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...Moore told Nixon that Dean had shown him a list of White House staff members who Dean believed could be indicted for one Watergate offense or another. In the case of Ehrlichman, however, Moore repeated Dean's remark that Ehrlichman's "problem might be involved with the Ellsberg case," a proposition that Moore did not understand at the time...
...explanation, the President told Moore that the investigation of Ellsberg could not have been left to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "could not be counted on doing it because Mr. Hoover was a close friend of Mr. Ellsberg's father-in-law," Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx. Added Moore: "The point was that the White House had set up a security operation to investigate Mr. Ellsberg's activities in leaking top-secret documents and possibly giving them to a foreign embassy of the other great superpower, and that the President said in view...
...Office," in other words, from the President-an astounding charge that Dean himself said he had not at first believed. The President, for his part, asserted in his May 22 statement that he had instructed the plumbers-the White House Special Investigations Unit, to be precise-to look into Ellsberg's "associates and motives" for reasons of national security. But the President insisted that he did not authorize or have knowledge of "any illegal means to be used to achieve this goal...
...burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office in a search for personal information on Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg...
...know the history of American involvement in Vietnam. Each leak, therefore, led to new repressive attempts to stop the pipelines. When someone from Kissinger's staff revealed that Cambodia was being bombed, Kissinger had wiretaps placed on all his subordinates to find out who was responsible. When Ellsberg gave the Pentagon papers to the American people in whose name they had been compiled, the government wanted so badly to punish him that it tried to bribe his judge. When antiwar Democrats began denouncing the war, the Democratic Party added VVAW, the Panthers and the Communist Party to the list...