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Contrary to evidence introduced at Haldeman's 1974 trial, he still denies that he ever saw any of the "Gemstone" reports showing what the one working bug on a phone inside the Democratic Committee headquarters was picking up. He also denies ever telling his aide, Gordon Strachan, to destroy any such documents-contrary to Strachan's testimony...
Faring far better was Gordon Strachan, 31, a former Haldeman aide who had been indicted for conspiracy in the coverup. His trial had been separated from that of the convicted conspirators because of legal complications arising from partial grants of immunity given to secure his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee. Strachan emerged wholly free as Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. revealed that the Government was no longer interested in prosecuting him. Testimony at the conspiracy trial had shown that Strachan's involvement, if any, had been peripheral and as a messenger for Haldeman...
...evidence suggesting that Nixon might even have ordered the intelligence-gathering plan that led to the bugging of Democratic national headquarters. On a March 27,1973 tape, H.R. Haldeman told Nixon that "the final step" in putting the bugging plan in operation occurred when Haldeman's aide, Gordon Strachan, called Magruder and told him "to get this going" because "the President wants it done and there's to be no more arguing about it." Magruder, according to Haldeman, passed this presidential order along to former Attorney General John Mitchell, who said, "O.K., if they...
...defense. In response to the quizzing of Assistant Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, he repeated his insistence that Mitchell had "reluctantly" approved the bugging of then Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien's office. He testified too that he had kept Defendant H.R. Haldeman's assistant, Gordon Strachan, informed of the bugging plans so that Haldeman could relay information "as he saw fit" to President Richard Nixon...
...committee, warmly shook hands with his former boss. Kenneth W. Parkinson, who had been merely an attorney for the Nixon committee, sat apart from the others on a front-row bench, almost as a spectator. Federal Judge John J. Sirica had separated the case of a sixth defendant, Gordon Strachan, because of legal complications caused by previous grants of immunity...