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...Radford Rigsby, a fixed income analyst at Standish, Ayer and Wood Inc., is scheduled to join the management company next month as a fixed income associate for partner Nils P. Peterson...
Sensitive Documents. Admiral Welander had a different story to tell the Senators. He hotly denied that he had ever ordered Radford to spy, though he did admit receiving and routinely passing on to Moorer two special packets from Radford. These contained, Welander said, material that supplemented what he had already received from the NSC staff. The new information was in the form of carbons and crumpled Xeroxed copies of staff reports, memorandums of conversations and the like. But, Welander added, he had assumed that Radford had acquired the material as a regular part of his duties, just...
Welander admitted that perhaps he should have tried to find out more about the information provided by Radford. But far from staying on the defensive, the admiral accused the yeoman of being out to get him. Welander's charge stemmed from the fact that in December 1971 he had been the first to suspect that Radford was the one who had leaked a number of highly sensitive documents to Columnist Jack Anderson. The job of finding the leak was turned over to the plumbers and their chief, John Ehrlichman, then Nixon's top domestic adviser...
...when Radford was questioned by the plumbers, according to Welander, the yeoman turned the inquiry round by detonating the bombshell that he had been stealing documents on orders of his superiors since 1970. Ehrlichman then called in Welander and demanded that he sign a statement on White House stationery that, in the admiral's words to the committee, admitted "totally false charges of 'political spying' on the White House." Welander refused to sign...
When he learned about the plumbers' investigation of Radford, Admiral Moorer testified, he twice recommended starting court-martial proceedings against the yeoman, only to be overruled by a "higher authority," whose identity was never revealed...