Word: coverups
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...bureau still has not determined who was responsible for destroying the note and ordering the coverup. Adams said that the bureau's three-month internal investigation has bogged down in a tangle of conflicting accounts from about 80 witnesses, who were questioned under oath by FBI inspectors. He added that they were told by Hosty that he had been ordered to destroy the note by Dallas FBI Chief J. Gordon Shanklin, who recently retired from the bureau. According to Adams, Shanklin denies knowing anything about the note...
...General Investigative Division in Washington, where he was in charge of the bureau's initial digging into the Watergate scandal in 1972. He and several other agents wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly to protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests...
...dollars to many innocent parties." Little action was taken on the warning. Instead, complaints appear to have been bucked from one state agency to another, while each tried to determine if it had jurisdiction. Last week State Representative H. Paul Nuckolls called for a legislative investigation of the "coverup" by agencies...
...contrast to the jaunty Stans, a subdued and sorrowful LaRue last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
Faring far better was Gordon Strachan, 31, a former Haldeman aide who had been indicted for conspiracy in the coverup. His trial had been separated from that of the convicted conspirators because of legal complications arising from partial grants of immunity given to secure his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee. Strachan emerged wholly free as Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. revealed that the Government was no longer interested in prosecuting him. Testimony at the conspiracy trial had shown that Strachan's involvement, if any, had been peripheral and as a messenger for Haldeman...