Deals Cited as Reason SEP C 1973 Nixon Wiretapped Brother pri460.tor. C.ox and the Sen- -itty Bob Woodward for the Secret Service and ate selece-Witergate corn- and Carl Bernstein Dkinald mittee. President Nixon has Washington Post Staff Writers tr refused to comment. refused top'ti over the Acting on direct orders tapes, and the issue isnw frorric President Nixon, the According to me sources, in the courts. the office of special Water- Secret Service tapped the In July, immediately after gate prosecutor Archibald telephone of the Presi- Ublie disclosure of the Cox has received informa- dent's brother, businessman se t to •u g system, the tiqn about the Secret Serv- Hou ref sell' io let F. Donald Nixon, for wore ice wire taps, including the than a year, according, )o one on • Donald Nixon. A several Secret Service fouhighly reliable sources. spokesman for Cox's office agents who maintainedithe The President ordered his also declined to comment presidential- tapping syltem brot_her's phone tapped dur- yesterday. arisWer any questions asked ing 'Mr. Nixon's first term `The Nixon tap, as well as by Senate investigators. because he feared that Don- sdrhe or all of the other At the time, governinerit ald Nixon's various financial electronic surveillance con- sources said th,ey suspected activities might bring em- dticted by the Secret Service, that the Secret Serviee barrassment to. the Nixon apparently was unrelated agents might be aware of adm.l0,,Vation, 349 sources to national security, accord- otheelectronic surveillance said.7"Wiretapping appar- ing to the sources. Unless —*haps illegal—in addi- was the only means by there was some legitimate tion to the presidential tap- ing system. which the President felt nfitional security justifica- tion for the taps, the sources onald Nixon, 58, received confident -1 niOnitoring said, they would appear to w spread public attention what his broth4r was doing, be illegal.. in . 960 when it was dis- according e sources, President Nixon has de- clgked that billionaire who include government in- fended his authorization of o hes had lent him $205,- vestigators and a Nixon ad- 17, other wiretaps—on Ad- 111 in 1956 in an attempt to ministration official. ministration officials and rescue Nixon's, Inc., a res- President Nixon's decision news reporters—as legal be- ta*ant chain. Donald Nixon to have his brother placed cause they were purported- operated in Southern Cali- under electronic surveillance lyundertaken to stop news fornia. The transaction be- was, based partly on his con- leas that the President came popularly known is cern about Donald Nixon's deemed harmful to natidnal "the Hughes loan" and led involvement with the finan- security. However, two, of to 'severe criticism of Rich-. cial empire of billionaire those 17 taps were on 'the and Nixon, who was then Howard Hughes, according telephones of White HOUse running for. President, for al- to one of the sources. Don- aides 4.4/vho have said they ledgedly hiving a role in ald Nixon, no vice presi- had negotiating it. dent Of the Mffriott Corp., assified Despite the loan, Donald received a controversial a- Nixon filed for bankruptcy $205,600 loa from Hughes The memo. addressed to tional security. in 1961, leaving $206,000 -in former presidential counsel in 1956., oan was never debb*The Hughes loan was repaid. The tap on Donald Nixon, John W. Dean III, said that and others conducted by the nevePrepaid. "Don Nixon visited the Do- hitt Secret Service, were not Fan 1963 fo 1968, Daft- minican Republic with a NI wa aid ixon was associated small group of wheeler- eral conducted •y h among the 17 taps discloed with' Southern California dealers in September, 1969, Service on orders from er earlier this year, according marketing consulting Erin. who„assertedly were connec- the President or White to ,The Post's sources. Uwe In 16:10, he became a vice ted with" enterprises owned House aides who said they 17, which the Presiden president of the Marriott by Howard . Hughes, the re- *ere acting in the Presi- CorOration, whose presi- acknowledged ord dent's behalf, according to dent. J. Willard Marriott is hillienaire.. 0, in two of the sources. The were conducted by the a cloac friend of the Presi- the '1960s ninv6d y of -names of the other persons ;Until the Supreme C dent„ and a major Republi- his business interests-to Las iretapped inchthe reasons ordered otherwise, the 11,4c- can 'Campaign contributor: Vegas. for the surveillance could on administration had asser- In, last five years, Caulfield, a former New not be learned. ted, its self-proclaimed ther have been periodic York City detective who The wiretaps were handled thority to conduct wire news reports referring to at- guarded, President Nixon by the Secret Service's Tech- ping without a court o tempts to keep Donald 'Nix- duri the 1966 presidential nical Security Division, the on out of trouble by John in matters. affecting e cam gn, is believed to have tame unit that also installed national security. On able Ehrlfchman, the President's supplied investigators from and maintained the elabor- 19, 1972, the Supreme Court former domestic affairs _ad- special prosecutor Cox's ate secret taping sys ruled that such wiretaps in- viser, and Charles G. (Bebe) office with information about that President Nixon u volving "domestic" threats Rehozo, the President's dose the Secret Service wiretaps. record automatic on- While serving as a special otallY' to the national security were personal friend. Such at- See • WIRETAP, A7 illegal. The court left open tempts often were less than investigator in the White 1 the question of the legality , successful, according House and reporting to Ehr- .to lichman, Caulfield con- of, tips, related to "foreign" news accounts. iti , Al securit, threats. ducted a wiretap on the In a Feb. 1, 1971, White telephone of syndicated versatioris in his Offices a\-id (gapes of conversations House memorandum ,ob- newspaper columnist Joseph on his telephones, about the Watergate bug- taed by • The Washin ton Kraft. That tap was in addi- ging Incident that President Attempts to get comment Post last month, Joh tion to the 17 President Nixon had with several aides C lfield, who conduct from the White House about e- Nixon has acknowledged au- have been subpckenaed as cr t investigations fo thorizing and was not among the wiretap were unsuccess- evideijee in the Watergate to House, referre to those reportedly conducted ful last night. Spokesinen affair by special Watergate Donald Nixon and -the by the Secret Service. Hughes financial interests.