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Ehrlichman testified that both Walters and Helms were wrong about the intent of the meetings. The concern was security, not politics, and, on orders from the President, Walters and Gray were merely asked to get together to see if there really was a CIA problem. When Walters finally decided that...
Continued the Walters memo: "Director Helms said he had talked to Gray on the previous day and made plain to him that ... none of his investigations was touching any covert projects of the agency, current or ongoing."
Though the President maintained that the White House interfered with the Watergate investigation only to protect national security, a series of CIA memos tell a different story. A memo from Lieut. General Vernon A. Walters, deputy director of the CIA, for example, describes a June 23 meeting with Ehrlichman and...
Walters contends that he next heard from Nixon Counsel John Dean three days later. Dean summoned Walters to the Executive Office Building and suggested that some of the arrested Watergate burglars "were getting scared and wobbling." Dean wondered if the CIA could pay their bail or, if they were convicted...
But TIME has learned that Helms had already assured Gray the day before that the CIA could in no way be hurt by any Watergate investigation and he told Haldeman and Ehrlichman this. Nevertheless, Walters did go to Gray and suggest a potential CIA interest in holding back the Mexican...