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...Special Investigations Unit, also known as the plumbers. It was supervised by John Ehrlichman, directed by Egil Krogh and included David Young, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. Its activities included tapping the phones of officials and newsmen suspected of handling leaked information; burglarizing the office of a psychiatrist consulted by Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg; investigating Senator Edward Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident; covertly spiriting ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard out of Washington; and fabricating a State Department cable linking the Kennedy Administration with the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Diem. Two of the plumbers, Liddy...
WHAT DID NIXON KNOW? No witness admitted discussing with Nixon any of these plumber activities except for the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Yet Nixon created the plumbers to deal with a threat "so grave as to require extraordinary actions," and he described their work as "highly sensitive." There is a strong possibility that he kept informed of all plumber activities. If he did not, he should have...
...DISPUTE. Ehrlichman denied authorizing the burglary but admitted approving a memo from Krogh and Young suggesting that "a covert operation be undertaken to examine all the medical files still held by Ellsberg's psychiatrist." This information was needed, Ehrlichman said, not to prosecute Ellsberg (such evidence would be inadmissible) but to provide more data for a "psychological profile" that the plumbers had asked the CIA to compile; the White House had found the CIA's first such report inadequate. He rejected Senator Lowell Weicker's charge that the aim was to "smear" Ellsberg for political purposes...
...said that receiving knowledge had improved her relations with her children. She uses the guru's Knowledge "instead of a psychiatrist," she added. Divine Light "is not a religion," she said. "I still go to temple every week." "It takes an intelligent person to realize the truth behind the guru's teachings," she said...
...critics, Karl Menninger stands accused, with his late brother Will as accessory, of having put U.S. psychiatry into a too rigid Freudian framework. To his admirers, Dr. Karl has done more than any other man to strike the shackles of puritanism from the American mind. Says Harvard Research Psychiatrist Robert Coles, whose mother read Menninger's The Human Mind to him as a child: "Karl Menninger has an earthy sense of what is happening to people. In his work there is an encounter between American intuitive psychological wisdom and the European spirit of psychoanalysis, which he made part...