Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William O. Bittman, once the attorney for Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt, may be indicted for his repeated denials to Watergate prosecutors that he had received a memo from Hunt that stated the Watergate burglars' belief that they would receive pardons and support money in return for "maintaining silence...
Spying Halt. Not even the name of the DOD's present chief is known publicly, though Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt claims to have been its first chief of covert action. In his book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Victor Marchetti, a disaffected employee who left the agency in 1969, reports that the DOD at that time had a staff of a few hundred people and an annual budget of up to $10 million. It operated field offices in at least ten U.S. cities...
...Burglar: Your money or your life...
Trigger Mind. Back on the stand the next day, Ehrlichman was composed as Neal fired questions, but his answers were often evasive or damaging. He grudgingly admitted that he had known as early as July 1972 that cash was being dropped for the Watergate burglars in phone booths-although he had testified only the day before that he had only discovered this from Senate Watergate testimony. As the you-wanted-to-get-the-truth-out litany proceeded, Ehrlichman had to admit he had not even told Nixon of his early awareness of the cash payments, had not told...
Ehrlichman also denied that he had ever told confessed Conspirator John Dean to "deep-six" a briefcase containing some electronic gear found in Burglar E. Howard Hunt's White House safe. But he could not explain why he did not even tell the Watergate grand jury that this equipment had been found. Instead, according to Neal, Ehrlichman had answered "I don't recall" to 125 questions before the grand jury...