Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional and White House sources, against: Robert Reisner, who was Magruder's top assistant on the re-election committee; Dwight Chapin, a former White House aide; and Donald Segretti, a California lawyer who has admitted some attempts to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. Since so much of the secret and unreported money used to finance the espionage came from a safe in the office of Maurice Stans, the former Commerce Secretary who headed the Nixon campaign's fund-raising efforts, he is also considered a possible grand jury target. One Senate investigator insists, however, that "Stans...
...grand jury, meanwhile, was also probing another line of inquiry: the alleged use of campaign funds to promote a general attempt to disrupt the campaigns of the Democratic presidential candidates and use spying techniques to gather intelligence on their plans. Thus the jury was hearing from Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's longtime personal attorney, who has admitted to FBI agents that he paid California Lawyer Donald Segretti some $40,000 in cash, although Kalmbach apparently has denied knowing that the money was for the purpose of disrupting and subverting the campaigns of Democratic candidates. The money came from that well-stuffed...
...without benefit to himself. Besides, this same pillaging of public lands and forests goes on at this very moment, without a ripple at headquarters. In contrast, Mr. Nixon stood personally to gain by the theft of Democratic campaign material, as well as by other felonious actions intended to disrupt the Democratic ranks. The circumstantial evidence of his involvement, whether as author, patron, or accessory, is almost airtight; his innocence becomes unthinkable...
...Nixon's decision merely to authorize curt denials through White House spokesmen rather than speak openly and fully. Besides the single court-proven act of spying at the Watergate, there are now broader charges of a covert and systematic attempt by Nixon's re-election officials to disrupt the campaigns of potential Democratic opponents in last year's presidential election...
...revolutionaries do not present a threat to U.S. security. There is no viable social program which they would disrupt. The success of a revolution, however, would generate social and economic instability and land reforms unfavorable to U.S. business. As long as the United States confines its interests to the support of business rather that long-term peaceful and friendly relations with the peoples of Latin American countries, we will continue to support suppression...