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...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...
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