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Last week Hoover's files were made available to the public-in a highly expurgated version. The Department of Justice agreed to release them as a result of a request submitted under the Freedom of Information Act by Morton Halperin, a former National Security Council aide who now heads a Washington project concerned with civil liberties. The FBI insisted on deleting all names and summarizing the reports, which, after all, may be more fiction than fact. The files perhaps tell more about Hoover than anyone else...
...lumps he took earlier. Two sworn statements by former President Nixon released last week seemed to contradict sworn statements by Kissinger. The first Nixon contradiction came in a rambling, seven-hour deposition given at San Clemente last January in response to a $3 million suit filed by Morton H. Halperin, a former National Security Council staff member whose telephone was tapped for 21 months by the FBI beginning in May 1969. Nixon and Kissinger are among eight officials of the Nixon Administration being sued by Halperin. Nixon readily conceded that he had ordered the wiretapping program, which involved taps...
...main conflict centered on just who had first selected Halperin to be wiretapped. Nixon said he asked Kissinger to tell J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director, who on the NSC staff had access to the leaked information. But Nixon contended that he had "no recollection" of specifically approving the wiretapping of Halperin himself. By contrast, in his own affidavit for this suit, filed last January, Kissinger claimed that it was Hoover who had first mentioned Halperin, identifying him and other unspecified persons "as security risks." And it was Nixon who then had "directed surveillance of Morton Halperin and certain...
Nesson said yesterday Halperin asked him to help with the case because the two had been closely associated during the Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg...
...trial work in the Halperin case is almost complete, with only Kissinger's deposition yet to be taken, he said...