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...Despite Nixon's past denials, the President ordered the 1971 burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office in search of information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg-a burglary that contributed to dismissal of the case. Dean claims he was told this by Egil Krogh Jr., a member of the five-man White House "plumber" team assigned to plug news leaks...
This was a small group at the White House whose principal purpose was to stop security leaks and to investigate other sensitive security matters. I looked to John Ehrlichman for the supervision of this group. Egil Krogh, Mr. Ehrlichman's assistant, was put in charge. David Young was added to this unit, as were E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. The unit operated under extremely tight security rules. Its existence and function were known only to a very few persons at the White House. These included Messrs. Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean...
...snooping again. That led White House aides to set up their own spying operation. They recruited G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, and E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had worked for the CIA and had written dozens of mystery novels. The hiring of Liddy had been suggested by Egil Krogh, Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs, that of Hunt by Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Liddy and Hunt became known in the White House as "the plumbers," because they were hired to plug leaks. They later became an integral part of the Watergate crew. This team promptly began tapping...
...EGIL KROGH...
...break-in, White House officials dismissed the burglary as a "third-rate" operation. In comparison to the past jobs of the G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt "vigilante team," the June 17 job was indeed third-rate. When Hunt and Liddy, under supervision of White House aide Egil Krogh, burglarized the psychiatric files of Daniel Ellsberg '52, no one caught the "vigilantes" inside the doctor's office. When Hunt and Liddy placed illegal wiretaps on the telephones of two New York Times reporters, no one surprised the two men with the electronic equipment in their hands...