!XPost 14 Friduy, Murch, 8,1974 THE WASHINGTON POST AAR 8 17,4 6 Indicted for Break-In Ehrlichman, Known as a stickler for efficiency Cotson and punctuality, John D. Ehrlich- As special counsel to the Presi- man, 48, was a veteran "advance dent, Charles W. Colson helped man" in President Nixon's election weld together the coalition of labor- campaigns and rose rapidly in the ethnic,Catholic and Southern Dem- White House staff structure to be- oeiatic followers of Wallace formed come the President's chief adviser thd "silent majority." He worked for domestic affairs. One of his_ behind the scenes and gained a re- tasks was overseeing the activities pl.to.tion for being tough, prag- of the White House investigative unit known as "the pluntbers." matic, hard-nosed and extremely CHARGES loyal to the President. Colson, 42, One count of conspiracy against resigned in March, 1973, to return the rights of citizens, one count of to private law practice. He has

making false statements to the FBI, since said that he underwent a three counts of making false decla- religious experience and that he rations to a grand jury or court. has found inner peace through Christ. BACKGROUND Ehrlichman, who was indicted by a CHARGES federal grand jury last week on simi- One count of conspiring against lar charges in connection with the the rights of citizens. Watergate cover-up, has pleaded inno- cent to charges of conspiracy and per- BACKGROUND jury brought by a Los Angeles County On July 1, 1971, five days before grand jury last fall that investigated Watergate conspirator. E. Howard Hunt the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psy- was hired as a White House consult- chiatrist's office. ant, Colson and Hunt had a telephone Ehrlichman has denied knowing of conversation about Daniel Ellsberg. the planned break-in before it took The conversation, something of a job place on Sept. 3, 1971, but he has main- interview for Hunt who had been Col- tained that it was legal under the son's friend and who was hired on Col- "inherent powers" of the President to son's recommendation, is not men- protect national security. tioned in the indictment returned yes- He also told the Los Angeles County terday. But, through a recording of the grand jury that the President call made by Colson, it has been cited "specifically approved" a trip by E. as one indicator of the White House's Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy to concern over Ellsberg. Los Angeles to develop information According to the transcript, obtained about Ellsberg and the Pentagon Pa- by the Senate Watergate committee, pers leak, according to a transcript of Colson and Hunt saw opportunities to his testimony released last October.- "nail" Ellsberg and the New Left, as Yet, in approving a "covert opera- Colson put it: "We might be able to tion" to find out about Ellsberg's medi- put this bastard into a helluva situa- cal history, Ehrlichman specifically or- tion and discredit the New Left," said dered that any such activities not be Colson. "traceable" back to the White House. "It also has to be this case won't be According to the indictment issued tried in the court, it will be tried in here yesterday. Ehrlichman "caused the newspapers," Colson emphasized the removal of certain memoranda" later in the conversation. concerning the break-in from the Colson has denied being involved in White House on March 27, 1973. One of any illegal activities uncovered in the these, dated Aug. 11, 1971, carried the course of the various Watergate inves- recommendation from presidential tigations. Last week, he was indicted aides Egil (Bud) Krogh Jr. and David on one count of conspiracy and one Young for the "covert operation count of obstruction of justice in con- . . . to examine all the medical files nection with the Watergate cover-up. still held by Ellsberg's psychoanalyst According to yesterday's indictment, covering the two-year period in which Colson took an active interest in the he was undergoing analysis." activities of "the plumbers" and bor- Ehrlichman testified before the Sen- rowed $5,000 from the Trust for Agri- ate Watergate committee that he did cultural Political Education, a fund set not know a break-in was being contem- up with milk producers money, to fi- plated. He said he thought a friendly nance the Ellsberg break-in. doctor or nurse would be asked to get Colson told the FBI he learned of the files. the break-in "sometime after" it occur- According to yesterday's indictment, red. Hunt subsequently told a grand lw told the federal grand jury here jury that he tried to show Colson pho- that he also did not know that "the tographs obtained during the opera- plumbers" were seeking psychiatric in- tion but was told by Colson, "I don't formation about Ellsberg until after want to hear anything 'about them." weak-in occurred. These state- to the grand jury would appear to y:ntradict parts of his testimony to Liddy the Watergate committee. Under close questioning from assist- A former FBI agent, prosecutor ant U.S. attorney Earl Silbert, Ehrlich- man three times told the grand jury unsuccessful congressional candi- that he learned of attempts to get psy- date and Treasury Department chiatric information on Ellsberg "after aide, George Gordon Liddy, 43, the fact,"—the break-in. Those statements, according to the was on the staff of White House indictment were false. domesitc adviser, John D. Flihrlich- man at the time of the break-in at BACKGROUND Martinez, sentenced to, a! year in the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. prison for his role in the Watergate DeDiego He later joined the Nixon re-elec- break-in and recently paroled, also tion campaign as a'general counsel, took part in the break-in at the offices A close associate of several of of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Dr. the seven original Watergate a job he held until 11 days after Lewis Fielding, in Los Angeles accord- de- the initial arrests at the Watergate, ing to Bernard Barker. fendants, Felipe De Diego, 45, was when he was fired for refusing to A real estate agent and notary pub- a real estate partner of Bernard L. talk to FBI agents. lic who worked for Barker, Martinez Barker and Eugenio Martinez until was said to carry out low-level func- tions for the CIA in the Miami area. shortly after the two were arrested CHARGES inside the Democratic National One count of contempt of Congress; An address book found on Martinez at the time of his arrest in the Watergate Committee offices in the Watergate one count of conspiracy against the contained the name of E. Howard rights of citizens. Hunt, White House consultant and complex. BACKGROUND Watergate conspirator. CHARGE Liddy was emerged as one of the Conspiracy. most colorful and enigmatic figures in Barker BACKGROUND the Watergate scandal. De Diego's association with. Barker, He has maintained steadfast silence, Bernard L. Baker, 56, a Cuban- Martinez, E. Howard Hunt and other and his refusal to testify about Water- House consultant and former CIA Watergate figures dates back to 1959, gate-related matters has already cost when he joined the then small Cuban him a contempt of court citation in comrade E. Howard Hunt to under- exile colony in Miami in the wake of addition to yesterday's contempt of take government, undercover work, Fidel Castro's rise to power. In Cuba, Congress charge. born American recruited by White De Diego had been a banker. In He is currently serving a 6- to 20- was found crouching behind a desk Miami, he was recruited by Barker to year sentence on a conspiracy convic- participate in the abortive Bay of tion arising from the Watergate break- at the Democratic Party's Water- Pigs invasion of Cuba. in and is awaiting trial on burglary gate headquarters on June 17, 1972. De Diego was captured shortly after CHARGE the April, 1961, landing on an isolated charges in connection with the Ells-, beachhead in southern Cuba, was held One count of conspiracy against the prisoner 20 months and was released berg Los Angeles break-in. He was also rights of citizens. fined $40,000 for his part in the Water- by Castro in December, 1962, along gate break-in. BACKGROUND with other Bay of Pigs prisoners. It was Liddy, sworn grand jury testi- With the Six other original Water- Almost immediately, he johed the mony has indicated, who along with E. U.S. Army, where he served 3 four- year stint as an intelligence offiter. He Howard Hunt Jr. helped prepare a gate committee, Barker said: "I am plan to gather information on Ellsberg a was discharged in 1967 with th€ rank bilingual American who is dedicated to of lieutenant, and worked for the,next shortly after the publication of the Pen- the liberation of Cuba." He said he tagon Papers leaked by Ellsberg in two years as .a car dealer in P'ierto was recruited by Hunt, his former boss Rico, returning to Miami in 1969 tb be- 1971. That plan, according to testi- in the abortive Bay of mony, included provisions for the Pig invasion of come a U.S. citizen and obtain a'real Cuba, and agreed to burglarize the of- estate license. He joined a Miami seal "nontraceable" break-in at Ellsberg's fice of Daniel Ellsberg's' psychiatrist, psychiatrist office. .Dr. Lewis F. Fielding, and Democratic Testimony before the Watergate headquarters because he believed it Senate Watergate committee has also was in the interests of national seen: estate agency where Martinez, wi th pictured Liddy as the initiator of a rity. whom he had kept in close touch Nixon re-election committee intelli- Barker has said he believed the pur- through the years, was then employed. gence plan that led to the bugging In mid-1970, Martinez, Barker and of telephone lines and offices at the pose of the Watergate break-in was to find evidence of foreign contributions De Diego opened a real estate office in Democratic headquarters in the Water- Miami's Little Havana section. gate. to Democratic party funds. The bur- glary of the psychiatrist's office came, De Diego admits 13 having partici- A flamboyant, abrasive gun fancier, pated in the "plumbers unit" burglary Liddy impressed many who knew him Barker has said, after he was told Ells- berg was passing secret documents to of the office of Dame' 1 Ellsberg's psy- in the past decade as a man destined chiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding. for fame or notoriety. An ad . in his the Soviet Embassy. law-and-order campaign for Congress When Barker and three other Miami- "It was a few weeks before the Ells- in a 1968 Dutchess County, N.Y. race ans involved in the Watergate bur- berg thing broke out,V he Said. "Macho said: "He knows the answer is law and glary appealed for a retrial last fall, (Barker) told me that there was a per- order, not weak-kneed sociology. Gor- they claimed they had pleaded guilty son who worked for the government, don Liddy doesn't 'bail them out—he under pressure from Hunt and "high in a very high White House position, puts them in ..." officials of the executive branch Of. who wanted to utilize us in an official He lost that race, and shortly after- government." mission involving the security of the ward left his post as assistant district `In motions filed by defense attorney state. He said we had been chosen be- attorney for a Washington job as spe- Daniel E. Schultz, the men claithed cause of our background and experi- cial assistant to Eugene T. Rossides, they had believed themselves engaged ence." assistant secretary of the Treasury. in a legitimate clandestine operation The White House "contact," De It was his liking of guns and his self- and were unable to offer their defense Diego said he learned later, was E. styled independence that eventually for reasons of national security. Howard Hunt Jr. led to his downfall at the Treasury De- Schultz at a later hearing said the bur- A year later, De Diego was among partment. Early in 1971, Liddy made glars were duped by Hunt into becom- 10 Cuban-born men recruited by an unauthorized speech against gun ing "unwitting tools in illegal political Barker to travel to Washington on controls to the National Rifle Associa- espionage." May 4, 1972, to attend the funeral of tion. A few months later, he was dis- former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. missed from his position. He then took After viewing Hoover's body at the the job on Ehrlichman's staff. Capitol rotunda, the men spotted Ellsberg speaking at an antiwar rally on the Capitol steps and broke up the Martinez rally with shouts of "traitor" and phys- ical attacks on the demonstrators. One of the seven original Water- During both operations, De Diego gate defendents, Eugenio R. Mar- said, "we thought that we were work- tinez, 51, was on the CIA payroll ing on something that would lead to as an inforinant at the time of his Cuba's freedom. "Maybe that's why we were picked arrest. In testimony to the Senate for it, because they were looking for Watergate Committee former CIA \ the zeal and sensitivity of men who are Director Richard M. Helms said working for something very close to their hearts," he said. Martinez's $100-a-month retainer was cut off immediately after his arrest and the agency had "nothing to do with Watergate." CHARGES Martinez was charged yesterday with one count of conspiracy against the rights of citizens. United Press International Watergate burglars Eugenio Martinez, right, and Virgilio Gonzales are met by their wives as they leave prison.