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The tower in many ways will be comparable to a small city. Its electrical system could serve all of Rockford, Ill. (pop. 147,000), and its air-conditioning complex could cool 6,000 houses. The structure contains enough concrete to pave over 78 football fields; it has 80 miles of...
>The Watergate contamination spread ever more widely as it was revealed that-in response to requests from White House officials-the CIA and the State Department had helped Convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt Jr. carry out covert activities. These involved either the investigation of Ellsberg or the fabrication of cables...
This automatic response to any White House request was also demonstrated by the State Department. In Au gust 1971 it cooperated with Hunt after receiving a memo from the White House and two calls from David Young, an Ehrlichman assistant on detached service from Henry Kissinger's Nation al...
According to sworn testimony by Hunt, he then examined the cables to determine whether there was any indication, as he hoped, that President John Kennedy had ordered the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. Hunt said that this study was supervised by Charles Colson, then...
Hunt did find, however, three or four authentic cables suggesting that "they [the White House] had pretty close to pulled the trigger against Premier Diem's head, but didn't say so in so many words."