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...Business. Caulfield, a former New York City police detective who joined Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign staff as chief of security, is now a $31,200-a-year Treasury Department official in charge of enforcing laws regulating firearms, alcohol and tobacco. He issued a press statement saying that McCord had tried "fully and fairly" to recall their conversations, but that he disagreed with the testimony in some unspecified respects. Still, he conceded, "it is true that I met with Mr. McCord on three occasions in January and conveyed to him certain messages from a high White House official...
There are, however, significant differences between McCord's testimony before the Ervin committee and what Caulfield has in the past told the Watergate grand jury. Caulfield testified that he conveyed an offer from Counsel John Dean to McCord under which McCord might be given clemency after a short prison term, as well as an amount of money, if he remained quiet. But this was only done, Caulfield insisted, because McCord had asked for such help from the White House and had threatened to tell all he knew if it were not given. If true, Caulfield's version does...
Beyond his attempts to implicate the President in the coverup, the assured and incisive McCord repeatedly asserted that former Attorney General John Mitchell had helped plan, approve and supervise a threefold campaign of political intrigue: electronic bugging, clandestine photography and political espionage. Again McCord's information came from others, mainly Hunt and Liddy, and thus was hearsay...
Quoting Liddy, McCord claimed that Mitchell had received the fruits of the burglarizing team's first foray into the Watergate, last May 27. The haul included photographs of Democratic documents as well as illegally intercepted telephone conversations. Liddy told him, McCord testified, that Mitchell "liked the 'takes' [photos]" of documents and wanted more of them made. The burglars returned to the Watergate on June 17 to repair one telephone tap that was not working properly and also because "Mr. Mitchell wanted a room bug installed in Mr. O'Brien's office in order to transmit...
What the Ervin committee hones to develop is a chain of evidence in which witnesses-generally following the ascending order of official authority-will corroborate the charges of those who testified before them. Thus much of McCord's hearsay testimony may be verified by the next witness, Caulfield...