HALDEMAN, DEAN PRESSED CIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2014
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NEW CONTACTS DISCLOSED
B y OSWALD JOHNSTON
Star?News Staff Writer
White House aides H.R. '
Haldeman and John W.
Dean III both participated
in efforts to involve the
Central Intelligence Agen-
cy in domestic activities
on behalf of the Nixon
administration during 1971
and 1972, Sen. Stuart Sy-
mington, D-Mo., said to-
day. ?
Symington, contiuning a
Senate investigation of, the
CIA's role in helping the I
.! September 1971 burglary
of Daniel Ellsberg's psy-
chiatrist, told reporters
L. today he had learned of
new evidence of White
r House efforts to bring the
?
agency in on its opera-
tions.
, Symington refused to-.
give any details, but it was
?
',clear from what he told
.2 reporters during a break
in committee hearings that ?
the additional attempts to
involve the CIA took place
after the burglary.
Symington did stress ,
that the operations did not
? ? involve the bugging of
Democratic National
F headquarters at the Wa-
tergate in 1972, suggesting
5, more undercover activi-
ties are yet to be dis-
? ,
closed.
"I was surprised to
learn that not only (John?
?' D.) Ehrlichman and Dean"
?
Although Symington in-
dicated he knew of earlier
Dean involvement, his ref-
erence today to Dean was
the first disclosure that
the former White House
counsel was somehow, in-
volved in White House
contacts with the CIA as
well as the first news of
Haldeman's role.
IT WAS revealed last
week that Ehlichman,
President Nixon's chief
domestic aide, personally I
intervened to gain CIA
cooperation with Water-
gate conspirator E. How-
ard Hunt in an operation
that later turned out to be
the burglary of Ellsberg's
analyst. Symington de-
clined to give any details
? of Dean's`or Haldeman's
actions.
The key informant in
today's revelations was
the present dePuty direc-
tor of the CIA, Lt. Gen.'
Vernon A. Walters, who s:
held that post from early-
1972. Walters testified to-
day before Symington's
armed services sub-corn- ;
mittee on intelligence.
What Walters revealed,
? Symington said concerned
? attempts by the White j
? House team of Haldeman, !
Ehlichman and Dean to
.involve the CIA in unspeci-
fied operations during ihe'
time he was deputy direc-`1
? were involved, but that ,tor?that is, during 1972. - ?
Haldeman was also,"? Also present to testify 1
. Symington said. "They today was Gen. Robert E.-1.
were involved up to tlleir Cutihman Ji-i, a Marine
ears." . .1 t ? ? Corps cOmmandant whO
't ? ? ...z
was CIA deputy director in
.1971, when the Ellsberg CIA
burglary occurred. Cush-
man has already admitted
that the CIA, at
Ehrlichman's request,
gave Hunt false docu-
ments, disguises and other,
equipment when he was
planning the burglary.
WITH CUSHMAN and
Walters in the committee
room were also James R.
Schlesinger the out-going
CIA director who has been
designated secretary of
Defense, and William E.
Colby, who has been
named to succeed him.
In his testimony last
..vi:reek and in a formal affi-
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davit made public Friday,
Cushman said the former
CIA director, Richard M.
Helms, gave his assent to
the support the agency
gave Hunt in what was
clearly to be a domestic
operation.
The national Security
-Act of 1947, under whose
authority the CIA oper-
ates, expressly forbids the
agency to engage in any
internal security or do-
mestic police operations.
Helms, now ambassador
to Iran, has been called to
testify before Symington's
subcommittee and also
two other Congressrional
units probing CIA activi-
ties during 1971 and 72 ?
the Pentagon Papers-Wa-
, tergate period. . ?
Symington said Helms
would testify to his group,,
' later this week, but a pre-.
cise date has not been set.
' Helms' travel plans are
not being formally an-
flounced, but he left Teh-
, ran over the weekend and
is believed to be in Wash- t
(ington now.
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