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Colson, in turn, has been accused by two other aides, according to Watergate investigators, of proposing a burglary of the Brookings Institution in 1971 to obtain some unidentified classified information. Moreover, the investigators say, he then suggested that the burglars "fire-bomb" the place to conceal the breakin. These accusations have been made by John Dean and John J. Caulfield, a former intelligence agent brought into the White House by John Ehrlichman. Caulfield told investigators he considered the plan "insane" and it was never carried out. An associate of Colson confirmed that such discussions had taken place but contended that...
...boss of the Strategic Air Command from 1957 to 1964 provided the nuclear deterrent for three Presidents; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. Power was not a temporizer: he believed that war, once started, could only be halted by crushing force. He led the March 1945 fire-bomb raid on Tokyo that killed 84,000 Japanese, was a planner of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and fashioned the peacetime SAC into the most devastating instrument of destruction ever known...
...August evening in Tokyo, just after nightfall, in the summer of 1945. Workers scurry home through darkened streets still littered with the charred rubble of the spring fire-bomb raids. The Cabinet sits late, pondering the accumulating evidence of Japan's almost certain defeat; but the diehards, led by War Minister Korechika Anami, want to fight to the last breath. Suddenly, air-raid sirens wail. In the sky, just short of the city, two Superfortresses wheel, and a single huge projectile drops through the dark toward the bay. A mile above the water, it detonates...
...undercover agents to infiltrate subversive or otherwise dangerous organizations is not new in the U.S.; it is a defensible practice. But what happens to such agents who actually get involved in illegal activities? Tommy's fire-bomb lessons to young, malleable students seem to represent a serious breach of law-enforcement responsibility. The fire-bombing of the Hobart ROTC building might never have happened had Tommy not instigated...
...last week Buckley's ever-present smile slid from his face. He was in jail, convicted of having helped to kidnap a witness in an effort to create an alibi for Defendant Bowers in the fire-bomb case...