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...been granted immunity: E. 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...
...Meier, who had been engaged in a search for profitable mining properties for the billionaire recluse. Don made a scouting trip with Meier to the Dominican Republic, where the government greeted them like potentates and laid on a heavy military escort. Later, White House Detective John Caulfield wrote a memo to Presidential Counsel John W. Dean III warning that Don had gone to the Dominican Republic with "a small group of wheeler-dealers" who were connected with Hughes. The results of the mission remain, like most Hughes missions, mysterious. Meier was subsequently dismissed from the Hughes hierarchy, and last month...
...Guinier "an intellectual and academic disgrace". "Guinier," Kilson added, "is not a scholar at the Harvard level." Another of Guinier's detractors is Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology Once a member of the Afro faculty, Patterson left the Department in disagreement with the way it was run. In a memo to the Review Committee, Patterson wrote that Guinier "lacks the academic, administrative, and personal qualities for the job of chairman. Not having an academic or intellectual background, he is extremely insecure in his relations with qualified persons, especially any senior or potentially senior person...
...Leonard Committee received a memo from Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, suggesting the consortium recommendation be dropped. When it makes its report, the committee will propose organizing the Institute solely within Harvard at the outset. Leonard said that once DuBois is established, it may become a collaborative effort with other schools...
Sullivan compiled his memo from FBI records of presidential requests for political help, though no records apparently exist of what the bureau did in response. Omitting the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, Sullivan concentrates on the two Presidents who made the most extensive political use of the FBI: Roosevelt and Johnson. "Complete and willing cooperation was given to both," he says...