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...BERNARD BARKER, 56, one of the four Cuban refugees charged in the original Watergate breakin. Pleaded guilty to burglary, conspiracy, illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping; released after twelve months in prison pending appeal. DWIGHT L. CHAPIN, 33, former appointments secretary to Nixon. Indicted on four counts of perjury concerning the activities of Dirty-Tricks Specialist Donald Segretti; awaiting trial...
...addition, they managed to rouse the interest of a potentially powerful ally: Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker of the Ervin committee. Barker's daughter had singled him out "because he was the Senator in all the hearings I liked best." She appealed to him, and during the congressional recess Weicker went to Danbury twice to meet with the prisoners. He said that he was "upset to see the men who are least able to afford it sitting in jail while all the others wander around the country." Though the Senator added that he could make no promises, he has turned...
...which if accepted by Sirica would cancel his planned review of their sentences. Schultz argued that the men originally pleaded guilty in the belief that they were protecting "national security interests" by doing so. Now they believe they were deceived and made victims of a "cruel fraud." Barker once denied that anyone had pressured the four conspirators into pleading guilty last spring but now says it is a matter of "interpretation" and for the judge to decide. It is known, however, that Schultz is preparing a suit against E. Howard Hunt and former Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson...
...Barker and Sturgis do not have Cuban surnames because, although Barker's mother was Cuban, his father was American and Sturgis adopted his stepfather's name...
...said several intimate friends of Watergate defendant Bernard Barker tried to sell the VVAW weapons "of any kind" for cash or dope: "They were trying to set us up to buy weapons so they could make the conspiracy case fit. They didn't have any other concrete evidence against...