Word: krogh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was a small group at the White House whose principal purpose was to stop security leaks and to investigate other sensitive security matters. I looked to John Ehrlichman for the supervision of this group. Egil Krogh, Mr. Ehrlichman's assistant, was put in charge. David Young was added to this unit, as were E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. The unit operated under extremely tight security rules. Its existence and function were known only to a very few persons at the White House. These included Messrs. Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean...
...charges and personalities into the scandal. Another maudlin television speech from behind Presidential Seal. John Mitchell, once stern-faced on the ramparts, the hero of Mayday 1971, reduced to a petty criminal, a hang-dog and pathetic figure. The names, a new one every day: Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kliendienst, Krogh, Barker, Sturgis, Alch, McCord, Liddy, Hunt, Chapin, Caulfield. Piecing together the stories, the leaks and the testimony, waiting for that last link, the one piece of firm evidence: "The president ordered me to do this, I bugged them on the president's orders...
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...
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
...EGIL KROGH...