'OBSTRUCTION' EYED IN ANTI-NIXON CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000300050002-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 27, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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ellevr? their,besLcase against
l'recidenl__ I?jix,on:._.personal.ly
would t)e cQx. lratrus:tion-of .u
ti.cc,; They have evidence that
he tried to cover up the burglar-
izing of Daniel Ellsberg's psy-
ckriatrist. No decision has been
trade, however, to bring
charges against him.
The President repeatedly has
tried to block inquiries into the
White House plumbers' opera-
tion in the name of national se-
curity. presidential aidp_St?ave
told-.1he -pros eeutor_.S, _Lnddhp
hnnfidnnec. that._an--zny tn... of _th_Q_P1 ubers..mi9litx
mal.-.that_-the.-..Centrat _ total l i-
genec Agency.- eaycsdrops., of
?entlin headers.
This is no secret,howcyrg, to
oyr r ydi rs, Ye reported aslar
lt;telr a-; S ept, 16.1971,_that_ lie
(;J:A Jets.beeu_;rhle to.Jisten to
tile.. kiut;pins . of_llfe__Kremlin
banle.r.. -bicker? and__hack hjte
gloom; tht::tnselves."
We went ahead with the story
lit c Luse the _sectet"irscu~ritl:s
rtl;,, flee hrenilin. conversatiops
Yl?ow rri that the Soviet;_leadq s
,were quite aware the. CIA was
li felon? to them. Anything the
l rem [in leaders knew we rea-
snlicrl, vas safe for the` mcri-
c~an ustnple..to i~e.told.
The Kremlin eavesdropping,
however, has been the principal
excuse that the White House has
offered for shushing up the Ells-
berg break-in. The burglary was
committed by the plumbers,
presidential aides told the pros-
ecutors, not to seek a psycholog-
ical profile of Ellsberg as the
public has been told but to
learn the names of Ellsberg's
suspected Soviet contacts.
,_~ ,_-W ii1e 11ousia-leard Flls-
Larj_information about the
rt 'c I i crllrU devices in the
K.L tnlin and mi ht tiloff his al-
l~d SQV.te~,+sozltacts~yclaimed
the Presidents~eople. Th had
reason to believe Ellsberg had
named his Soviet contacts, they
said, during his sessions with
his psychiatrist.
When Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral Henry Petersen discussed
the Ellsberg break-in with the
President, according to Peter-
sen's account of the conversa-
tion, Mr. Nixon warned him:
"That is a national security mat-
ter. You stay out of that. Your
mandate is to investigate Water-
gate."
The new special prosecutor,
Leon Jaworski, has told Sena-
tors he doesn't agree with this
and will go ahead with an inves-
tigation of the plumbers' activi-
ties. These include two mysteri-
ous missions known only as
"Project Odessa" and "Project
M-1." White House aides won't
even discuss these missions
with the prosecutors, although
they have promised to letJawor-
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