Word: pentagon
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There, exactly, was the rub. The Fourth Amendment bans only "unreasonable" searches and seizures, and the reasonableness of actions connected with impending nuclear attack can scarcely be compared with the reasonableness of a burglary of a psychiatrist's office more than two months after the Pentagon papers had leaked...
...Daniel Ellsberg's theft and publication of the Pentagon papers...
Strangely, Ehrlichman got into his greatest difficulty and the committee became most intrigued by a matter not directly related to Watergate, though it involved some of the same personnel and tactics. That was the burglary of the office of a Los Angeles psychiatrist who had been consulted by Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. The burglary was directed by White House Plumbers Hunt and Liddy. They reported to White House Supervisors Egil Krogh and David Young, both of whom reported to Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman's contention that the operation was legal touched off a long constitutional debate before the cameras...
...authorized the burglary, 2) it was necessary because FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had resisted an effective probe of Ellsberg out of friendship for Louis Marx, the wealthy father of Ellsberg's wife, and 3) "foreign intelligence" was involved in the Ellsberg case because copies of the Pentagon papers had been given to the Soviet embassy. Ehrlichman was on thin ground on all three points...
...TIME has learned that there is no solid evidence at all that the Pentagon papers were given to Soviet officials. An unverified report of that circulated within the FBI. Recalls one FBI agent familiar with it: "It was so vague that it was almost impossible to check out, other than ask the Soviets about it-and that would have been a waste of time." The report also surfaced in another form. A convicted Boston murderer claimed that the man he had killed had got some of the papers from Ellsberg in a blackmail scheme and had sold them...