Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first report the incident to the FBI or the Senate Watergate committee, the report charges, because CIA officials feared that Pennington might have operated as a domestic agent, possibly in violation of the agency's charter. Not until last February was the information released to the Ervin committee, and then only because a CIA employee stubbornly insisted on it. Explaining its delay in taking action, the CIA claims that its director of security did not learn of the McCord episode until last February...
Baker admits that there are no "conclusions" to be drawn from his report on the basis of the evidence he has been able to gather. After reading the report, Senator Sam Ervin, chairman of the Watergate committee, said that he had learned nothing new about the CIA role...
While testifying before the Ervin committee last summer, Jeb Stuart Magruder mentioned that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had paid $20,000 to Author-Columnist Victor Lasky in 1972. Amid the Watergate quakes, this disclosure hardly caused a tremor, but it did rattle Lauren Soth, editorial-page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. He alerted the National Conference of Editorial Writers that the 100 papers subscribing to Lasky's weekly column (syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance) had been uninformed about Lasky's financial connection with C.R.P...
...outbursts did not divert Ervin. He asked one question after another about why investigators had not followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
Petersen said he was still baffled by the Watergate affair. "I have not fixed the motive for it, or any rational motive," he declared. But Ervin hinted that Petersen might have found the case easier to understand if he had not been so intent on serving the President. Petersen remarked: "If you mean we accepted the lies of all those people who lied to us, I guess we did. You know, sir, we were snookered...