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...national security operations" refer to the FBI's wiretapping of Administration officials and newsmen and to the covert operations of the leak-plugging White House "plumbers"?including their burglarizing of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist?it is true that these acts have been exposed...
Many of the Watergate cover-up activities of Ehrlichman and Haldeman will most likely be related by Dean, who apparently handled many of their covert errands...
...Anthony Russo was thrown out of court (see page 28), unnamed Justice Department officials said that Nixon twice in the past three weeks had tried to keep the department from informing Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. that the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist had been broken into by covert agents operating on orders from people in the White House. Nixon reluctantly agreed to pass along this information only after high Justice Department officials repeatedly advised him that the Los Angeles court had every right to know...
...Watergate contamination spread ever more widely as it was revealed that-in response to requests from White House officials-the CIA and the State Department had helped Convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt Jr. carry out covert activities. These involved either the investigation of Ellsberg or the fabrication of cables falsely implicating President John Kennedy in the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...
There was other dismaying evidence that high White House aides had indeed been using the CIA for improper, if not self-protective purposes. The revelation two weeks ago that two of the White House-Watergate covert agents, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, had been equipped and aided by the CIA before burglarizing the office of Daniel Ellsberg's Los Angeles psychiatrist was confirmed last week by outgoing CIA Director James Schlesinger. As subcommittees in the House and Senate began investigating this apparent breach of the CIA's role, which by law is confined to foreign activities...