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CHARLES W. COLSON, 42. A tough and wily political infighter, Colson was Nixon's special counsel, concentrating on soliciting labor support and punishing the President's political enemies. Colson's footprints kept appearing at the fringes of the Watergate scandal, although he insisted loudly that he would never be indicted?and for many months investigators seemed persuaded. Yet Colson, who once declared that "I would do anything that Richard Nixon asks me to do," and now professes to have "found God" in a religious conversion, was indicted for conspiracy and obstruction of justice...
June 19. Charles Colson and Ehrlichman met with Dean at the White House, and Ehrlichman directed Dean to open Hunt's safe in the Executive Office Building and take the contents (which included various secret documents and electronic equipment). Dean has testified that...
...Colson had a conversation with Dean in which Dean advised him not to send a memorandum to the authorities who were investigating the breakin. (The Colson memo reported that he had been interviewed by Justice Department investigators. But, the memo noted, they had failed to ask him about a meeting that he had held before the break-in with Liddy and Hunt. At that meeting the pair asked Colson for help in getting approval for their political intelligence-gathering plans. Investigators believe that by showing the memo to Dean, Colson made a clever attempt to protect himself and entrap Dean...
...Colson would be able to cite Dean's orders to squelch...
...Hunt had a telephone conversation with Colson in which they discussed the need to make additional payments to the defendants...