Word: krogh
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...election to the presidency, leading to an appointment as a special assistant in the Treasury Department in 1969. In June 1971, he shifted to the White House and was assigned to a secret group that was to become known as the "plumbers." The group was headed by Egil ("Bud") Krogh, deputy assistant to the President, and David Young, a former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Viet...