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...indicted six days earlier in the Wategate cover-up on charges that carry a possible penalty of another 25 years. He and the other six cover-up conspirators pleaded innocent to all charges last week before Judge Sirica. The others were Haldeman, Colson, John Mitchell, Robert Mardian, Gordon Strachan and Kenneth Parkinson. At the same time, Colson and Ehrlichman pleaded not guilty to the Fielding burglary charges. All were ordered to surrender their passports and to notify the court of any change of address...
...Haldeman, too, is accused of perjury in his Senate testimony. He denied having been aware that money formerly under his control and later paid to the Watergate defendants was meant as blackmail or hush money. He testified that at the key March 21 meeting attended by Dean (and Nixon, though the indictment does not say so), he did not believe that Dean had made any reference to Jeb Magruder's having committed perjury. Both statements, the indictment says, were untrue...
...Gordon Strachan had responded falsely in a grand-jury appearance in June of 1972. He was pressed closely by Foreman Pregelj and an unnamed juror about his admitted delivery of the $350,000 in cash to LaRue. Strachan contended that he gave the money, which had been controlled by Haldeman, to LaRue only for him to return it to the Nixon re-election committee. But jurors wanted to know why he carried it in a briefcase at night to the apartment of LaRue in stead of taking it to committee headquarters near the White House in the daytime...
...indictment contends that statements by Strachan that he did not recall who told him to give the money to LaRue were false. The implication was that the grand jury believes that Strachan was protecting someone ? probably Haldeman ? who knew that the money was to be sent to LaRue for payoffs to the burglars. The grand jury presumably has evidence of who that unnamed person...
...STUART MAGRUDER, 39, former aide to H.R. Haldeman and C.R.P. deputy director. Pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the coverup; sentencing deferred...