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...Convicted Wiretapper James W. McCord Jr. contends that unnamed high officials urged that the defendants in the Watergate wiretapping case claim that the operation was directed and authorized by the Central Intelligence Agency. Attorneys handling the case felt that top CIA officials would maintain "a discreet silence" and would go along with this defense...
...case that there had been a White House-directed burglary of psychiatric records in the Ellsberg case. It also was Dean who informed the prosecutors that there had been meetings in Attorney General Mitchell's office at which plans for the Watergate bugging were discussed. First mentioned by McCord, these meetings were mere hearsay until Dean confirmed that he had been present at them, along with Mitchell, Liddy and Magruder. Dean's revelations caused Magruder to admit that he had lied to the grand jury...
...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...
...McCord also said that similar information about the Republicans was made available to the Democratic Party, although NBC News reported late this afternoon that Frank Mankiewicz, campaign director for Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.), denied that his staff had ever seen such information...
Both Republican and Democratic Senators on the committee expressed disbelief at McCord's testimony that he had believed Mitchell's authorization made the wiretapping and burglary legal. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) repeatedly demanded whether McCord though that O'Brien, McGovern or Muskie represented a threat to national security, or in his words, "a violent threat to overthrow the government...