NIXON'S NEW AIDES ARE WORSE THAN THOSE OUSTED IN SCANDAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
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The fast-breaking'-W'aeTgate
scandal has sh-2ken the government to
its foundations and exposed capital-
ist politicians fqr their inherent
corruption. Even more dangerous than
,kinds of criminals
into the governmei;
who has spent most
the Directorate of
CIA slang as "The
ty Tricks."
cta'1D1? thll11
:_on is bringing
Colby--a pig
his life in
-ins, known in
-artment of Dir-
?.Nixon's departed aides and administra-
tors, lioarevcr, are his replacements
for the criminals who have been
caught. ?
The disclosures have brought the
government to a point of crisis. If
documentation is obtained that links
Nixon directly to any of the 1984-
s'tyle repression already revealed in
The case, there could well be im-
peachment proceedings against the
government, or even mass uprisings.
The blo.;s against the government
have been severe. Presidential chief
of staff IL.P.. lialdeman quit April 30,
Chief White House domestic advisor
John D. Ellrlichman quit April 30, Ac-
ting FIbI Director L. Patrick Gray re-
signed April. 27, Atty. Gen. Richard
G. Kleindienst: resigned April 30.
Former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and
former Cocm;,erce Secretary Maurice
??Stalis have been indicted by a grand
jury in York. Both headed up
Nixor:'s re-election campaign last
year. All of those criminals have
been essential to Nixon in pant years.
A number of key, but relatively minor
officials .rnd aides also have re-
signed or have been indicted.
The centerpicc
has been Vietnam, ::fire he arrived
in 1959 as "first - -rettiry"--so de-
scribed.by a CIA s -,esperson--of
the American ernbat:
Actually, it well known in
Saigon in those di that Colby was
the CIA's station .'.ef in South
Vietnam, and it w during this per-
iod that his Ion,-, ;ociation with
the war against ti: ndochinese peo-
ples was first for;,
In 1962 he bc: e the chief of
the Far East Divi:; of the CIA's
Directorate of in Washington.
The agency's role the Indochinese
war was at its hciH';L at the time,
several years bef e the big U.S.
military buildup.
The CIA orgy.:.` -d an army of
Meo mercenaries tc .?Ltle the Pathet
Lao in Laos. And Vietnam, the be-
ginnings of what to be called
the "pacification" -ogram were be-
ing set into motic Colby was the
head of the "pac::i .lion" program,
or, more accurate: the Phoenix pro-
gram.
The P?hoynis ram--the code
name assigned by CIA---was de-
signed to torture - information,
then kill suspects: .rational Libera-
tion Front member.:. The program had
In oi-dc-r to meet the crisis,
Richard ;:;?:on ha a brought the mili-
tary into tie government, naming Gen.
Alex.-indc?r Haiigh as Presidential Chief
of Staff.
3n add i t ;on he has put Secretary
of Uef :a? :e Elliot kichardson in charge
of the Judie(' Department.
Ec h_r; moved CIA director Janes
Schlc :; n ;c r u-.ver to become the new
Secretary of 1)ofe-nr;e, and William E.
Colby, ]:e .:. e C thr? g verni:.-; rat'., assas-
;llra't'.Ci;i ;.r12'.?. ]n %litlicast Asia (the
the new director
of the lettr.il 1111-e'lligence Agency.
A t ?pic it c..;triple. of the new
little effect on ti
succeed in killie-,
people unconnected
gon.or the NLF, a
large numbers of munist opposition.
headed this pr.o};r-.;..
the CIA under ~.i_:>::_~
Inc:nt.
(For more de,;_
on the Phoenix
the latest issue
ball et. i n of The. C
NLF, but did
,rge numbers of
Lh either Sai-
rI killing off
7.1's non-corn-
ue same guy who
now heading
nesa" govern-
information
chock out
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