erica verification named his Agency contacts _ vin Beauboeuf, Ferrie’s companion on and the box. number,.at the Lafayette - Street station they assigned him. H He averred he had regontacted the CIA “TA after © | Walter Sheridan had counseled” him to say nothing to the Sheridan, ‘the exe > a- rod _i “5 Hoffa” crusade, is now with NBC News and has been instrumental in that_tele- visigp_networ: ’s extraordinary ¢€ ort to abort the assassination investigation. . * ‘ington: the day: when autopsy Toles went up. in sassination, that two DA investigators tried to bribe him. What Aynesworth didn’t report was that the tape recording of the conversation made by Beauboeuf’s attorney’ had. been carefully edited to delete the investigator's emphatic warn- uple with the secrecy y has been an . aggressive ‘drive to: intimidate and dis- “|| credit witnesses. Abraham Bolden, the first Negro Secret Service agent, accused . his brother agents, of. carousing into the A wee hours of November 22, and stated, ‘that ‘while in custody | Oswald blurted out, & “Ruby hired me”; Bolden was subse- quently. ‘charged ‘by. his’ superiors | with : -bribery and. convicted, and he protests ‘|.to no avail that ‘the charges: againgt | him ‘Awere a ‘frame - up. A Deale P a witness who. in] : the truth, and that they’ would subject him to lie detector testing to verify as far as possible that he: was telling the truth. The tandem attack on Garrison, with -much of the press copy sounding like it’ had been ghostwritten by RichardHelms, - ‘seems to be the preliminary ‘to legal -moves aimed at removing the DA from _ office or even jailing him. . The’ “behavior of US. Attorney Gen- eral, Ramsey Clark has been most sug- gestive. ‘that such a. play is in the works. On. March 2, 1967, the day after Clay. . Shaw. was arrested, the attorney gen- “eral. announced that Shaw: had, been: . investigated by the FBI. in 1963 and “‘clearet * of any complicity. in. the as- -gassination.. Three. -months ‘later,. ‘after witnesses to make San not consider this newsworthy. Soh ‘NBC's special on the Garrison: case -| ‘broadcast last June exemplifies their ef- : ‘| fort. One of the stars of the program was. Dean Andrews Jr, who has since been . convicted of perjury by a New Orleans . jury in connection ‘with his ‘testimony about the Clay Bertrand. phase of the. |. investigation. Andrews lent an: ‘ethereal _ quality to Garrison’s: probe. ‘by. saying ..|.. that he invented the ; name. Manuel :}|.- Garcia Gonzales and watched the DA's men frantically look for him asa suspect. There isa Manuel Garcia Gonzales. I have seen the nasty Llama: pistol con- fiscated from him by New Orleans police in September 1966, shortly before Gar-: rison. became interested i in him, ‘and the ° immigration file documenting ‘his :ad-. mission to the United States. Another canard fabricated by: NBC was the ‘as- sertion that the network. had located the you didn’ i see Oswald shoot from that ixth r window, you’ your damn mouth shut.’ "A New Orleans man with pertinent information ‘about : * «Sa local Minuteman was admonished. by. ’ + the. FBI not.to:tell the DA anything be- fy cause “District Attorney Garrison was - trying to.overturn the findings of the Warren Report. * . The affair of Jules Rocco ‘Kimble il- - .| fustrates how. governmental pressure. has .| induced. potential witnesses to slip from ‘+ Garrison's grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who-got in trouble | over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA’s men in the appar- .| ent hope of gaining mitigation. He said -nocent, Clark sheepishly admitted there: had “been no investigation at all. The retraction hardly caused a ‘ripple in the:- press..: ‘Then | on October 14, UPI quoted. Garrison “took a perfectly fine man, sonal ‘aggrandizement,” and that : the .. Department ‘would prosecute the’ DA. thaton the day after David Ferrie die , | real Clay Bertrand, and that he was not Clark promptly issued.a denial, -and a he cial, Jack Helm, ‘Clay Shaw. The man’s name had. been Department ‘spokesman lamely explained that the boss liad’ “discussed this matter | hypothetically in response toa question.” ' . But the most reasonable interpretation o- is that. Clark let slip precisely what. was on his mind. The notion is reinforced by the affidavit. of Gordon Novel’s former ‘wife, Marlene Mancuso, who told Gar- rison that: Richard Townley of NBC's ’ New Orleans affiliate tried to get her’ to -~ testify . against ‘the . investigation. “He. said ‘they were not imerely going to dis- - { credit the probe,”:she swore. “He said ‘Garrison would get a jail sentence.” turned over to the Justice Department, ~ the narrator said. The man‘ turned. out to be bar owner Eugene. Davis, ‘who -loudly protested that he had 1 never used . the name—and indeed, he did not fit the - description—of “Clay Bertrand.” | = =Another medium that /has been par- ticularly shrill in its ‘anti-Garrison in- fvective is Newsweek, which at times f-seems to parrot the administration line as faithfully as Izvestia hawks the Krem-. lin’s. The: magazine *s “expert”? on’ the ‘case is Hugh: Aynesworth, who. at “the ‘time of the assassination was an ‘ace re- porter for the Dallas Morning News, which saw fit to print the black-bordered - |)\Wanted _. for Treason: ‘John: F. ‘Ken- iedy” ad on’ November 22nd! ‘In his. } arrison. put-down (May 15, 1967), ) to Ferrie’ s apartment. Helm came out | ith _a satchel crammed with | ‘papers, }{ business. He promised the DA’s inves- tigators that he would garner further in- formation and report back. + burst of rhetoric, “Let justice be. done 7 though: ‘the héavens fall!” The heavens’ pa Florida, sted. -local_police. ‘Interviewed by Garrison’s men, he said that he had once worked special assignments for the CIA, and in the Texas trip the afternoon of the as- « oF ings to Beauboeuf that they sought. only | a the. world had been noisily advised that’ “~ the prestigious FBI had fourid Shaw in- .° - Clark as telling an audience of law stu-.. : dents. at ‘the University of Virginia that 7 Clay Shaw, and ruined him just for. per- §
Continued from page 6 I asked Sirhan’ s mother why she thought her son had shot Kennédy. “Everything in this country was helping Sirhan,” she maintained. “It was push- ’ ing him to the danger point. Everything, the propaganda of the Zionists, every- thing, was against his country, against his-people.” Adel described Sirhan’ s current: state» of mind: “He feels’ he has done a terrible thing, but he feels. now it is.too late to be sorry. Now he wants Americans to listen to something, they have never listened to.” And at ‘their first meetitig in 1 the jail, : Sirhan’s mother said to. him, “Shame on you. Why have you done such a thing?” He replied, “It’s too late to speak of it. But all the Americans will know why.” —-MAHMOUD ABDEL-HADI | | rAcsassindtions] | EPSTEIN'S ; GARRISON WO SUMMERS: AGO a tandem attack ‘ Te the Warren, Report, all but rele- gated that work to the fiction : section of your local library. ‘The first - was Mark Lane’s--Rush to. Judgment, : which convincingly demonstrated—us- ing the Warren Commission’s own evi-- dence—that Oswald could not have'done’ it alone, and drew the first dim outlines - of the .conspiracy theory. ‘The. second. was Edward Jay Epstein’s. Inquest, which ; ‘exposed the rather shoddy inner work- ings of the Commission and laid bare the . tortured logic it finally employed to’ dis- pel notions of a conspiracy. Both -books became best sellers, but their authors. have since -gone different ways. Lane; who shuttered his law prac- - , tice and - struggled for years to get his manuscript published in ‘the - United States (it was first published i in’ Britain), has stumped the country in: support of |. District Attorney Jim Garrison’ s theory. _ that the assassination was carried out by - an anti-Castro paramilitary team super-.- - 8 RAMPARTS vised _by persons with CIA affiliations. ‘one of. Garrison’s most fervid accusers. ' word blast at Garrison, calling the DA's. -up at Garrison's office in. New. Orleans. ’ According to Chief Investigator - -Louis, -Ivon, Epstein ‘spent. about 48 ‘hours: in , ‘writes about has occurred ‘since: this’. ‘touch-and-go visit and is obviously hear- _ book The Second Oswald (propounding ‘rumor that’ he: has heard from. people, ‘how much of ‘it are charges that have. , investigation. without pay, passed ‘him- ‘self off as the Chief Investigator, ‘then | where except by | Gurvich’s statement of. ‘them.. And algo that he tends to take'.|’ ° Andrews explained that.“‘this time I was - looking : for the: fellow; he -was sitting down. ” ‘Nowhere does he refer to -Ber- § “tratid as'a “boy.” Epstein was perhaps f - confused. by’ his exclamation: “T dont - play Boy'Scout and measure them:" ae I In his superficial exainination of Gar- [Ry Epstein, whose book was a converted’ Cornell University master’s thesis—the . subject.was urged upon him by his men- tor, Andrew Hacker—has emerged as His veliicle is The New, Yorker: in the issue of. July 13, he delivered a 25 ,000- investigation a fraud. . The New Yorker article had its genesis over a year ago, when, the author showed town, some three hours ‘at, the office, and hasn't been seen since. ‘Much of. what he: say on his part, yet: he writes. with ‘the. authoritative tone of a participant.’ Un-, doubiedly: this technique is convincing . to his audience, which assumedly. is un-: familiar with the intricacies of Garrison’s: investigation. But. to those familiar with the facts, the article is badly slanted. - 7 For. example, Philosophy. Professor: . Richard Popkin of. the: University of. California at San Diego, author of the . the theory of. an Oswald, double) and . “Garrison's. Case” in The New York - Review of Books (September 14, 1967), récently commented on the article: a | found it a queer mix of facts, } half- facts, rumors and very dubious informa- tion from people hostile to: Garrison. - Epstein has compressed all this.to make’. it look like everything’s or the same | ‘fevel. [think it would take an awful lot of work to disentangle | what he’s saying on almost any page, as to how much of it has a factual: base, how. much of it is been made by people like: [William] | Gur-: vich [who. volunteered to work on ‘the - turned on Garrison] against: Garrison,” which haven't been. substantiated any . facts and information and rumors arid so. on, that occurred over a year and a half’s period, and. compress them all into. simultaneous events, so that a statement made by Garrison’ at. one time is ‘pounced upon on the basis of informa- tion or statements he made a year é and a. half later’ ina totally different context. So I think it’s a quite sinfair Presenia- ~ ] which also has a lot of,,very dubious. ‘elements in it.” - stein’s version of the testimony of Dean = charge from the Marine Corps rectified) _central figure i in.the Garrison i investig,: - tion.’ ‘The day after the assassinaticn, "Andrews told the Commission he re. - ceived: a phone call from a man he knew ‘as Clay Bertrand, whom hé: described ; ng “8 a.“‘lawyer without.a briefcase” for. local f “homosexuals. Bertrand asked him to » Bo . to ‘Dallas and defend Oswald: ‘Gairtison ~ conterids Bertrand is ‘Clay’ Shaw, whom | he: has charged with Conspiracy. | ‘tially gave. the FBI. - ‘seriptions” of Bertrand, and finally. ad- ' mitted ‘that . ‘Bertrand “was merely a : ‘figment of his’ imagination.’ ” Later, be. ff “ fore the Commission, “Andrews ‘stated’ - .that he had recently seen. Bertrand i ina ; , bar and, ‘Epstein says, described him as. _“a boy” who-was “five feet: éight inches” and. had “‘sandy hair.” “No other clues, “- to. Bertrand’s identity turned up,-how- : ever,” ‘writes. Epstein, “and Wesley J: v Liebeler, 4 a Commission lawyer who con- 7 ducted the investigation in this area, sid - he'was convinced that no such person *, existed.”.. - testimony, - “however, told’ the Fai that Bertrand was “approxi- , -mately six. feet one inch to. six. feet two -inches. in. height, ‘brown: hair, and ‘well tion, which has some factual base, but One of the dubious elements is Ep. Andrews. Jr., a colorful attorney who . numbers among his former clients Qs. wald (who wanted his undesirable dis. and the late David William Ferrie, a ‘According to Epstein, -Andrews Tn “several different de. An objective ‘reading of. Andrews reveals that he Je dressed”*—a description that closely . matchies the: tall, aristocratic Shaw. As for: Bertrand being: a figment of his : imagination, Andrews declared, “That's ia : what the: Feebees [Fer]: put on.” Here 3a counted that G-men had pestered. | him 4 tothe point where he told them, “Write Pe e what: you want, that I aim nuts. I don't care.”” As ‘for his later remark. to. the Commission’s Mr. Liebeler - that Ber- trand, was only ‘five feet, eight inches. _ Continued on page 7 “.” Sketch by Mary Morhoft
Continued from page 8 rison’s case, Epstein evidently failed to check the police records prepared upon Shaw’s arrest. Thoroughly shaken by the arrest, Shaw ‘blurted out, according to - Patrolman Aloysius Habighorst, ‘that he had used the alias “Clay Bertrand. ” The alias was duly entered on the fingerprint . card and booking sheet. .One of the most fascinating charac- ; ters in the conspiracy drama is Richard \ Case Nagell, a’ former U; Ss. ‘Intelligence. : agent who claims he encountered Oswald. _ in Mexico City: in’ :1963, and had: ‘been - - instructed by. his: spy superiors: to deter- mine. if. the rumors of.an assassination attempt ‘had any foundation. Nagel says | he learried that the ‘first’ attempt. against Kennedy was schediiled. for. September 26in: Washington, D.C., and that Oswald | (who: crossed the: border into’ Mexico the day before) was ‘to. be set up as the “patsy”. and shot i in front. of the Cuban “HERE COME DE FUDGE". - 4 ONSIDER. THE REVOLT" ON THE LEFT . if the: following ‘occured: : : The, President; on ‘the eve: of © his “abdication, arranged to’ accept ‘the - resignation ‘of. the chief justice... of: the United States Supreme | Court. in _order to replace him with the . President's former lawyer; then’ an associate justice; AS a. parlay, the President submitted : to the Senate the namé of his oldest hand- — holding crony. to fill the vacancy created by the promotion , of his former Jawyer; The chief’ justice, ‘who had written a _ famous report ‘designed’ to satisfy the people that the -assassination of the” President’s ‘predecessor was. ‘Sans. con- spiracy and: the sole act ofa ‘demented. . mind, conditioned his resignation on the . Senate’s approval of: the appointments; The President’s ex-lawyer, when called to testify ‘before a Senate: committee, ‘conceded that during his three years on: | - the high.court he: had continued to act + "as the President’ S advisor; ‘ That pursuant to this role, he had sat ‘in on numerous cabinet-level meetings, but that he had merely “summarized” the views of others for the benefit of the ; President; That as. a justice he had. dressed down , ‘a prominent businessman who had criti- o 12. RAMPARTS |. | Embassy i in Mexico City. Wheni the anti- Castro _paramilitary team could not - penetrate the Presidential security. in . Washington, Oswald got a reprieve. But Nagell, who says he was sure thie attempt would come off but failed: to get the FBI to: listen, faked a ‘bank robbery in! El. Paso, on September 20 so that he would | -be arrested and in federal: custody when the assassination occurred. ~ bo Epstein dismisses Nagel, as - being: Ae mentally unbalaticed, noting that “court records indicated that. ‘Nagel ‘had’ suf: fered brain’ damage i in’an. airplane crash: _ in’ 1957” and. that, following the. bank’ | : ‘episode, he. was “an inmate of a federal fe ‘institution’ for the’ ‘criminally’ insane in - Springfield, Missouri. »” As he does ‘50. frequently throughout the. article, Ep- | stein delivers.a version. which if devel-- oped fully would throw a ‘different light ‘on the: matter. Nagell was in a plane _crash, but he: was ‘given Intelligence ; cized war spending, though whether his |: call was made at the President’s ‘request . he could not say and ‘remain faithful 10, the Separation ¢ of Powers; . : That. the businessman had. retracted his statement, though: in, the end: it proved to be accurate. __. That ‘the “justice. could, not. answer A questions concerfing “his: judicial opin- ions since the Constitution specifies that . members of Congress miay not: be ques- - tioned about their acts in: any place other : than.in Congress; _ That despite this asserted ‘Constitu- tional bar, the justice. pointed to his dis- a - the | point: -of even primitive morality”: senting. vote against extending the one- man-one-vote principle. to local govern- ye ' ment as proof of his devotion ‘to State’ 's rights; cs That although ‘he. liad been’ at the President’s disposal as advisor-summar- a izer, he had never been involved i in dis- an i nearly always voted for business interests . and against efforts to: cut down. “the That thei issues under discussion at the of cussions that could conceivably. reach ‘the Court; ; Vietnam War. to riots in ‘the cities; ; That the justice I had. voted to jail d draft . card - burners and -had voted : ‘against, taking ‘up for consideration the legality iz ofthe war; That he voted to give rethe polive sweep- i. , ing rights to stop-and-frisk suspects on 7 training: after his recovery, ‘indicating ° J that-he had. no permanent brain injury, -Mojeover, the fact that he stood trial. implies - ‘that he was legally sane. Re. “cently, he‘ was released from Leaven. worth Penitentiary—he had been ai | ; Springfield only temporarily. The ‘publication of the’ Epstein. ‘article ° | came-at-an ‘opportune time for Clay’ ‘ ‘Shaw. ‘Obtaining advance copies, his at. omeys entered it. as” evidence before « a “If Garrison does get | his day in couri ~ a a day Epstein has struggled to deny him a chances aire his case will hold up better - yo than The New -Yorker’s brief for. the defense. : WILLIAM TURNE Rk suspicion lorie; | a That within. two months. of: his pro: posed elevation he had: authored a book. stitut f n” and held, that “even in such . _cases no legal ‘défense. could be. urged; , but jailing must be. willingly accepted; _ That shortly: after that book was “pub. ; lished, the justice denounced, in a rare interview from Washington, ‘the activities “of somiée~ of the Columbia ‘University protestors as “totally. inexcusable from That duritig - his’: first, term: on ihe Court, he cast the deciding vote uphold-- ing the conviction. and five-year senten of Ralph: Girizburg. ‘for “pandering” non-obscene i magazine; Lote ‘ That during each’ of his three terms he beet one of the President’ s most hawkish iS advisors on the Vietnam’ War. ‘Consider: the revolt on the left if any: thing: like this happened in in: 1968. , —SIDNEY | E. 2103
_ Kemet ‘who, SCC Sot ding to: his aide Kennéth P. O'Don. ; nell, nell, “despised that kind of. thing’ ‘and. never authorized - it” On the horizon looms a showdown between the ne’ "er-
wee at ever: larger appropriations fre ‘ tronic snooping, whatever. i : “because it. penetrated. The current FBI pi a mush younger Hoov But those were the days of Dillinger and | Ma and the other flamboyant criminals who could be disposed pare of with the burst of a. machinegun. Today’ 8 organized . “erime is. slick and subtle, and somewhat : ‘of a: phantom: enemy. In trying to cope with it, the FBI has. experi headaches and nightmarish headlines it, has. never expe enced before. The resort to. illicit it eavesdropping has-been o largely « a desperate i measure. =, At one ‘time wiretapping, was. sat | least legal a gentleman’ 3 sport. And since no trespass wi 3 necessary.t to - install a tap, the Supreme Court had ruled that’ it was not’ . a Violation of the Fourth. Amendment guarantee. against _ Unreasonable search: ‘and seizure. Nevertheless, Hoover scoffed at the practice, and most wiretapping. was done by: : ‘ local police, private detectives: and Treasury agents on the : ‘spoor of tax and narcotics offenders. - _In 1934, Congress passed the’ Cominunications’ Act oo which outlawed wiretapping. Several years, later, as war “dlouds gathered, Hoover reversed. his. stand. Backed by. Congressman Emanuel Celler, he. pushed. Tor. authoriza- tion to wiretap in matters involving. “the national secur: ‘ity.” The legislation was tabled, but President Franklin of the nation.” By this time the prestigious FBI I het was functioning autonomously, and the’ attorney. seneral'e 48: hones -
: 7 ‘witetap whos, allotment was needed in a more “urgent r. we “ease; ‘in the fiext breath I was ordered to put in a bug in its . “place. This the books were primly in balance as far a8.the inves: - public was. concemed—-Hoover could i ‘in all half-truthful-
Kimer Serei groups headed by Son'Ngoc'Thanh in béth Thailand and South Vietnam operating along'the borders. . There was a group .of about 100 people captured in Bat- “. tambang province: just over the Thai border in-Cambodia about June or July of 1969. who were allegedly Khmer * Oe ee ‘as: far as’ I’ know, ‘into the. R Amny, conceivably. even‘ into the police as. well: . special forces have for years’ helped: train, Organize "lead irregular forces used, among others, ‘in areas ‘along the Cambodian border.: Many’ of ‘the ‘Cambs “fe cruited for this may have ‘had, Khmer. Serei . jations.” “On April 6, the Philadelphia Inquirer-poblished: an‘ac- count of an interview ‘with ‘Prime: Minister Thanh which confirmed what he. had: told: me ‘the previous | year. ‘Ac. cording to the Inquirer, “Beginning ‘in 965 . the: US. paid millions: of dollars to. train, “arm and’ support’ ‘his (Thanh’s} forces, most: of Whom. were: récruited:. ‘from ,” the Cambodian minority living .in: South Vietnam's 8 -delta.. ‘Large-scale Khmer. Serei defections : to the: Cambodian and nan ol tbe Prince joined Ms fone Sateen: SGezemivan 6 acFe STAT . part-of Thanh’s invasion ‘plan to overthrow Sihanouk Ac cording to ‘reliable sources, the. repatriated: Khmer’ Serei : units were serving in the Royal Amy, under. Lon ‘Nol: and - a _Spearheaded political demonstrations in* ‘Phnom: Penh: just. before. the coup. After. checking ‘with . his’ an friends, Thanh committed his U.S: ‘trained and: tha _ .. forces to’ the Lon, Nol: ‘coup.’ The: CIA, ‘he -said,*had “ promised that the’ US: would: do everything possible’ to: e help. " . ; Nixon’s assertion that the ‘United. States, Practiced ~ en that-they wa lcome;the Saigon: Vietnamese - ‘complete respect for Cambodian neutrality does ‘not..ac-.- li 1e.Ce t:Vietnat ese was Auite ie 7 eo: with the facts. And: thesé. inaccurate: acai ts “of ‘recent ‘mit f. U.S.-Cambodian ‘relations led to incorrect’ ‘predictions . . of what would happen after the. coup: and. ‘the Amefican - invasion. Three major factors upset the. Administration’s game plan for Cambodia. These: were described to me'at | ~ length in.a June 1970 interview in Hanoi with Xeng An, the Ambassador from Sihanouk’s s Royal Government’ of | National | Union, v which now controls most, of f Cambodian PATRICK GRAY E Si ai a} ge a z ry Zz ie " rm rt He: Mr. Turner, a former FBI agent, is the ‘author of Hoover's FBI (Sherbourne Press; Dell paperback). ‘and Powsr. On: the . Right (Ramparts Press). ‘aa ‘Nixon, wh 0” Rog } lose a war. And In a recent press. interview,. acting’ FBI Director L. Patrick: Gray III struggled to minimize ‘the: financial wheeling- - dealing of Wesley G. ‘Grapp, whom he: had ‘just deposed as head of the large Los Angeles office. ° ‘Gray insisted | that Grapp’s downfall had resulted from: failure to accede’ ~ ‘cal’! it 3" tc ‘secre , @ updated codes of personal grooming | ‘and from” tapping Y of the Gr affair,which' might other “have incon- 7 gents’ telephone conversations,.'and had ‘nothing ‘ todo. ..-.. venienc Ot resident's. b: political angels,. with the: wangling of some $265, 000 in’ ‘bank, loans. Ww 80 He ict of! Fen age
WAS ring ea ‘o' his desk. Sq ae “From | ‘the’ “start: the’ GOP | tried ‘to portray the | an Watergate ‘burglary as a fumbling caper by overenthusi- -. *< astic supporters. who had no official authorization. It was “decided: to-..place the’ investigation in the hands of. the - .., FBI, -thus . borrowing ° on its’ above-politics reputation, . ‘rather. than bring in a special: prosecutor or commission. “But now: it fc leoks, as | t to. sit-in the director's c quarters rising. across feansy vania. Avenus, ing up” ‘and “modem gives. every. sigh ‘that c ee er oe ee Q At the time,.n no one’ éeethed tovniatice that giving this task © “Sto Gray's: ‘FBI. might be. akin * ‘to” asking’ a rabbit to de-. fc. vliver-a: carrot... “3 _. ¥et-Gray: we making no. effort to disguise his partisan- - : ship. ‘He roaméd the country: voicing support not only for | Nixon’s tough Jaw-enfotcement stand but for his policies - “honored ‘He pe d | keep all of the: Department's mittee’ 8 grasp; he vat for a Fae ae, on.a strong tilitary establishment: as well. ‘As a concrete a ’ :eXample of his partiality, he sent out a teletype message = ~ to. twenty-one field offices seeking’ up-to-the-minute crime —"~,. = : ; - dita’ wwhich was. prefaced:. ‘‘In order for: John Ehrlichman 4 i “closet, and ‘Gray had : ST siaied ani: to: give. the: President maximum: support on campaign ie _-Goors shut. He was soon ‘put to. i it trips during. the next ‘several ‘weeks, the following infor: mation is sFequired.” poo : days of his appointment, Tette Soaanateee | THE Narton/Noveinber 27,197
“Gray severely circumscribed the: Watergaté.p probe. He. ‘ordered agents not to follow leads: without Justice Depart- ment permission,’ an exercise in red tape certain to cause - - Apparently’Grapp a delay and frustration. When. G-men. met a. wall. of ut leaving: the FB which ‘would peat at silence at the White ‘Hotise—“Trying’ to interview these . $36,000: ar,. "he, accu : ‘assets totaling - some @ people was like trying to ‘interview members. of the Black | his, 000 was in real estate holdings, Panther Party,” an FBI source was quoted by The Wash- nd d' some:,$200,000'in' common. stocks, which he. _ ington Post-—-Gray refused to intercede. with the President SSE al in 265, 900 from five lend: to force cooperation;. instead, : ‘he told his ‘men to. erse-’ . (ding ee vere through normal channels, - Ww could: a: Cc: In response to Sen. George. McGovern’ 8 chaige that the . ‘-tune?:The' question rst:asked in the form of “certain . FBI investigation appeared less than ‘ehcomy assing, Gray’ - alle 18" FEC ty ‘on May. 10, eight days - fired off a barrage of statistics 333. agents ‘used up 14,000: |: ‘aft oover’s::deat! inquiry brought man-hours in covering 1,800:leads—that rivaled J. dgar®.-.: C resh -allegatio inspection squad: ° ° Hoover at his numerical best: ‘And “before: the: i three ‘ ngeles, turning | in’ its "_ vestigation was terminated; Gray asserted ;that- ‘strain repos uigiist® bn Aug the credulity” to believe that. Nixon: ‘could: “have “perpe- trated a “con job” on: the. . American people. : the: end it. was only by: the dogged digging of ‘reporters:.that "Sordid ‘story of political -€spionage, * sat qd“ trick ” was “uncovered. roterese, ford ont, _ bat’: OW! staches ?'(¢ id been one ‘component: ofa ‘widespread network, wi és. ' mission into the: desert; where 8 felled: by heat Pros. directly: to the White House. a ic Ts On September we '.. It was not ’ Gray's. fault, ‘of: ‘course, ‘that the ‘story. v ‘was: rap loted from: agen ( too big to be contained, and he. tried diligently | to mini- : ed: :to“Minneapolis: ‘sleuth, assertedly mize the damage. In. ‘seemingly’ unrelated: moves; he trans- '. f n } Verse in violation of . @ ferred the head of the ‘sensitive’ Washington‘ field’‘office, - The cended ‘in jromis: ‘Robert G. Kunkel, to St. Louig;. and Assistant ‘Director’ > :.' Charles W. Bates to San Francisco as agent .in- charge. oa On the surface; Kunkel. was ‘in trouble : for’ ‘altering the... | feport of a-scufile involving an FBI agent “during: ‘an anti- :.:°. war rally, and Bates-had been shifted in line ‘with.a néw*°: @ Policy permitting “top-ranking ‘bureau’ officials” to. have’... tours of duty in the field.” What the. two iilén had. ins. common was not mentioned.’ As: chief ‘ofthe general in- sls 519 vestigative division, Bates had been ‘in’ overall: charge of: which the- young ‘vic “returned: unh rmed, Grapp. _ the Watergate investigation; Kunkel. had worked directly: ~ | ha 37; in” fire ié ‘Fidelity Bank, under him, deploying ‘his ‘agents ‘to do the legwork. ‘Both, «, yas‘ the’ vic the same time, ‘it is said, talked too freely with journalist friends. oe | T+ ““Wheeaime-into: possession es of First Fidelity “.. Co." the: Dank’s © holding * compan ereafter, Grapp : The ‘Wesley Grapp affait also threatened to get. ‘out: .. Secured: aling: $135; plus a home mort. . of hand ‘until Gray diverted it away from the $265,000-in: : + gage }5,000; "from nal Bank of Beverly ‘loans and toward such, amusements’ as mustaches and _ Hills d‘-out ’ simply. walk ‘ough office -bugs. A South Dakotan; Grapp had gotten: off toa the ; winging start in the FBI-as the political godson of. Sen. Karl Mundt. But he quickly: made his own mark as.a°* ‘Captain Queég, a breed the FBI's ancient martinet had appreciated. As. a Hoover favorite, he became so power-: . ful that in 1968 he flatly . refused .a: ‘ transfer from Los’, Angeles to Boston. And when. an inspection: team showed. ae up later that. year in response to a battery of. allegations vt leveled by agents, Grapp sent them back. ‘to. Washington” | - empty-handed. “I don’t have anything: to fear from:the . ..: inspectors,” he boasted at an agents’ ‘conference. “They oN "can’t touch me.” ve Grapp was persistenily on the make with the ich ‘and. ae the influential. In Oklahoma City,: for instance, -he fr _quented the Petroleurn Club and cultivated . the oil. elite _ In Los Angeles, he accepted an honorary : athe swank Lakeside Golf Club, (regular nemberships ht ‘the: Republican; b 0" e: ,000), and penetrated the inner sanctums of su x ‘and heavy Nixon Hundre "f icate that sev-
. unwittingly performed: a service. For now the FBI “has * been tified tical ny, ution, of ‘its: me powers, any - turning ; of ‘its “prowess: toward laying: bare ‘Republican scandals, ‘must, await . the election of a more progressive i adininistration. LO ns ‘In the meantime, the ob of watching the watchers falls i yd default to the Press. oOo - to 0. economic growth & should be se kept separate from that to . ‘population growth—even. though the two growths are 7 ". ,often:related and often lumped together. Economic growth aa ‘can, . ‘and | maybe: ‘ahould, proceed without Population yea ds of Virginia in Is There an .¢ mt ag The attack: on economic: growth i is based on three. Z propositions—all of.them superficially correct. (1) The . . \GNP--does:not represent quality of life. (2) The resources : 3: -- .0f the” ‘earth, on which our. prosperity is based, are: finite. . wf 3). Environmental pollution ‘has been getting worse. My | .G : “purpose. here. is. to" took, fa these. points a little more oo. a closely. HM +. The: GNP’ doest't: ‘measure, quality of life and can’t tell . us how: “happy we are: Of coursenot—it was never in; ‘tended to do anything. but measure ‘the yearly output of. -..-all goods. and’ services that are ‘paid for in what econo- ~ “mists, refer to as the. marketplace. Liberated economists, like’: Kenneth: Boulding, have long: realized and exten- . ively Y preached that: the GNP. should hot be used as an’ Earlier this year,.;,th tistic about our. decreased. gradu cent in 1968; HE pace aaa "Kw: "auch you ald the barber: ce ‘you got. something really good, » ge JW at hat saaction ner 7 Fare qa Bat ‘the ‘GNP does. inchide - : wa 83, expenditures for Vietnam, repair costs * for, shodde ‘automobiles; ‘and the. cost of replacing all the © asamp: oie thas great. de 7 _ windows. tht ‘were: ‘broken . by. juvenile delinquents. It : yc ..ineliades the cost of ¢0 to work, which is a kind - increasing : of ! “regrettable necessity,” and ‘the Price’ of controlling os . Toa large extent. ne ° pollution. by what one. pint call: ‘the. multig ‘The GNP is a shined bag and it is surprising that people “sate just now. beginning to wake-up, to this fact. As: for - an ‘index’ of happiness, we don't have one. Research is cn _-being done to'devise an index that would at least bea more acotirate measure of the reall welfare than is the, |