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Nothing in the evidence indicates that Nixon knew in advance of the Fielding burglary, but he clearly created the mood of vengeance toward Ellsberg that led to it. He ordered Hoover to supply information on Ellsberg to Egil Krogh, the "plumber" who served 4½ months in prison after pleading guilty to violating Dr. Fielding's civil rights. Charles Colson, who has been sentenced to one-to-three years in prison for smearing Ellsberg, reported in a newly revealed affidavit: "The President from time to time expressed his dissatisfaction with the aggressiveness of the [Ellsberg] investigations ..." Moreover, in what apparently...
...Ehrlichman based his defense on the claim that he had never specifically ordered a break-in but only a "covert" operation that would give the White House "plumbers" access to Ellsberg's psychiatric files. The two former White House aides in charge of the plumbers -David Young and Egil Krogh-testified that they had discussed the operation only in general terms with Ehrlichman, their immediate boss. In a delicate exchange of euphemisms, they were careful never to utter such words as "entry" or "burglary." Nevertheless, said Krogh, "it was clear to me, at any rate, that an entry operation...
Some of the testimony most damaging to Ehrlichman was given last week by Egil Krogh, former head of the plumbers unit. He told the court that Ehrlichman admitted to him that he had been forced to "dissemble" in discussing the break-in with the FBI. Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill asked Krogh to define "dissemble." Said Krogh: "To be less than candid...
...Fielding break-in was carried out on Sept. 4, 1971, under the direction of Young and Egil Krogh, another former Nixon assistant who has pleaded guilty. Convicted Watergate Conspirators E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy have admitted managing the operation in the field. Liddy is on trial with Ehrlichman for conspiring to violate Fielding's civil rights, as are Bernard Barker and Eugenic Martinez, who made the actual entry...
Since the original Watergate break-in trial, only one defendant, Dwight Chapin, has been prosecuted all the way to a guilty verdict (he was convicted of perjury). Meanwhile, one by one, Frederick LaRue, Jeb Magruder, Donald Segretti, John Dean, Egil Krogh, Herbert Porter, Herbert Kalmbach, Richard Kleindienst and Charles Colson have all made bargains with the special prosecutor's office and pleaded guilty to reduced offenses. If nothing else, their pleas have raised doubts among both civil libertarians and law-and-order hardliners: Were the deals really necessary...