SEP C 1973 Deals Cited as Reason 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 tr refused mittee. President Nixon has Washington Post Staff Writers refused top'ti over the to comment. tapes, and the issue isnw Acting on direct orders According to me sources, frorric President Nixon, the in the courts. the office of special Water- In July, immediately after Secret Service tapped the gate prosecutor Archibald Ublie disclosure of the telephone of the Presi- Cox has received informa- se t to •u g system, the dent's brother, businessman tiqn about the Secret Serv- Hou ref sell' io let F. Donald Nixon, for wore ice wire taps, including the several Secret Service than a year, according, )o one on • Donald Nixon. A agents who maintainedithe fouhighly reliable sources. spokesman for Cox's office presidential- tapping syltem The President ordered his also declined to comment arisWer any questions asked brot_her's phone tapped dur- yesterday. by Senate investigators. ing 'Mr. Nixon's first term `The Nixon tap, as well as At the time, governinerit because he feared that Don- sdrhe or all of the other sources said th,ey suspected ald Nixon's various financial electronic surveillance con- that the Secret Serviee activities might bring em- dticted by the Secret Service, agents might be aware of barrassment to. the Nixon apparently was unrelated to national security, accord- otheelectronic surveillance adm.l0,,Vation, 349 sources —*haps illegal—in addi- said.7"Wiretapping appar- ing to the sources. Unless tion to the presidential tap- was the only means by there was some legitimate ing system. nfitional security justifica- which the President felt 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- President Nixon has de- clgked that billionaire according e sources, o hes had lent him $205,- who include government in- fended his authorization of 17, other wiretaps—on Ad- 111 in 1956 in an attempt to vestigators and a Nixon ad- rescue Nixon's, Inc., a res- ministration official. ministration officials and news reporters—as legal be- ta*ant chain. Donald Nixon President Nixon's decision operated in Southern Cali- to have his brother placed cause they were purported- fornia. The transaction be- under electronic surveillance lyundertaken to stop news came popularly known is was, based partly on his con- leas that the President "the Hughes loan" and led cern about Donald Nixon's deemed harmful to natidnal to 'severe criticism of Rich-. involvement with the finan- security. However, two, of 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- negotiating it. dent Of the Mffriott Corp., had assified Despite the loan, Donald received a controversial a- Nixon filed for bankruptcy The memo. addressed to $205,600 loa from Hughes tional security. in 1961, leaving $206,000 -in former presidential counsel in 1956., oan was never The tap on Donald Nixon, debb*The Hughes loan was John W. Dean III, said that nevePrepaid. "Don Nixon visited the Do- repaid. and others conducted by the Fan 1963 fo 1968, Daft- minican Republic with a hitt Secret Service, were not aid ixon was associated small group of wheeler- NI wa dealers in September, 1969, eral conducted •y h among the 17 taps discloed with' Southern California earlier this year, according marketing consulting Erin. who„assertedly were connec- Service on orders from er ted with" enterprises owned the President or White to ,The Post's sources. Uwe In 16:10, he became a vice president of the Marriott by Howard . Hughes, the re- House aides who said they 17, which the Presiden *ere acting in the Presi- CorOration, whose presi- acknowledged ord dent. J. Willard Marriott is hillienaire.. 0, in dent's behalf, according to the '1960s ninv6d y of two of the sources. The were conducted by the a cloac friend of the Presi- dent„ and a major Republi- his business interests-to Las -names of the other persons ;Until the Supreme C Vegas. iretapped inchthe reasons can 'Campaign contributor: ordered otherwise, the 11,4c- In, last five years, Caulfield, a former New for the surveillance could on administration had asser- York City detective who not be learned. ther have been periodic ted, its self-proclaimed news reports referring to at- guarded, President Nixon The wiretaps were handled thority to conduct wire tempts to keep Donald 'Nix- duri the 1966 presidential by the Secret Service's Tech- ping without a court o on out of trouble by John cam gn, is believed to have nical Security Division, the in matters. affecting e Ehrlfchman, the President's supplied investigators from tame unit that also installed national security. On able special prosecutor Cox's and maintained the elabor- 19, 1972, the Supreme Court former domestic affairs _ad- office with information about ate secret taping sys ruled that such wiretaps in- viser, and Charles G. (Bebe) the Secret Service wiretaps. that President Nixon u volving "domestic" threats Rehozo, the President's dose While serving as a special record automaticallY' on- to the national security were personal friend. Such at- investigator in the White ot tempts often were less than See • WIRETAP, A7 illegal. The court left open House and reporting to Ehr- 1 the question of the legality , successful, according .to lichman, Caulfield con- of, tips, related to "foreign" news accounts. iti ducted a wiretap on the , Al securit, threats. In a Feb. 1, 1971, White telephone of syndicated House memorandum ,ob- versatioris in his Offices a\-id (gapes of conversations newspaper columnist Joseph about the Watergate bug- taed by • The Washin ton Kraft. That tap was in addi- on his telephones, ging Incident that President Post last month, Joh tion to the 17 President Attempts to get comment Nixon had with several aides C lfield, who conduct e- Nixon has acknowledged au- from the White House about 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 affair by special Watergate Donald Nixon and -the by the Secret Service. ful last night. Spokesinen Hughes financial interests. .