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...full last Friday with no explanation of its contents, no disclaimer about the profile's accuracy and with no attempt to put the Hunt memo in any historical context. In fact, Boudin thinks that The Times--inadvertently, no doubt--has succeeded where Hunt, John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson have failed: spreading false, irrational, inflamatory rhetoric about him in the mass-circulation media...
After the sins of Watergate have been exposed, after Hunt has been proved an expert in the art of deception and after Charles Colson has written a letter apologizing for the attempt to drag Boudin's name through the mud, who is going to believe anything the White House has to say about Leonard Boudin, let alone charges that he was a spy for the KGB? That is question which interests Boudin and his associates very much, and it is the question on which the propriety of The Times's decision to run the memo with no explanatory material hangs...
...President's Dictabelt indicates that this was not so. "Hunt," said the President, "needed a hundred and-thousand [sic] dollars or so to pay his lawyer and handle other things or he was going to have some things to say that would be very detrimental to Colson and Ehrlichman, et al. This is, uh, Dean recognizes as pure blackmail...
...Dictabelt, Nixon placed much of the blame for the whole Watergate imbroglio on Charles Colson, who had recently resigned as White House special counsel. "Apparently what happened is that Colson, with Liddy and Hunt in his office, called Magruder and told him in February to get off his ass and start doing something about, uh, setting up some kind of an operation . . . Colson was always pushing terribly hard for action, and in this instance, uh, pushed so hard that, uh, Liddy et al following their natural inclinations, uh, went, uh, the extra step which got them into serious trouble...
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...