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...meantime, the trial of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former top aide for domestic affairs, and three erstwhile White House "plumbers" was continuing in Washington. Ehrlichman is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of perjury: authorizing the plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist hi September 1971 and then lying about his involvement hi the affair to the FBI and to a Watergate grand jury. Ehrlichman maintains that he knew nothing about the break-in until after it had occurred...
Kissinger worries that he will be dragged further into the scandals of Nixon's White House. The Secretary has been subpoenaed to testify at the trial of John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs chief, who is charged with conspiracy and perjury in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ehrlichman's lawyers hope to show that Kissinger had told their client and the President that Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon papers, was a national security risk. With White House backing, Kissinger was fighting the subpoena, claiming that he knew nothing about Ehrlichman's innocence...
...report is the relationship of Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt with the CIA. A longtime employee who retired from the agency in 1970, Hunt exploited his CIA connections to assist him in his Watergate activities. At White House request, CIA psychiatrists helped put together a profile of Daniel Ellsberg, who had released the Pentagon papers; other agents used CIA labs to develop photos taken by Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy when they were casing the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
Donald B. Rice, 35, took over the Rand Corp., the prototypical think tank, three years ago, at a time when the outfit was in deep disfavor with the Government because a former employee named Ellsberg had pinched some classified papers from its files. Young as he was, Rice was highly experienced: he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense just eight years out of college, and a year later, in 1970, was an assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. Rice has sought to balance Rand's emphasis on war games and other national security matters by expanding...
Save Neck. Prosecutor Merrill claimed that Krogh and Young discussed the burglary with Ehrlichman on Aug. 5, then wrote a memo to him on Aug. 11 recommending that "a covert operation be conducted to examine all the papers of Ellsberg's psychiatrist." Ehrlichman has conceded marking this memo "approved . . . if done under your assurance that it is not traceable." After Fielding's office was surveyed by Hunt and Liddy, Merrill claimed, Young and Krogh told Ehrlichman on Aug. 30 that the operation was feasible, and he gave the final go-ahead...