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John Ehrlichman, once the chief White House adviser on all domestic affairs, has steadfastly denied knowing in advance of the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. A county grand jury in Los Angeles last week decided otherwise. It indicted Ehrlichman and three other former White House aides-Egil Krogh, David Young and G. Gordon Liddy-for the plebeian crime of burglary. Ehrlichman was also charged with perjury...
...that the public is more concerned about events peripheral to Watergate than about the break-in and bugging of the Democrats. Half the people rate that operation as "just part of politics as usual." But a majority see as "shocking" the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, the suggestion that income tax audits might be used against Nixon's political opponents and-tenuously tied with Watergate-the President's use of public money to improve his homes at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. Also described more often as "shocking" than "just politics...
...warnings by Sweezy and Ellsberg are worth taking to heart. They spoke of refusing to take the easy road, of making the hard decision to abandon "success" in favor of conscience. They are also unusual cases, for they came out of it standing up, prominent in their own counter-societies...
Thus when Paul M. Sweezy '31, a leading Marxist economist, spoke at Harvard last January, he told of the situation in 1940 when he was ushered out of his position as an economics instructor. "The Economics Department never did me a greater favor," he said. Daniel Ellsberg '52, speaking in Lowell Lecture Hall in 1972, warned students to stay out of the "center of the web," noting that Harvard graduates had almost singlehandedly engineered a decade of death and destruction in Indochina...
Hunt still justifies his participation in Watergate and the plumbing activities on grounds of national security. His view of national security, in turn, derives from his unabashed right-wing politics and his almost paranoid suspicion of anyone who criticizes U.S. policies. The break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he says, was DPI not to discredit Ellsberg personally but to find out whether Ellsberg "might he a controlled agent for the Sovs [Soviets]." Says Hunt: "He spent a period at Cambridge, and a lot of defectors like [British Double Agent Kim] Philby and others were from...