On a wooded knoll near their home, author lack Anderson and seven of him under surveillance, hoping to discover his sources. The Anderson his children inspect the spot from which Justice Department agents kept youths retaliated by keeping a careful watch on the government agents.

Gettings admitted afterward that it had been "suggested" he go after Smith. "We probably did have the wrong mari," acknowledged the prosecutor. In 1971, the President formed his pri- vate Plumbers Squad, including G. louPeal 111 Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, to plug news leaks, among them my India- Pakistan columns. They concluded mis- takenly that the source was located on Henry Kissinger's staff. Innocent staff- ers were yanked from behind their Watergate desks and dragged to polygraph ma- chines, although it was the White by Jack Anderson House, not my sources, doing the lying about Pakistan. Eventually an entire sec- , D.C. romantic spy, had packed his Water- began to investigate one another. I tion of Kissinger's staff was scattered f I had been a better reporter, I might gate papers in eight cardboard boxes, became aware in 1970 that he was around the world, and Adm. Robert have prevented the break-in at smuggled them out of the White House using lie detectors and grand jury sub- Welander who headed it was exiled to Washington's Watergate on June 17, and hidden them away in an associate's S-44" poenas in an effort to find out who my the Atlantic fleet. I 1972, and changed the course of basement in Alexandria, Va. I almost sources were. history. Two months before the Water- gained access to Hunt's hidden papers, Inside the Pentagon, suspected The Plumbers start working buggers were captured, I was told but he reclaimed them just ahead of sources were grilled behind the for- The Plumbers really went to work on about their plan to eavesdrop on the me. These contained dramatic docu- bidding doors of Room 3E993. Some me in March, 1972; after I published a Democrats. With a little more diligent mentation that would have bared the were followed and their neighbors memo from Dita Beard to her ITT su- digging, I might have uncovered whole Watergate skulduggery in time were questioned. Once, the gumshoes periors linking an antitrust settlement enough details to print the story. This for the voters to act. zeroed in on the wrong man, a mild, with a $400,000 pledge to help finance would have broken up the plot and bespectacled Pentagon aide named the Republican Convention. The Wash- spared President Nixon his current hu- Investigating each other Gene Smith, whoWas badgered, threat- ington Post reported that the White miliation. My own Watergate story began long ened and finally subpoenaed to appear House was "directing a major effort to Or I might have altered history more before the,name became a household before a grand jury in Norfolk, Va. discredit columnist Jack Anderson and to George McGovem's liking. I learned word. Shortly after President Nixon Smith denied under oath that he had the ITT memorandum he published ... last August that E. Howard Hunt, the moved into the White House, he and I ever talked to me. U.S Attorney Brian the effort includes feeding negative

4 PARADE • JULY 22, 1973 material about Anderson ... to Repub- against Fidel Castro. (My court appearance in Sturgis' be-. • Post, and Carl Bern- lican members of the Senate and to the He introduced me in Miami to Ber- half also disturbed the Democrats. stein, got the story by hard leg work. press." nard Barker, short and swarthy, who After I printed details of Larry O'Brien's They printed the startling details of the At one point, Hunt tried to persuade was known to his associates as "Macho" expense accounts, the Democrats is- spying-sabotage operation behind the Dita Beard to repudiate her memo. He (he-man). They spoke of Eduardo, their stied a statement suggesting I had re- turned up in Denver at Dita's hospital Watergate break-in. CIA superior during the Bay of Pigs, ceived information stolen from their bedside under the name of Edward who I only recently realized was E. My search for documentation, mean- offices by the Waterbuggers. I had man- while, led me to the Hunt papers. While Hamilton, an alias he would also use at Howard Hunt. They were a collection aged, as usual, to gain the enmity of the melodramatic G. Gordon Liddy had various stages of the Watergate incident. of romantics, forever seeking adventure, both political parties.) shredded his Watergate documents, He had donned makeup and a cheap forever finding misadventure. Continuing my pursuit of the Water- red wig for the occasion; a wig which Hunt, the author of 46 obscure novels, On April 17, 1971, exactly 10 years gate story, I learned from FBI sources was askew, giving him the appearance apparently recognized the literary after the Bay of Pigs, Barker found a the gist of the preliminary findings. It of a French mime. Dita's son, Bull, later value of this hush-hush material. He note pinned to his door : "If you are was necessary, however, to document described Hunt's appearance as "very packed his documents into eight card- the same Barker I once knew, contact the details. I asked my sources to bring eerie; he had a red wig on cockeyed, board boxes, obtained dearances to me tat a Miami hotel]." The note was me the FBI investigative reports. It is like he put it on in a dark car." move the sealed boxes out of the White signed by Eduardo. Thus the Water- much easier to quote a confidential FBI As House, then arranged for a trusted as- reported it, buggers, recruited from the Bay of Pigs report than it is to pry the details from the White House was "coordinating a sociate, Roy Shepparda federal em- bunglers, were assembled for their big- a long list of people associated with continuous effort to discredit Ander- ployee, to pick them up and stash them gest caper. the story. son." The Plumbers were assisted in in his basement. But while I was trying to pry the doc- this effort by another Watergate figure, A familiar face I dealt with Sheppard through his umentation loose from FBI files, two Robert Mardian, who then headed the lawyer, Peter Wolfe, who was deeply I had everything but a road sign young reporters from Justice Department's Internal Security The Washington pointing to the story. My press notices continued Division. He ordered my house staked claimed I was an investigative reporter; out, but I learned the makes and license I had been alerted to the Watergate plot a"../..xcp )-7 44+ 73 numbers of three autos used by Mar- two months in advance; and I had per- dian's men. With nine children, I was sonal ties with the Waterbuggers. Yet I able to command a far more reliable was quite oblivious of the conspiracy counter-espionage squad than Mar- when on June 16, 1972, I was making dian's. My kids had a lot of fun spotting my way through Washington's National the cars. They reported back that they Airport to catch a plane to Cleveland. could see men with binoculars, bring- I recognized a familiar face and stopped ing to our neighborhood an exhilarat- to chat. It was . ing air of intrigue. They located the I asked what he was doing in Wash- main lookout atop a knoll near a church ington. "Private business," he said, about a mile from my door. with a conspiratorial smile. He intro- 'They're after me now' duced me to Eugenio Martinez, the CIA-affiliated locksmith who was to I retaliated by also sending members pick the Watergate locks that night. of my staff to watch Mardian's house I made a mental note to find out what and to tail him wherever he went. Sturgis was up to, then I hurried on to When the investigator thus became Cleveland. Next day, I read on Page 1 the investigated, he had conniptions. what Sturgis had been up to. He had A source in his office told us he kept been captured, with the rest of the Robert Mardian, then the head wailing: "They're after me now!" Cuban "Mission Impossible" team, in- of the E. Howard Hunt stashed eight boxes Justice Department's Internal Secur- I also suspected, but could never side the Watergate. of Watergate evidence in a friend's ity unit, -ordered Anderson tailed, prove, that the Nixon crowd tapped my home. Anderson nearly intercepted only to find himself being followed. telephones. I was only slightly. surprised, 'Fighting Castro' it, but Hunt reclaimed it just in time. therefore, by a letter mailed to me on I looked him up immediately in the April 15,1972. It was written by William old red brick building that houses the Haddad, a New York entrepreneur District of Columbia jail. He would say who, until a dozen years ago, had been only that the Watergate project was a prize-winning investigative reporter. part of their fight against Castro. In re- Haddad told me he had learned from a turn for their services, they had also private investigator of plans to tap the been promised, said Sturgis, that some telephones of the Democratic National Cuban refugees suffering from the fog Committee. Haddad understood the and distance of London would be al- plot had been hatched by a group of lowed to come to Miami. advertising men, known as the Novem- Sturgis told me he'd been paid only ber Group, who had been recruited for expense money and didn't know what the Nixon campaign. legal assistance he would get. With his As it turned out, I was personally ac- assent, I went to court and asked that quainted with some of the Waterbug- he be paroled in my custody. The Justice gers. Frank Sturgis, an incurable soldier Department, distrusting my charitable of fortune who had roamed the world intentions, suspected I might pump him in search of danger, excitement and for more answers and vigorously ob- fighting, had been a friend of mine for jected to releasing Sturgis in my care. In 1961 Frank Sturgis, using the name Fiorini, co-authored a PARADE article many years. I had written in PARADE He was remanded, therefore, to his with Anderson on Cuban freedom fighters, posing for this stony-faced cover about his exploits fighting for and then cell block. photograph (left). After Watergate capture, Sturgis looked even grimmer (right). I was also the first to link former Attorney General John Mitchell to the °WATERGATE CONTINUED Watergate plot in a column published troubled about the secrets hidden in last Sept. 23. But the most important his client's basement. I pursued Wolfe, story, I felt, was the cover-up. The day pleaded with him and, I felt sure, per- after Christmas, I reported that the suaded him to acquire the documents Justice Department had sounded out from his client. I was so sure of gaining Watergate defendants "about entering access to the documents that I alerted guilty pleas" and thus keep the details my associate Les Whitten to be ready of their operation off the court records. to help read the contents of the boxes. But suddenly, in August, Hunt con- Late night meeting tacted Sheppard who returned the in- All the defendants, nevertheless, criminating boxes. That chance to blow went ahead with their court prepara- the wide open was tions. On the eve of the trial last Jan- lost. uary, Hunt pressured the four Miami By this time, I was convinced that members of the bugging crew to plead the President's chief of staff, H. R. Hal- guilty. He brought up former CIA com- deman, had directed the dirty tricks rades from Miami to join in the appeal. operation. My White House sources On Jan. 11, he met late into the night told me he controlled the political cam- with them at the Arlington Towers, just paign so tightly that no important de- across the Potomac River from the cision could be made without his Watergate. I waited in a nearby room approval. I couldn't get positive proof, for a report from one of the participants. however, that he had okayed the spying He told me how Hunt, invoking CIA and sabotage. discipline, had asked the four to keep silent and take their medicine. He spoke Powerful but invisible of "all for one and one for all," and he The most I could say, as I reported had a charismatic effect. They also felt on Aug. 22, was that Haldeman was sympathy over the loss of his wife in an "the most powerful man in the 1972 airliner crash. At first, they asked him campaign" except for the President to arrange with the White House to himself. "Operating out of the White soften the charges from burglary to House on government salary," I wrote, illegal entry. This would have made "Haldeman has tried to remain the in- their offense a simple misdemeanor. visible man of the campaign ... Halde- Hunt promised to seek eventual exec- man issues political directives, approves utive clemency and to arrange $1000- campaign contracts, receives political a-month payments to their families. reports and coordinates campaign ac- After some heated conversation; they tivities." agreed to stand together, mute, and By Feb. 25, 1973, I was able to im- *accept the sentence of the court. plicate Haldeman a bit more. "Senate investigators and FBI agents," I re- A rising public clamor ported, "have followed the Watergate Only G. Gordon Liddy and James tracks right up to Haldeman's door but McCord went to trial. But the public can't get past his bright young assis- clamor over Watergate was rising. The tants. The FBI men, for example, were White House tried to placate the public forbidden from questioning him. Yet by continuing the investigation but they were able to trace Watergate clues confining it behind grand jury doors. to Haldeman aides who never make a President Nixon invoked a most unusual move without asking Haldeman." interpretation of executive privilege to

Just before his conviction as a conspirator in the Watergate case, a jaunty G. Gordon Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined Liddy salutes the press. He has since maintained the That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. stoic silence of a spy.

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PARADE • JULY 22,1973 prevent past and present White House up to interview me. He discreetly re- aides from appearing before the Senate. treated before his face could be cap- It seemed to me the Nixon Ad- tured on film for the evening news. ministration intended to use grand James McCord's sensational testi- jury secrecy to protect the guilty and mony was summarized in advance in keep the embarrassing facts from a detailed memorandum, which he reaching the public. I sought access, submitted to the Senate committee. therefore, to the grand jury findings, At a closed-door session, copies were and on April 16, I began printing ver- distributed to each Senator to read and batim excerpts. return. One copy, however, was never This apparently helped to persuade returned. Later, we published the the President to change his strategy. He newsworthy memo. The committee announced at a secret Cabinet meeting was never able to discover, however, that he would support a full investiga- which Senator had kept his copy. tion by both the grand jury and the ' Senate. He mentioned, with obvious Another source for memos irritation, my verbatim reports of the My associate Les Whitten arranged a grand jury proceedings. Richard Klein- The first major witness at Senate committee hearings, co-conspirator midnight meeting to get more memos dienst, then the Attorney General, pro- from another source. The committee lames McCord, holds device he says was used to bug Democratic phones. tested that the leak must have come began a quiet investigation of us which, from the court reporting firm or one of at times, seemed almost as intensive as the grand jurors. "Cut the crap," said if I had to go to jail. For two hours, convinced that further verbatim dis- its investigation of Watergate. the President. "We both know it came however, they pleaded with me to stop closures would not be in the best in- But without the press, the Water- out of the JuStice Department." the direct quotes. Anonymous tipsters terests of the investigation. However, gate scandal would have been hushed Trouble with transcripts were refusing to appear as witnesses, as a journalist, I have an obligation and and hidden. There are always the they said, for fear of being identified in a right to continue to report any and all ostriches, of course, who prefer to The Watergate proiecutors, mean- my column. pertinent information on this sordid keep their heads in the sand. But our while, complained that my publication I told the prosecutors that I felt they scandal that so many people in high Founding Fathers intended that govern- of the transcripts was hampering their had held back during the Watergate' places have worked so hard to keep ment misconduct should be exposed. investigation. I immediately called on trial but that I believed they were now from the public." The press in this case, particularly The them to listen to their objections. They seeking the full truth. Therefore, I an- There were a few close calls. My Washington Post, served as the watch- demanded to know how I got-the tran- nounced on April 25: "I have agreed source of the grand jury testimony was dog our forefathers would have wished. scripts, since the only copies were not to print further verbatim excerpts almost revealed to the world through The Watergate story, for all its ugli- locked in their safes. I told them I from the Watergate grand jury hear- an accident of timing. He walked into ness, is proof that the American system couldn't divulge my source, not even ings. I do so because I have become my office while a TV crew was setting works. HERE'S 6C OFF ON CHOCCEREALS.

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