Word: krogh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break-in, White House officials dismissed the burglary as a "third-rate" operation. In comparison to the past jobs of the G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt "vigilante team," the June 17 job was indeed third-rate. When Hunt and Liddy, under supervision of White House aide Egil Krogh, burglarized the psychiatric files of Daniel Ellsberg '52, no one caught the "vigilantes" inside the doctor's office. When Hunt and Liddy placed illegal wiretaps on the telephones of two New York Times reporters, no one surprised the two men with the electronic equipment in their hands...
...Friday night, Byrne received a government document that defense lawyers hope to get this morning: a sworn affadavit from former White House aide Egil (Bud) Krogh. In the affadavit, Krogh reportedly admitted that he helped plan the burglary at Dr. Fielding's office...
Earlier reports indicated that Krogh directly implicated President Nixon in the burglary. But the Los Angeles Times yesterday quoted sources close to Krogh as denying those reports...
...time of the burglary--September 1971--Krogh was deputy to John Ehrlichman, then a top Nixon aide. Ehrlichman has admitted hiring convicting Watergate conspirators G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to prepare a psychological profile of Ellsberg. And Hunt, in turn, has admitted that he and Liddy helped conduct the burglary...
TRANSPORTATION. Egil Krogh Jr., 33, who worked in Ehrlichman's Seattle law firm during his student years, has become Under Secretary of Transportation. Krogh was only a year out of law school (the University of Washington), and had never actually practiced law when Ehrlichman brought him to Washington in 1969 as Deputy Counsel to the President. A few months later he became Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs, a position that included some work on transportation policies. But he has no other background in the field...