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...same time in 1971, Dwight L. Chapin, the President's appointments secretary, arranged for Donald Segretti to set up a team of infiltration and sabotage agents. Segretti was paid by the President's personal lawyer, Herbert W. Kalmbach. The agents reported to Gordon Strachan, an assistant to Haldeman, while Haldeman apparently was the top supervisor. By March 1972, the loose network had at least 30 agents...
...Florida, shortly before the March 14 primary, Muskie stationery was used for an unsigned letter, mailed to thousands of Floridians, falsely charging Democratic Candidates Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson with sexual misconduct. (Last week a federal grand jury in Orlando indicted Saboteur Segretti, charging him with conspiracy in the mailing.) Muskie finished a poor fourth in that primary, behind Wallace, Humphrey and Jackson...
...tell potential large donors to keep their cash because he preferred to get a lot of collections from less affluent givers. Given the normal chance for foulups in any political campaign, it would be absurd to suggest that all of these incidents were the result of sabotage. But Segretti's activities provide ample reason for suspicion...
Under investigation for coverup. Was courier of some $350,000 in cash from Haldeman to LaRue; the money reportedly was used to buy the silence of the arrested wiretappers. Assisted in the hiring of Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. Was the White House contact for a number of agents provocateurs working around the country helping to direct the disruption of Democratic campaigns...
Insinuations. The team's most important news break came on Oct. 10, when it revealed the existence of a network of agents hired to undertake political espionage for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and named Donald Segretti as one of the operatives. Five days later, the Post (along with TIME) linked Segretti to Presidential Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin. On Oct. 25, Woodward and Bernstein wrote that Presidential Aide H R. Haldeman had access to a secret campaign kitty used in part to fund political sabotage. Though other publications-principally TIME and the New York Times...