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...finally was carried out-if he was adamantly opposed, Mitchell suggested that there must have been "compulsion from some other areas" on Magruder to keep pushing the Liddy project. Mitchell said he did not know who would have applied such pressure, but implied that he suspected Charles W. Colson, a former special counsel, as the most likely source. Magruder had testified that Colson had called him and asked him "to get off the stick" and get Liddy's plans approved...
Another memo, from Presidential Special Counsel Charles Colson to Dean, suggested that the IRS audit the tax return of Harold J. Gibbons, a Teamsters Union vice president in St. Louis, and identified him as "an all-out enemy, a McGovernite, ardently anti-Nixon." Gibbons' tax return for 1971 was later audited, and he said he had to pay a small additional tax on items involving travel expenses. Dean also testified that Caulfield succeeded in getting IRS to audit the 1970 tax return of Robert Greene, a Newsday editor who investigated the business dealings of Nixon friends Charles G. ("Bebe...
...idea, as Dean put it in a memorandum to Presidential Advisers H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman at the time, was to find ways in which "we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." The lists, most of which apparently emanated from Charles W. Colson and his staff, included a bewildering jumble of names both famous and obscure...
...Colson, the former special presidential counsel, hinted that, in return for their support, the bars on Hoffa's union activities might be lifted. But after the election the restrictions remained in effect. Instead of Hoffa the White House seems to favor the Teamsters' current boss, Frank Fitzsimmons, who on occasion has flown from San Clemente to Washington on the presidential jet. Colson's spokesman and law partner-their firm now represents the Teamsters-denies that Colson had anything to do with the Teamster fund raising...
...Their names: William O. Bittman, Charles Colson, John Dean. John Ehrlichman, Herbert Kalmbach, Robert Mardian, John Mitchell, Paul O'Brien. Kenneth Wells Parkinson, Gordon Strachan. Dean left out one law-breaking lawyer...