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...Haldeman; William O. Bittman, former lawyer for convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt; and Paul L. O'Brien, a lawyer for Nixon's re-election committee. The fifth member of the backup list is Charles W. Colson, who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Ellsberg burglary case (see following stories). He is not one of the witnesses whom St. Clair wants the committee to call. Although St. Clair had first said that Colson's testimony could help Nixon's case, he apparently is now much less sure of that...
...involved in all aspects of Watergate, said Colson as he ticked them off. The agency helped carry out the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, destroyed evidence, put out a cover story to camouflage its part in the Watergate break-in and tried to divert the FBI from investigating it. He confessed to Bast: "I don't say this to my people. They'd think I'm nuts. I think they killed Dorothy Hunt." He was referring to the death of E. Howard Hunt's wife in an air crash...
Merrill charged that Ehrlichman, despite his denials, was shown by the memos to have had advance knowledge of the break-in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, who had been Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. The Government contends that the burglary was part of an attempt by the White House to gather psychiatric information on Ellsberg, who had released the Pentagon papers to the press, and to use that material to smear him. According to the prosecutor, Ehrlichman had approved the burglary and had told his subordinates in the plumbers group: "O.K., let me know if they find anything...
...major allegations of presidential misconduct to determine whether there is an overall pattern of impeachable activity. "Is there a relationship among these things?" Rodino asks, meaning such matters as the Watergate coverup, the ITT and milk deals, the underpayment of taxes by Nixon, the Ellsberg burglary and other "plumber" activities, the secret bombing and the spurning of subpoenas. "Is there a connection between him and them?" The question, Rodino suggests, is "whether there was a serious abuse of power, a failure to faithfully execute the laws, scandal and disrepute in office, a perverting of the whole system...
...have to be an understanding that Colson would later testify in all areas of the Watergate case. Late into Sunday night, Colson discussed his decision with his prayer group. It happened that Shapiro and the special prosecutor were due in court Monday morning for arguments regarding the June 17 Ellsberg break-in trial. Colson arrived with his lawyer, and in a procedure lasting only ten minutes, he pleaded guilty to an offense of his own choosing-one that had not even been placed against him by the grand jury. A few minutes later, he emerged from the courtroom to recite...