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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haul included photographs of Democratic documents as well as illegally intercepted telephone conversations. Liddy told him, McCord testified, that Mitchell "liked the 'takes' [photos]" of documents and wanted more of them made. The burglars returned to the Watergate on June 17 to repair one telephone tap that was not working properly and also because "Mr. Mitchell wanted a room bug installed in Mr. O'Brien's office in order to transmit not only telephone conversations but conversations out of the room itself." Lawrence O'Brien was then chairman of the Democratic National Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Newest Daytime Drama | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...just-appointed director, William D. Ruckelshaus, now admits, the FBI failed in that mission; it did, however, set up a number of wiretaps without any court authorization. One of them was on the home phone of Morton Halperin, then a consultant for the National Security Council, and on that tap, the FBI heard some conversations by Ellsberg. Fully a year ago. Judge Byrne had demanded an account of all Government eavesdropping on Ellsberg, but Ruckelshaus disclosed the tap on Halperin only last week-and added the incredible news that all the tapes and logs of the overheard conversations had mysteriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Pentagon Papers: Case Dismissed | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...President at first asked that the FBI tap the telephones of several reporters, including two at the New York Times, and of at least four of his own White House aides. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover resisted, on the grounds that the practice would be indefensible if discovered. Hoover would order the tapping, he said, only if Attorney General John Mitchell gave him written authorization. Mitchell did. Recalls one Government official: "It was essentially a fishing expedition." Though little was learned from the taps, they resulted in one official's being shifted from a sensitive Pentagon post and the transfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nixon's Nightmare: Fighting to Be Believed | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

Sachs said that the new fund should tap resources currently unavailable to Radcliffe because "many women hesitate to contribute to Radcliffe during the unclear non-merger merger phase...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: Radcliffe Starts Merger Fund For Sex-Blind Scholarships | 5/8/1973 | See Source »

...Teamsters Union, which has become Nixon's closest political ally in organized labor. In a decision protested by department officials, Petersen ruled that there was "insufficient" cause to continue the wiretaps. His edict stopped the eavesdropping after FBI agents discovered that Los Angeles gangsters seeking to tap the union welfare fund had met in Palm Springs on February 8 with Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New Shocks--and More to Come | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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