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...TIME learned that, despite Republican denials, Dwight Chapin, Deputy Assistant to the President, has himself admitted involvement in setting up a political intelligence platoon...
...first revelation about Chapin came when TIME (Oct. 23) reported that he was one of two White House assistants who had hired Los Angeles Attorney Donald H. Segretti to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. Last week Clark MacGregor, director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, declared: "Dwight Chapin just simply had no knowledge of and was not involved...
Still very much in place in his windowless west-wing office is Dwight Chapin, deputy assistant to the President, who with White House Staff Assistant Gordon Strachan had hired Donald H. Segretti to recruit agents to help "disrupt" the primary campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. TIME reported earlier (Oct. 23) that Segretti had received from Herbert Kalmbach more than $35,000 for his services. Kalmbach in turn got the money from the secret fund in Stans' safe. This information was based on statements made by both Segretti and Kalmbach to FBI agents...
Later, last week, the New York Times reported that a telephone in Segretti's home was used to make 28 calls to Chapin's home, the White House or the office of the indicted Hunt. The Washington Post reported that only five people had authority to approve payments from the Stans fund: Stans, Kalmbach, Magruder, Mitchell and an unidentified "high White House official." The Post also claimed that White House aides had coached Segretti on what to say to the Watergate grand jury and that when he appeared before the jury, the U.S. attorneys who were prosecuting...
...department's files state that Segretti, a 31-year-old registered Democrat and a former Treasury Department lawyer, was hired in September 1971 by Dwight Chapin, a deputy assistant to the President, and Gordon Strachan, a staff assistant at the White House. Chapin is the President's most trusted aide-de-camp and acts as a liaison between Nixon and his giant staff. For his services, Segretti was paid by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney who has handled such matters as the acquisition of Nixon's estate at San Clemente, Calif. Segretti's recompense...