WHO IS RIGHT IN DISPUTE OVER WATERGATE TAPES?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000700090042-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: May 24, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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Scripps-Howard Staff 10:39 a.m., from 1:04 to 1:13 lated covert CL; operation or'(
WASHINGTON -- President ;Nixon's ' refusal to p. m. and from 2:20 to 2:45 the activities of the White
p.m. lIouse "plumbers" unit.
yield more Watergate tapes to the House Judiciary That was the day on which The committee said Walters
Cornnlittee is based on his contention that the corn- Haldeman a n d Ehrlichman met with Gray and said the
rnittee already has the "full story" of his knowledge met with Central Intelligence FBI investigation "should not
and actions relating to Watelgate. Agency (CL- 1.,..director Rich- be pursued into 1lexico and
` he committee, in subpoena- and Helms and Gen. Vernon A. should be tapered off at the
ing additional tapes for its im- That was the day on which ti Walters, deputy director. The five people" arrested insi7di
f _ >..,.. n _.cALrnmari7- t h e Watergate en line
vas the subject of a meeting
between Haldeman, Mitchell,
White House Counsel John W.
Dean III, chief. domestic aide
Colson, then special counsel,
and former Atty. Gen. John N.
Mitchell, who at the time head
ccl the Nixon re-election com-
rnittee. None of the 11 was in-
cluded in the White House
ak
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ons u.e
_c h e conversat
d o rv n by date into three j conversations Nixon had on
that day: 2:20 to 3:30 p.m.
?" o, ` Ls : , th C hon 4'35 to 5.25 p.m.
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T1E FIRST GEODE of two
conversations were on April 4,
1972, from 4:13 to X1:50 p.m. b ,-
t;veen Nixon, Haldeman and
Pitchell, and from 6:03 to 6:18
between Nixon and Eal-
cici n in.
Strachan, according to h. i s
later testimony, shredded the
memo including a reference to.
the plan for electronic surveil
lance devised by Liddy.
The committee subpoena-
5 ,
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with Haldeman; 7:52 to 7:59
p.nl. with Haldeman by tele-
phone; 8:04 to 8:21 p.m. with
Colson by telephone; 8:42 to
8:50 n.m. with Ilaldeman by
llla- YCi11V Ua c,L"S.~ ......~-..------
al investigations s a y s interviews relating to funds in
Haldeman a n d Ehrlichman the Miami bank of one of the.
asked Walters to meet with five, Bernard L. Parer.
FBI acting Director L. Patrick After the FBI resumed its
xican
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Gray III "to ensure that the investigation of t
FBI investigation of Watergate connection" two weeks later, it
participants not be expanded found t h a t t h e money in
into unrelated matters which Barker's account had come
could lead to disclosure of non- from a Mexican bank account,
Watergate covert CIA opera- which in turn had come from
tions or other nonrelated na- t h e N i x o n re-election
tional security activities that committee.
had been undertaken previoi.is- The June 23 tapes are being
ly by some of the Watergate sought to establish if Nixon's
participants." concern was for t 1-e CIA and
Nixon in his May 22 speech the plumbers, or for the con-
to the nation said he asked nection between the Watertate
Haldeman and Ehriichman to burglars and his campaign
telephone; 11:33 p.m. to 12:05 1
a.m. with Coson by telephone.
T 1': committee mer,toran- That evening, Nixon also
d o ' , i supporting that subpoena talked by telephone w i t h
says that on :March 30, ?1972, .~ Mitchell, but the White :house
a.cco.din' to testimony by re-, says the call was made from a
hie :l ion cotnmidcee official ;feo 1i telephone not connected to the
S, Magruder. Mitchell aa- tape-recording system,
pr:o?; ed G. Gordon's kiddy's fit; ere any of those conversa-
inlcliience-atherin?.; plan, in- tions related to the cover-up
entry into Democratic
rai5_,nal headquarters at the
I1,'a tar=gate.
In early April, the memo
ccntiaues, Haldeman a i. d e
t>ocdon rtrac han w r o t e a
n.c:n.o to Haldeman about the
re-e_action co.mmittee's adop-
tion of a "sophisticated" intel-
li _ ;ce plan costing $300,000.
I".t , p.;?n. on April 4, Haldeman
ar:l Mitchell met and then
rcer;t to the meeting with the
:C'rc-.i .lent.
when taking shape? Or was the
President trying to get to the
bottom of who was repsonsible
for the Watergate operation?
TIlE THIRD CROUP of con-
versations subpoenaed by the
committee could be the most
crucial, because they involved
the government's two major
intelligence agencies. T h e
three conversations were be-
tween Nixon and Haldeman on
1)1 Ha'.demaii or Mitchell y
toil i_