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During the past calendar year a record 81,807 letters to TIME crossed the desk of Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros. Letters about Nation stories led the lists, as always, and our Watergate stories attracted the most attention. A January 1973 profile of a little-known former CIA agent named E. Howard Hunt attracted a trickle of mail from seven readers. In subsequent months G. Gordon Liddy, L. Patrick Gray, John Dean and James McCord would all appear on TIME covers, and the response to Watergate would grow to a flood of 23,000 letters. Wrote one critic...
...committee staff referred specifically to the case of Robert W. Greene of Newsday, reporting that "his return was not audited by the Internal Revenue Service but rather by New York State," adding that "the staff has talked with Mr. Greene, the New York revenue agent who audited Greene's state return, and other people in the New York State department of taxation and, as a result, believes that his audit by New York State was unrelated to his being classified as a White House 'enemy...
Ehrlichman's defense attorneys adroitly set the stage for this dramatic step. They maintained that the President had put Ehrlichman to work as a federal agent when he gave him the job of tracking down the source of such leaks as the Pentagon papers. In carrying out that assignment, runs the argument, "the plumbers" unit under Ehrlichman's supervision broke into the Los Angeles office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971. Ringer agreed that the President's testimony was a key element. Accordingly, he ordered Nixon to appear on behalf of Ehrlichman, David Young...
...cocaine arrests occurred December 7, when one of the students arrested reportedly sold four ounces of cocaine. All of the sales were made to a police undercover agent who was posing as a student and living in one of the fraternity houses. Could a narcotics agent pose as a student and live in a fraternity house without anyone knowing about it? Apparently...
Confidential Agent. 1945. Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in a Graham Greene tale of the Spanish Civil War. CH.56...