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Convicted Watergate conspirator James W. McCord Jr. testified before the Senate hearings today that when he agreed to wiretap the Democratic headquarters he believed the mission had the full approval of the attorney general, John N. Mitchell...
...McCord also said, under close questioning by Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-Conn.), that the Justice Department provided him with detailed information on the political opposition while he was chief security officer for the Committee to Re-Elect the President...
...been convicted so far in the break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters last June 17. Their three leaders were G. Gordon Liddy, a counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; Howard Hunt, former CIA agent and White House consultant; and James McCord, security chief for the Nixon re-election committee. But their political espionage operation was plotted and directed by much higher authorities. At least 17 men who were or are close to President Nixon or his immediate aides are being investigated by federal officials. Following is a list of figures...
Reportedly arranged for use of re-election committee funds to pay arrested wiretappers for their silence. Made some of these payments through the late Mrs. Hunt, who, James McCord says, told him of this. Parkinson denies doing...
...uncommon amount of cash has floated in on nearly every swell of the Watergate mess; some of it inevitably has come to the lawyers. Conspirator E. Howard Hunt, for one, gave his lawyer $25,000 in $100 bills as partial payment of legal fees. Conspirator James McCord claims to have paid his attorney the same amount in the same way. The size of those fees, however, is thought to be minimal compared with some others. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt, a voluble, flamboyant and highly skilled criminal specialist who represented four of the original defendants, charged them $125,000 even...