SFChronicle MAY 1 3 1973

los angeles The Ellsberg Break-in Case .

ENIOR agency officials 1--) were "angry and de- pressed." • According to a The testimony described • source with close connec- how Hunt and co-conspirator tions to the Central Intelli- G. Gordon Liddy first g e n c e Agency. officials "cased" the doctor's home felt that "irreparable dam- neighborhood and his office: age" had been done to the how they secured a special organization. "They think," camera for the job from the said the source, "that the CIA and how they visited a whole project was an abso- CIA "safehouse" in Wash- lute violation of the CIA's ton to secure disguises and charter." false identification materi- The ',"whole project" in als. question was none other Last week, The New York than the alleged break-in at Times reported that General the Beverly Hills offices of Robert Cushman Jr., the 's psychia- Marine Corps commandant trist. It was the second time who, in 1971, was deputy a major U.S. government- director of Central Intelli- al agency had been be- gence, had authorized the smirched by the Watergate use of CIA material and re- affair. And, ironically, the search in the Ellsberg files first agency to be so stained — the FBI — was Inow in- This World, Sunday, May 13, volved in the investigation of the second. The CIA's role in the plot surfaced last weekend when Grand Jury testimony given by Watergate conspirator E. grand jury that he believed Howard Hunt was released that cooperation with the , by the Pentagon 'Papers CIA had been arranged by trial judge, Matt Byrne.. The Egil Krogh. `White House Plot' Man in Charge According to Hunt's testi- West At the time, according to mony, the plot to break into grand jury testimony, Krogh the office of Daniel Ells- was directly in charge of a berg's psychiatrist was con- special White House team ceived, engineered, financed burglary. And the sources that had been set up in the and supervised by the White fingered , aftermath of the June, 1971, House, while the CIA sup- President Nixon's chief ad- publication of the Pentagon plied the camera and the viser for domestic affairs Papers, to determine who disguises to accomplish the (who recently resigned) as was involved in the disclo- job. the man who specifically so- sure of the documents. Disclosing an elaborate licited Cushman's coopera- Krogh, at the time one of scenario in detail. Hunt said tion. Ehrlichman's key deputies, that he had been perSonally reportedly recruited both directed by two men then on Cushman, who left the CIA Liddy and Hunt over the the White House staff - in 1971, was questioned by next few weeks, and the two Egil (Bud) Krogh Jr. and FBI agents and reportedly m e n immediately began . accepted "full responsibili- planning the operation to get ty" for the decision to the psychiatrist's records. permit the CIA to help E. Howard Hunt and Gordon Krogh, who last week re- Liddy prepare f o r the signed his new job as under- break-in. secretary of transportation, sent a classified affidavit to Hunt, a 20-year CIA veter- the Ellsberg court nine days an who, along with Liddy ago, in which he reportedly. and five others, was arrest- accepted full responsibility ed in connection with the for the burglary. Watergate hugging,- told the I n the rush of fast- AP Wirephoto KROGH

AP Wirepholo CUSHMAN

breaking developments, it was also learned that FBI wiretappers had worked un- der the authority of then At- torney. General John Mitch- ell, to lead the White House "Mission Impossible" team to Daniel Ellsberg's psy- chiatrist. Mitchell, accord- ing to government investiga- tors, had cited national se- curity needs in authorizing — without court orders - more than a score of tele- phone wiretaps to try to plug the leaking of the in 1971.