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In some ways, the committee report is a kind of self-portrait of baffled and frustrated investigators. As it says: "The picture that emerges from the evidence is not a clear one." Assassination plots could be disguised to ensure "plausible deniability" for those higher up. Said the committee: "The custom...
In not quite seven years, the Republican Administrations begun by Richard Nixon and continued by Gerald Ford have had an astonishing record of high-level turnovers. The CIA has gone through three directors-Richard Helms, James Schlesinger and William Colby-and will soon have a fourth, George Bush. The FBI...
At Schlesinger's home in Arlington, Va., a post-firing wake turned into an impromptu party. Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann?who was a Princeton roommate of his new boss, Rumsfeld ?dropped by. So did Colby and his wife, who seemed radiant at the prospect that her husband would soon...
The problem for the Senate Intelligence Committee was that former CIA Director Richard Helms had testified earlier that, in June of 1971, he told then Attorney General Mitchell of the mail operation and Mitchell raised no objections. But Mitchell denied knowledge of the mail openings, claiming that Helms had mentioned...
Nixon is also implicated in this conspiracy. The Cuban motif runs through his whole career. Nixon visited Cuba in 1940 to explore possible business connections and again in 1952 with Richard Danner, a former FBI agent and Lansky acquaintance who turned up in 1972 as the courier of Howard Hughes...