The June 1972 Raid on Democratic Party Headquarters (The Watergate Incident) — Part 2 Richard E. Sprague Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530 Outline 13. Alfred Wong, Who. Recommended McCord 1. Introduction 14, Investigation by Florida State Attorney Gerstein 2. Watergate Continued 15. Researcher Mae Brussell's Interpretation 3. $114,000 Linking Barker and the Republicans, 16. Rand Corporation Commissioned by President Nixon to Study Conditions Under Which 1972 Presiden- 4. Indictments tial Election Could Be Canceled 5. Investigation by the General Accounting Office. 17. Los Angeles Police Undercover Squad 19, to Pro- voke Violence at the Republican National Con- 6. Investigation by the House Banking Committee vention in San Diego under Rep. Wright Patman 18. Late Notes: September 12; 1972 7. Earlier Bugging Break-Ins 19. High Level Informant for Senator McGovern 8. Line of Sight Transmission to Mitchell Apartment 20. Barker and Sturgis' Film, June 10, 9. Telephone Calls Between Barker and Republicans . Showing Documents 10. Interpretation -- The Reality Behind the Appendix 1 -- Index of People Referred To Movie "Z" Appendix 2 -- References —Partial List 11. Right Wing Links and the Republican Convention 1. Introduction 12. Robert Odle, Who Hired McCord This article is a second installment (date'fin- ished, Sept. 12) of a continuing report on the Richard E. Sprague received his BSEE degree famous (or notorious) "Watergate Caper", the break- from Purdue University in 1942. His computing ing in of the offices of the National Committee of career began in 1946 when he was employed as an the Democratic Party, on the 6th floor of the Water- engineer for the computer group at Northrop Air- gate Office Building, Washington, D.C. The forced craft. In 1950, he co-founded Computer Research entry took place around 2:30 a.m., Saturday, June Corp.; by 1953, with Sprague serving as Vice Presi- 17; five men were arrested by Washington police. dent of Sales, the company had sold more computers They had with them extensive photographic equipment than any competitor. In 1960, Sprague became Di- and electronic surveillance devices, and wore rub- rector of Computer Systems Consulting for Touche. ber surgical gloves. The five men arrested were: Ross, Bailey, and Smart. He became a partner in that company in 1963, and started its Advanced James W. McCord; a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Business Systems Department in 1964. He is cur- Air Force Reserve; 19 years service with rently in a business development and marketing the CIA; head of a security agency; on position in the business systems branch of a large the payroll of the Committee to Re-elect New Jersey organization. the PreVident as late as May 31, 1972; an organizer of the CIA for the Bay of Pigs Sprague is the author of several books, in- invasion of Cuba in 1961. cluding Information Utilities published in 1969 by Prentice Hall. He is a member of numerous pro- Bernard L. Barker; a Cuban-born Miami business fessional organizations including: IEEE, the In- man; long associated with the CIA; he es- stitute of Management Sciences, the Association tablished secret Guatemalan and Nicaraguan for Computing Machinery, the American Management invasion bases. Society, and the Society for Management Informa- tion Systems. Frank Fiorini (alias Frank Sturgis) 18 COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for October, 1972 "In the many sensitive cases I have handled, I have never had depositions sealed for the reasons given in this court. There has been a very deliberate effort to conceal the nature of the facts regarding the bugging." — Edward Bennett Williams, attorney for the Democratic National Committee. - - - Eugenio K. Martinez will thoroughly investigate the case is very slim in- deed. Hopes will have to be pinned on McGovern him- - Virgilio R. Gonzalez self and the Democratic National Committee carrying on their own investigations. Senator McGovern has These men were closely connected with: strongly indicated that this will happen in a speech he made on August 15. He said, "What I regard as a the Republican Party, real national scandal that I believe points right to the White House, the White House itself has not had the attention that President Richard. M. Nixon. it should have." the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Committeelor Re-Election of the President. Also, the suit by the Democrats against the inyad- ers'was refiled in August. Edward Bennett Williams, For more information and background, see the first famed defense lawyer, will represent Lawrence O'Brien article on this subject, published in•"Computers and and the Democratic committee. Lawrence O'BrienN Dem-. Automation" for August, starting on page 33; see also ocratic campaign chairman, has demanded the appoint- the references listed at the end of this article. In ment of a special prosecutor. addition, a "cast of characters" (the dramatis per- sonae) is given at the end of this article. Another, much more all-encompassing, motive of the ,invaders and their sponsors and cohorts has been sug- Much information has not yet been revealed. Im- gested by assassination researcher Mrs. Mae Brussell, portant members of the Republican Party are using in of Carmel, Calif. In the August 1972 issue of The general four tactics:. (1) lying -- for example, say- Realist, Mrs. Brussell postulates that the ultimate ing that persons who are connected with them are not goal of the conspirators was to insure President connected; (2) silence, saying nothing -- that is Nixon's continued occupancy of the White House by the standard tactic of the CIA; (3) counterattack- cancelling the elections in November under a legally ing -- such as starting law suits for libel declared state of national emergency and martial law. against the Democratic Party and individual Demo- crats; (4) pressure -- threatening and otherwise We shall examine the credibility of this thesis exerting force or strong pressure on persons con- a little later. First, here is a summary of devel- nected with investigating, probing, or judging opments since the August article. aspects of the situation. 3. $114,000 Linking Barker and the Republicans 2. Watergate Continued 1. A$25,000 cashier's check was discovered in Ber- The Great Watergate Caper, discussed and analyzed nard Barker's bank account. Barker was the nominal in last month's issue of MA, continues to escalate leader and apparent bagman of the Watergate invaders. and to become more and more embarrassing for the The check originated with Kenneth H. Dahlberg, the Republicans and President Nixon. Many new develop- President's campaign finance chairman for the Mid- ments have taken place and new revelations made since west. Dahlberg says he was on vacation and a fund- the article last month went to press. The links be- raising trip in Florida (he lives in a Minneapolis tween the Watergate invaders and the White House as suburb), where he had collected a lot of cash. He well as the Committee to Re-Elect the President have said he didn't want to carry cash to Washington, so become more obvious. Resignations of key high level he had a cashier's check made out to himself by a Republicans have continued. Financial obfuscations bank in Boca Raton, Florida, for $25,000 in exchange involving several people in the Republican ranks have for the cash. He says he brought the check to Wash- been uncovered. At least five separate investiga- ington and personally handed it to Maurice Stans. tions have been announced. chief Republican fund-raiser. Stans told interview- ers that he had turned the check over to Hugh W. The motives still remain obscure. If the postu- Sloan, former treasurer of the Republican re-election lation made in last month's issue of MA, namely finance committee who resigned from his post in June that assassination of George McGovern was a prime for "personal reasons unrelated to the incident." motive, is true, the possibility that the FBI, Secret Stans said Sloan gave the check to G. Gordon Liddy, Service, Federal Grand Jury or the Justice Department who then exchanged the check for cash and then depo- COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for October, 1972 19 sited the money in the campaign fund. Liddy is the totalling $89,000. Finally, on August 22, the source lawyer who was fired from the re-election committee was revealed to be Texas Democrats for Nixon, rather in June for refusing to cooperate with FBI agents than Chilean businessmen. working on the Watergate investigation. 3. On August 18 the Washington newspapers•began to Sloan was asked by reporters about Stans' comments. k tell a new financial story, quoting Clark MacGregor. He refused to discuss any details but said*Stans' He. said that G. Gordon Liddy had been given author- account was "inaccurate." Reporters later inter- ity prior to his dismissal to spend campaign fund viewed Stens, Liddy and a spokesman for the Re-elec- money to find out what radical elements were plan- tion Committee, all of whom refused comment. Dahl- ning for the Republican convention, then scheduled berg also refused further comment, saying he had no for San Diego. The August 22 edition of the Post idea how the check could have gotten into the trust says that a $100,000 slush fund was uncovered by account of Barker Associates Inc., and stating, "I the office of federal elections department of the gave it to Maurice Stans, and that's absolutely the General Accounting Office, which is investigating end of it as far as I knew." Ronald Ziegler, Nixon's the books of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. press secretary, when asked about the check said, "No The $25,000 Barker check was included in the $100,000. comment." GAO spokesman Philip Hughes says that a full GAO re- port will be forthcoming but that violations have The check bore Dahlberg's endorsement but not already been found totalling several hundred thou- Bernard Barker's.