Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when both men were on the White House payroll, Liddy as a full-time staffer who served as liaison between the White House and the FBI, Hunt as a $100-a-day consultant. Known as "the plumbers," they had been hired to trace the leak of the Pentagon papers. Receiving all the FBI reports in what was called a "superspecial" investigation, they were informed that Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding, had refused to divulge any information in his files on the grounds that they were privileged. The plumbers decided to visit Fielding's office and photograph the files...
...Pentagon's conclusions are the result of a study by Dr. Lee Robins, of Washington University's department of sociology. Several years ago she found that many convicts who had once been addicts had given up drugs on their own. To determine whether G.I. drug users did the same, she obtained a $400,000 grant from the President's Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention to study the drug problem among veterans...
...selected a random sample of 470 names and added another 495 names from a list of soldiers found in tests to have used drugs. Her assistants then conducted more than 900 interviews and obtained urine samples for evidence of drug usage. Their findings were such welcome news to the Pentagon that it embraced the study after learning the preliminary results. Of all the returnees interviewed, only 1.3% were still addicted to narcotics. Based on that percentage, the Pentagon estimates that only 4,000 of the 300,000 Army enlisted men who served in Viet Nam between...
...ANGELES--The Pentagon Papers trial--now called Watergate West by some reporters--is scheduled to resume on Tuesday in U.S. District Court here...
...again. Only hours after Nixon told the American people that John D. Ehrlichman was one of "the finest public servants," an FBI memorandum revealed that Ehrlichman had hired convicted Watergate conspirators G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to investigate the leaks that led to the release of the Pentagon Papers...