Word: wiretappings
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Government undercover men also placed a wiretap on Martin Luter King Jr., a move personally authorized by President Lyndon Johnson. And it was not a coincidence of espionage that an FBI agent was present in the apartment of a Black Panther only 20 minutes before the "legal murder" of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton in the same place by Chicago police. The agent had been accepted as a brother Panther...
...nation's former chief law enforcement official was charged, too, with lying to Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee in his public testimony last July. The indictment contends that he falsely denied having even heard about the existence of the Gemstone wiretap transcripts when it was suggested on June 19, 1972, that they be destroyed...
...drive has been selective leaks of summaries prepared by the White House of Watergate-related conversations between Dean and President Nixon. After looking at them, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott insisted that they exonerate Nixon on some aspects of Watergate, presumably the cover-up of the origins of the wiretap and burglary at Democratic National Headquarters. Scott said that they also provide reasons for charging Dean with perjury in his Senate Watergate hearings testimony Last week Columnist Jack Anderson printed some excerpts from the White House summary of a March 21, 1973, Nixon-Dean talk. The summary, Anderson reported, supports...
...associates in a search for those who had committed a criminal act. This time the inquiry had the official sanction of Sirica, who ordered that all evidence be turned over to a federal grand jury for possible indictment. Unlike an earlier foray into the White House?shortly after the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate in June of 1972?the FBI agents this time had an imposing prime suspect: the President himself...
...principles or ethical standards which might have stopped them short. An administration which burgled and bugged the home of syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft and so many others with the approval of its highest officials can hardly plead that these same officials would recoil in shock from a proposal to wiretap Larry O'Brien...