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...serious as murder was ever considered-but a drugging of Anderson was indeed contemplated. In an interview with TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, Hunt, who is serving a 2½-to 8-year sentence at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base prison camp for his role in the Watergate breakin, gave his version of the plot. According to him, former White House Counsel Charles Colson suggested that Anderson might be discredited if he appeared on his live radio program under the influence of a drug that would cause him to ramble incoherently. With another Watergate conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt...
...minute gap in the tape of a Nixon conversation with H.R. Haldeman three days after the Watergate breakin...
...same judges are sitting in both cases, and a Justice Department official, with a lawyer's infinite capacity to slice fine, claims that the two cases are really entirely different. On the one hand, it is not claimed that the President had specifically ordered the Ellsberg breakin; and if he had, standard law-enforcement procedure would have been to go through the Attorney General. On the other hand, the FBI was given authority for the J.D.L. bugging by the Attorney General, who has repeatedly claimed the right to act without a court order in national security cases involving foreign...
...long after, the White House plumbers apparently tried to crack the green Meilink safe in Greenspun's office. After that break-in was disclosed in the Nixon tape transcripts last year, Greenspun became the only journalist to testify before the Senate Watergate committee. The object of the breakin, he theorizes, was probably a sheaf of handwritten memos from Howard Hughes to a subordinate. Yet Greenspun mysteriously will not say how he got the memos, and refuses to publish them...
...Watergate doesn't stand in isolation. There were a lot of other things going on of the same nature such as the Huston plan [to use break-ins, wiretaps and other illegal means to spy within the U.S.] and the Ellsberg breakin. Remember this: we had to show relevancy for every taped conversation that we obtained by subpoena. Were we so good that we got everything there was? Watergate goes back to the nature...