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...possibility of offering the arrested conspirators Executive clemency if they were convicted was discussed with the President by former White House aides John Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson...
...Plans for the Watergate break-in and wiretapping were known in advance by former White House aides H.R. Haldeman, Gordon Strachan and, in Dean's belief, Colson...
Dean III this week, but about what John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson might say when they appear before the Ervin committee. Mitchell strongly disliked both when he was Attorney General, distrusted them when he became Nixon's campaign manager, and fears they may be out to get him now. Already Colson has claimed that on three different occasions early this year he told Nixon that Mitchell had apparently helped plan the Watergate burglary...
...furious infighting continued among estranged former Nixon officials, Charles W. Colson, who had been a special White House counsel, threw a body blow at a longtime rival for Nixon's favor, John Mitchell. Colson claimed that on three different occasions early this year he told the President that Mitchell had apparently helped plan the Watergate burglary and other aides were trying to cover it up. Colson told the New York Times that Nixon refused to believe that Mitchell could have been involved. This, as Colson interpreted it, meant that Nixon knew nothing about the Watergate plans...
...Colson, in turn, has been accused by two other aides, according to Watergate investigators, of proposing a burglary of the Brookings Institution in 1971 to obtain some unidentified classified information. Moreover, the investigators say, he then suggested that the burglars "fire-bomb" the place to conceal the breakin. These accusations have been made by John Dean and John J. Caulfield, a former intelligence agent brought into the White House by John Ehrlichman. Caulfield told investigators he considered the plan "insane" and it was never carried out. An associate of Colson confirmed that such discussions had taken place but contended that...