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Radford also said that he managed to lay hands on an advance agenda for an important meeting chaired by Nixon that Moorer was to attend after the Kissinger trip. Radford testified that Welander gratefully told him that "I had no idea how helpful it was for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to walk into a meeting and to know what is going to be said...
Sensitive Documents. Admiral Welander had a different story to tell the Senators. He hotly denied that he had ever ordered Radford to spy, though he did admit receiving and routinely passing on to Moorer two special packets from Radford. These contained, Welander said, material that supplemented what he had already received from the NSC staff. The new information was in the form of carbons and crumpled Xeroxed copies of staff reports, memorandums of conversations and the like. But, Welander added, he had assumed that Radford had acquired the material as a regular part of his duties, just...
When he learned about the plumbers' investigation of Radford, Admiral Moorer testified, he twice recommended starting court-martial proceedings against the yeoman, only to be overruled by a "higher authority," whose identity was never revealed...
...their appearances before the Senate committee, both Kissinger and Moorer tended to play down the whole episode. Although Kissinger testified that "I must say I was outraged" when he learned that his private papers were being stolen, he absolved the military from any diabolic schemes. Said he: "I think some eager beaver was trying to get Brownie points with his superior...
Since January, Moorer has been insisting that he had not approved the spying, had not known that it existed, and had not realized at the time that anything he received was unauthorized. He did admit to the Senate committee that "on two occasions I was shown papers by one of my staff officers which, it turns out, were acquired in an unauthorized way." The officer was Welander, and the papers were the ones that he testified supplemented the standard flow of material. Moorer maintained that he had not thought the papers unusual because, he said, he was seeing similar ones...