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Nixon's Cabinet plans are the most drastic ever proposed for the Executive department, and stem largely from a study commission headed by Business Executive Roy L. Ash and refined by the White House staff. They have the same positive intent as those of the Hoover Commission in 1947: to make the proliferating federal bureaucracy more responsive to the presidential will by merging many small agencies under a few broad ones. Nixon said his purpose is to "match our structure to our purposes...
...early as last September, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover secretly briefed President Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell and other top officials on the scheme. At that point, Nixon assigned Secret Service bodyguards to Kissinger. Late in November, without naming Kissinger as the intended victim, Hoover described the plan to startled members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. He attributed it to a group called the East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives. At the time, some of Hoover's numerous critics dismissed his testimony as a grandstand play designed only to help him win funds for 1,000 extra FBI agents. Thomas...
Though one largely Catholic antiwar group readily admitted to being the East Coast Conspiracy, Anderson denounced Hoover for attacking the Berrigans. If the Justice Department had evidence against them, he said, it should be put before a grand jury. Hoover made no reply, but Attorney General Mitchell needed no advice from Anderson. The case was already on its way to court. Last week a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pa., issued indictments naming six defendants and seven co-conspirators?the Berrigan brothers among them?as plotters who had planned to do exactly what Hoover described...
...defects as a revolutionary tactic. Thomas Buck, who sees the Berrigans once a month at Danbury, reports that they talked it over following the kidnaping of Pierre Laporte and James Cross by Quebec separatist terrorists. "They deplored the Canadian thing," says Buck. Only after Hoover's Nov. 27 charge, he insists, did he and the Berrigans consider kidnaping as a possible technique for the peace movement. "We were always exploring these ideas," he says, "but that's what it was ?exploring an idea. They concluded that it would be counterproductive...
...Washington Post voiced the fear that the indictments were "merely an attempt to justify retrospectively the premature and indiscreet charges made by Hoover two months ago." The FBI chief himself told TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer last month that he was "absolutely convinced" that he had a "substantial case." Has Attorney General John Mitchell simply galloped to his rescue? Fischer doubts it. "Too much is at stake," he thinks, "for Mitchell to run the risk of this case backfiring. The charges are far more serious than those leveled at the Chicago Seven. It would be uncharacteristic...