Word: krogh
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Some of the testimony most damaging to Ehrlichman was given last week by Egil Krogh, former head of the plumbers unit. He told the court that Ehrlichman admitted to him that he had been forced to "dissemble" in discussing the break-in with the FBI. Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill asked Krogh to define "dissemble." Said Krogh: "To be less than candid...
...April 1973, said Krogh, Ehrlichman phoned him to say that President Nixon was aware of the burglary and considered it a matter of national security; Nixon did not want Krogh to discuss it with anyone. About a week later, shortly before Ehrlichman resigned, he called once again to reaffirm the message. According to Krogh, Ehrlichman said that the President wanted to "tell you that personally...
...Fielding break-in was carried out on Sept. 4, 1971, under the direction of Young and Egil Krogh, another former Nixon assistant who has pleaded guilty. Convicted Watergate Conspirators E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy have admitted managing the operation in the field. Liddy is on trial with Ehrlichman for conspiring to violate Fielding's civil rights, as are Bernard Barker and Eugenic Martinez, who made the actual entry...
Save Neck. Prosecutor Merrill claimed that Krogh and Young discussed the burglary with Ehrlichman on Aug. 5, then wrote a memo to him on Aug. 11 recommending that "a covert operation be conducted to examine all the papers of Ellsberg's psychiatrist." Ehrlichman has conceded marking this memo "approved . . . if done under your assurance that it is not traceable." After Fielding's office was surveyed by Hunt and Liddy, Merrill claimed, Young and Krogh told Ehrlichman on Aug. 30 that the operation was feasible, and he gave the final go-ahead...
...good. But just how hard has Jaworski's office been bargaining? Both Krogh and Colson were apparently allowed to enter pleas without first telling the prosecutors what they know. Recalling the deals he made as a federal prosecutor, Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer says, "I always made sure what the evidence was. The individual involved has to become an ally of the Government in all respects...