Word: breakin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after the breakin, Mendell, who according to one investigator had been "running from pillar to post" in an attempt to hide from Big Tuna's wrath, disappeared. His body turned up six weeks later in the trunk of an Oldsmobile on Chicago's South Side. His arms had been bound, his neck slashed and a rope tied next to the wound to slow the flow of blood. Explained one investigator: "They forced him to watch himself bleed to death...
...right into the New York hotel room where the Times staffers were preparing the classified documents for publication and seized them, presumably as evidence of a theft. As for Watergate, Reston contends that the ruling would probably have enabled agents of the Nixon Administration, conceivably pursuing evidence of the breakin, to march into the Post's offices "in a position to intimidate everybody in command." Whether such a move would have stopped pursuit of the matter is doubtful, but Reston has a point about how a Deep Throat might be intimidated: "If the police can demand access to newspaper files...
...Nixon probably ordered the Fielding-Ellsberg break-in in 1971. Haldeman relates that about two weeks after I walked into jail in 1976, he and Nixon were out at San Clemente, talking about Nixon's memoirs. Nixon was worried about what to write about his part in the Fielding breakin. "Maybe I did order that break-in," Haldeman quotes him as saying. Since Nixon represented to the court during my trial that he had had nothing to do with the genesis of that breakin, his statements to Haldeman are startling...
When I told Nixon in 1972 what I knew of that breakin, he instantly voiced his approval of it. I heard him instruct an Assistant Attorney General not to investigate it. After I was fired in 1973, I had a talk with Nixon about the fate of Egil Krogh, who was then being prosecuted for his part in the Fielding breakin. I urged Nixon to pardon Krogh, on the ground that the young man had been involved in an effort which I had heard Nixon expressly ratify. Nixon readily agreed that Krogh should be pardoned. Somewhere on a tape...
...occasion, José was assigned to bomb a U.S.-owned store in San Juan. A specialist in burglar alarms carried out the actual breakin. Then an explosives expert brought in two bombs while a heavily armed third terrorist waited in a car pondering some special instructions. "The bomb people were very important to us," José recalls. "So the getaway driver would give his word that he would fight if there was trouble, to give his comrade time to escape...