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...Democrats for Nixon last year. TIME has learned that the Justice Department considered prosecuting him for a possibly illegal campaign contribution in 1972. Rodgers promptly made these difficulties known to the White House, where W. Richard Howard, an assistant to then Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson, fired off a memo to John Dean asking him to go to bat for Rodgers at the Justice Department. Rodgers was never prosecuted. He is currently recuperating from a heart attack at Southwind, his estate on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but expects to be subpoenaed in the Agnew investigation soon...
...information on antiwar demonstrators, campus rioters, radical bomb throwers and black extremists. The tactics included breaking and entering, the opening of personal mail and the interception of communication between U.S. residents and foreign points. One of the plan's originators, Nixon Aide Tom Huston, pointed out in a memo that breaking and entering, at least, was "clearly illegal." The plan was opposed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (for reasons not entirely clear, since the FBI has not been above breaking and entering in espionage cases); his objections were supported by Attorney General John Mitchell...
...functions of the Special Services Group were described in a Jan. 12 memo written by John J. Flynn, North Atlantic regional commissioner, to the directors serving under him. Noting that the group works closely with other federal investigative agencies, Flynn calls it a "central intelligence-gathering facility within the IRS." The purpose of the group is to "receive and analyze all available information on organizations and individuals promoting extremists' views or philosophies"-whether of the right or left. Suspects are included "without regard to the philosophy or political posture involved." What counts is the "notoriety of the individual...
...memo goes on to divide the extremists into two categories: violent and "socalled" nonviolent. The first embraces those who advocate and practice arson, fire bombing and destruction of property; also skyjackers, prison rioters and people who threaten public officials or distribute publications urging revolution. The nonviolent category includes those who burn their draft cards, participate in May Day demonstrations, "organize and attend rock festivals which attract youth and narcotics," travel to Cuba, Algeria and North Viet Nam, or "aid in funding the sale of firearms to the Irish Republican Army and Arab terrorists." Writes Flynn: "There is evidence from classified...
...memo concludes that the "magnitude and potential of this facility is unlimited." But there is no evidence to date that extensive use has been made of the Special Services Group...