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Quite apart from that colloquy, Ehrlichman ran into a buzz saw of committee questions when he claimed that 1) he had not authorized the burglary, 2) it was necessary because FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had resisted an effective probe of Ellsberg out of friendship for Louis Marx, the wealthy father of Ellsberg's wife, and 3) "foreign intelligence" was involved in the Ellsberg case because copies of the Pentagon papers had been given to the Soviet embassy. Ehrlichman was on thin ground on all three points...
...Weicker revealed that he had talked to Marx and learned that Marx had been interviewed by the FBI and that he and Hoover were not close friends; "the last time they ever met was 30 years ago in Dinty Moore's," a restaurant in Manhattan. The committee produced a letter to Krogh in which Hoover offered to proceed with all relevant interviews. Ehrlichman dismissed this as "papering the file." The agent who authorized the Marx interview, TIME has confirmed, was disciplined by Hoover because he had ignored the director's cantankerous objection to the interview. But Marx...
...explanation, the President told Moore that the investigation of Ellsberg could not have been left to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "could not be counted on doing it because Mr. Hoover was a close friend of Mr. Ellsberg's father-in-law," Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx. Added Moore: "The point was that the White House had set up a security operation to investigate Mr. Ellsberg's activities in leaking top-secret documents and possibly giving them to a foreign embassy of the other great superpower, and that the President said in view...
...long week before the Ervin committee, John Dean made frequent reference to a TIME story last spring that provoked White House consternation. The background: On Feb. 22 Correspondent Sandy Smith filed an exclusive report stating that three years earlier Attorney General John Mitchell had authorized FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to place taps on the phones of a number of Washington newsmen. Two days later, Smith discovered that phones of a number of White House staffers had also been bugged, apparently in an Administration effort to trace leaks to reporters...
Smith learned that when L. Patrick Gray became acting director of the FBI after Hoover's death, he agreed to a White House order that the taps be continued; the bugging stopped only after the Supreme Court ruling in June 1972 that domestic wiretaps were illegal unless authorized by a court. When TIME asked for White House reaction to the story, Dean was in "a real quandary" and went to John Ehrlichman for advice. According to Dean, both he and Ehrlichman knew that the story was true, but Ehrlichman said, "Just flat out deny it." "Now," Dean added, "that...