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...same time in 1971, Dwight L. Chapin, the President's appointments secretary, arranged for Donald Segretti to set up a team of infiltration and sabotage agents. Segretti was paid by the President's personal lawyer, Herbert W. Kalmbach. The agents reported to Gordon Strachan, an assistant to Haldeman, while Haldeman apparently was the top supervisor. By March 1972, the loose network had at least 30 agents...
Mitchell was reluctant to ask Hoover to do this type of snooping again. That led White House aides to set up their own spying operation. They recruited G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, and E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had worked for the CIA and had written dozens of mystery novels. The hiring of Liddy had been suggested by Egil Krogh, Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs, that of Hunt by Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Liddy and Hunt became known in the White House as "the plumbers," because they were hired to plug leaks. They later became...
Seven men have been convicted so far in the break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters last June 17. Their three leaders were G. Gordon Liddy, a counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; Howard Hunt, former CIA agent and White House consultant; and James McCord, security chief for the Nixon re-election committee. But their political espionage operation was plotted and directed by much higher authorities. At least 17 men who were or are close to President Nixon or his immediate aides are being investigated by federal officials. Following is a list...
...Head of a broad political-sabotage campaign to hurt the candidacy of Democrat Edmund Muskie and promote that of George McGovern. Admits heading a political intelligence-gathering operation during the campaign, but denies that it included illegal activity. Many of the other implicated men-including John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Gordon Strachan and Dwight Chapin-reported...
...GORDON STRACHAN...