"arc Burglars Four Miami Watergate Of Watergate TO Oft $200,000 Burglars to Get $200,000 2i/3B c Timothy S. Robinson WATERGATE, From Al office. They included former Attorney Washington Post Staff Writer Daniel Schultz and Melinda Murray, General John N. Mitchell, former The four Miamians recruited for' the attorneys for the Miamians, said Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, the original Watergate burglary and they 'felt the four men could "have and former White House and cam- arrested inside the Democratic offices proved our case in court." paign aides G. Gordon Liddy and Jeb here will be paid $200,000 by attorneys "The only drawback is that people Stuart Magruder. for former President Richard Nixon's will never know the full story of the In settling the case, attorneys for 1972 campaign fund to settle a civil Cubans," Schultz saki. "For people to the Miamians agreed to drop their lawsuit,. their attorneys announced really grasp the full reason they be- claims against the individual defend. yesterday. lieved what-they did you have to see ants. The Campaign Liquidation Trust The four men—Bernard L. Barker, the CIA records." showed a balance of $1.2 million in its Eugenio Martinez,' Virgilio Gonzalez Many of those records are still clas- last filing with the Federal Election and Frank Sturgis—had claimed in sified secret. However, in the event of Commission. their suit that they were tricked into a trial the records probably would Much of th $50,000 awarded to each participating in the burglary by offi- have been made public. of the four defendants is expected to cials of the 1972 Committee to Re- Two of the Miamians who were in- go to outstanding legal bills. Elect the President. Although not ad- dicted for the Ellsberg break-in testi- "I do not have too much emotion mitting any liability in the settlement, fied that they thought they were tak- left to say 'let's go celebrate, hurrah,' the 1972 Campaign Liquidation Trust ing part in a legitimate government after this- long ordeal," Martinez told that now handles the committee's af- operation. That argument was re- a reporter from the Associated, Press. fairs agreed to Make the $200,000 pay- jected by the jury that convicted "But l- feel good. The money settle- ment rather than go to trial on the them, but an appeals court overturned merit is secondary. The importance is civil charges. the conviction and ordered a new a moral victory." Often referred to as the "foot sol- trial. Barker is employed now as a sanita- diers" of Watergate, the four men Rather than retrying Martinez and tion inspector for the city of Miami. have testified that they believed they Barker in that case, the Watergate Martinez and Sturgis are salesmen in were working for a national security special prosecutor's office dismissed the Miami area, and Gonzalez is a agency when they were recruited for charges against them. lock and safe specialist there. the June 19, 1972, break-in at the Dem- The civil suit filed by the four men The four men have asked President ocratic National Committee headquar- southt $2 million in damages, mainly Carter for pardons, and their attor- ters here. from the former officials of the 1972 neys said • they felt the settlement Each of them served about a year in Nixon election campaign. would advance that request. prison as a result of their guilty pleas The list of defendants in the case "We believe that the men have been before U.S. District Judge John J. Sir- read like a Who's Who of the Water- a victim of a fraud and that they were Ica in January, 1973. gate scandals that drove Nixon from not criminals," Schultz said. "They All four said they had participated did not have any criminal motives in CIA operations against the Castro and they went to jail because some- government in Cuba, including the body has misled them. They've served 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Three of their time and now they want their them said they were recruited by. fort records clear." mer White House aide E. Howard The trial of the civil suit was sched- Hunt for the 1971 break-in by the uled to begin Thursday before U.S. White House plumbers' of the office of District Judge Charles R. Richey. One Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in Bev- of the witnesses was scheduled to be erly Hills, Calif. _ Hunt, who is to be released on parole Hunt later recruited all four for this week. help in the Watergate burglary, they When Hunt is released, Liddy will said. be the only one of the original Water- See WATERGATE, A5, Col. 1 gate defendants still in jail. Also in prison is former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman, who was con- victed in the subsequent Watergate cover-up trial.