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...spying apparatus sprang readily into action in September 1971 when Nixon ordered his own White House investigation into Ellsberg's entire background. Ehrlichman admits that he assigned the Hunt-Liddy team to the task. In testimony before the Washington grand jury, released last week by U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. at the Ellsberg trial, Hunt told an intriguing story of being aided by the CIA in the burglarizing of the Beverly Hills office of Psychiatrist Lewis Fielding...
Nixon ordered a crash effort to find the source of more leaks in the summer of 1971. The U.S. position at the SALT talks with the Soviets had begun leaking into newspapers, and Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon papers to the New York Times and other newspapers. Nixon demanded that Mitchell plug those leaks within two weeks. The President apparently asked no questions about the tactics to be used...
Hunt testified that he worked out of what he called "Room 16" in the Executive Office Building next to the White House. He first asked Liddy why the Secret Service could not handle the burglary to get Ellsberg's records. Liddy told him, as Hunt reconstructed it, that "the White House did not have sufficient confidence in the Secret Service in order to entrust them with a task of this sort." But the White House clearly did have faith in Liddy and Hunt. At Krogh's direction, the pair flew to Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 1971, registered...
Fizzle. After getting approval from Krogh, Hunt flew to Miami to enlist help in the Ellsberg bag job. He hired Bernard Barker, a former CIA agent (later part of the Watergate wiretapping operation), and two Cuban refugees. They all met in Los Angeles on Labor Day weekend...
...Fielding's office. They left the suitcase, containing a CIA camera, then punched the "unlock" button on the office door before leaving. When they returned later, they found the door relocked and had to break in. The operation fizzled, however, when they could not find any file with Ellsberg's name...