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Some FBI agents believe that among the burned papers was a memo based on Hunt's reportedly secret interview with ITT's Washington lobbyist Dita Beard, who had linked an ITT offer of contributions to the Republican National Convention with the Justice Department's settlement of antitrust suits against ITT. This memo, agents believe, was highly embarrassing to the Nixon Administration. It was not clear whether there might have been other Hunt documents in the file that were relevant to the FBI investigation...
West Virginia's Harley Staggers, chairman of a House commerce subcommittee, released more than 70 pages of working papers from the files of the Securities and Exchange Commission that shed more light on ITT's attempts to win a favorable decision in a Justice Department antitrust suit. The papers, comprising SEC notes and summaries of more than 34 boxes of ITT papers, indicated that ITT had pressed its case with unseemly vigor...
...Mitchell, Maurice Stans and Peter Peterson, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, Presidential Aide John Ehrlichman and former Presidential Aide Charles Colson. The letters between ITT and Government officials suggested that ITT wanted to drive a wedge between the Administration and Richard McLaren, then head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. ITT, in effect, was marshaling strength at the highest levels of Government to run over an Assistant Attorney General and the antitrust code. ITT eventually received a favorable ruling-it was allowed to retain control of the rich Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and ordered to sell off lesser companies...
...agents since December also have been looking into testimony in the tangled ITT antitrust case. They want to determine whether officials of either the company or the Government-or both-had perjured themselves during any of the various hearings. Among other things, the FBI will presumably investigate seeming discrepancies in the testimony of John Mitchell. Last spring the former Attorney General testified under oath that he had never discussed with Nixon any antitrust case in the Justice Department. Yet ITT documents suggest that Mitchell had conveyed to ITT executives what they took to be the substance of talks...
...public. Subsequently, Andrew Jackson turned down a Senate request to see a paper that he had read in a Cabinet meeting defending his removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt ignored a Senate resolution ordering him to hand over documents involved in an antitrust suit against the U.S. Steel Corp...