Word: krogh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those bugging plans at the Watergate in at least one wiretapping break-in before they were arrested after the second foray in June. Investigators are trying to determine whether the two men were still working under the same officials as in their Ellsberg-psychiatrist burglary. If so, Young, Krogh and Ehrlichman also might have known about the Watergate plans. Krogh said last week that he intends to tell whatever he knows to the grand jury...
...again. That led White House aides to set up their own spying operation. They recruited G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, and E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had worked for the CIA and had written dozens of mystery novels. The hiring of Liddy had been suggested by Egil Krogh, Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs, that of Hunt by Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Liddy and Hunt became known in the White House as "the plumbers," because they were hired to plug leaks. They later became an integral part of the Watergate crew. This team promptly began tapping telephones...
...first the plumbers worked out of the office of David Young, a staff assistant to the President. Young's boss was Krogh, who reported to Ehrlichman...
...Ellsberg's records. Liddy told him, as Hunt reconstructed it, that "the White House did not have sufficient confidence in the Secret Service in order to entrust them with a task of this sort." But the White House clearly did have faith in Liddy and Hunt. At Krogh's direction, the pair flew to Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 1971, registered in a hotel under false names (George Leonard and Ed Warren), to make what Hunt grandly called "a preliminary vulnerability and feasibility study"?meaning that they cased and photographed Fielding's office building and located his house. They...
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...