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...plot thickened as the Senate Armed Services Committee last week pressed its investigation of the documents pilfered from Henry Kissinger's national security office and passed on to the Pentagon. The week's most sensational witness was Yeoman First Class Charles E. Radford, who swore that he had been ordered to spy on the White House. By his account, he had made a fine...
...skilled secretary-stenographer, Radford, 30, was assigned in September 1970 to the Joint Chiefs' liaison office with the National Security Council, which was-and is-presided over by Henry Kissinger. Radford told the Senators that he was ordered "to keep my eyes open for any and all information that might be useful to the Joint Chiefs...
Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When Robinson was transferred out in 1971 (he later was killed in the Gulf of Tonkin), the order was reiterated, Radford maintained, by Robinson's successor, Rear Admiral Robert O. Welander...
...findings the Administration decided for several reasons not to discipline anyone involved. Nixon did not want to broadcast the quarrel between Kissinger and the military while delicate negotiations were under way. Evidence of Moorer's involvement was not conclusive at that point, and the President feared that punishing Radford and Welander might somehow cause more diplomatic secrets to be revealed to the public. Radford was shifted to Salem, Ore., where he now works as a personnel administrator at the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center. Welander was sent to Charleston, S.C.; he commanded a flotilla of destroyers...
When the story of the stolen documents finally broke this month, a Pentagon spokesman tried to dismiss it as the result of "overzealousness and overexuberance" on the part of low-ranking staff members. Some officers privately said, however, that far from being gung-ho, Radford and Welander did no more than what is expected of most liaison personnel. The military, loathing surprises, takes extraordinary steps to keep itself apprised of what is going on in Washington. At least 515 liaison officers are assigned to civilian agencies; there are even five in the U.S. Postal Service. Declared one retired admiral: "Military...