Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Magruder, a Santa Monica, Calif., business executive who coordinated Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign in the Los Angeles area, told the Justice Department that he thought the intelligence money was to be used to get information about radicals and antiwar protesters who might try to disrupt the Republican National Convention. He denied authorizing any funds for illegal purposes. A certain conspiratorial mood among the White House staff is illustrated by one of Magruder's former assignments there. He moved from Haldeman's staff to Klein's, TIME has learned, to watch Klein for Haldeman...
...President. Now TIME has learned that information in the Justice Department's files establishes a direct link between the White House and a Los Angeles attorney named Donald H. Segretti, who was paid more than $35,000 from the C.R.P.'s funds to subvert and disrupt Democratic candidates' campaigns this election year...
Segretti divulged to Justice Department officials only the bare outlines of his mission. He said that he was hired, among other things, to disrupt the primary campaigns of Democratic candidates. On one occasion, he said, he went to California to harass candidates with telephone calls and feed them false tipoffs. He also arranged to have embarrassing questions put to the Democrats at their public appearances. The Department of Justice learned that in 1971 Segretti asked a former Army officer friend to infiltrate the George Wallace campaign and work as an informant...
...assistant attorney general of Tennessee, Alex B. Shipley, has said that Segretti approached him last year and tried to hire him to disrupt Democratic campaigners. "It wasn't represented as a strong-arm operation," said Shipley. "He stressed what fun we could have." As an example of the trouble he might cause, Shipley was told that he could call the manager of a coliseum where a Democratic rally was to be held. He could represent himself as the candidate's field manager and report some threats from hippies or other troublemakers, asking that the rally be moved...
...Spring of 1971, the CRR stretched the rubber band just short of breaking. A graduate student in Physics was charged with plotting to disrupt a lecture by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation, even though the disruption was never staged. The Committee found in the student's favor, but did not close the door on future convictions for conspiracy...