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...memos given to two Senate committees, Walters claimed that the two White House aides told him that Nixon wanted the FBI to understand that such an investigation might hamper CIA operations in Mexico. After some hesitation, Walters and then CIA Director Richard Helms decided that a Mexican probe would not compromise the CIA, and so advised...
...during the Watergate investigation. He has left no doubt that he will keep complete charge of the case. He talked with Richardson before accepting the job and presented several suggestions for redefining it; many of these suggestions have been incorporated into the guidelines that Richardson drafted to assure the probe's independence. Cox, who has been encouraged to maintain offices outside the Justice Department, will appoint his own staff and plans to make public reports on the progress of the investigation. "A prosecutor does not normally take his findings before the public," says Cox, "but in this case...
...heart of the matter is the secret Nixon campaign contribution of $200,000 in cash that was paid to Stans by Financier Robert L. Vesco. The indictments assert that Mitchell and Stans reciprocated by aiding Vesco in his unsuccessful efforts to quash a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into his "looting" of a huge mutual-fund complex. The go-between was Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey, onetime Republican majority leader in the state's senate and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominated...
...almost three months after Nixon's victory and two months after the SEC issued its fraud charges against Vesco, the re-election committee returned the money. Perhaps by coincidence, the Washington Star-News reported five days before that the Government had begun an investigation into the donation. The probe began when an unidentified witness came forward in Manhattan earlier in January and volunteered to U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. that he would tell about the transaction...
SENATOR HOWARD H. BAKER JR., 47, a serious and hard-working Republican from Tennessee, benefits from having been named co-chairman of the select committee investigating Watergate. Baker, a moderate conservative, has been urging a "no holds barred" probe. He is certain to get more (and favorable) public exposure when televised hearings begin...