Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing in the evidence indicates that Nixon knew in advance of the Fielding burglary, but he clearly created the mood of vengeance toward Ellsberg that led to it. He ordered Hoover to supply information on Ellsberg to Egil Krogh, the "plumber" who served 4½ months in prison after pleading guilty to violating Dr. Fielding's civil rights. Charles Colson, who has been sentenced to one-to-three years in prison for smearing Ellsberg, reported in a newly revealed affidavit: "The President from time to time expressed his dissatisfaction with the aggressiveness of the [Ellsberg] investigations ..." Moreover, in what apparently...
...coverage on knowledgeable National Security Council personnel and certain newsmen who had particular news interest in the SALT talks." Since Haig was Kissinger's subordinate, he obviously could not have ordered the taps without Kissinger's approval. In a memo by the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover about a 1969 conversation with Kissinger, Hoover reported that Kissinger said he would "destroy whoever is leaking if we can find him, no matter where he is." TIME has learned Hoover also told Kissinger that the taps could not be placed until Attorney General John Mitchell approved them. Kissinger then...
Still, the evidence is less clear than it seems. President Nixon has already asserted that he personally ordered the taps. In that event, Kissinger was doing the President's bidding. Hoover also had the habit of rather indiscriminately putting names down as initiators of wiretaps. Kissinger may have been a victim of this practice...
Indeed, he considered it more a clumsy attempt at flattery by the President, who privately bragged to top aides that he had Petersen "on a short leash," than an actual job offer. Later Nixon appoint ed Clarence Kelley as permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover...
Perhaps even more unsettling is the idea that even the"heavies" don't stay put. Thus it was not all that easy rapidly to assimilate the image of J. Edgar Hoover as the tenacious civil rights champion during the era of the short-lived Huston Plan. But as this college class has come to know, with the right kinds of effort almost anything can be accomplished...