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...operation carried out by those White House plumbers led last week to additional indictments against Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson, Nixon's former special counsel. For both, it was the second indictment within a week. The fresh indictments were for their roles in the burglary of Beverly Hills Psychiatrist Lewis J. Fielding on Sept. 3, 1971. The aim of the raid was to grab the doctor's files on Daniel Ellsberg, who was then being prosecuted for his release of the Pentagon papers' history of the Viet...
Ehrlichman and Colson were charged with being part of a conspiracy to deprive Dr. Fielding of his constitutional rights. Also indicted as members of the conspiracy were G. Gordon Liddy, one of the convicted leaders of the Watergate burglary, and three Cuban-Americans: Bernard L. Barker, Felipe de Diego and Eugenic R. Martinez. The special prosecutor's case in the Ellsberg-related burglary is considerably strengthened by the fact that several persons named as coconspirators, but not as defendants, will presumably testify against the indicted...
...November. Colson met with Dean at the White House and gave Dean a tape recording of a telephone conversation between Colson and Hunt. (This call has been described by Hunt as a direct appeal for more financial help...
...Dean played this Colson-Hunt recording for Ehrlichman and Haldeman at Camp David...
...Colson met with Ehrlichman and Dean at the White House and discussed the need to assure Hunt how long he would have to spend in jail if he were convicted. (This was the indictment's oblique way of saying that the talk centered on getting Executive clemency for Hunt. Dean testified that Colson told him that just after the meeting he had asked Nixon about clemency. On the next day, according to Dean, Ehrlichman gave Colson assurance that clemency could be promised to Hunt...