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...Hersh raises more questions Wiretapping National Security Council aides was a dirty business, and everybody in the White House and FBI knew it. Kissinger's method of handling it was simple: he put Haig in charge." Thus does Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh, in an article in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, assess once again the evidence that former National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and his aide Alexander Haig were deeply involved in some of the murky plots of Richard Nixon's White House...
...flurry of news stories. Zuckerman expects a similar reaction to two selections from Garry Wills' forthcoming book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, an analysis of John Kennedy's presidency, to run in the January and February issues. Later in the year, the Atlantic will publish parts of Reporter Seymour Hersh's book on Henry Kissinger. The magazine's editors insist that their primary focus remains in-depth nonfiction and literate fiction. Says Zuckerman: "We really are not pursuing breaking news-but we don't mind making...
...made on the White House taping system in May 1971. The subject: a plan to bring in what Haldeman called Teamster "thugs" to intimidate demonstrators then descending by the thousands on Washington to protest the Viet Nam War. The transcript was revealed last week by freelance Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh in the New York Times. It strongly suggests that Nixon authorized illegal operations by White House subordinates to counter growing antiwar protests and silence political enemies...
...tapes. They're ten years old." But the former President's lawyers, in their continuing effort to keep the 4,000 hours of unreleased Nixon tapes private, may raise a ruckus over how the newly disclosed transcript found its way into the Times. Hersh, who is writing a book about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has been doing research at the National Archives-where a team of twelve archivists is reviewing the remaining Nixon tapes. The former President's lawyers may cite the apparent leak in arguing that material in storage at the Archives...
...documents, according to Hersh, disclose that Wilson and Terpil had set up a training program in Libya in "espionage, sabotage and general psychological warfare." It included a laboratory near Tripoli for making assassination bombs disguised as ashtrays, lamps or teakettles. An active CIA agent, Pat Loomis, allegedly helped induce some Green Berets training at Fort Bragg, N.C., to leave the Special Forces and join the Libyan operation as instructors...