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rWage 15 Section• A *,,",7*** S. F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, May 13, 1973 Cast of Characters in

H. R. (Harry Robbins) Haldeman, 46, immediate past chief of staff in the White House, is under inves- MAY 1 3 1973 tigation by the federal grand jury in Washington. The ju- rors are trying to find out whether he figured in a con- spiracy to cover up thelWa- tergate wiretapping. Halde- man, a longtime associate of President Nixon, controlled a $350,000 cash fund estab- lished from contributions to the President's re-election • • campaign. Maurice H. Stans, 65, for- Ronald L. Ziegler, 33, • mer secretary of commerce, has been indicted with John President Nixon's press John D. Ehrlichman, 48, secretary since 1969, has who resigned with H .R. Mitchell in the New York grand jury investiaation of taken much of the heat from Haldeman April 30, was the financier Robert reporters over the Water- feared and sometimes heat- L. Vesco, who made a secret $200,000 gate affair. For 10 months ed sentry at the door to cash contribution to the Nix- he denied Watergate news President Nixon's Oval Of- stories a s "fiction." By fice. He was the President's on re - election campaign. Stans, who served as finance April 30 his credibility had adviser on domestic affairs. been badly damaged. On Ehrlichman has kept mum chairman o f 1972 Nixon campaign, allegedly kept that day, he publicly apolo- about the burglary of $700,000 to $1 million in cash gized t o the Washington Ellsberg's psychiatrist's of- Post, whose reporters were fice, an act allegedly com- in his office' safe. Vesco's cash w a s returned after the most persistent in uncov- mitted by White House em- ering ployes. He resigned after al- newspapers disclosed t h e the scandal. Ziegler transaction. Stans has de- was a protege of H. R. legations that he approved Haldeman, for whom he destruction of records in the nied knowledge of espionage White House safe of Water- and sabotage committed by worked at the J. Walter gate burglar E. Howard Nixon campaign workers. Thompson advertising agen- cy before Hunt. He is being investi- • he went to the Acting FBI Director L. White House on Haldeman's gated by the grand jury. i. recommendation. • John N. Mitchell, 59, for- Patrick Gray admitted Feb. • mer attorney general and 28 that h e "reluctantly" Robert Mardian, 49, is for- briefly the manager of Pres- made the Watergate files of mer director of the Justice ident Nixon's re-election his agency available to the Department's internal secu- campaign, has been indicted White . House while H .R. rity division and later politi- by a New York federal Haldeman and John D. Ehr- c a 1 co-ordinator for the grand jury. He is accused of lichman were 'still serving Committee for the R e- perjury and of conspiracy to as President Nixon's top Election of the President. obstruct a federal investiga- aides. He later admitted One of those ordered to de tion into the affairs of finan- that John Dean was present stroy files at committee of cier Robert L. Vesco. He re- when FBI agents questioned fices, he has refused to cently acknowledged that he White House employees answer FBI questions had heard Republican plans about Watergate. On April concerning the files. He is to bug Democratic National 27 Gray admittetd that' he said to have known of phone Headquarters at Watergate, h a d personally destroyed but contended he had always some White House Water- vetoed the plans. He quit un- gate files without reading expectedly as Nixon's cam- them. He then resigned as paign manager two weeks acting FBI director. after the Watergate burglars were arrested. • • Richard .G. Kleindienst, 49, John W. Dean III, 35, fired resigned as attorney general as White House counsel ty April 30, citing as his reason President Nixon for unstated close "personal and profes- reasons April 30, says the sional" ties td suspects in will not be made a scape- the Watergate investigation. goat and has expressed He called the original gov- fears for his life. The Presi- ernment inquiry into the dent had previously said I he scandal the "most exhaus- had "absolute, total confid- tive in history" despite later ence" in Dean, who vies disclosures that Watergate called John Mitchell's "fair links to the White House and haired boy" in the White the President's re-election House when Mitchell Was committee had been over- attorney general. Dean re- iooked. portedly alleges that Halde- man and Ehrlichman played roles in orders to cover up the Watergate bugging oper- ation. taps of at least two report- Election of the President ers during the White House purse. Hunt and G. Gordon a n apparent violation of Liddy have been named investigation of the Penta- , as campaign spending 1 a w s. the burglars of the offices of gon Papers case. Colson hired E . Howard Daniel Ellsberg's psychia- • Hunt, former CIA agent and trist. convicted Watergate wire- Jeb Stuart Magruder, 38, • onetime White House aide tapper, to work with him in to H. R. Haldeman, served the White House. G. Gordon Liddy, 42, a as deputy director of the • former FBI agent, was Dwight Chapin, 32, sartori- caught at Watergate with Committee for Re-Election the break-in-group. He re- ' of the President. He is sus- ally elegant executive of United A i r Lines, once ceived a sentence of from pected of having taken part 61/2 to 20 years and later re- in Watergate bugging plans served as President Nixon's and of having tailored testi- pointments secretary. H e fused to testify before the mony to cover up,committee vouched for Donald Segretti, federal grand jury. He prac- links to the Watergate spy a former classmate widely ticed law in his father's New squa d. Named planning accused of having played York firm, ran for Congress director for the Commerce the role of a super-saboteur as a law-and-order candi- Department after the Presi- against the Democratic Par- date and became a special dential election, he became ty while on the payroll of assistant in the Treasury Department in 1969. He lost the first Nixon administra- President Nixon's r s- tion official to resign over election committee. H e that job in 1971 after he de- the Watergate affair. He has served in the White House livered a n unauthorized charged that John N. Mitch- under the jurisdiction of speech on gun control. He ell gave the go-ahead for the H.R. Haldeman. joined John D. Ehrlichman's .break-in. • White House staff group in June, 1971 and left that post • Gordon G. Strachan, 29, the following December to Herbert W. Kalmbach, 51, former counsel of the United become general counsel for a lawyer who once served as States Information Agency, the Committee for the Re- President Nixon's personal resigned after disclosures of Election of the President. attorney in California, has his testimony before the fed- acknowledged paying up to eral grand jury in Washing- • $40,000 from a secret fund to ton. He told the jury he had James W. McCord Jr., 53, Donald Segretti, accused of delivered $35,000 in cash also arrested with the Wa- faking a letter designed to f r o m. President Nixon's tergate break-in team, was embarrass S e n. Edmund campaign fund to Frederick serving at the time as secur- Muskie and mailed to Demo- La Rue of Mississippi after. ity co-ordinator for the Nix- cratic voters in Florida pre- the November election. The on re-election committee. He ceding that state's 1972 pres- question arose as to whether was fired the next day. He idential primary. Kalmbach the money was used to buy had worked as an agent for is accused of raising funds silence from the Watergate both the CIA and the FBI to finance political espio- Seven. before his retirement i n nage. He was empowered by • 1971. He began to talk as the Nixon committee t o K e n Clawson, former Federal Judge John Sirica spend at least $300,000 for Washington Post reporter, was about to sentence him "security" purposes. later became deputy direc- following his conviction on • tor of White House commun- eight counts of conspiracy, Egil (Bud) Krogh Jr., 33, ications. Accused of • writing burglary and wiretapping. who took a sudden leave and the "Canuck" letter that • then resigned as undersecre- embarrassed Democratic Hugh W. Sloan Jr., 32, left tary of transportation, takes Senator Edmund Muskie in a White House jab to be- full blame for the White the primary in New Hamp- come treasurer of the Com- House-inspired break-in of shire, home of many French mittee for Re-Election of the Daniel Ellsberg's psychia- Canadians who dislike the President in 1972. He has ad- trist's office. The burglary term. mitted he handed over occurred during 1971 White • $200,000 to G. Gordon Liddy, House investigation aimed E. Howard Hunt Jr., 54, a mastermind and leader of at finding out who leaked former CIA agent, pleaded the Watergate bugging oper- Pentagon Papers t o the guilty to all charges against ation. He claims he did not press. He has denied under him as one of the Watergate know how the money was to oath that he had any know- break-in defendants. He was be spent. He is reported to ledge of the Watergate wire- sentenced "provisionally" to have once transferred tapping. The Justice Depart- 40 years in prison by Feder- $350;000 in campaign funds nent is investigating him to H. R. Haldeman at the for possible perjury. al Judge John J. Sirica. Hi t had served as a White White House. • House assistant t o his • Charles W. Colson, 41, friend, Charles W. Colson, Kenneth Rietz, 31, in former White House special one of President ..Nixon's counsel, acknowledges, writ- charge of Nixon Campaign chief aides. Hunt's wife died Youth Division last year, re- n g pro-Nixon advertising Dec. 8, 1972, in a plane crash whose publication was paid cently quit suddenly a s in . Authorities ex- director of the 1974 Congres- for with secret cash from amining the wreckage found the Committee for the Re- sional Campaign for the Re- $10,000 in $100 bills in her publican National Ccimmit- former White House aide, is leged a government cover: accused of mishandling Nix- up, he immediately made it on campaign funds to organ- public. Sirica, an Eisenhow- ize and pay for "spqnta- er appointee known in Wash- neous" support for candi- ington legal circles a s date Nixon without reveal- "Hanging John," is general- ing source of the money. ly considered chiefly respon- tee. He has acknowledged • • sible for the new Watergate hiring a college-age spy to relevations. infiltrate radical groups dur- Robert C. Olde Jr. left a ing the 1972 presidential consulting job in the Depart- • ment of Agriculture after campaign. Robert Woodward, the General Accounting Of- 31, in- • vestigative reporter for the fice leveled charges of irre- Washington) Post, was rela- Frederick C, La Rue, 44, gularities in the handling of tively inexperienced (less Mississippi millionaire, is campaign money at t h e than two years as a news- said to have taken $350,000 Committee for Re-Election man) when assigned to the in Nixon campaign contribu- of the President. He had Watergate story last year. tions from former White served as scheduling direc- With reporter Carl Bern- House aide Gordon Strachan tor for the committee. stein, won special apology after November's presiden- • from White House press aide tial election. The sum con- (who accused sisted of $20, $50 and $100 John J. Silica, 69, chief judge for the U.S. District the Post of "shabby journal- bills: La Rue's use of the ism" earlier). Their funds has not been esta- Court for Washington, D.C., ,cover- listened to testimony during age won the Post the Pulitz- blished. He is said to have er Prize this month. attended at least one meet- the three-week trial of Liddy ing at which Watergate bug- and McCord and, according. • ging; plans were discussed — to friends, was ;Shocked. He with John N. Mitchell, John had warned the prosecution Carl Bernstein, 30, writer 'Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder beforehand not to limit the reporter for the Washington and G. Gordon Liddy pre- case, a s it subsequently Post since 1966, teamed with sent. He reportedly received tried to do, to the men under Woodward ( see above) on $350,000 from H. R. Halde- indictment but to find out Watergate story. Developed man to pay off the Water- "who hired them? who start- the "Florida connection" be- gate. wiretappers. ed this?" When the govern- tween a campaign contribu- ment didn't, he said so. tion that found its way to • Then, when McCord sent .Watergate suspects a n d He,rbert L. Porter, 33, him a memorandum that al- broke the story wide open.