Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information provided by Radford. But far from staying on the defensive, the admiral accused the yeoman of being out to get him. Welander's charge stemmed from the fact that in December 1971 he had been the first to suspect that Radford was the one who had leaked a number of highly sensitive documents to Columnist Jack Anderson. The job of finding the leak was turned over to the plumbers and their chief, John Ehrlichman, then Nixon's top domestic adviser...
...precautions, there were still leaks. In June the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon papers. As Nixon later contended: "There was every reason to believe this was a security leak of unprecedented proportions." To find out who was responsible, Nixon created the plumbers, an investigative unit designed to locate and seal off leaks. Yet the unauthorized disclosures continued. In July a Times story outlined the U.S. negotiating position at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Helsinki...
...December 1971, Columnist Jack Anderson obtained documents that quoted Kissinger as telling his staff that Nixon wanted the U.S. to "tilt" toward Pakistan during its war with India. Infuriated, Kissinger demanded a White House investigation of the leak...
...telephones of Radford and four associates for a six-month period. Radford, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, admits knowing Anderson-they worshiped at the same Mormon church in Washington-but he denies that he was the source of the leak...
When the Arab states supposedly closed the valve on all oil shipments to the U.S. in October, Americans faced the prospect of a disastrous fuel drought by year's end. As the new year begins, though, officials are hinting that the embargo has sprung a leak. Now TIME'S Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell has turned up evidence that Arab oil is indeed flowing into island refineries that serve the U.S. and probably into mainland American ports as well...