(EST PUB DATE) MISC RE THE FEW FACTS I HAVE, LEADING TO THE BELIEF THERE HAS LONG BEEN A CONSPIRACY TO WEAKEN AND DESTROY THE PRESIDENCY AND WITH IT OUR COUNTRY, DRIVE ME TO REPEATEDLY URGE DEEPER, FULLER INVESTIGATION OF WHAT LITTLE INFORMATION I CAN OFF

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482370
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: November 1, 1973

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HOV 73
I have written a letter similar to this several times, each time
with the feeling of utter desperation and dispair, realizing that
an unsigned letter, with so little concrete evidence, may well
end up being discarded as a "crank" letter. I am sending a
copy of this letter to a number of people as it will have to be
my last effort concerning the matter. I simply don't know what
else I can do or where else I can go beyond this point. The few
facts I have, leading to the belief there has long been a con-
spiracy to weaken and destroy the Presidency and with it our
country, drive me to repeatedly urge deeper, fuller investiga-
tion of what little information I can offer.
The facts are that during January 1973, when no one in our
country was yet taking "Watergate" seriously, a Miss Renaude
LaPointe (member of the Canadian Senate, formerly a distinguished
Quebec journalist and one-time Quebec correspondent for Time
magazine in Canada) was made aware that the President of the
United States would soon be politically destroyed, forced from
office, and that much of his administration and many of his
supporters would be smeared and incriminated beyond hope of
survival. This knowledge was fairly prevalent among some
government people in the Canadian capital of Ottawa even earlier
than Miss LaPointe's awareness of it -- as early perhaps as the
late fall or early winter of 1972. Another member of the
Canadian government to hear such rumors or plans was a
Mr. Barnett J. Denson (member of Canada's House of Commons,
former Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and former
Toronto businessman).
If there is a conspiracy to destroy the Presidency (and it
probably would not have begun with President Nixon -- Mr. Nixon
just happened to be the unfortunate incumbent at the final
thrust of the conspiracy), it is possible it is operating out
of the safety of Canada where, through carelessness or plan,
knowledge of it seemed strong although submerged months before
it became a serious matter here.
Part of the conspiracy may have consisted of the "bugging" of
the Democratic National committee headquarters in March 1972,
the subsequent entrapment of administration and CRP personnel
into the plan, the second "unnecessary" break-in in June 1972
for the purpose of being caught, the simple and inevitable
entanglement of people in a cover-up as a result of their
natural, human panic in the midst of a national election, and
the deliberate "revelations" which would follow. This, however,
is only conjecture.
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The phase of the conspiracy which is certain is the planned,
organized, deliberate day-by-day smear campaign against the
President, his administration and his supporters, emanating.
from a safe base (possibly located in Canada and, if so,
probably in Ottawa), which would methodically destroy the
President and everyone associated with him, along with the
slow, deliberate, methodical turning of public opinion
irrevocably against the President. Each smear, distortion
and lie was planned well in advance and fed to the news media,
by various sources, on a day-by-day basis and would continue
until its ultimate purpose is accomplished.
Messrs. Liddy, Hunt and McCord must surely have been part of
the conspiracy, although here I am stating only theory.
Mr. Hunt's presence at disasters has possibly been too fre-
quent to be accidental -- Bay of Pigs where the Cubans were
expecting us, attempted air lift rlf. P.O.W.'s where the North
Vietnamese had ranee notice and moved our
empted rescue, the suspicious
e may have wanted to reveal
t's disinterest in attending
lence makes no sense at all,
often pretended to be, he
would willingly spend years
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o sense unless turning
from the very beginning.
communists would not,
mpted to and succeeded in infiltrating
_ and F.B.I., as might be the case with Messrs. Liddy,
Hunt and McCord. This, however, is again only conjecture.
The knowledge by some Canadians in government in Ottawa, at far
too early a date, of a conspiracy to destroy the American
President and everyone around him, is fact. Some way must be
found to get to the source of this advance knowledge, or the
conspiracy which must still be in full operation may well
destroy our President and our country.
I cannot sign my name to this letter for obvious reasons. I
do not believe I would ever know a moment of peace for the
rest of my life should my identity become known if my knowledge
should prove accurate. I can only hope and pray and urge that
steps be taken to get to the source of what I am certain is a
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conspiracy, beginning with the knowledge and rumors which were
so rife in the Canadian capital months before they became items
of news here in the United States.
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