Word: hunts
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Returning to Washington, the spooks wrote a memo suggesting that the burglary could be done, and submitted their photographs?all, Hunt said, going to Ehrlichman's deputy, Krogh. Hunt said that he reported regularly to Krogh and took orders from Krogh. The CIA, added Hunt, also supplied him with a "sterile" phone number, meaning that it was unlisted and there were no billing records. In addition, the CIA gave Hunt and Liddy disguises when they needed them, and a "safe house" in which to meet undetected in Washington...
Fizzle. After getting approval from Krogh, Hunt flew to Miami to enlist help in the Ellsberg bag job. He hired Bernard Barker, a former CIA agent (later part of the Watergate wiretapping operation), and two Cuban refugees. They all met in Los Angeles on Labor Day weekend...
...Cubans, dressed in deliverymen's uniforms, entered Fielding's office building on the night of Sept. 4, while Hunt watched the doctor's home and Liddy maintained walkie-talkie contact with the Cubans from a cruising car. The Cubans carried a suitcase with air-express invoices addressed to Dr. Fielding, and thus persuaded a cleaning lady to admit them to Fielding's office. They left the suitcase, containing a CIA camera, then punched the "unlock" button on the office door before leaving. When they returned later, they found the door relocked and had to break in. The operation fizzled, however...
Back in Washington, Hunt told Krogh that "it was a clean operation?there were no fingerprints left behind ?but it had failed to produce." They later
Seven men have been convicted so far in the break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters last June 17. Their three leaders were G. Gordon Liddy, a counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; Howard Hunt, former CIA agent and White House consultant; and James McCord, security chief for the Nixon re-election committee. But their political espionage operation was plotted and directed by much higher authorities. At least 17 men who were or are close to President Nixon or his immediate aides are being investigated by federal officials. Following is a list...