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...Gray had offered to let any Senator explore the FBI's vast files on the case. But when he also revealed that such Nixon aides as Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, and former Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin, were linked with an alleged political saboteur, Donald Segretti, Nixon himself protested about Gray's release of "raw" FBI files...
...addition, said Gray under questioning, he gave Dean a transcript of interviews that the FBI had with Donald H. Segretti. He is the California lawyer who was cited in FBI reports as having been hired by the Nixon committee to try to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic candidates. The Washington Post claimed that White House aides showed the transcript to Segretti and used it to help coach him prior to his appearance before the Watergate grand jury. Asked about this by Gray, Dean denied that he or anyone else at the White House had shown the reports to Segretti...
...case involves the complex dealings of three men: Dwight L. Chapin, who was the President's appointments secretary at the time of the Watergate bugging; Herbert W. Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney; and Donald Segretti, a California lawyer who Justice Department officials say has admitted trying to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates last year. In October, several publications, including TIME and the Washington Post, reported that Chapin had hired Segretti and that Kalmbach had paid Segretti out of funds collected by Nixon's re-election committee...
Last week Gray informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that 1) Chapin had admitted to the FBI that he had arranged the recruiting and hiring of Segretti, and 2) Kalmbach similarly had admitted to federal agents that he had paid Segretti $30,000 to $40,000 in a six-month period beginning in September 1971. Kalmbach had also told FBI agents, TIME learned, that he was authorized to spend up to $300,000 in Nixon-committee funds for "security" operations. Gray gave no hint of this to the Judiciary Committee...
...grand juries, which have often been used to track down political dissidents (as well as to investigate organized crime and the Ku Klux Klan). But the consequences would be more alarming if the privilege were logically extended to its application in the courts. And would we really want Donald Segretti, when summoned before either a jury or a court investigating the Watergate affair, to be able to avoid testifying by claiming that all the facts he knows were generated "in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs?" A system which depended on voluntary testimony would be of little...