CABLE - RE SEN. HOWARD BAKER'S PROBLEM WITH AGENCY/WATERGATE MATTER.
Originator: CIA
From: MAURY, J.M., OLC
To: AMBASSADOR HELMS
Document date: 12/17/1973
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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B. GEHERAND E1979 (1N//3770)

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I. AT SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE PARTY 13 DECEMBER,

I ASKED TOM KOROLOGOS, DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT FOR LEGIS-

LATIVE AFFAIRS, IF HE COULD THROU LIGHT Di BAKER PROSLEM. HE SAID:

IN CONFIDENCE BAKER HAD DISCUSSED AGENCY/UATERGATE MATTER WITH

HIM AND MADE CLEAR THAT SAKER'S CENTRAL HANGUP IS THESIS ADVANCED

BY COPEFLAND AND ST. GEORGE THAT AGENCY STAGED MATERGATE IN ORDER

TO ENTRAP PLUMBERS. KOROLOGOS INDICATED BAKER MAY HAVE BEEN

PARTICULARLY INFLUENCED BY COPELAND ALLEGATIONS.

2. ON 13 DECEMBER, LYLE MILLER, WITH BAKER'S PERMISSION.

REVIELED 190 PAGE TRANSCRIPT OF MARTINEZ TESTINDHY BEFORE BAKER-

I: GENERAL, MARTINEZ' ACCOUNT OF SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPHENTS

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CONSISTENT WITH AGENCY TESTIMONYN AND RECORDS AVAILAGLE TO BAKER.

MOREOVER, MARTINEZ SAID STURGIS DENIES ALLEGATIONS WHICH ST. GEORGE

ATTRIBUTES TO HIM. HOWEVER, MARTINEZ DID STATE TO BAKER THAT HE

COMSIDERED TRADECRAFT OF PLUMBERS UNDELIEVABLY FAULTY. FROM THEIS

BAKER AFPARENTLY INFERS THAT THIS FAULTY TRADECRAFT WAS DELIBERATE ON

PART OF AT LEAST ONE OF PARTICIPINTS WHO SOUGHT THEREBY TO LEAD OTHER

PARTICIPANTS INTO TRAP. MARTINE! FLATLY DENIED ST. GEORGE

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ALLEGATION THAT HE WAS "ANYONE'S DOUBLE AGENT."

3. UNDERSTAND ANOTHER ADVOCATE OF THE "ENTRAPMENTO THEORY

ENOT NECESSARILY ENTRAPMENT BY CIA, BUT MERELY ENTRAPMENT BY A

MYSTERIOUS "THIRD FORCE"E, IS ED HENLEY, FORMER OGC STAFFER AND:

MORE RECENTLY SENIOR OFFICIAL WITH MOBIL OIL AND KNOWN TO BE ON

CLOSE TERMS WITH BAKER.

4. SEVERAL DAYS AGO IN RESPONSE TO A QUERY FROM TOM BRADEN UE

SENT BRADEN A COPY OF MEMO GIVEN SYMINGTON ON ? NOVENGER AND

QUOTED IN REF A, PARA 4. ON 1E DECEMBER WE RECEIVED FROOM BRADEN,

LITHOUT COVERING COMMENTO A COPY OF "THE TON ERADEN REFORT"

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CAFPARENTLY A NEWSLETTER--UNDERSTAND HE IS NO LONGER ASSOCIATED WITH

LOS ANGELES TIMES ALTHOUGH THEY SYNDICATE HIS MATERIALS OF LL DECEMSER

ENTITLED "CAN HE BLAME IT ON CIA?" FULL TEXT, WHICH HAS HOT YET

APPEARED IN ANY PUSLICATION NE KHOU OF; FOLLOWS:

"WASHINGTON--THE LAST TURN IN THE DEFENSE OF RICHARD

NIXON WILL BE TO BLAME THE WATERGATE ON THE CENTRAL INETELLIGENCE

AGENCY. SUCH IS THE VIEW OF FORMER CIA DIRECTOR RICKARD HELMS, AND

SUCH IS THE DIRECTION IN WHICH SEN. HOLARD BAKER ER-TERNS AND HIS

MINORITY STAFF ON THE ERVIN COMMITTEE ARE NOU PROCEEDING. IT IS •

NOT A VERY SALABLE THEORY, BUT IT'S ABOUT ALL THAT'S LEFT; AND IF IT ED

COULD BE MADE SALABLE, IT MIGHT EGET RICHARD NIXON OFF THE HOOK:

CONSIDER: IF CIA ACCOMPLISHED THE BREAK-IN, THE SUSSEQUENT WHITE

HOUSE COVERUP MIGHT BE EXCUSED ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD

TO PROTECT THIS SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERIVCE. AND IF THE ECOVERUP

COULD BE EXCUSED ON THAT GROUND, UNRELATED CRIMES SUCH AS ILLEGAL

CONTRIBUTIONS, FORGERIES AND ALLEGED EXTORTIONS MIGHT EE PARDONED

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AS MISTAKES OF JUDGIENT ARISING FROM EXCESSIVE POLITICAL ZEAL.

THUS, "SOME SINISTER FORCE," GEN. ALEXANDER HAIG PUT IT TO JUDGE JOHN

J. SIRICA THE OTHER DAY, MIGHT EVENTUALLY BE USED TO EXPLAIN ALL.

THREE RECENT MAGAZINE ARTICLES--TLO PUELISHED IN THE MATIONALZZOO

REVIEW BY A FORMER CIA EMPLOYEE NAMED MILES COPELAND: THE OTHER.

PUBLISHED IN HARPERS BY ANDREW ST. GEORGE--SUGGEST THE PRESIDENT'S

LAST STAND. SEN. BAKER HAS CALLED THE ATTENTION OF ALL. THREE

ANETICLES TO HIS COLLEAGUES ON THE ERVIN COMMITTEE. COPELAND

ALLEGES THAT THE WATERGATE OPERATION WAS CIA'S RETALIATION AGAINST.

THE WHITE HOUSE FOR SETTING UP THE. PELUÑPERS AS A RIVAL APPARAT.

"MCCORD TOOK LIDDY INTO A TRAP, " HE URITES, AND AFTER ALL, THE

CIA SPECIALISTS IN OPERATIONS OF THE PLUMBERS' KIND HAD A LOT TO

GAIN BY PUTTING THE WHITE HOUSE CLOWNS OUT OF EBUSINESS." ST. GEORGE

MAKES A SIMILAR ALLEGATION AND ADDS DETAIL WORTHY OF 00? AND A FLEMING

HOVEL: "AH, WELL, " HE QUOTES HELMS AS TELLING THE YOUNG WATCH

OFFICER WHO TELEPHONED HIM TO REPORT THE EREAK-IN, "THEY FINALLY

DID IT...A PITY; THEY REALLY ELEW IT...IF THE WHITE HOUSE TRIES TO

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RING MET... JUST TELL THEM YOU REPORTED MCCORD'S ARREST ALREADY.

SAID I WAS CITALS VERY CUNITALY SURPRISED."

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ASKED HIS COLLEAGUES TO VIEW A ZA-PAGE MEMORANDUN PREPARED BY ONE

OF HIS INVESTIGATORS NAMED GEORGE MURPHY. MURPHY'S FINDINGS.

BAKER HINTS, IMPLICATE THE CIA. DOES THE THEORY THAT THE CIA IS

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WATERGATE MAKE SENSE? IS IT FA REASONASLE

PRESIDENTIAL DEFENSE? RICHARD HELMS HAS TESTIFIED AS FOLELOUS:

"I AM PREPARED TO SWEAR THAT NO SUCH CONVERSATION SUITH THE CIA WATCH

OFFICERS TOOK PLACE...THE GEUOTATIONS ATTRIGUTED TO ME..-UERE NEVER

SAID SY ME. OF THIS I AM CERTAIN." FROM THE TIME HE FIRST LEARNED

OF THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN.. HELMS HAS BEEN AFRAID THAT IT WOULD BE

BLAMED ON HIM. PUT YOURSELF OFOR A MOMENT IN HIS SHOES. YOU ARE

A CAREER SERVANT. YOU JOINED THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICESEOSSI

DURING THE WAR AND YOU STAYED ON TO HELP A SERIES OF DIRECTORS BUILD

THE FIRST U.J. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE: DEFRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON

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HÀS MADE YOU ITS DIRECTOR. YOU FEEL THE RESPONSIBILITY KEENLY.

HOU CONSIDER UHAT HAPPENS TO YOU IN THE SUBSEEQUENT ADMINISTRATION.

FIRST, AN OLD FRIEND OF THE PRESIDENT, PATRICK GRAY, IS APPOINTED

TO EE CHIEF OF YOUR MAJOR RIVAL AGENCY. ONE MONTH LATER, YOU ARE

TOLD BY H.R. HALDEMAN THAT THE PERESIDENT HAS AFPOINTED ANOTHER OLD

FRIEND, GEN. VERMON WALTERS, TO BE YOUR DEPUTY. ANOTHER MONTH

LATER AND JUST AFTER THE BREAK-IN, YOU AND YOUR NEU DEPUTY ARE

SUMMONED TO THE WHITE HOUSE.. YOU LISTEN UHILE HALDEMAN TELLS :

YOUR DEPUTY

THAT "IT HAS BEEN DESIDED" THAT HE SHOULD GO TO GRAY.

AND ASK HIM NOT TO INVESTIGATE THE MONEY FOUND ON THE SURGLARS

EECAUSE IT MIGHT EXPOSE YOUR

OPERATIONS. FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS,

THE WHITE HOUSE CALLS TO DISCUSS THE BREAK-IN AND TO SUGGEST THAT

YOU PAY MONEY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE ARRESTED. ELEVEN DAYS

AFTER THE BREAK-IN AND ON THE EVE OF YOUR DEPARTURE

FOR A LONG-

SCHEDULED TRIP, GRAY CALLS TO CANCEL AN AFPOINTMENT YOU HAD MADDE

WITH HIM. WITH THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IN MINED, WHAT WOULD YOU

SUFFOSE? THAT PEOPLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE MIGHT BE TRYING TO ELAME

THE WATERGATE ON YOU? THAT'S WHAT HELMS SUPPOSED AND SUPPOSES STILL."

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5. ON 14 DECEMBER BAKER MET WITH ROBERT BENNETT, OF MULLEN

COMPANY, HIS FATHER SENATOR WALLACE BENNETT AND GEORGE MURPHY TO

REVIEU AGENCY MEMOS COVERING OUR RELATIONSI WITH MULLEN COMPANY.

AFTER MEETING, WHICH LASTED TWO HOURS, BAKER EMERGED AND TOLD LYLE

MILLER THAT EVERYTHING BENNETT SAID WAS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE

HAD TOLD SAKER AND IT WAS EECOMING CLEARER THAT AGENCY NOT INVOLVED.

WATERGATE BUT SAKER RESERVES OPTION TO PURSUE MATTER FURTHER SINCE HE

•DOESN'T WANT TO GO TO HIS GRAVE WITHOUT HAVING GOTTEN TO THE BOTTOM

OF IT. =1

POTTS HE STILL RECEIVING INFO APPARENTLY IMPLICATING

AGENCY, HE ASKED FRED THOMPSON, MINORITY COUNSEL OF ERVIN COMMITTEE.

IF HE SHOULD TELL MILLER ABOUT THE MONEY • THOMPSON ADVISED HIM

NOT TO, REMARKING HE WAS NOT SURE OF HIS SOURCE. UE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT

THIS REFERES TO.

b. MANY THANKS FOR REF-C WHICH HAS BEEN DISCUSSED WITH COLBY WHO

IS COTTENTING THEREON TO YOU DIRECTLY.

?. WARMEST REGARDS AND SEASONS GREETINGS. EZIMPDET-N

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