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Ehrlichman had been accused in previous Senate testimony of ordering CIA assistance for E. Howard Hunt Jr., a White House "plumber" who, after receiving such aid, helped engineer the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Both Ehrlichman and Haldeman had also been accused by former CIA officials of obstructing the FBI's investigation of Watergate. Specifically, they were said to have asked the CIA officials to get in touch with FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III and tell him to go easy in his investigation on the ground that his agency's probe...
...told Mr. Krogh that as a matter of first priority, the unit should find out all it could about Mr. Ellsberg's associates and his motives. Because of the extreme gravity of the situation ... I did impress upon Mr. Krogh the vital importance to the national security of his assignment. I did not authorize and had no knowledge of any illegal means to be used to achieve this goal. However ... I can understand how highly motivated individuals could have felt justified in engaging in specific activities that I would have disapproved had they been brought to my attention...
This seems to blame Krogh, rather than Ehrlichman, for the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. The job was managed by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy under Krogh's direction. At the same time, Nixon seems to excuse Krogh for an overreaction. But would a President who had approved bag jobs before really disapprove of this...
...April 25, 1973, Attorney General [Richard] Kleindienst informed me that because the Government had clear evidence that Mr. Hunt was involved in the break-in of the office of the psychiatrist who had treated Mr. Ellsberg the Attorney General believed that ... a report should be made to the court trying the Ellsberg case. I concurred, and directed that the information be transmitted to Judge Byrne immediately...
Dubbed the "plumbers" because of their ostensible job of plugging up new leaks from the White House, these free agents applied their monkey wrenches to the Bill of Rights. At various times, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy directed Cuban provocateurs to beat up Daniel Ellsberg, organized the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office and engineered the break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters...