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Long before the Watergate breakin, three important national security operations took place which have subsequently become entangled in the Watergate case. The first operation, begun in 1969, was a program of wiretaps. They were undertaken to find and stop serious national security leaks...
...operations totally unrelated to the Watergate breakin...
...team that has been guiding the Watergate grand jury investigation announced that it expects within 60 to 90 days to bring in obstruction-of-justice indictments against at least half a dozen high past Administration officials. These will cover "criminal activities beginning in 1971, which together with the Watergate breakin, motivated the massive obstruction." It was in 1971 that the Nixon plumbers first began their snooping and spying...
...burglary. A Justice Department official contends that the CIA gave Gray details of the disguises, aliases and false identification papers that it had supplied Liddy and Hunt in 1971, when they worked for the White House in the clandestine investigation of Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. After the Watergate breakin, FBI agents were tediously checking out the false names used by Hunt and Liddy-Edward Hamilton and George Leonard -although Gray already knew their real identity. The CIA documents were marked top secret, so Gray locked them up. They were found by FBI officials in Gray's safe after...
Last week the CIA deputy director, Lieut. General Vernon Walters, said that White House aides had persistently, though unsuccessfully, tried to enlist the agency's help in covering up the Watergate breakin...