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...hush money and had said that it could be paid to the men arrested for the breakin. The Thompson paper put this in different perspective. It claims that Conspirator Hunt was threatening to reveal his past spying activities as a White House leak-plugging "plumber" unless he was paid up to $1,000,000. The President, by this account, told Dean: "What makes you think he would be satisfied with that?" Nixon "stated it was blackmail, that it was wrong, that it would not work, that the truth would come out anyway." Dean, on the other hand, told the Ervin...
...Dean's at the White House and now one of the most vociferous advocates of the President's-and his own-innocence in the whole Watergate affair. Chuck ("Chuckles" to some newsmen) Colson had hired E. Howard Hunt Jr. as a special White House investigator and "plumber." He insists he had nothing to do with the former CIA agent after Hunt left the White House on March 29, 1972, to become a Nixon committee wiretapper...
...ordered the 1971 burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office in search of information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg-a burglary that contributed to dismissal of the case. Dean claims he was told this by Egil Krogh Jr., a member of the five-man White House "plumber" team assigned to plug news leaks...
Ehrlichman had been accused in previous Senate testimony of ordering CIA assistance for E. Howard Hunt Jr., a White House "plumber" who, after receiving such aid, helped engineer the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Both Ehrlichman and Haldeman had also been accused by former CIA officials of obstructing the FBI's investigation of Watergate. Specifically, they were said to have asked the CIA officials to get in touch with FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III and tell him to go easy in his investigation on the ground that his agency's probe...
TIME has learned that one member of the plumber team, David Young, formerly of Henry Kissinger's national security staff, has sought immunity. He has been granted it by the prosecutors and is expected to tell whatever he knows about any leak-plugging operations that are related to the obstruction of the Watergate investigations. That