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...more startling disclosures is that Nixon foresaw a need to conceal information about the Watergate affair just 13 days after the June 17 breakin. At a meeting with Haldeman and Mitchell, which was called to discuss Mitchell's resignation as Nixon's campaign director, this dialogue took place...
Other witnesses brought Ehrlichman closer to the commission of the crime. Charles Colson testified that only a few days before the breakin, Ehrlichman had asked him to raise $5,000 immediately for a plumbers' operation. Ehrlichman told Colson of a project to get derogatory information about Ellsberg. Colson would then have to devise a game plan to spread the dirt. After the burglary, said Colson, Ehrlichman admitted to him: "The boys tried to get Ellsberg's psychiatric papers. They failed...
Ever since the Watergate breakin, many observers have wondered whether the CIA was involved in planning and carrying it out. Five of the seven burglars had been involved with the agency at one time or another, and they certainly used its methods, however ineptly. Former Presidential Counsel Charles Colson even went so far as to speculate that the CIA might have been responsible for the whole Watergate operation...
...most questionable act that Baker examined was the burning of James McCord's files shortly after the breakin. McCord, one of the arrested burglars, worked for the CIA until 1970. When his wife set fire to his papers in their house, a CIA operative named Lee R. Pennington Jr. happened to be on hand. Pennington testified that his presence was just coincidental, but the Baker report charges that Pennington "destroyed documents which might show a link between McCord...
...never easy. The White House and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President produced tough, sweeping statements minimizing the scandal in general and denying individual exposé stories specifically. Three days after the breakin, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refused to comment "on a third-rate burglary attempt." Nixon himself assured the public "categorically" that "no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." Subsequently Ziegler and C.R.P. spokesmen attacked the Post for "character assassination" and "shabby journalism." When the Post told of the wholesale destruction of C.R.P...