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...even if the Dean testimony proves inconclusive, Watergate clearly is not going to fade away quickly. Stirred only in part by Dean's admission of, at best, borrowing from campaign funds, the Ervin committee revealed last week that it will investigate the personal finances of many of the major Watergate figures who handled large amounts of cash. The committee is obviously suspicious that some of those $100 bills may have been skimmed off into private pockets...
Moving forward in its consideration of new criminal indictments in the Watergate case, the Cox group also acted to protect its emerging case against Dean. Although he has been granted limited immunity by the Ervin committee, Dean can still be prosecuted as long as any indictment is not based on evidence gathered from his committee testimony. Thus Cox last week gave Judge Sirica a two-inch-thick sealed envelope containing evidence against Dean that Justice Department prosecutors had gathered prior to Dean's testimony to the Senate committee. It is to be opened only if Dean claims that...
...became known last week that Hunt has told Ervin committee investigators that Colson called him last year on May 15, the day Alabama Governor George C. Wallace was shot, and just two weeks before the first Watergate breakin. Hunt said Colson asked him to burglarize the assailant's Milwaukee apartment to see if anything could be found to connect Arthur H. Bremer with leftist causes. Hunt refused on the ground that official investigators already would be examining Bremer's quarters and might catch...
...Ervin committee and other investigators have also learned that before Hunt pleaded guilty in the Watergate burglary, he telephoned Colson to demand money-even though he had then already received some $200,000. Colson recorded the conversation. As Dean described it, investigators now suspect this was done by Colson in an attempt to clear himself. Colson said distinctly: "This is all very interesting, Howard, but I can't understand why you're telling all this to me. As you know, I don't know anything about the Watergate incident." Hunt kept right on asking for money...
...Dean, who says he passed the Hunt demands along to John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Colson later asked for the tape back, but Dean stalled, contending he had misplaced it. He finally returned it-after making a copy that has now been turned over to the Ervin committee...