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...attempt to "defame" Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg with information obtained by a burglary of the office of his psychiatrist...
...that 15 conversations between Ellsberg and Halperin were included in the two boxes of wiretap data on Ellsberg. When William Matthew Byrne Jr., the judge in Ellsberg's trial, learned of the wiretaps and was advised of the break-in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he dismissed all charges against Ellsberg and declared a mistrial because of Government misconduct. Possibly the President wanted to cover up all the wiretap data in order to keep secret the surveillance material on Ellsberg, so as not to damage the Government's case against...
...summer of 1971, under pressure from the White House, a CIA psychiatrist had prepared a first profile that described Ellsberg as brilliant and patriotic. That August Plumbers Young and Hunt, apparently not satisfied with the report, provided the psychiatrist with some FBI reports and Department of State documents on Ellsberg and ordered a second profile...
...These men," the psychiatrist recalled in a previously secret affidavit, "were interested in obtaining information which could be used to defame or manipulate Ellsberg." The result was an unflattering portrait that emphasized "strong, although fluctuant, emotional attachments" and "sudden and extreme shifts in loyalty and enthusiasm." The new report referred to Ellsberg as "a very intelligent man" and denied that he was "emotionally disturbed in a psychotic or gross manner." It briefly mentioned his sex life and two years of psychoanalysis, but its focus was on traumatic childhood experiences?especially a car accident at 15 in which his mother...
...minutes as he answered three questions. No, he had not authorized David Young to request a psychological profile of Ellsberg from the CIA. No, he had not known that one was being assembled. No, he had not been aware of a plan to obtain information from Ellsberg's psychiatrist. That succinct testimony by the Secretary of State ran counter to Young's assertion that both Kissinger and Ehrlichman had asked for the profile...