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Hughespayout to Politicians Is Svrfacing will just take this one on for us?" said Hughes—or the WXPost man whose signature has not been denied by his law- yers to be his. "How can we expect to re- HughesPayout alize our potential as a re- sort if we are scaring people away with bomb tests?" Hughes said in another let- ter. To Politicians Angry at the Atomic En- ergy Commission, which ul- timately carried out the tests, called Boxcars, Hughes suggested to Maheu that Is Svrfacing "somebody should start ne- gotiating with the AEC just "He cared nothing about candidates or issues—unless they like buying a hotel" hadSome effect on Howard Hughes. • $50,000 in currency also "And if they did he figured he could buy his way to went to Humphrey during fai:or 'Everybody has -a price,' he always said. And he was the 1968 campaign. Maheu going to offer that price—to a, city councilman or the Presi- testified that he delivered dent of the United States." the cash to the Vice Presi- —Noah Dietrich. "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" dent in the candidate's lim- At a meeting in 1967 with Raymond M.. Holliday, then ousine outside Los Angeles' chief executive of the Hughes Tool Co., "I showed Mr.. Holli- Century Plaza Hotel, where day a handwritten memorandum from llfr. Hughes where Mr. Humphrey had just deliv- Hughes was asking me to matte a million-dollar payoff to a ered a campaign speech. President of the United States. Mr. Holliday fainted, dropped • $100,000, in currency the yettoM sheet of paper on the floor and requested of me "earmarked" for President whether or not his fingerprints could be taken off the piece Nixon, was delivered in two of paper." equal installments in 1969 —Robert A. Maheu, under oath, July 4, 19'73 and 1970 to C. G. (Bebe) Re- bozo, one of Mr. Nixon's By Morton Mintz closest friends. Maheu said Washington Post Staff Writer Rebozo had been "chosen by LOS ANGELES—He is the world's most famous re- Mr. Nixon" to receive the cluse, holing up in the Bahamas or the Desert Inn in cash. The first delivery was -Las Vegas or Nicaragua, or, at the moment, a London made in Key Biscayne by hotel. He is fanatically secretive, too, about his finan- Richard G. Danner, who cial affairs, which are substantial, Howard Robert runs the Sands Hotel, a Hughes-owned gambling ca- Hughes being a billionaire. sino on the Las Vegas strip. Danner also made the deliv- But now information about • $50,000 in checks went to ery in 1970 — so long after Hughes, as political financier, assorted Nixon-Agnew com- the prpsidential election about his bagmen, about his mittees about three weeks that Maheu admitted to con- underground rivers of cam- before the 1968 election. "I cern about posSible paign contributions, about the want you to go to see Nixon "eventual embarrassment." origins of much of that money as my special confidential Danner, who is expected in his gambling casinos—all emissary," the letter-writer to fill out the story in a de- of this is gushing to the sur- presumed to be Hughes told position due to be filed this face. _ Maheu in March, 1968. week, made three trips to The principal founts of the "I feel there is a really va- Washington in 1970 to see information are two of his lid possibility of a Republi- Attorney General John N: Mitchell. His mission was former most trusted aides, See HUGHES, A6, Col. 1 Robert A. Maheu and Noah "to convey a request of Mr. Dietrich. ' Hughes," Maheu said. The request was that Maheu, ran Hughes' Ne- vada- Operations, a pur- Mitchell overrule the Jus- ported $300 million diverse HUGHES, From Al tice Department's Antitrust enterprise said to be the Division, which was trying state's single largest em- can victory this year," the to prevent Hughes from ac- ployer. Dietrich was Howard letter continued. "If that quiring the Dunes; Casino- Hughes' chief executive offi- could be realized under our Hotel on the Las Vegas cer for 32 years. sponsorship and supervision strip. way, then Hughes was already a The Maheu information— every inch of the dominant power on the his deposition in a pending we would be ready to follow strip, where he owned the lawsuit with other evidence, with Laxalt as our next can- Silver Slipper Casino and such as a series of handwrit- didate." Paul Laxalt was the five casino-hotels, the De- ten letters to Maheu appar- governor of Nevada. ently from Hughes—deeply • $50,000 in checks went to involves men who hold pub- Humphrey within a few sert Inn (where he lived a lic office at this mbmthit: days of the contribution to secluded life in the ninth- President Nixon; Sen. Hu- Mr. Nixon. The money was floor penthouse), and the bert H. Humphrey, who in passed through former Ne- Castaways, Frontier, Land- his earlier incarnation as vada Gov. Grant Sawyer, mark and Sands Hotels. In Vice President was. Mr. Nix- who wrote checks on his addition, he had other major on's opponent in the 1968 own account to various interests in Nevada. presidential election; nu- Humphrey committees. Maheu said he told merous legislators on Capi- In the same letter in Thomas G. Bell, a Hughes tol Hill, and several dozen which he designated Maheu lawyer in Las Vegas who state and local officials in as his "emissary" to Mr. was a • conduit for political California and Nevada. Nixon, Hughes named Hum- cash in the state, "that cer- phrey as the "one man" tain political obligations had The office of Watergate to• be met as the result" of Special Prosecutor Archibald 1 who, through President one of Danner's trips to see Cox in Washington recently Johnson, could delay Mitchell. gave an aura of immediacy feared underground nuclear Columnist Jack Anderson to the Maheu papers by re- test near the Hughes resort said last Tuesday that Dan- questing copies of some of in southern} Nevada. ner has told investigators them from the U.S. District "Why don't we get word far the Senate Watergate Court in Los Angeles. to him on a basis of secrecy committee that Mitchell, Here are brief highlights that is really, really reliable claimed by/ Danner to have —some have eluded public that we will give him imme- been unaware of the $100,- notice, while others have diately full unlimited sup- 000 given to Rebozo, cleared drawn piecemeal attention: port for his campaign to en- the Dunes acquisition in Au- ter the White House if he gust or September of 1970. This was several weeks after Danner had delivered the second $50,000—in $100 bills —to Rebozo in San Cle- mente. However, the Dunes acquisition fell through. • $25,000 in cash was de- livered by Maheu in 1968 to Lawrence F. O'Brien, then 0 chairman of the Democratic National Committee, soon after the burial of Sen. Rob- ert F. Kennedy. Maheu said the money had been pledged to Kennedy's Campaign for the Democratic presidential 5 nomination. Because the Kennedy campaign was left with unpaid bills, "I felt it would be the proper thing to meet our commitment," Maheu said. He went to O'Brien, he said, "pursuant to instructions of Pierre Sal- inger," a Kennedy family ot, friend. • Richard A. Ellis, a cer- tified public accountant re- tained by Maheu, confirmed , under oath that the total of $125,000 in cash given to ,Nixon, Humphrey and Ken- aq nedy in 1968 and 1969 flowed from Hughes' "personal account" in Los Angeles through Maheu's unincorporated investigative and public relations firm, Robert A. Maheu Associates. Hughes' secretary, Nadine Henley, administered the "personal account," also ;.ti identified as "Hughes Prod- uctions." The $50,000 in cash given to Mr. Nixon in 1970, how- ever, came from the Silver Slipper gambling casino. El- lis, in a deposition sup- ported by a 62-page finan- cial summary, said the "total cash received" by Ma- heu from the Hughes "personal account" between Jan. 1, 1965, and April 30, 1970, exceeded $300,000. This 7, was in addition to the cash gifts to Nixon, Humphrey and Kennedy, which, Ellis said, Maheu kept secret from him. Maheu said that Hughes imposed the se- crecy. The candidates who shared the $300,000 were designat- ed in phone calls to Maheu from "a fellow. by the name of Bart gvans" at Hughes Aircraft near Los Angeles, Ellis said. Evans "'would state that there was a din- ner or a political function" to which "he felt there should be a certain amount of moneys contributed," El- lis testified, "and checks would be issued as a result." The recipients included Democrats Alan Cranston ($65,000) and John V. Tun- ney ($3,200), who are now California's senators; GOP Sen. George Murphy ($2,000), defeated by Tunney in 1969; Democratic Sens. Birch Bayh (Indiana), $1,300; the contributions as non=de- well, a captive entity in ev- yer, Morton R. Galane of Fran Moss (Utah) $1,000, ductible items in order to ery way." Las Vegas, told him firmly Howard W. Cannon avoid possible tax implica- Later in 1970, Hughes moved secretly to the Baha- that "my instruction to you (Nevada), $2,000 and Joseph tions, Maheu said. as a lawyer" is to answer "in Montoya (New Mexico), The beneficiaries of the mas. But'in March, 1972, he $1,000, and GOP Sens. John $385,000 included the cur- fled by night in a chartered complete detail." Tower (Texas), 35,000, Ed- rent governor, Democrat yacht to escape deportation.
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