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...Kissinger originate the wiretaps or merely consent to them? In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last September and again in Salzburg last week, he stated that he had supplied names of people* with access to information that was being leaked; he insisted that he did not suggest the wiretaps. FBI memos that have been leaked imply that Kissinger in his role as Nixon's head of the National Security Council played a more active part. A 1973 FBI report on taps placed in 1969 states: "The original requests were from either Dr. Henry Kissinger or General...
...seems to me," Kissinger said at Salzburg, "that our national debate has now reached a point where public officials are required to submit their most secret documents to public scrutiny, where unnamed sources can attack the credibility and the honor of senior officials of the Government without even being asked to identify themselves...
...joyous reception in the Middle East and the assault on the prosecutorial mood of Watergate by Henry Kissinger in Salzburg undoubtedly gave President Nixon a hefty public relations lift last week in his struggle for survival. But at home, the impeachment process pushed on, producing revelations that in a less sensation-surfeited time would probably have stolen the nation's attention from the traveling presidential party. The new evidence solidly supported the already strong case that Nixon had engaged in a conspiracy to conceal his active role in the Watergate coverup...
That is one point Henry Kissinger made at his extraordinary news conference in Salzburg that no journalist will dispute. In the 5½ years that he has been shaping U.S. foreign policy, the Secretary of State has never lacked a large and enthusiastic following in the press and public. They have applauded his statecraft spectaculars, been entertained when he stepped out with starlets, and generally turned to him for relief from the sullenness and secrecy that have characterized much of the rest of the Nixon Administration...
Thus there was an odd ring to Kissinger's petulant suggestion at Salzburg that he had been getting a raw deal over his role in wiretaps (see THE NATION). Until the issue is settled, the only incontrovertible fact in the affair is that it has prompted open questioning of how the press has handled the supersecretary. Says Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh, whose New York Times story on the taps fanned Kissinger's wrath: "I don't think Kissinger has been subject to the same scrutiny that other officials have. I think he should be treated the same...