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...chief White House adviser on all domestic affairs, has steadfastly denied knowing in advance of the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. A county grand jury in Los Angeles last week decided otherwise. It indicted Ehrlichman and three other former White House aides-Egil Krogh, David Young and G. Gordon Liddy-for the plebeian crime of burglary. Ehrlichman was also charged with perjury...
...Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez and Felipe de Diego. The jury reportedly monitored the Senate Watergate hearings arid then replayed tapes of Ehrlichman's testimony to check for discrepancies. His indictment for burglary was based partly on three White House memorandums, especially a memo from Young and Krogh on Aug. 11, 1971, in which Ehrlichman approved a "covert operation" to procure the psychiatrist's files on Ellsberg. Along with his initial, Ehrlichman had jotted down: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable...
...deplorable that no one said Nixon the whole shoddy scheme. May the culprits, those now eating Krogh and especially the machinators, learn to (La)Rue their acquiescence...
...DISPUTE. Ehrlichman denied authorizing the burglary but admitted approving a memo from Krogh and Young suggesting that "a covert operation be undertaken to examine all the medical files still held by Ellsberg's psychiatrist." This information was needed, Ehrlichman said, not to prosecute Ellsberg (such evidence would be inadmissible) but to provide more data for a "psychological profile" that the plumbers had asked the CIA to compile; the White House had found the CIA's first such report inadequate. He rejected Senator Lowell Weicker's charge that the aim was to "smear" Ellsberg for political purposes...
WHAT DID NIXON KNOW? Dean claims that Krogh told him the burglary orders came "right out of the Oval Office." Ehrlichman, curiously, argued that Nixon would have been within his legal rights in ordering such a burglary. Nixon said he "did not authorize and had no knowledge of any illegal means to be used" to assess Ellsberg's motives. He said he was informed by Attorney General Richard Kleindienst on April 25 that Hunt was involved in the burglary and promptly agreed that the Ellsberg trial judge, Matthew Byrne, must be informed. Yet a White House-supplied...