Word: vernon
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...instructed Mr. Haldeman and Mr. Ehrlichman to insure that the investigation of the break-in not expose either an unrelated covert operation of the CIA or activities of the White House investigations unit?and to see that this was personally coordinated between General [Vernon] Walters, the deputy director...
Haldeman and Ehrlichman met with CIA Director Richard Helms and his deputy, General Vernon Walters, and urged Walters to warn the FBI'S Gray that any investigation of the Watergate crime into Mexico, where Nixon cam paign money had been channeled to protect the identity of the donors, could compromise covert CIA activities there...
Widening Whirlpool. Next, it became clear through testimony from Lieut. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, that White House advisers had tried to persuade the CIA to take the rap for Watergate or at least provide an excuse that would keep the FBI from thoroughly investigating one of its aspects. The circles of involvement spread from agency to agency, official to official. The Securities and Exchange Commission was afflicted last week when G. Bradford Cook, 36, its chair man for just 2½ months, resigned be cause of the "web of circumstance" that involved him in the Vesco...
Ehrlichman and Haldeman were also cited last week by Deputy CIA Director Lieut. General Vernon Walters. He said that they invoked the President's name in urging the CIA last June to tell the FBI not to try tracing Nixon committee funds that had been channeled into Mexico in order to hide the identity of the donors. The money was later used to help finance the Watergate political espionage. In CIA memos given to two Senate committees, Walters claimed that the two White House aides told him that Nixon wanted the FBI to understand that such an investigation might...
Last week the CIA deputy director, Lieut. General Vernon Walters, said that White House aides had persistently, though unsuccessfully, tried to enlist the agency's help in covering up the Watergate breakin...