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Fully Aware. When the indictment comes, possibly this week, it most likely will charge Colson with involvement in the burglary of the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, the psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg. But the federal prosecutors are determined to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Colson (who had arranged for the White House hiring of Plumber E. Howard Hunt and was close to Hunt's partner G. Gordon Liddy) was a power behind the Liddy-Hunt wiretapping...
...replayed tapes of Ehrlichman's testimony to check for discrepancies. His indictment for burglary was based partly on three White House memorandums, especially a memo from Young and Krogh on Aug. 11, 1971, in which Ehrlichman approved a "covert operation" to procure the psychiatrist's files on Ellsberg. Along with his initial, Ehrlichman had jotted down: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable...
Ehrlichman contended that he did not have burglary in mind when he gave his O.K.: he was thinking of persuading a doctor or nurse to get the Ellsberg psychiatric files, or of having Liddy's team of White House "plumbers" pose as investigators who were entitled to see the reports. Other testimony apparently also implicated Ehrlichman. Young, who invoked the Fifth Amendment before the Los Angeles grand jury, had reportedly told a federal grand jury in Washington as well as the staff of the Senate Watergate committee that Ehrlichman definitely had advance knowledge of the Ellsberg breakin...
...many separate investigations of Watergate and related affairs that they are bound to conflict. Cox had reportedly asked the grand jury to put off the indictments for a week so that Ehrlichman could be brought to Washington to testify further on Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying for a fourth time, they maintained...
...officials initially refused to present evidence to a federal grand jury, contending that chances of a successful prosecution were too slim. Yet a similar fear of losing in court did not prevent Mitchell's Justice Department from moving unsuccessfully against such ideological foes as Daniel Ellsberg and the would-be Kissinger kidnapers...