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UNDISPUTED FACTS. President Nixon on July 23, 1970, notified four federal intelligence-gathering agencies-the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency -that he had approved a new plan for the use of some previously banned tactics in gathering information on antiwar demonstrators, campus rioters, radical bomb throwers and black extremists. The tactics included breaking and entering, the opening of personal mail and the interception of communication between U.S. residents and foreign points. One of the plan's originators, Nixon Aide Tom Huston, pointed out in a memo that breaking and entering, at least, was "clearly illegal...
...Nixon demonstrations at the convention. Now the case of the "Gainesville Eight" has come to court as the latest -and possibly last-of the celebrated conspiracy trials of recent years. Those often traumatic trials, like the Gainesville case, were the result of a controversial Justice Department practice of prosecuting antiwar, anti-Administration activists for allegedly illegal plots. The prosecutions have involved at least 100 investigations in 36 states that have returned more than 400 indictments, but led to only one-tenth as many convictions, many on lesser charges...
Fantastic Plot. In two days of testimony, Lemmer, a former paratrooper in Viet Nam, described a fantastic plot that he says he watched develop while serving as Arkansas-Oklahoma coordinator for the antiwar vets. He outlined the scheme that he says Veteran Leader Scott Camil called "Phoenix II" (named after a CIA-sponsored project to eliminate Viet Cong cadres in Viet Nam). Lemmer told the jury that early in 1972, Camil said he was conducting training operations for political assassination squads on an isolated Florida farm with facilities for rifle, pistol and mortar practice. Lemmer, who spent approximately two years...
...ignoring a fixed proportion of the elderly, it excluded the old. By insisting on a fixed proportion of blacks, Indians or Spanish-speaking and ignoring, say, Italians, Poles, Irish, Jews, old-stock colonials, it restricted." The Democrats' Pepsi delegations, White suggests, were ready-made for McGovern's antiwar crusades, but left their candidate hostage to a militant elitism that excluded much of the country. Although McGovern sought to edge away from the New Left, in the public mind he was saddled with radical positions on drugs and abortion, among other issues of his farther-out supporters...
...office here that is going to be the counsel in your re-election campaign, and I think I ought to warn you, you have got a lot of trouble on your hands'?" Democrat Daniel Inouye asked what differences there were between the Justice Department's prosecution of antiwar Catholics for discussing the kidnaping of Henry Kissinger and "a discussion of criminal activities in your office." Mitchell said that the Kissinger case involved overt acts rather than mere discussion...