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...help defray the cost of the Republicans' 1972 national convention in San Diego (later switched to Miami). Columnist Jack Anderson published an ITT memorandum last year that appeared to substantiate the charge. But before ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, the author of the memo, could give testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she was spirited off to Colorado-reportedly by the White House "plumbers"-and was said to be too ill to be interviewed at the time. Last week the Ervin committee gained possession of a White House memorandum that seemed to shed new light on the ITT case...
...memo was sent by Charles W. Colson, then a White House special counsel, to H.R. Haldeman, then the President's chief of staff, on March 30, 1972. It turned up last week when the Ervin committee subpoenaed a secretary of Colson's and asked her to bring along her files. The purpose of the Colson memo was to urge the Administration to withdraw its nomination of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General-a nomination that was subsequently approved by the Senate. Colson's point at the time was that the Senate investigation of Kleindienst might conceivably turn...
...previous year, ITT Executive John F. Ryan, in a memo to William R. Merriam, a corporate colleague, had made a cryptic reference to "Dita and dollars," then reported: "I was asked by Ned [Gerrity] to get some feel for you from Dita as to what is required." On June 25, 1971, Dita Beard wrote to Merriam, her superior, that ITT's "noble commitment" of funds for the Republican Convention had "gone a long way toward our negotiations on the mergers eventually coming out as Hal [Geneen] wants them...
Neither the White House nor ITT had any comment on the Colson memo last week; neither did McLaren, who on Dec. 2, 1971, was appointed by President Nixon to a federal judgeship. Colson, however, insisted that as "a good staff guy," he had merely been playing the part of "a devil's advocate"-outlining the problems that the Judiciary Committee might raise "in their worst context...
...request, has collected files on 3,000 organizations and 8,000 individuals-not all of them radical, though the tilt is definitely leftward. While many of the persons and groups listed have tax violations on their records, others have nothing substantial lodged against them. A top-level IRS memo indicates that "a great deal of material has not been evaluated...