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...committee, was one of the men arrested at the Watergate on June 17 and that one of the other burglars carried a check from E. Howard Hunt Jr., a White House consultant. Apparently the first destruction of evidence was done by Gordon Strachan, who had served as liaison between the Nixon committee and Haldeman. Dean said that, on Haldeman's orders, Strachan had destroyed files from Haldeman's office, including "wiretap information from the D.N.C...
...three of those key figures are expected to follow Dean into the klieg-lighted Senate Caucus Room. So too will such also potentially damaging witnesses as the mysterious Kalmbach, who handled so much payoff money, Gordon Strachan, who can discredit Haldeman, and David Young, a member of the White House plumbers staff, who could undermine Ehrlichman. If Ehrlichman and Haldeman are discredited in testimony, Nixon might have to argue that even these most trusted aides deceived him. On the other hand, that future lineup of witnesses could reinforce Nixon's claims of noninvolvement, and he could emerge relatively clean...
...Plans for the Watergate break-in and wiretapping were known in advance by former White House aides H.R. Haldeman, Gordon Strachan and, in Dean's belief, Colson...
...continually supervised by the White House. The lead-off witness, Robert C. Odle Jr., the committee's former director of administration, testified that key decisions were made at the White House by Haldeman, who kept in touch with the committee's activities through an assistant, Gordon Strachan. Equally influential in directing the committee, Odle said, was Mitchell, who was receiving all major decision memos long before he left the Attorney General's office to head the committee. The Senators were establishing the point that any improper activities by the Nixon committee could have been authorized...
...Among them: John Ehrlichman, John Dean, L. Patrick Gray, Richard Kleindienst, Charles Colson, G. Gordon Liddy, Gordon Strachan, general counsel to the USIA until he resigned under pressure, and Donald Segretti, a former Treasury Department counsel. Richard Nixon, also a lawyer, lost his personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, in last week's developments; Kalmbach immediately hired a lawyer...