Word: ellsbergs
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...knew that without me no investigation could reach higher. I knew I would never talk, but he and those above him couldn't be absolutely sure of that. Except one way. It occurred to me that people who would seriously consider the use of drugs against Ellsberg and the killing of Jack Anderson might well decide to go ahead with an assassination in my case. The stakes were immensely higher and, after all, it was my fault...
...after talking to [Nixon's chief domestic adviser, John] Ehrlichman, that Dean said: "Well, for that reason, and what you've told me [which I took to be a reference to the Ellsberg matter], I think he'd be better off out of the country. Does he have some place...
...secret group that was to become known as the "plumbers." The group was headed by Egil ("Bud") Krogh, deputy assistant to the President, and David Young, a former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, to the New York Times, had enraged Nixon. In a nighttime raid, they ransacked the files of Dr. Lewis Fielding, a Los Angeles psychiatrist whom Ellsberg had consulted. But they found nothing...
...September of 1971 Howard Hunt approached me on the next Ellsberg neutralization proposal. Ellsberg was scheduled to speak at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, and Chuck Colson [special counsel to the President] thought it an opportunity to discredit him. Could we drug Ellsberg enough to befuddle him, make him appear a near burnt-out drug case...
...ensure that one of our people would serve Ellsberg. One of the earliest dishes on the menu was soup, ideal for the rapid absorption.and wide dispersal of a drug. Hunt was certain that he could provide men from the Miami Cuban community; the drug would be a fast-acting psychedelic such as LSD 25 he said he could get from the CIA. The plan went through Colson. We waited and waited for an answer, but when it finally came in the affirmative, there was no longer enough lead time...