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Colson, in turn, has been accused by two other aides, according to Watergate investigators, of proposing a burglary of the Brookings Institution in 1971 to obtain some unidentified classified information. Moreover, the investigators say, he then suggested that the burglars "fire-bomb" the place to conceal the breakin. These accusations have been made by John Dean and John J. Caulfield, a former intelligence agent brought into the White House by John Ehrlichman. Caulfield told investigators he considered the plan "insane" and it was never carried out. An associate of Colson confirmed that such discussions had taken place but contended that...
After the Watergate breakin, Reisner was not asked a thing about his role in the case until he was subpoenaed by the Senate committee in March. By then he had decided to tell all he knew. Aware of his intentions, Magruder kept calling him to arrange a meeting. Reisner replied that it would be "improper." "Magruder," he said, became "extremely agitated and asked what I thought I was doing. 'Are you not going to be cooperative?' he queried. 'Everyone else has been cooperative...
Unlike Sloan, Herbert Porter, 35, scheduling director for C.R.P., was told where the money was going. He passed funds from Sloan to Liddy, he testified, for "dirty tricks and other projects." After the breakin, Magruder asked him to "corroborate a story that the money was authorized for something a little bit more legitimate-sounding than dirty tricks." Any day now, Magruder warned, all the office records might be subpoenaed. "I conjured up in my mind that scene and became rather excitable," said Porter. "I didn't want to see that." So he invented a story that the money...
...fellow conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, sought his help, saying that Attorney General John N. Mitchell and Presidential Counsel John W. Dean III had approved the Watergate breakin...
...bank accounts, the bulk of it going to Kalmbach and Liddy. At one point, according to Sloan, he went to Finance Chairman Maurice Stans to ask why Liddy received so much. Stans told him: "I don't know, and you don't want to know." After the breakin, Sloan told the committee in its preliminary investigation, he approached Ehrlichman. Worried that any money found on the defendants (the police reported several thousand dollars) would be traced to him, he asked what he should do. Ehrlichman assured him that the matter would be covered by Executive privilege "at least...