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the President" [RA BROTHER Mr. Montoya, is a member of the Watergate committee and he also is chairman of the Sen- OF NIXONDISPUTED ateappropriations subcommit- tee that has jurisdiction over the Secret Service. In the latter Secret Service Differs With capacity, Senator Montoya asked Mr. Rowley to supply White House Views That him with "complete details" of any electronic surveillance Protection Was Aim und rtaken by the Secret Serv- ' *ncluding the number of to , the duration, the reasons By JAMES M. NAUGHTON for them and the source of stat- Special to ma New York 'Times utory authority for having WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—The maintained them. tor Governor of California. White House said today that if Neither the White House nor The New York Times re-3 the Secret Service would corn- ported in April that C. G. the secret Service had wire- ment speoifcally on the allega- tapped the telephone of F. Rebozo, the Florida invtstor tions. who is one of President 's Donald Nixon, the President's - ' Remarks by Warren closest friends, in 1969 had brother, it would have been Gerald L. Warren, the White telephoned the "related to the protective func- House deputy press secretary, headquarters, then in Las Ve- tion of the Secret Service." told newsmen that he had dis- gas, Nev., to demand that But a spokesman for the cussed The Washington Post Hughes associatts stay away report with the President. from F. Donald Nixon. agency said later that the Se- Mr. Rebozo was quoted as cret Service had legal author- While he could not comment directly, Mr. Warren said, he having expressed concern that ity to provide security services added that he was "certain that John Meier, a Hughes employe only for a President and his any monitoring of the Presi- who had befriended . Donald "immediate family," which dent's immediate family by the Nixon, would "get him in trou- would not include the Presi- Secret Service would have re- ble." dent's brother. latedlo the protective function Several weeks later, •Mr. Re- of the Secret Service." bozo reportedly telephoned the The conflict arose following A spokesman for the agency Hughes headquarters again and a report in The Washington also declined to comment demanded to know why his re- Post that Mr. Nixon had once directly on the report. Asked, quest had been ignored. The directed the Secret Service to however, to define the au- Hughes officials were said to monitor the telephone conver- thority of the Secret Service, have learned that Mr. Rebozo the spokesman said it was out- sations of his brother, a busi- was correct in complaining that lined in Section 3056 of Title Mr. Meier was still meetingwith nessman whose activities have 18 of the United States Code, Donald Nixon and within a few sometimes caused political which provides for the security days Mr. Meir's resignation problems for the President. of a President and "his im- was requested and accepted. mediate family." Reports Confirmed Asked whether a brother or The reports, which first ap- an in-law would qualify legally peared in this morning's edi- as part of the President's "im- tions of The Post, were con- mediate family," the Secret Service official said that the firmed by an official of the best reply would be to list those Senate Watergate committee, who currently are considered who said that its investigators to warrant the agency's protec- had obtained the same informa- tion. He said that the list was tion from a White House em- limited to Mr. Nixon, his wife ploye. and their two daughters, Tricia 'Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon The committee official said Eisenhower. that the matter was not being The Post account, and the .pursued by the panel, luiwever, information said to have .been because it appeared to be out- obtained by the Watergate in- side the • specific jurisdiction of vestigators, suggested that the the select committee and "it 'President had ordered the_wire- tap on his brother because of only confirmed a pattern that concern that Donald Nixon we already knew existed." He might become involved in some- thing that could prove to be Continued on Page 20, Column 6 embarrassing to the President. Hughes Loan Recalled Continued From Page 1, Col. 4 , Donald Nixon, a vice msi- said, We knew they /didn't dent of the Marriott Corwa- one another." ton, emtrioed, as a national Senator figure in 1960 when it was dis- closed that Howard Hughes, Democrat of New Mexico, the billionaire recluse, had lent called the allegations "alarm- him $205,000 in a futile effort ing" in a letter he sent this to rescue Nixon's, Inc., a chain afternoon to James J. Rowley, of restaurants in Southern Cali- the Secret Service director. The fornia. The disclosure became an is- Senator said that in his view SUE — the "Hughes loan — in the wiretapping would have the 1960 Presidentitl election ; been "outside the scope of campaign and, despite the 1961 Secret Service mg' ility bankruptcy of the restaurant' for the physical prot ion ov chain, arose again when Rich-■ I ard Nixon ran unsuccessfully THE NEW YORK Tilvii&s, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Unitednnternprional F. Donald Nixon, right, waving aside newsmen's questions about the reportT d bugging of his telephone by his brother, the President. The scene yesterday was in Los Angeles.