Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directive also asked for ideas on specific campaign activities that Ehrlichman could recommend to the President. Though coming under the heading of political intelligence, the service requested was far different from espionage activity like the Watergate affair. The FBI was not asked to eavesdrop, spy on candidates or disrupt campaigns. Nevertheless, the order was a violation of the FBI's nonpartisan tradition...
...first revelation about Chapin came when TIME (Oct. 23) reported that he was one of two White House assistants who had hired Los Angeles Attorney Donald H. Segretti to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. Last week Clark MacGregor, director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, declared: "Dwight Chapin just simply had no knowledge of and was not involved...
However, Justice Department officials say that Chapin admitted to FBI agents that he had hired Segretti to disrupt the Democratic campaigns. Chapin had also told the FBI that Segretti's payment was set by Nixon's personal attorney, California Lawyer Herbert Kalmbach. Justice Department sources say that Kalmbach, too, admitted to FBI agents that the money he paid Segretti came from cash kept by C.R.P. in the office of its finance chairman Maurice H. Stans...
...Nixon's evening speech shortly after he first arrived at Westchester airport that afternoon. I knew what he was going to say, so I put excerpts from his speech in my story. I didn't know that several hundred demonstrators had infiltrated the Nassau County Coliseum, that they would disrupt Nixon's speech and that they would be forcibly ejected from the auditorium. So that important event didn't make the morning paper. Too bad, but that's the way it goes in the news business...
Still very much in place in his windowless west-wing office is Dwight Chapin, deputy assistant to the President, who with White House Staff Assistant Gordon Strachan had hired Donald H. Segretti to recruit agents to help "disrupt" the primary campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. TIME reported earlier (Oct. 23) that Segretti had received from Herbert Kalmbach more than $35,000 for his services. Kalmbach in turn got the money from the secret fund in Stans' safe. This information was based on statements made by both Segretti and Kalmbach to FBI agents...