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...true, as John Dean, the President's fired counsel, testified, that Dean had reported to him about Convicted Wiretapper G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre political espionage plans as early as February 1972? Haldeman: "I don't have a recollection." Had he seen a memo prepared for him by his assistant Gordon Strachan indicating former Attorney General John Mitchell's approval of a $300,000 budget for Liddy's "sophisticated intelligence-gathering plan"? "I don't recall." Did he recall reading a "talking paper" about this plan given him by Strachan for a meeting with...
...same time, Cox requested the tapes of one telephone conversation and seven meetings. Eventually, the White House did supply Cox with a White House memo that dealt with Hunt's shift from the White House to the Re-Election Committee's payroll, and another written by former White House Aide Gordon Strachan, under the principles enunciated by White House Attorney Charles Wright (see box). He said that the President would not withhold material dealing with his role as head of the Republican Party or extensively testified about by other witnesses and already made more or less public...
...memo sent from Young and Krogh to Ehrlichman before the burglary indicated that Ehrlichman had approved "a covert operation ... to examine all the medical files still held by Ellsberg's psychoanalyst." Ehrlichman's handwritten caution: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable." Ehrlichman argued that he had not had burglary in mind. "Covert" meant only that he did not want the operation identified with the White House. He blandly suggested that there were all kinds of ways of handling the job that were routine, such as getting another doctor, a nurse or nurse...
Pointedly praising John Dean's credibility, Strachan said that before the Watergate break-in he had passed along to Haldeman a memo noting John Mitchell's approval of "a sophisticated political intelligence-gathering system." It called for a budget of $300,000. Strachan also prepared "a talking paper" on this plan for a meeting between Haldeman and Mitchell on April 4. Haldeman had indicated that he had read both papers, Strachan said...
...with cash any efforts the CIA might be considering to prevent the election of Salvador Allende, Chile's Marxist President. At home-if such a cozy term can be used for a multinational-ITT provided an early trickle to the Watergate. ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard's secret memo found its way into Jack Anderson's column, where it told of a $400,000 pledge for the 1972 Republican Convention. All this occurred shortly before the Justice Department settled an antitrust action against...