justice? . SENATOR MONTOYA: Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist]
Let's read some more of Gen-
A. I don't know that I What did Mr. Helms tell you but thus far neither the F.B.I.
era! Walters' statement
nor this committee has been
thought in terms of obstruc- when you called him?
row and see where the con-
tion of justice but I cer- Mr. Gray: I told Mr. Helms able to discover that. .
filet is between you and 'ne.
A. I cannot testify with
I am quoting further Gen-
hikh i
tainly tn there was, t was that I was calling to tell him
any certainty to that but
eral Walters and he is report- .I
adequate to put him on the of the thought that we may
ing your telephone cover - think in our F.B.I. investt- -
notice that the members of be poking into a C.I.A. oper-
the White House staff were ation In connection with the gative file there are indica-
sation to the President. Any
using the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. Watergate burglary, and he tions that his timesheets were
attempt to involve the F.B.I.
h
or the C.I.A. . in this case h initialed by Mr. Colson. I do
Q. Do you think an ado-
told me that he had been not know whether you have
would only prove a nsortal
quate do you-t a reason-
, think
wound. He used my meeting with his men on this those FD 302's, but I think
able and prudent man on the
words. And would achieve every day and that, although that there is an indication in
basis of the warning that
nothing." Did you tell the we know the people, we can- there to that effect. -
you gave him at that time, not figure this one out, but Q. NOW, did the F.B.I. ever
President that?
A. I told the Presidentthat would have been alerted to there is no C.I.A. involve- make any investigation to
ment.
Dick Walters and I feel that the fact that his staff was determine whether or not the
people on your staff are try- engaged in something ins- Q. All right. Then, that S10,000 in $100 bills which
evening you met with Mr. Mrs. Hunt had in her
ing to mortally wound you proper, unlawful, and ii- - pos-
by using the F.B.I. and the legal? Dean. A. That is correct, sir. session when she was killed
do beca.use I frankly Q. Did you tell Dean about in the airplane accident were
C.I.A. and by confusing the A. I
. question of whethe.r or not expected the President to ask
y Helms's statement previously things that came from the
me that there was no C.I.A. in- Nixon?I mean the Commit-
there is -C.I.A.- interest in
or not in the people that the two weeks thereafter, I think volvement? A. I either told tee to Re-Elect the President?
it was on the 12th and again ...".1r. Deall in that evening A. Mr. Chairman, I do not
F.B.I. which he is to inter-
view. on the 28th, I asked General meeting or I told him in a know. I wish I could answer
Who did you have Walters if the President had telephone call the following that question but I do not
reference to when you men- called hirn and \vhen I heard morning, yes, sir.. know the answer to that, sir.
tinned members of his staff? nothing, you know, I began Q. Mr. bean called you ap- SENATOR B.aR'ER: What
A. Had the President asked to feel that General Walters proximately 18 times be- was the relationship between
mists, that tween June the 22d and July you and General Walters,
me I would have mentioned and I were alar
Mr. Dean and Mr. Elirl:ch- lee had ahold of nothing 6th when you talked to the were you friendly and cordial,
man because I was still here and it is true that I President. Now, most of were you antagonistic or
smarting; a littla bit. tinder just say that I called Clark these calls were conceal- hostile toward each other,
the eanceliatiein of the June McGregor with sonic fear trated on Mr. Dean trying to why did yOU have such vary-
28 meeting: and trepidation becaus.e. I prevail on you not to go ing viewpoints?
Q. Let ma read ftirther didn't have all of the specif- t hroug,h with the inquisition A. I thought the rciledeitn'a?ez
now, still otirLine General ies. I had General Walters of Mr. &gamin or Mr. Dahl- ship was friendly and cordial
Walters. The Pr,iis'-ient said continued reiteration that if berg. Didn't this indicate to and I have no reeson to be-
then. and I citiota, "Then I he \vas direvted to write you, Mr. Gray, that theN. was lieve..it is other than that
shot ld get ri?ti of whoever such a letter to nie he would an atteallpte coverim ema-
is involved re na7ater hnva resign and we did discuss nating frottl the White House? tadQI.YYou siispect it may he
high, Grey rerl'tel, that was his resignation and I even A. No, sir, it. (lid not he less friendly and cordial
his reicernmcnclation." DM mentioned to him I hart al- cause all along we in discuss- after disnutine, him on 27
that nonversation lake place? ready said this to my people. ing, our various theories had major issues?
A. Senator Tali-dada?, I sEN.A.TOR INOUYE: Now, c.onsiciared that there was the
have no, abso:uteiy no t;,-.0,ssibilitv that this \vas a A. I don't think so because
on l\larch 23 of this year you I fa-Ad hh-n. this in the aesistant
atell'Ory 01 that. and ray rt-- had a conveineition. a tele- ,' ? A. covert eeeration, a tl.Ft. Attorney Offiea, "Dick,
collectic,n (A. l'llY cill:1%-crl- pltone conversation with the. C.I.A. money clizint-te, a p" it this. isn't the way it hap-
,.'OTS,C,efl,. and you have just ical operation, a riii.litical pilled and this is not my
tierI with ti-.e Pnrasident is SS L ; ; 1-
I have lestilicti to A rd I money chaile,e, and. if I had ree.olleetion or memory of it
testiiet1 that \viten the Presi-
have , siili:?Mtteri, to t..i.; deli satftl, '-'1'--it:. renteinher. 1 any in it e.t. ri !I en this
at all." And my cutra;!.e
e.:.:i.,ihd.s., told you to conduct a thor- CH? it was ?.ealaus counsel en I first saw a li7i.`,'parT.r
5:7,17e r:?.=-ror,' -,.:',:::?!.) reiah investii,ation,"you F:: Ci Lyi,17, l-i a",..-OiCi po1;1c:-,1 ern- ie!e ceiiiimentiner, on his
1,,,,,i-Lis5m,:int. to iii,-, Frasident, ,
G,:inei'll kV"ji ' 7 e:-S' ;,?:::.,*:?? 1,i',!", il 10:1y \;' "IS Very lilt 53
you had an eeiie feeliee.
raents. 1 ,ler.n l---nirate we What. did vot: mean hy that? len- 1 i.lia not reely have any and toal.
on that. '
Q. Your outnitie? A. Yes,
aIt l,;:t fi- ;Tata hat I '.'2- A. Yes, I ti-.caeitt it v.ias c'llNATOI: T-ii:VIN: We 'nave sir.
lieve tit:it Lit 1: i ''-.'n ri?...:-
tri...?;ea to 7-tit t eaeasno
' fernitht
-..it on o-ei
, on tr, s..- -elk, ee:etiee ii, the e.
t:-.ft' than' i id. a . oait lli(ire
hin any one .ii- tv..0,
at tiii,t taint'. en i ,.,-ii i-- 7?1
;',' -'"It'k tO t ; IS .11-1,!V
in tlicoa in iriiireoe. CII cu',
6th ceilvei -.cin.
not direct unte..t.
Q. Are on surT,e;ting that
Tim Presikntial Aliii t the Presider,: was pm-Lim-YU:15_ -:' I `...' 11 'I'"1 '
Q. Let me teL so u Is.,PProved:Fronlkieleasek40100107/011:hCIPLARER941y00941'A'AR' 0 71101i) 'MY
h:. pue Aiu i,1? in, about
time, Senator Inouye-, I ciidn't versation? A, IiIo, sir, I had no
thing that I think is very
impoi taut. 'Me only evidence know' Conti11110.:!
that these conversa- knowledge of that.
III thari evimplas cif
f" \ th,d ceeraiie? A.
'1).:"' s.r, that 111 00 men had
tiyeeti you and Findichnian. anpm.ently had a meeting at
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By William V. Shannon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6?President
Nixon has beep ''toughing it out" for
more than four months since, accord-
ing to his own statement, he was told
? the facts about Watergate on March
21. H. R. HaldeMan and John D. Ehr-
lichman, his two principal aides, have
now told their version of events to
the Senate Watergate Committee.
? .Where does the case for Mr. Nixon
now stand?
The most striking feature of the
situation is that Mr. Nixon's public
statements and the Ehrlichman-Halde-
man testimony are contradicted by
the testimony of most of the other
witnesses. The weight of the evidence
is that regardless of what Mr. Nixon
may have known prior to the Water-
gate break-in, he was aware of the
subsequent cover-up and, in ae broad
sense, directed it.
He knew, for example, that his sen-
ior aides were engaged in an effort to
contain the Watergate case and pre-
vent the exposure of higher-ups in the
White House and in his campaign or-
ganization. Even more important than
protecting those individuals, perhaps,
was Mr. Nixon's desire that Gordon
Liddy and Howard Hunt, two of the
Watergate defendants, not reveal the
burglaries and other illegal acts which
he, the President, had authorized when
they were working as "the White
House plumbers."
In his May 22 statement, Mr. Nixon
said, "Within a few days lof the
break-in) I was advised that there
was a possibility of C.I.A. involve-
ment in some way." ?
He has never been willing to ex-
plain who advised him. He presum-
ably means that Mr. Haldeman or Mr.
Lhrlichman pointed out to him that
since several of the Watergate bur-
glars had past C.I.A. connections, it
might be possible to pass off the
Watergate burgiary as some super-
secret C.I.A. operation.
Fearing that C.I.A. Director Richard
Helms would not cooperate, the Presi-
dent directed his afties to use Gen.
vet non \\:l es. formerlv the Presi-
dent's interpreter and pi*: six ye:Th:1
in Ms joh as No. 2 man at C.I.A., as
their agent to head off the LIU.
l'ottneately. (ieeeral Walters tottid
(Li 1(01-
ti:.\;110 i!?:;Kr? tf)
1-.II.1 L.
v t he C.I.A. 1.,
2t1, !LC,mi
HO and Mr. C;ray agreed they wool,' Siy ne yet :1101 i- nubile statement
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phony basis that C.I.A. activity in
Mexico might be exposed.
Mr. Gray communicated their con-
cerns in his now-famous teleohow,
.conversation with the President on.
?July 6, 1972. He borrowed General
Walters' phrase that Mr. Nixon's own
-senior aides might "mortally wound"
the President if they persisted in try-
ing to prostitute the C.I.A. and the
F.B.I. to cover up a domestic political -
scandal. Mr. Nixon did not ask the '
innocent Mr. Gray who those White
House aides were since he knew very
well who they were and that they-,
were acting on his instructions.
In view of the resistance put up by
Mr. Gray and General Walters, the
President and his aides abandoned the
C.I.A. ploy in mid-July. But any notion
that an innocent President was mis-
used by his own subordinates is un-
tenable. As Senator Talmadge's ques-
tioning of Mr. Gray brought out, the
President had received a warning on
July6 that any "prudent and reason-
able" person would regard as suffi- ?
cient, presuming that person had been
in the dark up to that lime.
Mr. Ehrlichman has testified that he
was aware in the summer of 1972 that
Mr. Kalmbach, the President's private
attorney, was raising money for the
defendants. It is inconceivable that he
withheld this information from the
President.
On April 30, in his 'televised address
to the nation on Watergate, Mr. Nixon
Stated that "on March 21, I personally
assumed the responsibility for coordi-
nating intensive new inquiries into the
matter and I personally ordered those
conducing the investigations to get all
the facts and to report them directly
to roe right here in this oi-ftc.e."
But, as Senator Weiel:er demon-
strated in his questioning, the Presi-
(Lint 'lover called Mr. Gray to press
for a wider or more vigorous investi-
gation during the '.veeltc between
March 21 and April 27 when he re-
signed as Acting Director of the F.B.I.
The lialdeman-Ehrliehmen te.;aimony:!
tried repeatedly to pail!
limn nrchviltain cr the whole
H.; seten to:s. hut
in the tiehi tnerarehl.ni ; rt.nenenents
of the si\en Whe ? House, a riiddie-
rae;, ,igute such as Hr. De.to crui:d
lice etwei,:ctoci e:.tene,.0 Coe-
t--un en his a?e: \-..ord of
i; 0,11d
:
v, dt) 11UL
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Amiable,
Loyal,
larneless
WASHINGTON?From H. R. Halde-
man, the crew-cut former straw boss
of the Nixon White House, came gen-
eral denials but forgetfulness on key
points. From defenders of the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation came evidence
?of early warnings to President Nixon.
And from Mr. Nixon himself came re-
newed determination not to bend the
line behind which he has encamped
himself and his declared Constitutional
prerogatives.
So passed another week when the
? Watergate case eclipsed all other news,
even the once-unthinkable prospect of
an American beef shortage. The ulti-
mate questions of guilt moved no
closer to tesolution; in fact, as has So
often been the case, more questions
were raised than answered. The old
controversy about influencemeddling
in an international Telephone and
Telegraph antitrust suit was reopened
and a new partisanship marred the de-
liberations of the Senate Wateigate
Committee. And the committee was
shocked by the almost casual dis-
closure of its star witness that he had
been given several key, secretly made
tape recordings by President Nixon?
the very evideace the President is
guarding in a legal confrontation with
the Senators.
The committee was approaching the
end of the first of its three investi-
gatory phases; it will probsbly recess
late next week for a rest the investi-
gators. and .F.-ri-,7_;;ls the nation, clearly
need. There is numb more to come,
enough to feed a steady etteam of
new developments through the rest
of 1973.
Last week belonecd. to Iteb linide--
man; and if his carnal it:min:Mat
as 'Cm! p.)Weri.1,11,
Na. 2 mao of trot :ixor; Adminis-
tration ws to 1-):,
11,-;Ve (10;P:h
V1"1, ht?C'fi aivaitad, inerettm he vas
closer to It:, Nixon hen :my miler
t
5 AUG .1973
saw little of him. Before Mr. Halde-
man took the witness stand, there re-
mained a few more moments with the
other half of the Nixon's former first
team, John D. Ehrlichman. Mr. Ehrlich-
man, surely the feistiest witness the
committee has heard to date, ended
as he had begun with professions of
loyalty to the President.
The President's Man
Mr. Haldeman was different?from
.his reputation as well from his old col-
league. From the moment he began
reading his opening statement, it was
clear that Mr. Haldeman had no inten-
tion of emulating Mr. Ehrlichman's be-
havior. His voice was mellow and
calm, his demeanor deferential; indeed,
it seemed to some that he and Mr.
Ehrlichman had exchanged personali-
ties. Arguing that he and Mr. Nixon
had been "badly misled" by John Dean
and others, he totally identified him-
self with the President. He sounded his
tonic note early: "I have full confi-
dence. that when the entire truth is
known, it will be clear to the American
people that President Nixon had no
knowledge of or involvement in either
the Watergate affair itself or the sub-
sequent effort of a 'cover-up' of the
Watergate."
But as the questioning proceeded,
Mr. Haldeman was unable to recall the
important details about a large number
of key incidents described by other wit-
nesses. He had no clear memory, for
example, of when he first learned of
the Watergate incident itself (he ad-
mitted that that was "incredible"); of
Mr. Dean's alleged warning about G.
Gordon Liddy, one of the convicted
conspirators.
Perhaps roost significant for the
criminal investigation now being con-
ducted by Special Prosecutor Archibald
Ccor, Mr. Haldeman also professed i;t-
norance of two other matters: the Intl-
nete use of a .,',;!"),21,000 cash fund In
controlled in the ??,Vite House, and no
order to his youthful aide, Gordon
Strachan, to make sure Mr. Halde.-
man's files were "clean." Mr. Strachan
swore he got the order from Mr. Hal-
deman aft er the Watergate. scandal
broke and shredded documents thet
weadd otherwise hese been hey evi-
dence in the investigation.
In his opening stincenent, Mr. Halde-
roan had almost off-Mei-alertly pictured
the 1)retierats as hming been in-
volved in far mete imis political
sabot mte, Melon:me burning of oe-
pot:them offices ham:se:emit of
emendates' faPinch-
lb-assea, than the Pepo-
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ers or Communists had financed dem-
onstrations engaged in by supporters
of Mr. Nixon's opponent, George Mc-
Govern.
The Tapes
But nothing Mr. Haldeman had to
say so astounded the Senators as what
he disclosed about the tape recordings
made by equipment secreted in the
various Presidential offices in the
spring of 1971. The members of the
committee have come to view the
recordings as well-nigh indispensable .
in their effort to extricate themselves
from the Sargasso Sea of contradic-
tion the witnesses have left them in,
and when Mr. Heideman said on Mon-
day that he had listened to some of
the tapes, in one case long after leav-
ing the White House, they were
astonished.
Although Mr. Nixon had insisted .
that the tapes were under his "sole
personal control," Mr. Haldeman told
of keeping several of them at his
house for 48 hours earlier this month
while listening to one key recording
at Mr. Nixon's request. His lawyer,
John J. Wilson, read a White House
letter asking Mr. Haldeman not to dis-
cuss what he had heard, but Mr.
Haldeman seemed curiously ready not
to comply, and he testified freely on
the tapes' contents when the commit-
tee instructed him to. He said, among
other things, that the tapes of meet-
ings between the President and Mr.
Dean in September, 1972, and March,
1973, disproved. Mr. Dean's argument
that Mr. Nixon had known of the
cover-up and, in effect, participated
in it during discussions of executive
clemency and big-money payoffs to
silence thom arrested in the break-in
at Democratic National Headquarters.
Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., the com-
mittee chairman, was openly skep-
tical; he suspected, he said, that there
had been little "canoodling temether"
by the White Konse and Mr. Halde-
man to leak a laundered version of
the key Laees while keeping the re-
cordings themselves from the commit-
tee.
Other Senators had other questions.
Mr. Weielter wondered how, in all
fairness, the White House conld permit
Mr.Haldeman to hear the tapes iinnle
denying that privilege to Mr. Dean
and others Mvolved in the case. Sen-
ator Daniel K. Inouye, D.mmerat of
womlered how anyone CD1ild
be F.11;.0 that the tapes had .net been
altered M
while in r. liiddenneln; a-
SCCtiOfl, earliei ties month.
And Sarneet the chief counsel,
woedered tem' nlie Nixon could time
teem to el dm that ti', tepes me-
cemitMmi.t1 when he permitted etr.
NVeicher pitalm?ed a mem- ?
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Straight From the Shoulder
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters is an authentic
American hero. He was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the United States Army in 1991
and served in North Africa and Italy in World
War II. He advanced through grades to his
present high rank.
He has earned the Distinguished Service
Medal and the Legion of Merit and has been
decorated by France with the Legion of Hon-
or end the Croix de Guerre. Brazil conferred
on him the Combat Cross, and Italy honored
him with its Bronze Medal of Valor.
Lt. Gen. Walters, a multi-talented man who
speaks eight languages fluently, has served
three American presidents with distinction. He
was trusted as an interpreter in important in-
ternational conferences by Harry S Truman,
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon.
He now is deputy director of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency.
Appearing before the Senate Watergate com-
mittee, Gen. Walters testified straight from his
three-star shoulders.
With no -evasion, he said that John W. Dean
III, the dismissed White House counsel, is the
person who tried to make Watergate look like
a CIA operation. Walters' statement agreed
with testimony by Richard Helms, former CIA
director, and Marine Gen. Robert E. Cushman,
who preceded Walters as deputy director.
Thus has John Dean been identified as au-
thor of the attempted cover-up by a man who
wanted no part of it, and has not been tainted
In the least by the scandal.
Gen. Walters is clean. How clean is Dean?
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c.)
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By ADANt :CLYMER !would not necessarily have I that the CiA was untroubled
Was.hirt9ton Bureau of The sun been favorable to my unsup--: by the FBI inquiry in Mexico.
ported word. I would simply the CIA did nothing.
have involved the agency MI further publicity publicity ... Mr. Helms was also pressed
? Washington?The -Watergate
committee finished with the
real spies yesterday, and
during "his reigning Years
when he was Vice President."
?0?
Senator Edward J. Gurney
.
heard. with a bit of disappoint-1 "I believe that an effective; Thursday by Senator Howard (R., Fla.), who is not as re-
Served in his judgments as
merit that the Central Intelli-I,CIA is essential to the United H. Baker. Jr. (R., Tenn.) Senator Baker, reached one
gence Agency did not want to. I States and had I gotten us about why he had not at least
lake the risk of exposing the involved in . a donnybrook !investigated what the spy conclusion in public yesterday.
Watergate coverup , months I which I could notProve other equipment given E. Howard General Walters had testified
ago. I than by my unsupported word- Hunt was used for. Mr. Baker about Mr. Dean's request in
Lt.- Gen. Vernon A. Walters. 1 would not have served the also wondered why the CIA February for the return from
USA, the CIA's deputy direc-i purpose that I was attempting didn't launch an investigation the FBI of CIA information on
tor, had testified about being to serve." when it learned all five men the burglars' CIA connections.
asked in June, 1972, by John ? The general said he _thought
"At a distance" arrested in the Democratic na-
W. Dean 3d, the former White tional headquarters had CIA the reaSon for the request was
House counsel, if the agency He echoed the words cf his links. to point an "arrow at Lan-
would finance bail and pay former boss, Richard M. gley," [the CIA's headquar-
salaries for arrested Watergate Helms, who told the committee ? "FBI's job"
. ters] but -Senator Gurney
burglars. Thursday that he had not toldMr. Helms answered, "I thought Mr. Dean had some-
.
The general said he had re- Mr. Nixon because "My pteoc- thought frankly, that when thing else in mind.
fused and threatened to go to cupation at that time and all those individuals had been ar- "Motivation to me looks like
President Nixon if he were through these months was to rested, that that was the FBI's be wanted that material out of
ordered to do it. , keep the agency at a distance job." there so that it wouldn't be
Why, asked Senator Herman from this whole problem .... And Senator Baker. who fre- seen by prosecutors or some-
Talmadge (a, Ga.), since And 'since we had stood firm it quentiv explains to the televi- body in charge of prosecuting
he had evidence of a t onspir- seemed to me that that was sion audience that he is re_serv- the ease. It was definitely a
acy to obstruct justice by at
adequate under the circum- ing his judgment until all the. part of the coverup."
least one "of the closest confa stances. evidence is in, said with resig- ?o?
dants and advisers to the Pres- Mr. Helms had told the jcorn-nation "and so did the White But they weren't only saying
ident," did he not tell Mr. mittee he never thought of House:, things that 'look bad for Mr.
Nixon, whom he had known for telling the senior congressional
15 years? overseers of the CIA. "I do not Dean. Genera! Walters, like
A social note: General Wal- Mr. Helms and John D. Ehr-
, recall having thought that that,
"His word against mine" ters' acquaintance with the lichman, former White House
was an obligation I had at the
President dates back to 1953 domestic adviser, flatly contra-
In "the climate of this time. I thought that my job when he acted as translator dieted H.R. Haldeman at one
time," the general said, "the was to keep the agency clear
agency was under attack with of all this and as long as I
to Latin America in which the 1979, meeting that led to Gen-
various unjustified accusations. succeeded . . that was my job'
My interviews with Mr. Dean and my business." vice
presidential car was eral Walters going to see Mr.
stoned in Caracas, Venezuela. Gray and warning him to go
were alone. It was his word They did not want to gel
against mine, involved either in the publicity, Anniversary party (slow on the Mexican money
"If I had gone out and sim- or, perhaps, in a conflict with investigation. All hat Mr.
ply accused him of trying to the ?Vhile Ilcaise if they could Thereafter, said the general, Haldeman have said the Mexi-
involve me in something and help it. Once General Walters he used to see Mr. Nixon on can money was discussed at
ha said no, the environment in had persuaded L. Patrick Gray the anniversary of that event that meeting. ?
the United States at that time 3d, then acting FBI director, at aeaarty given by N1r; Nixon All four.were under oath.
C.- / /9-1 0 / /a at- 5 0,..aal 74-/ao
during Mr. Nixon's famous trip key point about theft June 23,
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A Dedicated Deputy of the C.I.A.:
His other talents kept him from a field command
(General Walters, center, with President Nixon in the Azores in 1971)
Vernon Anthony Walters
be vehemently contested by
his friends and supporters,
who say that the 56-year-old
general is an aggressively
brilliant man with a sophis-
tication and perception rare
for a soldier.
These people describe him
as a hard-working and dedi-
cated officer who looks on
Ins skills as an interpreter
Special to The New York Times why he had not made use of Hard-Working Officer with mixed emotions, be-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3? his long acquaintance with
This background has re- cause they have prevented
An angry, jeering mob sur- President Nixon to warn him
porte.dly been the object of him from attaining the field
rounded the limousine, beat- about the attempts to involve
considerable criticism by command that he has al-
ing. on the roof and chanting the C.I.A. in the Watergate,
C.I.A. career officials who ways wanted.
anti-American slogans. Inside cover-up.
feel that General Walters's In many ways, the course
the car that hot May after- General Walters sought to
experience . as an attach?s of the C.I.A. official's career
noon in Caracas 15 years ago minimize the relationship that
insufficient qualification for as set by his childhood.
was Richard M. Nixon, Vice John D. Ehrlichman had TO the agency post President Born in New York on Jan, 3,
President of the United portedly said made him a
"good friend of the White Nixon chose from for . on 1917, Vernon Walters was
March 2, 1972. the youngest of a wealthy in-
States,. who was on a "good
House" within the intelligence
will" tour of Eat- "His reputation," said one suranee agent's three chil-
Man in America. Sit- agency. person familiar with the dren. After suffering a series
ting in the front As a linguist fluent in C.I.A. yesterday, "Is that of of financial reverse, his
In the seat was an
eight languages, General a guy who speaks in four or father, decided in 1923 that
?
News American Army Walters has served a range five languages and thinks in the family could live better
of prominent political figures none."
' colonel, Dick in France.
Walters, who was serving as He was in Paris 'as an aide But that assessment would Enlisted in 1941
his interpreter. Recalling his to W. Averell Harriman in
harrowing experience four the early years of the cold The family moved there,
years later, Mr. Nixon wrote war, with President Truman and during vacations traveled
in his book "Six Crises": at his historic meeting with in Europe. Vernon Walters.
"One of the ringleaders?a General of the Army Douglas learned Spanish and Italian
typical tough thug?started MacArthur and with Presi- as well as French.
to bash in the window next dent Eisenhower at Geneva After graduating from a
to me with a big iron pipe. .in 1953. French lyc6e, Mr. Walters
The shatterproof glass- did More recently, he won the attended Stonyhurst college
not break, but it splattered respect of Democrats like in England, where a cousin
of his mother's, a Jesuit
into the car. Walters got a Lincoln Gordon and Sargent
mouthful, and I thought for Shrivel' for the grasp of local priest, was the rector.
General Walters enlisted ?
an instant. 'There goes my conditions that he acquired
interpreter.'" as military attach?n the Rio in the Army as a private in
de Janeiro and Paris Era- 1941. Within a year he was
Relationship Minimized bassies. made an officer in intelli-
Vernon Anthony Walters The career of the husky 6- gence, By the end of the war
he was a major. He decided
survived what Mr. Nixon foot-3-inch general has been
would call the fourth of his unorthodox in many ways. to make the Army his ca-
"Six Crises" and now finds He is not. a West Poin gra d A bachelor General W l-
t u-
himself, as deputy director Of ate and has never had a field reer.
, a
ters cared for Ins mother for
the Cent re.1 In te!ii.gence command, Much of his sue- many year; until her death.
Agency, playing a major role cess seems based on his abil- As military attache in
in Mr. Nixon's seventh crisis, ity as an interpreter and as
the Watergate scandal. a military attache who could Paris, he entertained fre-
quently. lie lives more
Today, Mr. Walters. now a. cultivate extensive contacts quietly now in the officers
lieutenant general, testified ' Va.
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risks taken in bug in caper
Senate Select committee on
presidential Campaign activities.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL VER-
-' NON WALTERS, deputy director of
the .Central Intelligence Agency,
. said -Mr IL R. Haldeman (the for-
mer White House chief of staff)
directed the CIA to warn the FBI
that investigations in Mexico about
0 the ? Watergate break-in would
jeopardize covert CIA operations
south of the border.
IJe told the committee that Mr
Haldeman's request " was put in
a directive form ".
General Walters said he and Mr
Richard Helms (the former CIA
director) were summoned to the
White House on June 23 ; five
days after the break-in at the
Democratic ? Party headquarters.
The meeting was also attended by
Mr Haldeman and Mr John
Ehrlichman (President . Nixon's
former chief domestic -affairs
adviser).
Mr Haldeman did most. of the
talking : he told them the bugging
was " creating a lot of noise, the
opposition was attempting to maxi-
mize it, that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation inquiries might lead
to some important people, and he
asked what the CIA. connexion
was ".
General Walters said Mr Helms
was emphatic that there was no CIA
connexion in the affair. But Mr
Haldeman said that " nevertheless
there is concern that these (FBI)
iavestigations in Mexico may ex-
pose sonic CIA covert activity in
Mexico ". ? --
The general said Mr Haldeman
told them : " It has been decided
that you (Walters) will tell this
to acting FBI director (Patrick)
Gray."
" It was put in a directive form.
I understood that to be a direc-
tion. And since Mr Haldeman was
very close to the top of the
Governmental structure of the
United States, and as the White
house has a great deal of informa-
tion that other people do not
have I found it quite con-
ceivable that Mr Haldeman had
access to some information that
was not available to me."
General Walters told the coin-
?mittee that he met Mr Dean on
June 26 and was told that he
was handling the Watergate affair
for the White House. Mr Dean
repeated that the affair was
causing a great deal of embarrass-
ment and trouble and that FBI
leads were leading to important
people.
According to the general, Mr
Dean kept pressing the point that
the five people found inside
Democratic Fatly Party headqteerere, In
the Watergate had we, kei or the
CIA in the past
''It seereett tr. me that he was
explo-eae-- l:am options and seeing
ne could put some of the
ltiame on us. I said to him:
Dean, any attrmpr lo Involve
aeency in the stiiline of is
affair would be a disaster. It
would destroy the credibility of
the agency with the Coneress, v?]:11
the nation, it would be a grin-0
disservice to the President. I it ill
not be a part of it and I ant quite
prepared to resign before I will
imolicate the agencYAPPrdWd
mditcr
General Walters said this
seemed to shock Mr Dean but he
" somewhat reluctantly seemed to
accept this line of argument ".
The general said he - began
making notes and memoranda of
his meetings on Watergate after
'Mr Dean suggested the CIA might
help the defendants with bail,
family support on legal. foes,
In one memorandum. 'written on
June 29, the general said he told
Mr Dean : " My mind boggled at
such risks as those involved in
this caper could have been taken
for such an. unremunerative
bargain.
" Involving the (Central Intelli-
gence) agency would transfer what
is now a medium-sized conventional
explosive into a multi-megaton
exposition and simply was not
worth the risk to all concerned."
A memorandum on the June 2.3
White. House meeting stated :
" Haldeman said the whole affair
was getting embarrassing and that
it was the President's wish that
Walters call on acting (FBI) Dir-
ector L. Patrick Gray and suggest
to him that, since the five suspects
had been arrested, this should be
sufficient and that it was not
advantageous .to have this inquiry
pushed, especially in Mexico.''
GENERAL WALTERS said Mr
Dean did not indicate at any time
the origin of tile case.
Ile recalled that he lied read a
newspaper article at lime time to
the effect that the Cubans might
be involved in order to find out the
Policy of the Democratic Party if
elected in 1972.
Ile added that Mr Dean obviously
understood this as a suggestion that
be should try to blame the Cubans.
" In retrospect ", said General
Walters, " I should have corrected
him. . . . just as I believe the
agency's involvement could not be
bidden, the false implication of the
Cubans could not he sustained."
MR SAM DASH (chief counsel of
the committee) introduced copies
of memoranda which General Wal-
ters had written concerning conver-
sations he had with Mr Dean at
various times in June and July,
1972.
These reported Mr Gray as saying
that pressures were mounting for
him to continue the investigation
and, unless he received a letter from
the CIA that the further investiga-
tion in Mexico would uncover CIA
efforts, he would have to go ahead.
. GENERAL WALTERS said he
told Mr Cm-ay that he could not tell
him or write to him that pursuit
nf the investigation would in any
waY jeopardize CIA activities in.
Mexico.
Mr Gray said he had told Mr
Haldeman and Mr Ehrlichman
that he could not possibly, suppress
the investigation into the matter.
The general added that he told
Mr Gray that, whatever the un-
pleasant implications of Watergate,
to involve the CIA would not serve
the President's intercests,
He had told Mr Gray he would
write such a letter as requested
only under the direction of the
President and if pushed would be
prepared to resign.
General Walters quoted Mr GraV
STAT
told Mr Haldeman arid Mr Ehrlich-
man he would be prepared to re-
sign. He had also said his resigna-
tion would raise Wally questions
and would be detrimental to the
President's interests.
Mr Gray said further that he did
not sec he should act to protect
some middle White House figures
who had acted imprudently.
Finally, said General Walters, he
had said that if he were directed
to write the letter and to jeopar-
dize the interests of the United
States he would ask to see the
President and tell- him the. dis-
service tins would do to Ins
Interests.
On July G, General Walters said
Mr Gray told him of a telephone
call he had received from Presi-
dent Nixon congratulating him on
the FBI action which had frustrated
the hijacking of an aircraft in San
Francisco. The President had also
asked him about the Watergate case
and Mr Gray replied that he bad
conferred with General Walters
about the matter.
The President then asked him
Nvhat his recommendation was. Mr
Gray bad replied that the case
could not be covered up and would
lead quite high and that he felt the
President should ger rid of the
people that were involved.
'Any attempt to involve the FBI
and the CIA would only prove a
mortal wound and would achieve
nothing, Mr Gray further told the
President.
The President replied: " Then I
should get rid of whoever was in-
volved, no matter how high."
Mr Gray replied that was his
recommendation.
Mr Nixon then asked what Gen-
eral Walters thought mid Mr Gray
told hlin their vie?vs were the same.
" The President took it well and
thanked Gray ", the memora.ndum
added.
Later that day, Mr Gray lied
talked to Mr Dean and reported the
conversation to him. Mr Dean had
said " Okay ".
General Walters also read from
another memorandum of a con-
versation with Mr Gray respecting
a proposal by Mr Dean to -remove
from the Justice Department the
package containing all the material
on the Watergate case given to it
by the agency, as it was no longer
needed for investigation, and leav-
ing simply a card in the file. The
Package in pilot OgrapliS
taken with the camera which MS
Hunt had obtained from the
agency.
Mr James Schlesinger (who
came into the CIA early this year
as the new director) was not
familial- with the package but
General Walters went over with
him the various approaches so that
he was generally familiar with the
background.
General Walters said he believed
he and Mr Sclatesintier agreed that
tiiMply to leave a card in the
as suggested, would be pointing an
arrow to the CIA. It was decided
it would be out of the Question and
to tell Mr Dean s(1.
MR FREDERICK THOMPSON,
(the conunittee's chief Republican
counsel), asked General Walters
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attended with White House figures
after the Watergate break-in.
GENERAL WALTERS : "Mr
Dean's exploration of whether the
CIA could produce bail and pay the
salaries of the (Watergate) defend-
ants while they were in jail. I wa?
struck by his insistence that t'
CIA was somehow involved, his
sistence on trying to drag us .Oto
it."
SENATOR JOSEPH fOYA
(Democrat, New Mexic asked
General Walters : " Is i, "our feel-
ing that the White It .USe?those
individuals with whOnt you were
talking?were trying to use you for
some ulterior motive ? "
GENERAL WALTERS said he
had no reason to doubt that the
White House had inforniation
'which lie did not have. He said he
did not ask for more clarification
because he did not see anything
imnrope.r going on.
SENATOR MONTOYA asked
General Walters, in view of
" attempts by some people at the
White House " to involve the CIA
in tasks outside its scone, " what
recommendations do you have to
make to this committee so that it
might not occur in the future ? "
- GENERAL WALTERS said it
would be presumptuous 'to tell the
committee its job. Ile did not know
how one could legislate honesty and
decency?" you have got to get the
right people tor posts of trust ".
SENATOR MONTOYA ; "Do
you feel there should be some pro-
vision in the law governing the
CIA requiring its director or
deputy director or any employee to
report to an oversight committee
in Congress when some.oue in the
executive or any other department
-tries to use the' CIA ' fin' political
purposes ? "
GENERAL WALTERS replied
that could be one solution.
- SENATOR HERMAN TAL-
MADGE (Democrat, Georgia) asked
General Walters why, if he felt
there was a conspiracy under way
among close associates of the
President to obstruct justice, did
he not inform Mr Nixon.
GENERAL WALTERS: " I don't
quite take the same assumption
that you do, but, to go back to the
climate at that time, the agency
was under attack with various un-
justified accusations.
" My interviews with Mr Dean
were alone?it was his word against
mine ", he said. " If I had gone
out and simply accused him of try-
ing to involve me in something and
he had said ' no ', the environment
in the United States at that time
would not necessarily have been
favourable to my unsupported
word.
" I would simply have Involved
the agency in further publicity ill
support of something I could not
prove other than by iny state-
ment....
" Had I gcnton us (the CIA) in-
VOlveci io a Donnybrook which I
could not prove other than by my
unsupported word, I could not have
served the purpose that t was
attempting to serve." -
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mittee's vice-chairman) said that
three thick volumes of classified
-documents sent by the CIA to the
Senate appropriations committee
were now in possession of the
Watergate investigating committee.
From them he read a series of
letters addressed. to Mr Paul Gay-
nor, identified as a CIN. official.
by Mr James McCord (one of the
principals in the Watergate
break-in).
Several of the letters supported
. evidence he gave several weeks
ago to the committee to the effect
That " the outfit " had tried to
lay the blame for th?e Walergat,.
affair on the C/A, and charging
that his telephones . had 'been
? tapped illegally.
Asked his opinion' why Mr
McCord ? had written, he said
McCord was a former CIA ern
ployee, who still had an intense
feeling of loyalty to the agency and
,-believed somebody was trying to
blame it for the affair.
SENATOR SAM ERVIN (thr,
committee's chairman) said the
letters seemed to corroborate the
testimony given by Mr McCord to
the effect that there was a plan
among some purple Co blame
Watergate on the CIA and that he
resented it ond believed the CIA
was not implicated.
SENATOR LOWELL WEICKER
(Republican, Connecticu() referred
General Walters to tha memoran-
dum in which he said that Mr
Haldeman had asked bite to tell the
FBI director timt the Watergate
atfair could become embarrassing
awl suggested that, with the
original five suspects, this would
be sufficient and not to have the
inquiry ?pashech., especially . In
.Mexico. ? ? ? '
Do you think that discussion
was substantial ? enough so that a
man of normal recall would remem-
ber' it ? " he asked. ,
GENERAL WALTERS : "The
way I understood it was he felt that
if the FBI continued its investiga-
tion in Mexico, in some Way which
was not clear to me, it could un-
cover either personnel or activities
of the agency in Mexico."
SENATOR WE1CKER : "Sn it
did come un then in more than just
a casual way ? "
" GENERAL WALTERS : " Oh, it
was quite s He added that
the rem to the FBI, in a sense,
not V- ush the investigation was
lime .. only to Mexico and
se-',iere else.
dNATOR WEICKER then read
rpm the transcript a part of the
quesdoning of Mr Haldeman
earlier -this week. Mr Haldeman
was zmked whether he recalled dis-
cussing at the meeting with General
Walters that one of the !concerns!
was that the CIA might want to
have an investigation by the FBI
with regard to the Mexican money.
Mr Haldeman had replied : " No,
I do uric."
'When asked if the meeting had
discussvd, the Mexican relationship,
Mr Haldeman responded : " I?
don't recall the Mexican question
tieing raised either by tile Presi-
dent thin morning in his instruc-
tions to me to hold the meeting,,
or by me in the meeting."
The Senator asked : " Do you
dispute Mr lialdeman's testimony
Oil that point. ? "
C EN FRAI, WALTERS : " I must
stand on my own recollection of
the matter."
General Wallet's was excused',
from the witness chair and the!
committee adjourned for lunch.--,7?,,
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ENERAL _VERNON. WALTERS;' 'deputy .
-.director- -of - the' Central ...Intelligence
Agency, told the - Senate*', :Watergate.;:?.;:;
':..Committee?yesterday how:White?House staff::
tried to involve the CIA in the WatergateCOVCi up-,
'!`.' ?
' -'? ,.. ?
, here was so much White House pressure on
C I A and the Federal Bureau Of Investigation afterlhe .
-....:Watergate 'burglary on June V,.197.2, that .he arid Mr..!:.;
Patrick 'Gray,- former acting F B I direc.tor, ;decided
they should protect the ?
President from his would-
be protectors." .?
General Walters said. Mr
Gray: told Presiden t Nixon on
'July 6 last yciar that he was
in. danger of ? being wounded
? by people .around him.
Mr Gray told the Pyesident
that the F B I investtgation would
lead quite and the Water-
gate case could not be covered-
up.
Recounting the, conversation
second-hand, Gen. Waltei-s said
Mr Nixon ?then asked Mr Gray:
"Then I should get rid of who-
ever is involved no matter how
high? "
Mr Gray said yes. zlc(.-.ordint:
to Gen. Walters, and the
dent then told Mr Gra.. to pro-
ceed with the investigation. -
Something wrong
Senator Iterei.Ln
ashe.d (;011. \valter; it: he ..cati
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'three 3ved,s after ll,(? 13real:?in
at Dentecrat:( party lioaLiqiiai:cis
'Ali' Nixon c?.-- ttiTT " there
soietlia zo,n-,L on 15101111, in he
1\'hite and he u?.e.itt
to ci)rrect
Grnoral r it as: 'I hat wok',
iov
Gr211(`1?1?11 NV.I:trrs. si;c1 that ci\
(lays alter th,,
lacy. Mr It
1'17-m-111,1:1
instruc ted cc ii ar ..? Nt
to hunt tt:r rxr,
\
, ? 1:-.?
( -111%
'[he -General- said -neither. ha
nor Mr Richard llcliiis, the CIA
director, tLnew., of any C PA
operation which 'rnir.Llit have been
exposed, but Mr Haldeman was
insistent.. -4'.
General Waters said he passed
the message to Mr 4-.;rFIY. ? .
Mr Ilaldentan has said that he.
merely 'inquired whether -
vigorous T' 13 T. investigation
mieht uncovro some CI A.
seiTets and that he told Gen.
Walters to talk to Mr Gray only
after the C 1 A failed to give any
fiat as.surance that no secrets
would be C1Nposed.
General W:11:ers told ihe?Corn-
mittee that Mr Haldeman 1-1,;(1
specific-ally mentioned the Nixon
campaien money from :Mexico,
hut ? Mr Halt:leo-tan said in
evidence that the money had not
been mentioned.
Tttil request.
Ge.ne;?:11 Walters said he Passed
met Mr hahn Dean, the ? dis-
missed ?White llour,e counsel,
three- times in late Tune, 1973,
Ile coniirirp-d earlier evidence
from Mr Bichard I minis, former
C 1 A director. that :qr. Doan
asked him ?,shelltee ? the C I A
could ttntv bad . for the seven
\+,?pieriate but rlars and put;
tI;cni 01 I c I A while
they served prison sentences.
? lie said '? he' 'began
notes and memoranda. ot tics
meetings on Watergate after
Dean's request. ?
..one, written' 'on :June.; 29,:
-
Gen:' ,Walters 'said he told Mr ?
; Dean: " My 7' mind boggles at ?
such ,risks as those. involved in
this.caper could have. been taken
for .such ttn unremunerative
bargain. ? :?., .
." Involving the CIA would.
?? transfer what was now a
medium-sized .conventional
plosive into a multi-Megaton
plosion and simply was not
worth the risk to all concecnecl,',',
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. ?
The -General said. he -.refused
? to 'allow the agency-?to 'become
involved in the Watergate affair,
without' direct order from the.-
.President.- ? . ? . ?
At a meeting with Mr Dean.
"Dean said he was handling this
whole matter of the Watergate.
It was causing a- lot of --trouble.;
was very embarrassing. He .said
that the leads led to some impor-
tant people and .might, lead ? to?
some other 'important PeoPle."-"-
--:General ? Walters said he. re-'
? called that Mr- Dean told him
the:F 111 was following theories
that the Watergate burglary was
instigated by the __Bcpuhlican -
national committee. tag, the C I A. '
'I said don't know who
originated it, but the C IA- did
not. I said anything that would'
involve any government agency
like the C I A or FBI in anv-'
thing improper in this way would.
be a disaster for tlie. nation," .
t111.011;,11 I/ \
I A opetrinmis lii Ow country.
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Felt Dean,
vealed that he. had de,
-2'-stroyed the documents,
which consisted of two files
from the White House office
safe of Watergate conspira-
? tor E. Howard Hunt Jr.
Ehrlichman Gray described how and
why he destroyed the docu-
ments, and how the FBI in-
Expected It vestigated Watergate, in a
90-minute statement he
read yesterday afternoon
to the Senate Watergate
committee, which recessed
until Monday without ques-
tioning him.
Gray's statement compli-
cated an already tangled
web of contradictions on -
many points of testimony
heard by the committee in
nine weeks of hearings on
the Watergate investigation.
In significant, and per-
haps crucial respects. Gray's
description of conversations
he had with Ehrlichman
concerning the Hunt docu-
ments differs from what
'Ebrlichtnan had told the
Semite committee. Ehrlich-
man, once President Nixon's
top domestic adviser, re-
signed from the While
house staff under fire on
By Lawrence Meyer
Washington Post Staff W:Iter
L. Patrick Gray
? who resigned in disgrace
as acting director of the
FBI last April, testified
yesterday that lie burned
documents related to the
? Watergate investigation
because White House
aides John D. Ehrlich.
man and John W. Dean
III had given them to
him with "the clear impli-
cation' that they should
' be destroyed.
"It is true that neither
Mr. Ehrlich man nor Mr.
Dean expressly instructed
me to destroy the files,"
Gray told the Senate Select April 30.
Watergate Committee. "But Gray's statement also con-
there was, and is. no cieuht filets with the testimony of
in my mind that destruction deputy CIA director LI. Gen.
was intended. Ncither Alr.?.--\;',-rnoit A. Walters. who pre-
Dean nor Mr. Ehrlichman
said or implied that 1 was
being given the documents
personally merely to safe-
guard against
Calling his destruction of
the documents in late De-
cernher. 1972, a -;:rievous
misjudzment." GroY said he
ceded Gray at the witness in-
Plc. Itoth Gray and Walters
lestilied about a series of
meetings they had in June
072, to discuss the
note:nisi! risks to CIA. opera-
tions ii M-.!xico posed by the
1111's inv,,thatien of the
V,-;'!cri.:;:l:! affair. 'rimy e?cn-
Wil`s a -sense of tigy redeleiled tint 1111 iRtt
shame" tel he added. "I. ri er any ',thee Ffli-CIA
shall carry the hurclen of
that act with me alv:ays." In addition, Gray's state-
Gray resigned from the
n ent
FBI on A pri I 27, th rift
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ter it was first publicly re-
Dean, who was fired by
President Nixon on April 30.
Emerging clearly from the
testimony of both Gray and
Walters, however, was the
fact that Dean separately,
but simultaneously, was try-
ing to restrain the FBI in-
vestigation of the Watergate
affair by attempting to play
Walters and Gray against
each other.
According to Gray, the
FBI restrained its full hives-
. tigation of S111,000 in Nixon
..campaign funds, which had
passed through Watergate
"?conspirator Bernard L.
Barker's Miami bank ac-
count, because of Dean's
persistent assertions that
? the money involved the CIA.
- The FBI had traced $89,-
000 of that sum to a
Mexi-
can lawyer, Manuel Ogarrio,
and $25,000 to Minneapolis
industrialist Kenneth Dahl-
berg. Dean, according to
? Gray, continually linked the
two men as being involved
with the CIA.
At the same time, accord-
ing to Walters, Dean also
was talking to him, trying to
.persuade Walters that the
.CIA was somehow involved
in the Watergate break-in
and bugging. Even if the
agency was not involved in
the bugging, Walters said
Den n was suggesting, it
should assist in restraining
the FIll.
When Dean was unable to
get any assistance from the
CIA, according to the lcsli-
nvoly Dean calksd
Croy and told him that the
ittgarrio and Dahlberg
cheeks wore unrelated _to
. Watec:!ate. In fact. hov..ever.
OW SI Li.om provided uncon-
tested evideitce that the
Watergate break?in \vas ti-
former White House counsel
..:Re-election of the President
:.?, In contrast to his admis-
?sions about his own acts,
Gray continued to defend
the FBI's investigation of
the. Watergate break-in and
-bugging, which he described
as a "full-court press" in
? his abortive confirmation
hearings to becom perma-
r-,nent director of the FBI.
- . "Instructions were issued
,..at the outset of the investi-
? gation and regularly there-
'....after," Gray said yesterday,
? ensure that this case was-
-, handled as a major case
, under the immediate super-
vision of the special agent
. in Charge of each field office
,to which investigative leads
were referred by the Wash-
ington field office or any
i. other field office setting
out leads to be pursued."
Gray's defense of the FBI
and his assertion that lie
-would have resigned rather
-.,. than restrain the investiga-
... Lion posed a strange paradox
in view of his admission
that he had destroyed docu-
- ments.
- In human terms, Gray, who
sat before the committee
-ramrod-straight like the ex-
- -Navy captain that he is, must
be added to the litany of
- names whose lives and
Teers. have been shattered
by their involvement in the
'Watergate affair.
Gray abandoned his effort
to win confirmation by the
Senate to succeed J. Edgar
Hoover as Fit I director
when his handling of the
Watergate invest cation was
questioned as being too re-
:: sponsive to demands by the
White. House. As Ehrlich-
.. man's earlier Senate testi-
mony made clear, Gray was
also abandoned during the
confirmation procedure by his
nominal 590115015 in the Nixon
administration,
Then Gray's personal rep-
utation, the lifeblood of
any lawyer?which Gray
also is?was called into
question by his admission
that he bad destroyed the
Hunt documents. Although
Gray asserted that these
documents v.-ere not
"0,.'ideine" iii th- Watergate
that 1)(1,1ion may he
contradicted ba iederal
waturgate grand jury.
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Orders to ResErict
FBI Probe Jeai7ed
By Peter A. Jay
Washington Post Staff Writer
The deputy director of the
.Central Intelligence Agency,
tee Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters,
testified yesterday he was
ordered by presidential as-
sistant H. R. (Bob) Halde-
man to cite unspecified in-
telligence activities as a rea-
son why the Watergate in-
vestigation should not be
extended into Mexico.
Walters, appearing before
the Senate select Watergate
committee; said Haldeman
told him on ,June 23, 1972,
that the investigation of the
Watergate arrests six days
earlier could endanger co-
vert CIA operations in Mex-
ico and that Walters was to
go immediately to L. Patrick
Gray III, then the acting di-
rector of the FBI, and tell
him so.
Walters testified before
Gray at yesterday's hearing.
His account of Haldeman's
directive and subsequent
pressure from then White
House counsel John W.
Dean III for CIA assistance
in blunting the FBI's Water-
gate probe was similar in
detail to Thursday's tositi-
L-----Mntly by Richard M. Helms.
director of the CIA and
Walters' hiisq at the time of
the Watergate investigation.
Helms left tic' CIA and be-
came ambassador to Iran.
Gray, in his opening state-
ment, included a list of in-
cidents about which his rec-
ollection differed from Wal-
ters'. But most of the dif-
ferences appeared to be rel-
atively minor, as were the
few points at which Walters'
testimony varied from that.
of Ilulms.
Walters, referring - le
memorandums he prepared
at the tittle aiid has nrd
testimony this yrsi-
before con
sional comma: lice in rim:eft
session, it detailed ac-
count of a so: im-00
tacit : eItTid viiiieli
on Jame LI,
Dean, he sgid. ?, ;int
i: the CIA could
hail money for the five moo
offices of the Democratic
National Committee, or pay
their salaries while they
were in jail.
That conversation, he
said, gave him "for the first
time a clear indication
that something improper
was being explored." He
said he told Dean he would
have no part in any proposal
that "would implicate the
agency in something in
- which it is not implicated."
Walters said he had con-
sidered the original direc-
tive from Haldeman, given
at a meeting also attended
by Helms and presidential
assistant John D. Ehrlich-
man, to he unusual. But he
said he did not believe at
that point that he was being
asked to do anything im-
proper.
"I presumed Mr. Halde-
man had information that I
did not have," Walters said,
noting that at the time of
that meeting he had only
teen with the CIA six
weeks.
"Mr. Haldeman was a very.
well-informed man, close to
the top of the American
structure of government,"
he said, and it was possible
Haldeman knew of "some-
thing in this investigation
(that) would uncover assets
of the CIA" in Mexico.
He said he thought it pe-
culiar, however, that it was
he and not lie bus whom
Haldeman asked to visit
G say. "I thought perhaps he
thinks I am military, and a
lot of people have the mis-
taken belief that military
cliey blindly," Walters said
thought at the time.
'0iialters.a graing, heavy-
i-i matt of 5f-,, said that nor-
.0 hi., meetings with Dean
he n tiit hs?e
planted the idea
- Watee,ime hurglary
init's be disrdised
a
titilian flavor."
said he advisgd Dean
to remember that ":?iamials
had a short life in Washing-
urged him not to become
unduly agitated by this
one."
When Dean asked him if
he had any ideas, Walters
said, he replied that
"everyone knew the Cubans
?four of the five men ar-
rested at the Watergate
-were Cuban-Americans from
Miami) were conspiratorial
and anxious to know- what
the policies of both parties
would be toward Castro.
They therefore had a plausi-
ble motive for attempting
this amateurish job which
any skilled technician would
deplore."
At this point, Walters re-
called, Dean said something
to the effect that "this was
the best tack to take but it
might cost half a million
dollars."
From this remark, Wal-
ters said, he realized that
Dean "obviously thought I
was suggesting that he
could buy the Cubans." But
because he was "so relieved
at seeing him apparently
abandoning the idea of in-
volving the agency" in the
Watergate affair, Walters
said, he did not correct him.,
Throughout the period be-
lining with the June 23
meeting with Haldeman,
Ehrlichman a it d Helms
and continuing through the
three meetings with Dean
and several others with
Gray, Walters said, he
learned of no CIA activity
that could be jeopardized by
a thorough investigation of
- the Watergate affair.
He did say he told Gray,
however, when he first went
to see him on Haldeman's
instructions, that ''it would
be hest to taper off" the in-
vestigation in Mexico.
On June 23, the day of the
meeting in Haldeman's of-
fice at the White House and
the subsequent meeting be-
tween Gray and Walters, the
:Mexican implications of the
Watergate case first began
to appear publicly.
At a hail hearing for the
five defendants that day, As-
sistant U.S. Attorney Larl
Silhert alluded to checks
firflwn en a :Mexican honk.
totaling Sil9,000, that had
hren deposited in the Miami
hank account of Derimrd
Barker?one of the hurglars.
'I he nionlivi was later
found to he licpubliran earn- .
paign funds cycled thretuth
Helms testified Thursday
that as he and Walters were
leaving the meeting with
Haldeman, he told his dep-
. uty to make certain when
' he met with Gray that he
simply advise the FBI di-
rector of existing agree-
meets for cooperation be-
ween the FBI and CLA. Walt- -
ers was to make sure, Helms
said he told him, not to in-
volve the CIA in any way
with the Watergate affair.
Walters said yesterday
that he does not recall that
brief conversation - with
Helms as "being- quite as
limiting as Mr. Helms men-
tioned. At no time did he
tell me I was not to deliver
the message I had been
given."
Gray, in his account of
the meeting with Walters
that followed, said Walters
did not tell him he was
coming from the White.
House. "I understood him to
be stating a CIA position,
not a White House mes-
sage," he said.
Earlier yesterday, Walters -
had responded to question-
ing on this point, by saying
"I believe to the best of my
recollection that I told him
(Gray) I had come from the
White House, - that I had
talked to some senior peo-
ple there."
This contradiction was hut
one of many between Wal-
ters and Gray in their testi-
mony yesterday.
A major difference -be-
tween the two concerned
Gray's attitude toward the
FT-3I investigation of the
Watergate, already well tin-
der way by the time of the
June 23. meeting,
In his memorandum about
the first meetine, Waiters
wrote that Gray's ''problem
was how to low-key this mat-
ter (the investieation) now
that it was launched."
- Gray said that while -I
may have said words to this
ef feet to let hi m know that
we would handle the Cf.\ as-
pects of this matter with Lid
gloves." he never suggested
that "the FM investigation
would be other than a;Igres-
sive and thorough."
Gray also sought to rebut
in his opening :slat cirient to
the committee various other
assertions made by Walters
in his variou7
Ls;,ceral co Ii 0 cii"
Flit. given to con icessional
committees in eldscd-deor
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? ' By Oswald Johnston
-Star.tiews Staff Wrirer
The administration's claim that
"national -security" was the key to .
White House moves to hinder the .
_investigation of Watergate last year .
meets its strongest challenge to
date in the testimony of former act- -
ing FBI director.L.Patrick Gray. .
Gray, left by the White House to
"twist slowly, slowly in the wind"
when his aborted Senate confirma-
tion hearings last spring provided '
the first serious breaks in the case, -,
yesterday. gave the Senate Water-
-gate committee someof its most
Provocative leads so far. He' returns :L
Monday to be. questioned by the
-
committee.
Taken together with the testimony
in recent days of former CIA Direc-
tor Richard M. Helms and Deputy
Director Gen. Vernon A. Walters,
.Gray's testimony begins to form a
pattern of circumstantial evidence
which suggests:
0 That the White House had reason
to fear five days after the Water-
gate break-in that FBI investigators
would uncover direct links between
the Watergate burglars and Nixon's
campaign finances.
0 That the White' House a day later
tried to get the CIA to interfere with
the -FBI investigation of those links
. in the name of national security.
At one point, John D. Ehrlichman
stepped in personally to cancel a
meeting between Gray and Helms
at which the matter could have been
cleared up.
? Specifically, the Gray tes-
.!.,timony alleges that the
; White House, in the persons
of Ehrlichman and John W.
Dean III, tried to get Gray
to keep FBI investigators
from interviewing a Mexi-
,can lawyer who helped
. launder some GOP cam-
paign funds in Mexico City
and a Minnesota campaign
operative who moved a cash
donation through a Miami
'bank.
,. MONEY totaling S114,000
from both sources was
traced to the Miami bank
account of Watergate de-
fendant Bernard L,, Barker
Jess than a week after the
break-in, and some of the
money, in cash, was found
on the burglary team.
From Gray's statement,
taken together with the tes-
timony of Helms and Wal-
ters, the following chronolo-
gy emerges:
JUNE 17, 1972: The Wa-
tergate burglars, with their
electronic gear and their
hundred dollar bills and
other paraphernalia were
caught in Democratic Na-
tional Ilcadquarters in the
Watergate complex.
.'That the ViYhite Mouse still i
ll per- JUNE 20: Ehrlichman
nformed Gray that Dean
. ;? sisted in those of up to a week was handling the knite
after CIA of told them?and Ilouse investigation of Wa-
told Gray?that there was no natioa- tergate and told Gray to
al security motive for holding up the deal with Dean directly.
investif..!ation. ? The two met the next day to
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JUNE 22: Gray tele-'
phoned Helms to check on
the CIA antecedents of Bar-
o ker, James W. McCord, E.
Howard Hunt and two other
defendants. He was assured
there was no CIA involve-
ment.
The same day, Gray was.
briefed by FBI officials and
learned that Barker's Mi-
ami bank account contained
$114,000 of which $89,000
was traced to a Mexico City
lawyer named Manuel
Ogarrio Daguerre, and
$2.5,000 to one Kenneth Dahl- -
berg. ,
Later investigations re-
vealed that Ogarrio handled
'Nixon campaign money'
which originated, with cor?
porate donors in Houston
and passed through the con-
trol of campaign finance
. director Maurice Stalls on
the way to Barker. Dahl-
berg was Midwest cam-
paign finance chairman,
and he transferred S25,000
given him in cash in Miami
through a bank and thence
to Washington before it
reached Barker.
These details were un-
known to investigators on
, June 22, and Gray recalled
discussing the Ogarrio-
Dahlberg money with Dean
that evening. -A possible
? CIA connection with the
. money was also discussed
at that meeting,
JUNE 23: Gray discussed
the Dahlberp-Ogarrio
checks with Dean during a
morning telephone conver-
sation. Gray believes Dean
then raised the possibility
that investigating the .1Iexi-
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The Watergate committee
of the Senate, with its public
hearings, has added to the
dangers from abroad, has
been responsible in large
part for the deVahmtion of
the American dollar and the
loss of confidence abroad in
the ability of the govern-
ment to govern. It brings to
mind the days of Cromwell
and Charles I in England
when it was: "We brook no
criticism or off with your
head."
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appeared earlier who al-
leged that Nixon was guilty
of seeking to cover up all
matters relating to the Wa-
tergate break-in of the of-
fices of the Democratic
National Committee, during
the 1972 election campaign.
Neither Ehrlichman nor
Haldeman was claiming
executive privilege or ask-
ing the Senate committee to
assure them they were not
to be prosecuted, although
some members of the com-
mittee were suggesting they
might be tried for perjury.
The committee's treat- Three other important wit-
ment of two witnesses, John nesses were called and were
Ehrlichman and H. R. put through the wringer
Haldeman, both former by members of the commit-
members of President Nix- tee and the committee's
on's White House staff, and counsel. They were former
its line of questions seeking C.I.A. (Central Intelligence
to meke liars of them, has Agency) director and row
disgusted inany of the
, United States ambassador
hundreds of thousands ana,.....10.iron Richard M. nclms;
Peri-h:Ips rnillia"s of viewers Comimndant of the Maine
in this country and whom L.
P.obert H. Cushman
some of those to w110111. It
and Lt. Cell. Vernon E.
was piped abroad at least to
raise their eyebrows and
wonder why the beast is
made here that every ? man
on trial is considered inno-
cent until he is proved
guilty.
'I hey were men \vho re-
fused to be hectored and
brcr.vbeaten liv members of
the Senate committee who
were seehing to discredit
their !..estimony, which de-
nied ;:lany o; the charTz;s
that have been brou?ht
against President Nixon,
including those of
Dt/II!I Ill, it riet WIttl.:SS Who
Walters. All or them at one
time or another had been
involved with the C.I.A.,
either as directors of that
agency or assistant direc-
tors, and all of theta denied
that tiv2y or the apeney 11.al
1.7,-en. involved with the Wa-
tergate break-in,
Smile of the testimooy of
these three wh eesses ear-
ro?orated. that of Eni-lich-
man and Haldeman, and
some of it clashed with their
state merits.
The committee has a
string of other visitors
which it proposes to hoar in
public, even if it has to re-
main here all during the
August recess of Congress,
which began yesterday and
ends September 5. The
committee is engaged in a
duel with the President over
its demand that Mr. Nixon
release to them for inspec-
tion certain tapes which
were made of the Presi-
dent's conversations with
his visitors and his subordi-
nates during his residence
at the White House.
The President has de-
clined to give them up, on
the ground that they are his
personal records. He stands
on the .-.-round that to yield
to the Senate committee
would be a breach of the
separation of powers be-
tween the executive, legis-
lative and judicial branches
provided in the Constitu-
tion. The committee is
threatening to take the mat-
ter to line Supreme Court,
which is row in recess and
rot expected to return until
its usual October term.
The presklent has said
that he will answer the
Waterga to charges made
rtgz-inst him when the prop-
er tnne.con-ls. In the
time, be he is enn,a7.ed
with other important atfah-s
UI gOVerfilii,:fit, bath foreign
and domestic.
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Oswald Jeloniston
L. Patrick Gray HI, former acting director of
the FRI, says he felt he was acting on "an order
from the counsel to the President" when he de-
stroyed politically sensitive files taken from the
White rouse safe of Watergate conspirator E.
Ioward 1 knit.
Gray, in an opening statement prepared for
e delivery before the special Senate Watergate
comtnitte., said John W. Dean ill f_;ri-c'e him the
files the I*2:11t- cf ,,Inne ;9:72, in III:, presence of
John D. Ehrliolimr,n, then President Nixon's
domestic a;-:zi?drs advisor.
'1 distinctly recall h. Dean saying that these
files were 'political dyuatnitc and 'clearly should
not see the light of day,' ' Gray said.
SATD neither Dnti nor Il'ihrlielll-enn "ex-
pressly instructed me to destroy the files. lit tt
there was, end is, no d::.nibt in my inlnd that de-
struction. was intended."
Contradicting earlier testimony by Ehrlich-
man, G:-:v said neif.h,2r Dnan nol? IThrlichman
"said or insplied that I was being njvcn the docu-
ments personally tr,crely to safeguard against
leahs."
Gray sold he took the files to his V.Iashington
residence, placed them in a briefcase and left
them "on a closet shelf under my shirts" for
about three ?veeks, ',..11eti he then took them to his
office and put then:: in his pc.nional safe.
In the fall of 19',/2, he sI, ft.:, took the files to
his hosinc2 iii Stoniilgton, Conn., and later "burned
them. during Clirktrnr.:s ,.'eek with the Christmas
and household paper trash."
Juiq bofore burning, the documents, Gray said,
"1 opened one of the ides'' and e;??] n-lp-
pc:.ine.l h ba ni copy of a "top secret" De-
pat-tin:2n, cahle
in the a.-isa.isination of Prcsideri nicnin of
South V-r..,timr?.
Testifyin:,, today, CIA deputy director Vernon
Walters maintained lie did not find it improper
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when top White House aide H. R: Haldeman last
year ordered him to try to slow down an FBI in-
vestigation related to watergate.
Speaking before the \Va-:
terga to investigating com-
mittee, Walters,an Army
lieutenant general, put in
the record his detailed ac-
count of White House con-
tacts with him in June and
July 1;72. The account, Set
forth in a series of memo-
randa which have already
been made public, a.!-4rees
closely with the testimony
y,esterday of former CIA
,---tlirector ticharcl M. 1 leims.
Walters, an Army lie-Uten-
ant general, put in the rec-
ord his detailed account of
White 1-loose contacts \vith
him in June and July 1972.
The account, set forth in a
series of merroranda
have already been amide
public. rnicen closely with
the testimony ye.:iteray cf
former CIA director Rich-
ard M.
In Walters' view, the key
episodes in the CIA-White
triam:tle last
stimm..-2r were illese:
0' Ike much-reported June
2.1 1;r2etir.:.,: at ?...hich
man, Ent artd
prer.erit, direet,t1
Walters to v,-;,rn ifin Intl
Ciii:',t1 mace
it V.T:e;
on
CIA
A 7; v.!
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cont..ct ::t
which 1et,o trieJ p.tr-
mi;t1-!;;,. \valters to ILA! se..srct
CIA funds to pay bail and
salaries for the Waterg,ate
defendants.
Lookinp; back, Walters
concluded that the Dean
sui.testions were leadinp, to
"somethin,7, improper." He
thereafter 114.-!7,an to keep
nemos Vinite House crqi-
tacts, enrd totliz';y conunnrntd
to lool; back on .r.tean with
!iuspiciJa aatl
Kecalliurt Cte .11.:11.1eman
m2etil-2? Walicrs
said that "presum!-;aly his
rcc.ver fro:n thi"!
[nit;: all'.And he
drew this earth;' in:
-,iterpretati.c.0 y..a.s. that
1 (lf.1 rat l?ave. lid
th?.u2:nt.
of. he 1.gi:cd ;-;tr,tes
inert.''
In fact, Walters testified
today, a checlt of CIA rec-
ords dkt:10.,ted within a rev,'
days of 11:ittloman's direc-
tive 6hr.t ti was no ccAt-
crt CIA operdtion in Mexico
that an l?'131 probe could
possihly jt-2o1)ardize.
\vr.A.TETzs
or his cf,,:wery..-.0ir,..-;
Ct,r.\',:;'-
:..rtif.111r, with then....tctii;;;
i;:.-; .1
II 111 ti,e
itl'c.t1r. tact.
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? ' Washington?Two former top executives of the
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asking for this help and itdidn't seem like it woUld
do any harm."
that they had -acceded to requests from White H MSc:
, Secret memos introduced at yesterday's hearing
.officials .for CIA support.
? showed that Cushman had omitted Ehrlichman's '
Although they said they resisted White House name from a revised summary report concerning a
? pressure, the testimony of former CIA director Rich- ? visit by Hunt to Cushman's office on July 22, 1971.
1,./ and Helms and his former deputy, Gen. Robert E. 'Cushman said that in preparing the summary last
/Cushman Jr., seemed to cloud the reputation of the January for Ehrlichman, he had originally recalled
- CIA as a powerful investigative body winch by its that Ehrlichman had telephoned him to request that
charter is prohibited from engaging ia domestic
'Cushman see Hunt on that date. After sending the
operations. report to Ehrlichman, he said he immediately re-
They admitted that the CIA?at the request of the ceived a call from Ehrlichman, who said he had been
White house?had provided undercover equipment out of town on July 22, 1971. "This shook up ray rec- -
and falee identification cards to convicted Watergate ollection even WOrse," Cushman testified, adding that
burglar E. Howard Hunt, but emphatically denied that he offered to remove Ehrliehman's name from the
the CIA had any role in the Watergate affair and the summary report. The second version said: "I cannot ,
Cover-up.I voice. risin,.; to a shout, Helm said: "The recollect at this [ate date who placed the call, but it
? CIA had no involvetnent with the break-Lt. No involve- , W.33 someone with whom I was acquainted, as op-
- -rsent whatever. It -was my preoccupation consistently, posed to a stratiger."
' .from then to this time, to make -this point and to be A transcript of a recording ? Cushman made at the
SW,. everybody ii it it. P.: doe.sn't seem to pe2.t. - July 2.2. 1971, meeting without, Hunt's knowledge
across very \veld far some. But the agency had nothing showed that Ehrlichinan had asked Cushman to help
to do with the Watergate. break-in." Helms s.etid he did Hunt.
not know how Hunt had us.-A the CIA equipment.
At ilia meeting with Cushman, Hunt requested
Helms also revealed for Inc first tiine that one of (and later received) false identific:ition papers, a wig,
the four Cu'ean-Amerleans arrested ittiicie the Water- a camera in a tobacco ca.se, a recording machine re-
gate, illeerenio nein-?i, 1),21n;-; paiJ a "retainer" ezabl:ng a tyriewriter casa and a speech altering de-
of SI1.1 a month by the CIA at, the time of the 1 1:-
vice. In explaining the purpose of the materials.
in. 'But that; doesn't. Ineaz-t, the agency was itonalved,"
cording to the transcript, Hunt said: "I've been
11 ii i I Tie IMArtinoz via,; "cot off" as soon
elarged with quite a highly sensitive mission by the;
a.3 th?. CIA lolriieti of his iavolvement. Four of th,
\Vhiie House to vis.it
(niter six men arrested in, the V.:Ater:gate affair, jacket.-
and elicit information ?
ing Hen t, wee-e pest CIA oneraliees.
I rom a n individual
Holnes, aH).3.s.-lador to Iran. Cn.iinn3n,
whose ideology we are-
the MarinT, ['or,:; c:-;:a:.mtlant, ?vere t?Ile 27'21 and
n't entirely sure of."
7.S?.:lt winless-es to appear before the \Vaei;_tat..0 e,jra-
Helms testified that
he told Lt. Gen. Vernon
Helms said he resile..1 Whit. Hansa "feolon," to
gat the CIA invalved in Lilo. Watei eaeor-nn. A. \Valters, the deputyl/
4 di he rector of t CIA,
Helms Cele: th..? CIA. at the re(itt,-,t of yv hi
?
who was to tidily to-
1).e,...d I:. Yon:1,7, nle:-:;')er o:
; day, fo avoid pro:,surcs
"phunet-s"( i I i 1 0 Ia
Ii om Ehrlichronn. former
p:orile"cutD.i?del Eft4!),...?rj,
White I louse Chizt Iof
!iii T. 1?.. man
I). 1.1trlie;,m.m,
:?nid f 0 r iii e r \Vhite
hiet Li roYiteel .s.,tstne..!! I 111,-
counsel 3 oh n
foroit I it the (1!'fiee
IT) ,',11; to ,-tet the CIA
.tHiircs 11.11 prep.irc?I
. . vol.\ ed rim rei; t cov-
(-1--; 4,01/1
!Thbori- Cushman L;;Ii th..t.
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L- -- WASHINGTON. Aug. 2?Former CIA director Richard C. Helms reluctant! Y
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mitted today that one of the Watergate burglars was on his agency's payroll at the
time of the June. 1972 break-in at the Democratic national headquarters.
Under questioning by Fred ed to launch a counter-offensive
Thompson. Republican counsel to i' against the Senate Watergate
the Senate Watergate committee. i. Committee's televised exposure.
1
Helms acknowledged that Eugen- r One of these was exposed yes-
'-'77- io R. Martinez, who pleaded f terday when a memorandum by
guilty to the break-in, was being !,- . Haldeman to Dean came to light
i, :
paid a **retainer" of $100 a month 1 ? -.,--.'a during the hearings. In the me-
. by the CIA at the time of the .mo. Haldeman urged that "we
bungled burglary. put out the story" that would
Martinez' part-time job was to link -Communist money** to
report to the CIA which emigres peace demonstrations and Sen.
? from Cuba were "worth inter- George McGovern. the 1972 Dem-
viewing." Helms testified. ocratic presidential candidate.
While insisting that the CIA But mote damaging to the
wanted nothing to do with do- ' White House plans for a coun-
mestic espionage, Helms admit- ! ter-offensive was a memo placed
ted that it had given assistance i in the record involving Nixon
to the 1971 break-in at the office and former Attorney Generale 1971
Dr. Lewis Fielding, psychi-. John Mitchell with the out-of-
atrist for Daniel Ellsberg, Pen- court settlement of the Interna-
of
Papers defendant.
Helms told the committee that tional Company case. The memo. odat-
Telephone & Telegraph
he had the "distinct impression"
presidential counsel Charles W.
that a 1971 request to the CIA ed March 30, 1972, from former
for a wig, a camera and. other Colson to Haldeman, said Nix-
undercover equipment for E. on and Mitchell talked about the
D. Ehrlichman, Nixon's No. 2 R I C 1.1 A R D C. HL,LMS "agreed-upon ends" of the out-of-
Howard Hunt came from John 'I--
yet - ci court settlement.
The memo also said that Mit-
aide at the time. through ,a Mexican law t
Hunt, ex-CIA agent and one of conceal the identities of the do- chell knew about a $400,000
the seven Watergate defendants, nors and turn the checks into pledge made by ITT to under-
who had helped lead the 1961 cash. Some of this cash financed write the 1972 Republican Na-
Bay of Pigs invasion against the Watergate burglary-bugging. tional Convention before three
Cuba, used . the equipment for Helms also swore that 10 days Justice Department antitrust
suits against the giant conglom-
the 1971 burglarizing of Dr.
after the break-in Presidential
Fielding's office in search of counsel John Dean asked the CIA erate were settled.
medical records on Ellsb-erg. to put up bail for the arrested 111itchell has testified that he
men and place them on the agen- - had no such knowledge.Met with Haldeman
Helms testified that six days cy payroll while they served Committee chief counsel Sam-
after the Watergare arrests he their jail terms. Ile said the uel Dash, who released the me-
1----and Gen. Vernon Walters. dep- proposal was rejected. rho, said flatly it appears to
uty CIA director, met at the Diversion effort seen .show "an act of perjury on the
White House with If. R. Halde- The plan to shift the onus for part of Mitchell."
man, Nixon's chief of staff. the break-in to the CIA, revealed .Meanwhile, on a lower level,
a memo was discovered in which
Helms said Haldeman exnressal some time ago. was regarded
concern that a Watergate investi- here as an effort .to shift atten- the White House proposed to
gation might reach into elandes- non away from the- White House smear McGovern as the father
tine operations in Mexico and un- and the Committee to Re-Elect of a child born out of wedlock.
cover CIA cloak-and-dagger activi- the President i CREEP,
ties there. As earlier schemes to deflect
The reference to Mexico arose attention from the White House
from the revelation.made ea,
in the Watergate thlRigiV.,NW or kadaii'neieSirS7ier: t?19AqbP91-00901R000700100001-2
that $114,000 in Nixon campaign
funds had been "laundered"
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HELMS RAISED his voice
and shouted into the micro-
phones when he said:
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 2--=The
former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency swore to-
day the CIA hnd nothing to do
? with the Watergate break-in but
said that fired White. Holism.
Counsel John Dean II auegesicd
after the break-in that the G.11
put the burglars on the payroll.
Richard I id ins, now ambas-
d t H n did reveal tha.
one of the five men arrested in. ,
side Democratic party head-
quarters June 17, 1972, was on
a $100-a-month CIA retainer at
the time of his arrest.
' The Senate Watergate com-
.t_____rnittee also heard today from
Gen. Robert Cushman Jr., for- I
mer deputy CIA director and I
now Itierine Corps comman-
dant. Cushman acknowledged
he supplied one of the Weter-
gate ',lel defendants with CIA
egeim l.nt in -1e71 at the re-
qeest the White Heuse.
Helm \ who served' direc-
tor froi'l? nal,i3 until last Feb. ?
ruary, said two of the seven
Watergate trial defendanta,
James W. McCord Jr. and ea I
Howard Hunt, were formea CIA
employes and the tmency Ind
: had a "contractual relatiee-
i sem with two others. Lamar('
Ilarker and Frank Sturgis.
"It doesn't seem to get
; across very well for some rea-
son, but the agency had noth-
? ing to do with the Watergate
, break-in. I hope all the news-
?' paper men in the room hear
? me-clearly
However, 10 days after the
break-in, Dean called Helms'
it_Xsistant, Gen. Vernon Wal-
ters, to the White House and
asked .if the CIA could pay
bail for the men who were ar-
rested and put them on the
agency's payroll while they
were in jail, Helms said.
BANGING HIS hand on the
table for emphasis, Helms said
' the suggestion was rejected
"out of hand" by Walters.
"He reported the meeting to
me and told me that Dean
I raised with him the question
of the Watergate burglary, that
I there were a lot of problems
lin connection with it, problems
I unidentified, was there any way
in which the agency could
help," said Helms.
"It was quite clear that some
kind of feelers were being put
out. to see, aI if there was any
agency involvement., b) wheth-,
or the agency was prepared to
asaist-in some way which was
nt at all identitieel," Helms
said.
HOWEVER, A FIFTH defen-
dant, Eugenio Martinez, was
still on a retainer at the time
of the break-in, Helms said. 1
"When I learned he had al
connection with this break-in,
he was Cut. off," Helms told the
Senate Watergate committee
today.
Ilelins said Ma atinez had
been paid the retainer to re-
peat on refugees who came in
front Cuba anal 1.3 it :rt the
CIA of any tulivit1ctilit 1.o
th,. CIA rniy.ht wort to
camatiou. The job had n)t:lia.;
to (10 with the Watergate af-
fair, Helms insisted.
WHEN DEAN suggested the
CIA pay bail and salarie s,
Helms said Walters told Den
the agency could not pessibly
do it.
Walters told Dean he "could
not conceivably jinn-aloe that
thing like that tvould remain
secret for a lonz time," Helms
told the committee.
Helms said the Ca\ had been
rionroaciani first by f o r in e r
rides II. D. Hal-
deman end john H. Ehrlich-
in an with the stemeatio,1 that
the beralren?"was somehow re-
lated to its operations.
men that the CIA had nothing
to do with the break-in, that it.
was not a CIA opermi-,n but
that he .would check whether
an investigation might com-
promise other CIA operations.
The ambassador said he knew
of no such problem but he
agreed to let Gen. Walters meet
with L. Patrick Gray, then act-
ing-director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, to work
out the matter.
It was Haldeman who sug-
gested Walters rather than
Helms meet with Gray, he said.
Sen. Lowell Weicker, (R.,
Conn.] asked Helms why Halde-
man had not asked him to meet
with Gray.
"ANY SENSIBLE person
would have wondered, I think,
why I was not asked to do
this," he said. "Various inter-
pretations could have been
thought up.... I think one is
forced to the conclusion that
for some reason they thought
he would carry out the instruc-
tions more precisely than I
might have.
Helms said he simply in-
structed Walters to remind
Gray of the arrangement the
CIA and FBI had of informing
each other when they ran
across each other's operations
during the investigation.
In his M a y 22 statement,
President Nixon said he order-
ed the FBI to limit its probe
into the Mexican aspect of its
investigation because of con-
cern it might uncover an in-
dependent covert CIA operation.
NIXON SAID he bad been
misinformed when he issued
the order.
Helms said Gray told Wal-
ters he was concerned about
the Mexican investigation be-
e:nom ];1%%.1?,`I LI,I1-
1!.",?!C I itin a NiNH1 comrot;:n
cnn anon nti,.:;1 have a 1_21.1-
COrlt.C:011.
rel:cot,H1v !,-.-
rn;.;niber-: of tH (ommHt..,??1
his forthright. to.,:timony 1;11(1
?
no involvement, and so noti-
fied Gray.
"I ASSURED Mr. Gray that
the CIA had no involvement :
with the break-in. No involve- i
ment whatever. . . ."
?Feints acknowledged that. the
CIA supplied electronic equip-
ment, a camera, wig and other
CIA materials to Hunt but said
he had not authorized it. It
was Cushman who authorized
issuing the equipment at the
request of the White House, he
said.
Hunt, a longtime CIA em-
ploye who was then working
for the so-called plumbers unit
in the White House, told Cush-
man he wanted to conduct a
one-time interview. Helms told
the committee.
HELMS SAID he was assured
Hunt was given "perfectly
? routine a n d straightforward
pieces of equipment" and no
"tricky gear."
Later, Helms said, he learned
Hunt was asking that a CIA
secretary stationed in Paris be
recalled and assigned to him
in the White House.
"He wanted this to be done
secretly and didn't want any-
one to know about it," Helms
said, "To me that was totally
tom:meta:Me. It seemed to :no
the 13,;:t_ltety syn: 11?T?c.t!.
"1 .`,C.z.1:1) t?flt)f.\N to mill
met tall himllO
a delim them, thiemi
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to prepare he prattles was de-
. operatives and others involve
jived from . the psychiatrist's also had connections with th
, office or from any . other .illegal? agency.
Large sums of mane
. . sources. . . ...
- . found on the burglars Was trace
I ' ! "I have never heard . that 'to Nixon campaign. fund.- ihi
. , alleged," Mr Helms replied, had been funnelled threogh-,
? 'f* Mr Helms said that four days ?Mexican bank.. . -.,-, , ...: ..--.?
. . .... ,.. ., ,
? ? , after the Watergate break-in he Mr Helms' said after leavin
the - meeting ;he :., told ? Ger
Walters that when:' he saw M
Gray.'" You should, confine yam
?self ? to reminding him that th
agency and the F B I . have
delimitation agreement, that ha
been an understanding for man
years, that if ? the agency run
into any F B! Agents or oiler:
tions the PR I. should .be imnu
. ,,... ., ., -.-Th,,7,. ...,..,.:.'.'assured Mr Patrick' Gray, acting
s. ., ,..., ;:, - *. -.?:: ? ' ''';::.-?, f'-': "`?/ FBI d?
had no iirneveatlovr, ? that the CIA'.
R, .RICHARD HELMS;former director of he ..-..'
. .. .-, "It was ement. ???? ,
cons' nlY Preoccupation
d 'Central Intelligence Agency ...said yester.
. istently from then until this
... sure to make this point and be
- that everybody understands
, ay- that he resisted 1,` totally . unacceptable ''
it. It we. doesn'tto get across
demands " from the White House' for ry assistance .
. .. ? vell' seem
,,
L.-a-dor L;.11ow.ard one'.of ..rthe Watergate Mr Helms added in 'a voice: diately notified -and that 11th
?
. rising TO a shout: "The Agency
, 1?;; ."; has nothing to
conspirators ..
. : Watergate ?brealc-indo -with the
? l'?
He told the *Senate Watergate committee that Mr
.. ?
? .
Hunt had obtained a camera and tape recorder from the Agency. was not
agency in July, 1971, for an assignment at the White
- ? .70P :?:a . involved . about money being sent throng
? . Mexico although his explanatio
F B I runs into any agenc
agents or operations it should.b
immediately notilled."? ? ,
Mr Helmcs said Gen. Walter
reported back to him later in th
day and he learned that Mr Gra
had told the Cl A deputy chic
House behest.
. Subsequently, Mr Hunt, a
former C I A agent, who was
then a White House security
consultant, made other de-
mands. ?
These included the transfer
Dawson, the Senate committee's
deputy chief counsel, that :he:
had been assured that equip-
ment given to Mr Hunt was not
used in the psychiatrist's, office'
break-in.
The hreak-in was conducted
On June 22, Mr Helms went .
,
-....- did not say what the money w
, to a meeting in the White House
for.
- office of Mr Ehrlichman, Gen.
Verson Walters, his deputy, and He said he - made a chc
Mr H. It. Haldeman, former through C I A -records to s
White House Chief of Staff, were whether there' was any reco
? ? of a Mexican lawyer who w
_at, the meeting.. . ., .
i V 1 d i
.% of a secretary from Paris to his ?by a White House group called --. .Mr Helms said Mr Haldeman' n o ve n the money transli
White House office. "And -that ,?" The Plumbers." Ni Inch included :did most of the 'talking, saying blit found none: The F
? to me was unacceptable, I saw Mr Hunt and was set up to 'Plug' there had been a?."lot of flak" told this. :: ..il ?; `?.,-.'..
; .
no reason for this." leaks or classified information, of the. Watergate burglary 'and , ;':.: :''.'
Dean ' asked
. for help '
- Mr Helms said: "It seemed such as the Pentagon papers on the opposition was capitalising
? to me that the agency was be-
the Vietnam war. The aim- was on it. It was apparently causing
ing used. So 1 g'')t hold of Gen
tn draw up a " psychological. some unidentified trouble.. -
';
1.----(Robert) Cushman (then deputy profile" of Dr Ellsberg. Mr Haldeman asked whether ,
-CIA director) and told. him
this was totally unacceptable
and I wouldn't stand for it."
There Nvere ot her various
the agency had anything to do- June 26, Gen. Walters cri
with it and "I assured him the he had been called by Mr Joi
Rated as priority agency had nothing to ,do with Dean, then White House c.ouns,
and Gen. Walters confirmed wi
additional requests "and I bY Kissinger
Mr Helms said Mr Halderrian. Mr Erlichman that it was ;
right to talk with Mr Dean.
Mr Helms said Gen. Waite
reported that Mr Dean sa
there were' many problems
the Watergate burglary ? an
asked if the CIA could help.
." It was quite clear that son"
kind of feelers were being p
out to see whether there IN,
any agency involvement
whether the agency was I?.
pared to assist in some. way th.
was not :at all, identified," sa
Mr Helms. - -
?,.? ,
ashed Gen. Cushman to call Mr 'stared that they were con-
(Je'-n) Ehrlichman and tell him Mr Helms said the "psycho- cerne.c1 about FBI investigations
. lo'ical Profile II technique was a, in ? Mexico," . Mr Haldeman, he
111 we just WM.(' not going to
do this any more." - practice developed by the CIA ?said, also made what appeared
for preparing a character image - to.. be an incoherent reference
..
Mr ifrims? 6"- now All1"icall of foreign dignitaries and other-, 0 - ?, ' ? -.
t ?a? Mexico .u-4-estigation " run-
Ambassador to Iran. was testify- persona lit ies. - .?
.'- ? - . ning' n the Bay of Pigs'' ?
----
inc for the Groi time before a
Congressional committee on the lie said Mr David Young, an the - abortive'-'- C I A-supported
breah-in and hogginii of the assistant to Mr Ehrlichman, had - invasion of alba .in 1961. ?
Democratic parlv's Watergate approached him in mid-1971 to.- "I assured him ' I . had no
headquar:ers. Washin:Iton, Psi, C I A help in draiwng ? up a int crest in the. Bay of PLgs all
Tie was asked ?hy he be, prolile of De Ellsberg. those years later," Mr Helms
'loved Mr 1.tirlichinan, then'1 remonstrated and '. told, said. "I -didn't care what they
PresidentNixon's
Nixo chief dm im
domestic h we knew nothing about Dr ran
affairs adviser, should tLu'called.. Ellsberg, I've never laid eyes on ? that:,into in connection with
"Dc.cnii3O it ,,,,,, "R. disii,,,,r Ili Ill ill my life, we have .no .? - He said,
Mr Haldeman said it
know noth- 6 Simply.- not going
impression that he was the one records no him, we . had been decided that Gen., .
who arrair2.0e1 lv1111 Gonl. nigh- ill:: about him and I think it'.s :.-Wolters would talk to Mr Gray
':: -, to haVe i : -
t ?' -
and indicated that the investiga?
man 'to have Hunt get these an imposition to ask us to ? do?
. , .. - tions might run into CIA opera.
pieces of equipment,- replied this."
Mexicq. ? .' ,-. --. ' .? He said he told ('en. Walten
Alt- !Lehr's.
- pleaded with him and told hint .
Mr Helms said Mr Young.. li-ons in
\Tr 'Helms said he. did :not,: c`'?eIrtivil?lat nfertlilaitt toll'ebe apbesiortlitirttr,
i the White House was very much understand the reference t 0 nothing to happeri using t.
C I A eft" iPint'lit . interested in gelling this.: Mr sum alld flivought it.vv,ould he agency's name, facilities or ;la
, , . . , - inateral. that Mr Ehrlichman Pc l "I to II1U Out I Isi. t'",(1,1:1( thing el.se in connection
possible that C I A ?pc rd it ' s this business,
Jul Ort91/,'-iit - ? re2.arded it as hii.diest prioritv
Mr limit is ,i1:?efi le have a.itit ,:ci did Du iissinger. Mr In''ll't be aliccicd m some wa.N k "I said 1 didn't care Nyhei11;
..
- ,
ii..rit c I A 0.1w7no?in:. i?illudin::: N 1 \ on'c chief. forci;'..,11 . affairs -01aL he did not 4itow about; ' ,
, . . ? he W;.111led to be a scapegoat.
A ciimck A. I or l ho hi co;s?in and ' il' ._ doh' I- care whether he was pi-
hurl:L.1,v a?-f.wie at iti, office Mr Helms said the arlencv, pared to quit on lhe issue.
of a psi.co'of.i.t firming- 1)1. e? y111(1.613. nut tn?:;ether two . ..,,. lioacY traced didn't care anv thing about :ha
panict iikii?.1,;.., ?h? ?,,,,,, ?hic,c profiles on Dr Ellsberg.I simply wanted hint to do al.),
defendant in Ilie Pentagon lie was asked if lie knew i . to fund . lutely nothing.
Papers rase. . ' ILLther the Li.l'earia.i..ltd,4)Ha ' 1.4.1 .-z
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Time: staff Wrier
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Li Ai O L
WASH f NGTON?Formcr CIA di-
rector Richard M. Helms told Senate
investit'ators Thursday that he
sidestcpp:td White House. "feelers"
aimed at using the agency to aid the
coverup of the Waterg;.1te scandal.
He said he had no question there
was an effort in the wake of the
1072, Watergate hnrglary "to
use" CIA. that he felt White 1 lotr4e
officials were hr-pa jag him in
the effort, and that his overriding
concern 'was to keel) the af!CAlley at a
distance. from this whole problem."
Helms indicated that he even al-
tered the instructions of top Whi:e
House. lieutenants H. R. Haldeman
and Mtn D. Ehrlichtnan after they
allegeqv ordered his depoty to go t.n
the il.l and attempt to blunt an in-
vestigation of Nixon campaign
funds depoted in a 'Mexican bank.
liede?:,eriheel a \\Mite 1-ICIIHO
days after 4.11.- Water-
gate: break-in when Haldeman di-
4?.1'u:tied Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters,
de;:oty direcion. toitteet with
acting FtI tirce,nrL fTh:rkl;
it
.11
it had cle(
should toil Gr,,y
the l,T1 miTht un iYCIA
tin'S\ICri
antI
Crie
1 0:: cis
Follft 1 a na . ? ?
1.-1Vh1^;
fs,
recall
C;AC''.1 %1",f
i ?:inn :an
V.';...?z
1-.1;;Ir ;????.-1
of the
t'lA '
otlicr 1.i
i..t.
????
r H..:
The n
arrested in the
burglary.
Aitheor_th Timms insisied
that he had 'Kept CIA out
of the Watergate
whirl-
penhe achnowl2dged:
--That Eugenio R. Mar-
tinez, one of the five men
arrested inside the head-
quarters of the Democrat-
ic National Committee,
was receiving a. S100 a
month "retainer" from the
CIA for unrelated intel-
ligence services at the
time of the break-in.
?That he knew of and
approved preparation of a
CI " psycho] ogica I pro-
f le" on Daniel Ellsherg,
the defendant in the Pen-
tagon Papers .case.
Now an Ambassador
Helms. \vho left the CIA
early this year to become
U.S. ambassador to Iran,
testified that the -Martinez
retainer from the CIA had
nothing to do with the
Watergate ease or related
events.
He said -l\lartinez. a ('U-
hon refugee living in Vier-
Ida, had been receiving
the payments for several
years for tipping CIA on
Cuhans entering the l'nit-
ed States \vho might have
N.altrable intelligence in-
formation.
Ii e payments Nye r e
erdcd as soon ;13 Marti-
nez' arrest in the Water-
gate case was disclosed, he
said.
As for the Ellsherg pro-
file. prepared at the re-
otte;,t of Ha viii V01.1!1'.7, of
the White 11(11 HC t elf,
11,:mns 1.ulve 2,2 n_
Vine regrets a1lnut being
pre.?sured into that.
"On Mond;-iv mornin,:1-
thcre arc a lot of foo:11;ili
pantes which, if 1.1layed
g.on, ma v \ 1), cn
Played nf:'?'rk..ntl: ;Ind
Yfr.: 1-:no,.k- I on hOt prOWI
of that ono," hr said,
coot' Lx
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Member .of 'Plumbers'
Voting. a former memiter
of the National Sectit.ity
Council staff at the White
House, became in 1071 a
member of the "plumbet s"
group organized to plug
security leaks, The group
was later linked with the
hreok-in at the office of
Daniel Elisherg's psychia-
trist. Two of its trenthel's
?E. 1 foward Hunt Jr. and
G. Gordon Liddy?were
convicted as conspirators
in the Watergate burgla-
ry.
After Haldeman and
Ehrli chman suggested
that the CIA help reduce
the FRI investigation of
the Nle-xican hank account,
Helms ??:tiri, there foila,,ved
reeeting> on two succes-
sive days, bet,,veen Gen.
Walters and presidential
counsel John W. Dean III.
The meetings were ap-
proved hy Ehrlichman.
"It was quite clear."
1 lehns told the comm it tee,
"that some kind of ',celers
were being pat nut to see,
(A) if there Was any agen-
cy. involvement. (1r III)
whether the agency was
prepared to assist in some
way which was not at all
Mont ified,"
During one nf the meet-
ings. he said, Dean asked
whet bet' sect-et G1A funds
might be used to provide
bail for the men arrested
in t h e Watergate a it d
whether the agency might
pay salaries for those sen-
tenced to
1 lehns said he forcefully
told Walters to be certain
that neither tile agency's
name, .facilities. nor any-
thin g. else was u Sc d.
Helms said:
"I told hint point-hlank
e\ en though he was a mili-
tary afficer and c \
thou.2h pre.iden
tial appointee. that if h
STAT
would besmirch the name
of the agency ..."
1'1 wanted him to lie
abundantly clear on this
in any conversation he
had with Mr. Dean or any-
body ele, anti as he re-
ported to me on the two
subsequent converations
with Mr. Dean, 1 not only
reaffirmed this hut I said,
'You hang in there, you
are doing fine, but don't
.ctit yield an inch.'"
Before he got deep into
the details of his actions,
Helms shouted his decla-
ration of CIA's nonin-
volvement, in the burgla-
ry: ? . -
"f assured Mr. Gray that
the CIA had no involve-
ment in the breaklin," he
said.
Then with his voice ris-
ing to a shout, he told the
committee: "No involve-
ment whatever. Aml it
w a s my preoccupation
consistently from then to
this time to make this
point and to ..malze sure
that everyboilv uncle r-
stand that. It doesn't seem
to get across very \veil for
some reason, but the agen-
cy had nothing to do with
the Watergate breah-in. I
hope all the newsmen in
the room hear me clearly
now."
Besides the suggestions
of intercession. in the FBI
investigation. and the feel-
ers on hail money and sal-
aries for the Watergate
burglars. Helms said a
CIA o:t1( it,?,;ei to
acute \,\?.1)ile
menc:i (tont an cm-
1\"ritten
ror it -
1w'
Grit. 1;cillcrt A.
Ir., who pri-Tt-it-
? t,'1.1 deputy
Ii
1.:?.?:'.,'1.1M-11. I ro:
1). ('I A
iii .ussi-.t hunt in uni'vr-
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By FRANK VAN RIPER and JAMES WIEGTIART
Washington, Aug. 2 (NEws Bureau) ?Former Central Intelligence Agency Direc-
t:for Richard Helms told the Senate Watergate committee today that President Nixon's
two top aides, H. R. (Bob) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, tried to "use" the CIA
to get the FBI "to taper off" its investigation into the break-in and bugging of Dema.
'cratic Party headquarters. I
The suave -Helms, a career in- don't have to make a determina-
telligence officer .who is now tion whether you were being
-ambassador to Iran, told the - pushed, shoved or led," Talmadge
said as Helms laughed, nodding
committee he also felt the agency his head in theaffirmative.
was being used by the White
House in providing spy equip- , A former TCIA deputy director,
thent to E. Howard 'Hunt Jr. Gen. Robert E. Cushman Jr., now
a former CIA agent who served commandant of the Marine Corps
as. a White House consultant and followed his ex-boss to the wit-
later became involved in both the ness table and testified that Ehr-
-burglary of the office of Daniel lichntan gave clearance for Hunt
Ellsberg's 'psythiatrist and the to obtain CIA spy equipment in
Watergate break-in, a telephone call on July 8, 1971.
Told It to Gray Contradicts Testimony
The former spy chief also di-s-? The testimony of both Helms
closed that one of the Water- and Cushman contradicted on key
gate burglars, Cuban exile Eu- points earlier sworn . testimony
genio R. Martinez, 49, of Miami, before the committtee by Halde-
was drawing a 8100-a-month "re- man, former White House chief
tamer" from the CIA at the time of staff, and Ehrliehman who
was Nixon's top domestic affairs
adviser,
of the June 17, 1972, Watergate
break-in.
But Helms insisted that the Both Ehrlichman and Hale-
CIA was in "no way" involved deman had denied that either of
in the Watergate break-in, and . thcin had suffested that the CIA
he recalled he told this to then I intercede with the FBI to curb
acting FBI Director L. Patrick I
.the Watergate in on
Gray 31) on June 22, 1972.
the ground that it might uncover
He said that 10 days after the covert CIA operations.
break-in, then -White 'louse cow:- lihrlichman had also denied that
sel John W. Dean 31) asItetl be had called Cushman to vouch
Nvhother the CIA COUld 1mY hail for limit's "bona Fides" as a
for the seven 1\ atergate burg.ars '%Vhite House consultant charged
and put them on tile agency's with carrying out an important
payroll while they serve Lheir
terms. the request w rejected. Helms said he and Walters
flatly, Helms said, by ArmY ht. Avere called to the White house
Gen. Vernon A. Wa:ters, dePtuY on June 93, six days after the
director of the CIA. Watergate break-in. lie said that
Under generally friendly fitt cc- Haldeman and Ehrlicionan asked
tioning 1-,y the Sclutt-e ? panel, about the possihility of CIA in-
- Helms agreed that the Wilite ? volvement. Helms said that he
nou,se appeared to lie "tall,ing assured them there was no such
around. me" hv dealic.:2. wit]; _Wal- involvement and that he had al-
ters in efforts to invoive the CI .A, ready inforfed Cray el that.
in the WittergAe d i1 Wh,,n Haldeman asked h in if
ters was nomed to tie deputy ant1:1 ieve,w,,,,Li,?? of
might uncover something about
post by ii. iii.
the lere.t Bay of Pies invasion
Agreed to
. ? of Ceha, Helms said he replied:
II 1 sahl he a;:leed t" "I (1,m't care what tlev run into
I is po,:t ItiSt ycn
iii Ii thu nixon indicated (h.u.i.le. tsvetHe 11a11:!,)`1:11111 ,1;1,idt here .w ns
at c:,mp '11"t- I"' of flak on the Watergate
11 .1.111' to II I.? C 0 ch , bel.ela 'sunt t 0!);?Isit ;on
s,,e? 11;.. t
. . . ca:1-
Fit U1V11 Sub lii Ib sort or
11011 dirvelor 0.0.1.1c.?
"s'et'ves at the PlvastIte of thc "At scone juncture in this eon-
President." v e n "
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hhig,
I President makes a detb-ton, y(tit
the effect that it had been decided
- that Gen. Walters will go and
talk to Acting Director Gray of
the FBI and indicate to him that i
these investigations by the FBI ,
?might run into CIA operations
in Mexico and that it was desir-
able that this not happen?that
the Investigation be either taperd I
off or reduced or something.
There was no language saying
'Stop,' as far as I recall."
.. .4 -1, ? . r . . . 4 X ? ? ? ?
Under questioninq by ? Sem
I Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.),
' Helms conceded that although he
had said the CIA was not in-
volved, it was known at that time
that James W. McCord Jr., who
was arrested in the Democratic
Party headquarters, was a retired
CIA employe; that Hunt was a
retired CIA agent; and that three
of the four Cuban Americans also
arrested in the break-in had
worked with Hunt on the CIA-
sponeored Bay of Pigs invasion.
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soeetet tome New Yoric Tures
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2?
ever Mr. Ehrlichman contrib-
uted in the course of this was
either to nod his head or
smile or to agree with what
Mr. Haldeman said. I just
simply want to introduce it
this way because it is a little
easier for me to describe.
Mr. Haldeman. said that
there was a lot of flak about
the Watergate burglary, that
the opposition was capitaliz-
ing on it, that it was going
to?it was apparently caus-
ing some sort of trouble, and
he wanted to know whether
the agency had anything to
do with it. He then said that
the five men who had been
found in the Democratic Na-
tional Committee headquar-
ters had been arrested and
that that seemed to be ade-
quate under the circum-
stances, that the F.B.I. was
investigating what this was
all about, and that they, uni-
fies], were concerned about
some F.B.I. investigations in
Mexico.
He also at that time made
some, what to me was an in-
coherent reference to an in-
vestigation in Mexico, or an
F.B.I. investigation, running
into the Bay of Pigs. I do not
know what the reference was
alleged to be, but in any
event, assured him that I
had no interest in the Bay of
Pigs that many years later,
that everything in connection
with that had been dealt with
and liquidated as far as I was
aware and I did not care
what they ran into in con-
nection with that. ?
Alleged Mexican Operation
which I did not have infor- understand about this be-
Following are excerpts from tnation about, which is quite cause he had been with the
a transcript of testimony to-
day by Richard Helms, Am-
bassador to Iran and former
director of Central Intelli-
gence, on the 34th day of
#, hearings on the Watergate
.ase before the Senate Select
Committee on Presidential
Campaign Activities:
MORNING -
SESSION
Richard Helms
MR. DORSEN: Did you
have a conversation with
General Cushman concerning
Howard Hunt in the suinmer
of 1971?
MR. HELMS: Yes. I recall
that General Cushman in-
formed me that he had
authorized giving to Howard
Hunt a tape recorder and a.
camera, and I asked for what
purpose and he said he
wanted to conduct a one-
time interview and that he
had been property authenti-
cated by the White .House
and that he was working at
their behest.
Q. Now you have indi-
cated that in your conversa-.
1.tion with Gereral Cushman
? that you indicated to Gen-
eral Cushman that John
Ehrlichman should be called.
Why was it that John idm-
Hellman was to lae caked?
A. Because ti was my dis-
tinct impression that he was
the one who had arranged
with General Cushman to
have Hunt got these pieces
of equipment.
Q. Mr. Helms, I would like
to move then to June 23,
1972, and ask you if you re-
call attending the meeting
with Mr. Feielicinran, Mr.
Haldeman, and General Wad.
ter. A. I dc recall atit:riciing
that meeting.
Q. Where was that maete
log held? A. That meetuy,
was held in Mr. 10tr1ieltman's
office on the second Hoar.
Meeting Deticriltcd
Q. Could you 1,L-1! e dc.
scribe to us in st.lt.t.,:ve
what itsppened at tit n.eet?
A. Ccneral anal
arrived irst hd
few roUnites. Then Mr.
Man and 1:1,11M1fnait
At some juncture in this
conversation Mr. Haldeman
then said something to the
effect that it has been de-
cided that General Walters
will go and talk to Acting
Director Gray of the F.B.I.
and inchoate to hint that
these :tint:rations?these in-
vcstigations of the F.B.I.
unaht run into C.I.A. opera-
tions in Mexico and that it
was deirable that this not
happen and that the investi-
pzion, Ilion-fore, should be
either taneced off or rc,duced
011.;:lin,?-f, hut tl):'[e. Wati
ra langie-ige stopded,
as far a, I recall.
At ?'-is t--t-''tt, the refer-
ce?,,-t m-:sico qtaiat
uncl,,ar to me. I had to
0';:MH: filar if the White
llotrse, the President Mr
I can recall what wApp TTi1610 ? ? ? ,
came into the room as hest
and
Nwqmpiotpteo*?',**oy Mr. Haidetnan did Illuo,t
about something in Mexico
of the talking, Nvhata ? ? .
possible?the White House
constantly has information
which others do not have?
that it would be a prudent was not sure whether this
thing for me to find out if had ever come to his atten-'
there was any possibility tion.
that some C.I.A. operation In other words, I was ask-
was being?was going to be ing him to make a legitimate
request of the acting director
of the F.B.I. that if they ran
into any C.I.A. operations in
Mexico or any place else they
were to notify us imme-
diately and I thought General
Walters should restrict his
conversation with Acting Di-
rector Gray to that point.
Precisely whether he did or
not, well, you will have an
opportunity to ask him.
agency, I think, only about
six weeks at that time, had
been having briefings, ?and I
affected and, therefore, I
wanted the necessary time to
do this. ?
? I say this in explanation of
the fact that there seems?
that since I had consistently
pointed out that no C.I.A. op-
erations had been violated by
an investigation up to then,
that.we had had nothing to
do with the Watergate burg-
lary, the fact of the matter
was that if an investigation
continued to go on it might
run into something we were
doing in Mexico. This pos-
sibly always had to exist. No-
body knows everything about
everything.
Walters and Gray
So at this point I think it
was repeated a second time
that General Walters was to
go and see Acting Director
Gray with this charge. It was
then indicated. that Acting
Director Gray would prob-
ably be expecting the call,
that he was looking for some
kind of guidance in this mat-
ter, and that this should take
place as soon as possible. I
believe Mr. Ehrlichman at.
that point made his sole con-
tribution to the conversation,
which was that he should gat
down and see Gray just as
fast as he could.
We left this meeting, Gen-
eral Walters and I. and went
downstairs to the automobile
and I spoke to General Wal-
ters along the following
lines. I said when you go to
see Acting Director Gray, I
think you should confine
yourself to rernindint: him
that the agency an-c1 the
have a -delimitation
agreement, an understanding
for many years that if the
agency runs into any DPI
nc.eils or oprrations. tin
ghat! be immediately
notified tmcl if the, F.B.I. rims
Meeting Took Place ?
Q. To your knowledge, did
General Walters have a meet-
ing with Patrick Gray?
A. Yes, he had one very
shortly after this meeting in
the White House because he
reported to me later in the
day about his meeting with
Gray, that. he had been to
see him, that the general
purport of what they had
discussed, and then the first
time I learned that Acting
Director Gray had told Gen-
eral Walters at this meeting
about some money having
been sent to Mexico. I was
unaware of any money hay-
ing been sent there at the
time, and even that explana-
ticn did not say what the
money was for.
But also floating around in
this at the time was the
name of a Mexican lawyer
that we had been asked to
check out by the F.B.I. to
find out if this matt was in
any way connected with the
C.I.A. His name. was Ogarrio,
If believe, and we had been
running traces, going through
the record to find out and
cheek ei cur people in
Mexico to scs if they knew
hips, al):1 so forth, and it was
-SOICa clay sub.seouent that we
got the information bad; that
he was indeed a lawyer
Vestico but v.-' c.,d never had
any connection with I:ins and
so notified the F.B.I.
into any r:-WIlts or opera- in, Nn,,v , on monday?lune
tions, it shall he inimechatcl.Y 261h. did General Walters
notiiIied. rceee,,e a lel:Hume call irom
I ,?,,,;is not sure whether mins Dean?
Acting Di; ector (ii a.t.? wa s A. (.3...meral Whlters told.
..- . .
fiummut with tins because no me that he had hems called
harl r o 10 . i a( t ,e i -0 dor
01 a-GiA43bt1:41:-tO010,0007iti tiolotif-id not know in
wanted General Walters to continuod
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This was the firsttl-Ie z
lirrts Says He Resis'ied Ifore the Watergate inquiry's
pearance by the two men
national television audience,
be-
Pressureby White House however, and they provided
some new twists to their testi-
mony and considerable insight
For C.I.A. Cover-Up At into the world of professional
intrigue.
Ambassador Helms, a
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cigarette chain-smoker at ease
By JAMES M. NAUGHTON in front of the Senators and
Special. co The New.York Times cameras in his diplomatic pin-
y
"definitely stated" Mr. Ehrlich-I
'WASHINGTON, Aug. 2?The stripes, called the Watergate
former head of the Central In-man had placed the call to him.:
extreme" and explained that
breaking and entering without
getting caught was something
better left to those who did it
full time.
General Cushman, his four
silver stars gleaming on his
Marine Corps olive drab uni-
form, spoke of a downtown
Washington "safe house" where
thespy tools were turned over
to Hunt in secrecy. And he
discussed the tape recording
he had made secretly of a
meeting with Hunt on July 22,
1971.
Some Ordinary Talk
telligence Agency told the
s Senate Watergate committee
today that he had to resist
White House pressures in order
to keep the agency clean of
involvement in the Watergate
cover-up.
Richard Helms, the former
Director of Central Intelligence
?
Excerpts from the testimony
will he found on. Pitt0 11.
who is now Ambassador to
Iran, hammered his hand on the
witness , table as he recalled
having warned another intelli-
gence official last summer to
disregard White House "feel-
ers" for assistance that would
"besmirch the. name of the
agency."
In testimony late today, Gen.
Robert E. Cushman Jr., the
Marine ? Corps Commandant
Ambassador Helms challenged!
testimony given earlier thisl
week by Mr. Haldeman, the!
President's former chief of
staff, about a meeting in ,the
White House on June 23, 1972.
?six days after the Watergate
break-in.
According to Mr. Haldeman's,
account of the meeting, Mr.
Helms and the current deputy
director of the C.I.A., Lieut.
Gen. Vernon A. Walters, had
been unable to assure him that
the Watergate inquiry being
conducted by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation would
not compromise intelligence ac-
tivities in Mexico.
Mr. Helms said today, how-
ever, that Mr. Haldeman had
made only "an incoherent ref-
erence" to a potential problem
in Mexico and had not sought
his judgment on it directly. In-
stead, Helms went on, Mr.
Haldeman had turned to Gen-
al Walters and instructed him
who had been Mr. Helm's to tell the F.B.I. that it would
deputy in 1971, described a "re- be "desirable" for the invest"-
quest from John D. F.hrlichman gation in Mexico to be "either
tapered off or reduced."
that prompted him to rewriie
a memorandum that. svould Request Countermanded
have linked the former White
1-louse aide to E. licy.vard Hunt,
one of the Watergate con-
spirators.
Both former intelligence of-
According to the transcript
of the meeting in the Central
Intelligence Agency headquart-
ers, old hands at the spying
business engage in dialogue
such as this:
MR. HUNT: If you pardon
my sayining, so, you see to
have lost a little weight.
GENERAL CUSHMAN: Yes,
I've taken some off. sort of
go up and down. When I go
down it's because I. go on the
wagon and don't eat very
I uch at all, and this is hell
I to pay when you're being en-
1 tartained and going to em-
Mr. Helms said that when he bassies and dinners.
and General Walters left the,
White House he told his deputy
to disregard Mr. tdaldeman's1
instructions mid to confine him-
self to reminding L. Patrick;
ficials clung under oath today ,Gray 3d. then the acting durec-
to testimony conflicting shall-ply tor of the F.B.I., that the twoi
with the sworn statements agencies had along-standine
-attreetnent to notify each other!
made earlier by Mr. Ehrlichman ii their investigations crossed
and 11. R. Haldeman in their i paths.
appearances before the Senate I Subsequently, Ambassador
Select con.itinttee nn pte,,iiien. iIicims said, he learnedthat:
.1 funds contributed to Preslcient;
tial (at 11 .A.ctivities. il Nixon's re?electiori COMilliilee!
Mr. Lliflichman, President! ? bad been channeled to one of ;
Nixon's former clmnestic affairsi the W'ateri,-.ate burglars throughl
adviser, insisted in his testi-1 a litwYer in 7\l'?'xIco City and
i . that the intellig,cnce agancy
imony that he hal no recollec-I
I
General Cii.-lui.in to an-a:. iii for! iii,,,,,,,r.
: 1,fd assured the F.B.I. that it
I hit no c,i-;iu.?czion with ;11C.. lion of a 1971 1c1,2i313one call
1i to
- i ' Hunt to f'' t ( .-1. A . :.-i.'' iii1t1lq"ll''' !`ln.ili of the testimony that
resin and i dk.,^ P'.-ri dy 0,i.3 'rs.' ;Ir. li,-.11,,, Ir,(1 General Cush-
ltnt Gon,aal Cii -:-::-...n. 1?,.1111-, 1-;-.,,I ;:?1'..' I.') lh,:.! S ..
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