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Many meetings then took place to keep the true story from emerging. Magruder said the most frequent participants were Mitchell, Dean, LaRue and himself, with Mardian only a shade less active. The decision was made to make it appear that Liddy had planned and directed the affair alone...
...that he had been given $100,000 to recruit ten agents at $1,000 a month each for ten months, to legally gather intelligence on Democratic candidates (presumably by attending political rallies, reporting on speeches, clipping newspapers). Magruder said he was coached on his cover-up testimony by Dean, Mardian and Mitchell before he first carried these lies to the Watergate grand jury...
...account, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian later tried to revive it, with himself at the head of the operation. But by then, all the intelligence agencies had cooled to the idea; once again it fell through. The White House had to settle for the plumbers-E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy & Co.-to handle security matters...
...TIME has traced the missing records of FBI wiretaps, including the interception of a Daniel Ellsberg conversation in 1971 that contributed to the dismissal of the Pentagon papers case. On the orders of Robert C. Mardian, then an Assistant Attorney General, the records were taken from the files of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover by one of his deputies, William Sullivan, and turned over to Mardian. They went from Mardian to the White House office of John Ehrlichman, chief domestic affairs adviser. Whether they were destroyed, which would be a criminal offense, or are still in the White House...
McCord told the committee that the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department--then headed by James Mardian, who later became a campaign coordinator for CRP--provided him with information on the movements and activities of the political opposition from January to June of 1972. He said this intelligence related particularly to political demonstrations or violence...