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...Ellsberg quoted "authorities in Washington" as telling him that G. Gordon Liddy, then counsel to the Committee to Re-elect the President, ordered "11 Cuban-Americans," including several of the Watergate burglars, to "incapacitate me thoroughly...
...That probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives in North Vietnam," Ellsberg said...
...Ellsberg told the Niemans he learned of a 1969 plan to mine Haiphong from an article in the July 1974 issue of the Washington Monthly, written by Roger Morris, a former National Security Council aide...
...Ellsberg said he "had been told throughout this period, a tacit assumption between my informants and me: since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan--the plan is to mine Haiphong and to wipe out North Vietnam...
...Ellsberg said this order--alluded to in CRP deputy director Jeb Stuart Magruder's "An American Life"--was an effort to prevent him from publicizing plans to mine Haiphong. Then president Richard M. Nixon announced the mining of the harbor on May 8, 1972, explaining that it was necessary to keep supplies from the "international outlaws" who had launched an offensive five weeks before...