Word: basting
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...Bast has a reputation for honesty. Except for a single detail, Colson by week's end had not challenged the story. He admitted that he had met with Bast "in confidence to explore a possible professional relationship. None of the statements I made to Mr. Bast were intended for public consumption." Bast waited until Colson was sentenced to release the story. He thought it was important enough to be made public. And, says Bast, Colson agreed...
According to Bast's notes, this is how the conversations went...
Colson wanted Bast to investigate the CIA privately on behalf of himself and the six other defendants in the Watergate cover-up conspiracy trial. Not eager for that job, Bast suggested that the President appoint another special prosecutor to do it. Colson thought that was a good idea and later reported that Nixon was "very enthusiastic." But that is as far as the project went...
...agency, Colson confided to Bast, was out to get President Nixon. Why? asked Bast. Colson replied: "Nixon's theory is that they were coming in to spy, that they wanted to get enough on the White House so that they could get what they wanted." What did they want? "Who knows what they want?" Colson responded. Before the White House could take any counteraction, he went on, "our whole house of cards collapsed. Nobody controls the CIA. I mean nobody. If the CIA really has infiltrated this country to the extent I think...
...ticked them off. The agency helped carry out the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, destroyed evidence, put out a cover story to camouflage its part in the Watergate break-in and tried to divert the FBI from investigating it. He confessed to Bast: "I don't say this to my people. They'd think I'm nuts. I think they killed Dorothy Hunt." He was referring to the death of E. Howard Hunt's wife in an air crash in 1972. Colson thought that the agency was trying to silence...