Watergate - Kissinger A Origem, Richard Nixon, Edgar Hoover, Operation Menu & Washinton Post
Watergate - Kissinger A Origem
Richard Nixon, Edgar Hoover
Documento da diplomacia dos Estados Unidos, datado em junho de 1974, relatam escutas telefônicas sem autorização legal, realizadas entre 1969-1971, pelo FBI de Edgar Hoover. A espionagem ilegal teria como mandante o então Conselheiro de Segurança Nacional de Richard Nixon: Henry Kissinger. Apesar de Kissinger negar, o jornal Washinton Post, em posse de memorandos top secrets do FBI, confirmava a acusação:
"BUT THE DOCUMENTS OBTAINED BY WASHINGTON POST STAFFWRITERS BOB WOODWARD AND CARL BERNSTEIN SHOW THAT IS WASKISSINGER WHO PHONED HOOVER ON MAY 9, 1969, AND STARTED THECHAIN OF SURVEILLANCE WHICH LED TO THE TAPPING OVERA 21-MONTH PERIOD OF 13 HIGH-RANKING GOVERNMENTFFICIALS AND FOUR NEWSMEN.
De acordo com o teor do documento, podemos conjeturar que a origem do escândalo Watergate aponta o dedo acusatório para Henry Kissinger. O memorando retirado dos arquivos do Diretor do FBI, Edgar Hoover, datado em 09/05/1969, descreve a reação de Kissinger para a matéria jornalistica publicada na frontpage do New York Times. A matéria do jornalista William Beecher fala sobre os bombardeios secretos (B-52) no Camboja, denominada Operação Menu.
"STORY BY WILLIAM BEECHER IN THE NEW YORK TIMES THAT DAYABOUT SECRET B-52 BOMBING RAIDS ON CAMBODIA."THE MEMO DESCRIBES KISSINGER'S REACTION TO A FRONTPAGE
O documento da diplomacia U.S. é baseado em memorandos do arquivo-Hoover. No documento é relatado que Kissinger pede ao diretor do FBI para descobrir o autor dos vazamentos para reportagem jornalistica sobre bombardeio-Camboja, destaca que é preciso ser discreto. Hoover anota que tendo em conta Kissinger, o caso é "extraordinariamente prejudicial e utiliza informações secretas":
4. IN KISSINGER'S VIEW, THE STORY IS "EXTRAORDINARILYDAMAGING AND USES SECRET INFORMATION," ACCORDING TOHOOVER'S ACCOUNT. THE MEMO CONTINUES:5. "DR. KISSINGER SAID THEY WONDERED WHETHER I COULDMAKE A MAJOR EFFORT TO FIND OUT WHERE THAT CAME FROM. ISAID I WOULD. DR. KISSINGER SAID THE ARTICLE WAS IN THELOWER RIGHTHAND CORNER OF THE FRONT PAGE AND TO PUT WHAT-EVER RESOURCES I NEED TO FIND WHO DID THIS. DR. KISSINGERSAID TO DO IT DISCREETLY OF COURSE."
Num segundo memorando, do mesmo dia, 09/05/1969, Edgar Hoover especula que possivelmente o responsável pelos vazamentos ao jornalista Beecher, seria um membro do conselho Nacional de Segurança chamado Morton Halperin. Kissinger fala para Hoover que havia apreciado muito a informação e esperava que Hoover poderia incriminar e "destruí-los".
7. HOOVER SPECULATED THAT HALPERIN MIGHT HAVE LEAKED THESTORY TO BEECHER. REFERRING TO THE TWO, HOOVER SAID "BOTHARE SO-CALLED ARROGANT, HARVARD-TYPE MEN." THE MEMO CONTINUES:8. "DR. KISSINGER (A FORMER HARVARD PROFESSOR) SAID HEAPPRECIATED THIS (INFORMATION) VERY MUCH AND HE HOPED IWOULD FOLLOW IT UP AS FAR AS WE COULD TAKE IT AND THEY WILLDESTROY WHOEVER DID THIS IF WE CAN FIND HIM NO MATTER WHEREHE IS."
Em outro memorando, 11 de maio de 1969, de William Sullivan, então o nº 3 do FBI, fala de uma visita do então Col. Alexander M .Haig, assistente de Kissinger. Haig fala a Sullivan sobre a necessidade de novas escutas ilegais, sobre uma questão mais grave. Haig diz que a vigilância só será necessária por pouco dias. O Assistente de Kissinger estava errado, pois as escutas começaram no dia seguinte,12 de maio de 1969, durando em alguns casos até fevereiro de 1971. Além de Morton Halperin, mais 16 pessoas entre funcionários do governo e jornalistas foram grampeados, incluindo um oficial da Casa Branca que ficou sobre vigilância física.
11. HAIG WAS WRONG. THE WIRETAPPING BEGAN THE NEXT DAY,MAY 12, 1969, AND LASTED IN SOME CASES UNTIL FEB. 10, 1971.THE TAP ON HALPERIN LASTED THE FULL 21 MONTHS. IN ALL,13 HIGH RANKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND FOUR NEWSMEN HADTHEIR TELEPHONES TAPPED. AT LEAST ONE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALWAS PUT UNDER PHYSICAL SURVEILLANCE.
Depois de mais de três anos, após a última escuta, os autores do documento da diplomacia US, junho de 1974, dois meses antes de Nixon renunciar, analisam o contexto em que Kissinger ameaça renunciar o cargo de Secretário de Estado, se seu nome não for inocentado. Kissinger em audiência ao senado havia negado qualquer participação . No entanto, dois repórteres do Washington Post, Bob Woodward e Carl Bernstein, abastecidos pelo ex-vice-presidente do FBI, W. Mark Felt, o garganta profunda, para sorte de Kissinger, revelaram que o Presidente Richard Nixon sabia das ilegalidades feitas pelo FBI e funcionários da Casa Branca. Kissinger usou de astucia e mentiras para escapar ileso do caso Watergate e de ser o autor das ordens de escutas ilegais iniciadas no caso da Operação Menu. Alegou que apenas havia fornecido nomes para investigação iniciada por Edgar Hoover, diretor do FBI. Apesar do Comitê de Justiça da câmara de representantes dos EE UU, terem analisado documentos do FBI, memorandos do arquivo Hoover, em que apontavam Henry Kissinger como iniciador dos escândalos de vigilância e escutas telefônicas ilegais, que resultaram no caso Watergate, Kissinger foi inocentado pois os memorandos não foram considerados como prova. Kissinger continuou no seu cargo no governo sucessor de Nixon: Gerald Ford).
19. A THIRD TOP SECRET MEMO FROM HOOVER TO MITCHELL,DATED JUNE 4, 1969, STATES THAT "ON THIS DATE DR. KISSINGERHAS REQUESTED THAT TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCE BE PLACED ON" AREPORTER--IDENTIFIED BY INDEPENDENT SOURCES AS HEDRICKSMITH OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. (THE FBI DOCUMENTS SUPPLIEDTO THE COMMITTEE HAVE THE NAME OF THE REPORTER OBLITERATEDAND SIMPLY USE THE LETTER DESIGNATION "D" TO IDENTIFY HIM.THE ORDER FOR THAT TAP WAS SIGNED BY MITCHELL AND THESURVEILLANCE OF THE REPORTER WAS ENDED ON AUG. 31,ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENTS.)
20. THE FBI MATERIAL IN POSSESSION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEESTATES THAT KISSINGER RECEIVED 37 LETTERS FROM THE BUREAUOUTLINING THE INFORMATION OVERHEARD ON INDIVIDUAL WIRETAPS;THAT KISSINGER RECEIVED SUCH SUMMARIES OF THE TAPS AS LATE
24. ONE SOURCE SAID THE "MEMOS ARE TWICE REMOVED FROM DI-RECTLY INVOLVING KISSINGER," CAUTIONING THAT HOOVER TENDEDTO WRITE SELF-SERVING MEMOS FOR THE FILES. "HOOVER SAIDTHAT HAIG SAID THAT KISSINGER REQUESTED THEM...WELL, THAT'SNOT ANY KIND OF PROOF."
26. HOWEVER, EIGHT WELL-PLACED SOURCES, INCLUDINGOFFICIALS PRESENTLY AND FORMERLY IN THE FBI, JUSTICEDEPARTMENT AND WHITE HOUSE, SPEARATELY SAID THAT KISSINGERWAS PROBABLY LESS THAN CANDID IN DESCRIBING HIS ROLE INTHE WIRETAPPING TO THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMIT-TEE HEARINGS ON HIS CONFIRMATION. THOSE SAME SOURCESDISAGREE ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KISSINGER'S TESTIMONY.
34. "ALTHOUGH HE IS IDENTIFIED IN THE FBI RECORDS ASHAVING REQUESTED TAPS DIRECTLY OR THROUGH HAIG"RICHARDSON TOLD FULBRIGHT," MY DECUSSIONSWITH DR. KISSINGER HAVE CONVINCED ME THAT HE WAS NOT THEORIGINATOR, IN THE FUNDAMENTAL SENSE OF THE WORD, OFANY OF THESE TAPS."
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¹Operação Menu foi o nome de código de uma operação secreta Estados Unidos Strategic Air Command (SAC) campanha de bombardeio realizado no leste do Camboja e Laos a partir de 18 de março, 1969 até 26 de maio de 1970, durante a Guerra do Vietnã. Os alvos destes ataques eram santuários e da Base de áreas do Exército Popular do Vietname (PAVN) e forças do Viet Cong, o que os utilizados para reabastecimento, treinamento e descanso entre as campanhas na fronteira com aRepública do Vietnã (Vietnã do Sul) . O impacto da campanha de bombardeio sobre os Khmers Vermelhos guerrilheiros, o PAVN e civis cambojanos nas áreas bombardeadas é contestada por historiadores.²
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| Henry Kissinger | |
|---|---|
 Kissinger in 2009 | |
| 56th United States Secretary of State | |
| In office September 22, 1973 – January 20, 1977 | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Deputy | Kenneth Rush Robert Ingersoll Charles Robinson |
| Preceded by | William Rogers |
| Succeeded by | Cyrus Vance |
| United States National Security Advisor | |
| In office January 20, 1969 – November 3, 1975 | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Deputy | Richard V. Allen Alexander Haig Brent Scowcroft |
| Preceded by | Walt Rostow |
| Succeeded by | Brent Scowcroft |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Heinz Alfred Kissinger May 27, 1923 Fürth, Bavaria, Germany |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Fleischer (1949–1964) Nancy Maginnes (1974–present) |
| Children | Elizabeth David |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.) |
| Awards |  Bronze Star1973 Nobel Peace Prize |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States of America |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Rank |  Sergeant |
| Unit | 970th Counter Intelligence Corps |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
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| J. Edgar Hoover | |
|---|---|
 J. Edgar Hoover in 1961 | |
| 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
| In office March 23, 1935 – May 2, 1972 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Deputy | Clyde Tolson |
| Preceded by | Himself (as BOI director) |
| Succeeded by | L. Patrick Gray |
| 6th Director of the Bureau of Investigation | |
| In office May 10, 1924 – March 22, 1935 | |
| President | Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | William J. Burns |
| Succeeded by | Himself (as FBI Director) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Edgar Hoover January 1, 1895 Washington, D.C. United States |
| Died | May 2, 1972 (aged 77) Washington, D.C. United States |
| Resting place | Congressional Cemetery |
| Parents | Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr. Anna Marie Scheitlin |
| Education | Central High School |
| Alma mater | George Washington University Law School (LL.B.1916) (LL.M. 1917) |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
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| Richard Nixon | |
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| 37th President of the United States | |
| In office January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 | |
| Vice President |
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| Preceded by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Ford |
| 36th Vice President of the United States | |
| In office January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 | |
| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Alben W. Barkley |
| Succeeded by | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| United States Senator from California | |
| In office December 4, 1950 – January 1, 1953 | |
| Preceded by | Sheridan Downey |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Kuchel |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 12th district | |
| In office January 3, 1947 – December 1, 1950 | |
| Preceded by | Jerry Voorhis |
| Succeeded by | Patrick J. Hillings |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Richard Milhous Nixon January 9, 1913 Yorba Linda, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 22, 1994 (aged 81) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Yorba Linda, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Pat Ryan (m. 1940; died 1993) |
| Children | Patricia "Tricia" and Julie |
| Alma mater | Whittier College (B.A.) Duke University (J.D.) |
| Profession | |
| Religion | Quaker |
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| Nickname | Dick |
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| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/branch |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1942–1946 |
| Rank |  Lieutenant commander |
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1. HEREWITH FULL TEXT BOB WOODWARD AND CARL BERNSTEIN BY-
LINER PAGE 8 WASHPOST, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, HEADLINED "FILES
DETAIL KISSINGER ROLE IN TAPS".
2. "DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TO
THE PRESIDENT, CALLED FROM KEY BISCAYNE, FLA...." SO BEGINS
A MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILES MADE BY THE LATE FBI DIRECTOR
J. EDGAR HOOVER ON MAY 9, 1969. THE TIME IS NOTED IN THE
UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER: 10:35 A.M.
3. THE MEMO DESCRIBES KISSINGER'S REACTION TO A FRONTPAGE
STORY BY WILLIAM BEECHER IN THE NEW YORK TIMES THAT DAY
ABOUT SECRET B-52 BOMBING RAIDS ON CAMBODIA.
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4. IN KISSINGER'S VIEW, THE STORY IS "EXTRAORDINARILY
DAMAGING AND USES SECRET INFORMATION," ACCORDING TO
HOOVER'S ACCOUNT. THE MEMO CONTINUES:
5. "DR. KISSINGER SAID THEY WONDERED WHETHER I COULD
MAKE A MAJOR EFFORT TO FIND OUT WHERE THAT CAME FROM. I
SAID I WOULD. DR. KISSINGER SAID THE ARTICLE WAS IN THE
LOWER RIGHTHAND CORNER OF THE FRONT PAGE AND TO PUT WHAT-
EVER RESOURCES I NEED TO FIND WHO DID THIS. DR. KISSINGER
SAID TO DO IT DISCREETLY OF COURSE."
6. ACCORDING TO A SECOND HOOVER MEMO OF THE SAME DAY (THIS
ONE WITH THE TIME 5:05 NOTED IN THE UPPER LEFTHAND
CORNER), THE FBI DIRECTOR CALLED KISSINGER BACK WITH INFOR-
MATION ABOUT BEECHER AND MORTON HALPERIN, A MEMBER OF
KISSINGER'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL STAFF.
7. HOOVER SPECULATED THAT HALPERIN MIGHT HAVE LEAKED THE
STORY TO BEECHER. REFERRING TO THE TWO, HOOVER SAID "BOTH
ARE SO-CALLED ARROGANT, HARVARD-TYPE MEN." THE MEMO CON-
TINUES:
8. "DR. KISSINGER (A FORMER HARVARD PROFESSOR) SAID HE
APPRECIATED THIS (INFORMATION) VERY MUCH AND HE HOPED I
WOULD FOLLOW IT UP AS FAR AS WE COULD TAKE IT AND THEY WILL
DESTROY WHOEVER DID THIS IF WE CAN FIND HIM NO MATTER WHERE
HE IS."
9. NEITHER MEMO BY HOOVER MENTIONS WIRETAPPING. BUT
ANOTHER MEMO DATED MAY 11, 1969, FROM WILLIAM SULLIVAN,
THEN THE NO. 3 MAN IN THE FBI, TELLS OF A VISIT FROM THEN
COL. ALEXANDER M. HAIG, KISSINGER'S CHIEF ASSISTANT:
10. "HAIG CAME TO MY OFFICE SATURDAY (MAY 10) TO ADVISE ME
THE REQUEST WAS BEING MADE ON THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY AND
INVOLVED A MATTER OF MOST GRAVE AND SERIOUS CONSEQUENCE TO
OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.... COL. HAIG SAID IT IS BELIEVED
THESE SURVEILLANCES WILL ONLY BE NECESSARY FOR A FEW DAYS
TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE."
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11. HAIG WAS WRONG. THE WIRETAPPING BEGAN THE NEXT DAY,
MAY 12, 1969, AND LASTED IN SOME CASES UNTIL FEB. 10, 1971.
THE TAP ON HALPERIN LASTED THE FULL 21 MONTHS. IN ALL,
13 HIGHRANKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND FOUR NEWSMEN HAD
THEIR TELEPHONES TAPPED. AT LEAST ONE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL
WAS PUT UNDER PHYSICAL SURVEILLANCE.
12. NOW, MORE THAN THREE YEARS AFTER THE LAST TAP WAS
SHUT DOWN, KISSINGER HAS THREATENED TO RESIGN AS SECRETARY
OF STATE IF HIS NAME IS NOT CLEARED OF ALLEGATIONS THAT HE
FAILED TO TESTIFY FULLY AND TRUTHFULLY AT HIS SENATE CON-
FIRMATION HEARINGS ABOUT HIS ROLE IN THE WIRETAP OPERA-
TION.
13. IN THAT TESTIMONY AND ELSEWHERE, KISSINGER HAS MAIN-
TAINED THAT HIS ROLE IN THE WIRE TAPPING PROGRAM WAS LIMIT-
ED TO SUPPLYING THE FBI WITH THE NAMES OF SUBORDINATES WHO
HAD ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION LEAKED TO THE NEWS
MEDIA.
14. HE HAS DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A RELUCTANT PARTICIPANT IN
THE OPERATION, ACCEPTING THE JUDGMENT OF A PRESIDENT,
ATTORNEY GENERAL AN FBI DIRECTOR DETERMINED TO TRACK DOWN
NEWS LEAKS THROUGH WIRETAPPING.
15. KISSINGER'S CURRENT PROBLEM ARISES FROM THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE'S INVESTIGATION OF THE POSSIBLE IMPEACH
MENT OF TE PRESIDENT. THE COMMITTEE HAS OBTAINED FBI
DOCUMENTS THAT TEND TO DIRECTLY CONTRADICT KISSINGER'S
DESCRIPTION OF HIS ROLE--PICTURING HIM INSTEAD AS THE
INITIATOR OF SOME OF THE WIRETAPPING.
16. KISSINGER, HOWEVER, IMPLICITLY, HAS QUESTIONED THE
MOTIVES OF THOSE WHO PREPARED THE DOCUMENTS AND THOSE WHO
CIRCULATE THEM.
17. SPECIFICALLY, THE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE WIRETAP AUTHORIZA-
TION MEMOS BY HOOVER TO THEN ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN N.
MITCHELL, IN WHICH THE FBI DIRECTOR DESCRIBED THE CIRCUM-
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STANCES OF INDIVIDUAL WIRETAPS TO BE UNDERTAKEN AND THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL GAVE HIS WRITTEN APPROVAL TO THEIR IMPLE-
MENTATION.
18. IN TWO OF THOSE MEMOS, DATED MAY 13, 1969, HOOVER
WROTE THAT HAIG "ADVISED THAT DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER OF
THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF HAD REQUESTED THAT AS SOON AS POSSI-
BLE A TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCE BE INSTITUTED ON THE HOME OF"
TWO MEMBERS OF KISSINGER'S STAFF--WILLIAM A. K. (TONY)
LAKE AND WINSTON LORD.
19. A THIRD TOP SECRET MEMO FROM HOOVER TO MITCHELL,
DATED JUNE 4, 1969, STATES THAT "ON THIS DATE DR. KISSINGER
HAS REQUESTED THAT TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCE BE PLACED ON" A
REPORTER--IDENTIFIED BY INDEPENDENT SOURCES AS HEDRICK
SMITH OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. (THE FBI DOCUMENTS SUPPLIED
TO THE COMMITTEE HAVE THE NAME OF THE REPORTER OBLITERATED
AND SIMPLY USE THE LETTER DESIGNATION "D" TO IDENTIFY HIM.
THE ORDER FOR THAT TAP WAS SIGNED BY MITCHELL AND THE
SURVEILLANCE OF THE REPORTER WAS ENDED ON AUG. 31,
ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENTS.)
20. THE FBI MATERIAL IN POSSESSION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
STATES THAT KISSINGER RECEIVED 37 LETTERS FROM THE BUREAU
OUTLINING THE INFORMATION OVERHEARD ON INDIVIDUAL WIRETAPS;
THAT KISSINGER RECEIVED SUCH SUMMARIES OF THE TAPS AS LATE
AS DEC. 28, 1970--SIX MONTHS LATER THAN HE TESTIFIED HE
AST RECEIVED A SUMMARY AND THAT KISSINGER PERSONALLY
VISITED THE FBI ON MAY 20, 1969, TO READ THE WIRETAP LOGS.
21. "IT IS CLEAR THAT I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY IN MY OFFICE
THAT I CAN TRUST EXCEPT COLONEL HAIG," ONE DOCUMENT QUOTES
KISSINGER AS SAYING AFTER READING THE LOGS.
22. AN FBI SUMMARY DOCUMENT DATED MAY 31, 1973, ASSERTS
THAT KISSINGER "SAID THAT WHAT HE WAS LEARNING AS A RESULT
OF THE (WIRETAPS) COVERAGE WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL TO HIM
WHILE AT THE SAME TIME VERY DISTURBING."
23. HOWEVER, THE SAME SUMMARY CASTS DOUBT ON THE USEFUL-
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NESS OF THE WHOLE WIRETAPPING OPERATION, AND STATES THAT ON
THE BASIS OF A PRELIMINARY REVIEW: "NOTHING WAS FOUND
WHICH WOULD INDICATE THAT A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW WAS
DETERMINED FROM ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE COVERAGE, NOR WAS
THERE ANY SPECIFIC INSTANCE OF INFORMATION LEAKED IN A
SURREPTITIOUS MANNER TO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS."
24. ONE SOURCE SAID THE "MEMOS ARE TWICE REMOVED FROM DI-
RECTLY INVOLVING KISSINGER," CAUTIONING THAT HOOVER TENDED
TO WRITE SELF-SERVING MEMOS FOR THE FILES. "HOOVER SAID
THAT HAIG SAID THAT KISSINGER REQUESTED THEM...WELL, THAT'S
NOT ANY KIND OF PROOF."
25. THE SOURCES NOTED THAT HAIG--THEN KISSINGER'S DEPUTY--
COULD HAVE INVOKED KISSINGER'S NAME AND BEEN ACTING ON A
GENERAL DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY FROM KISSINGER, WHO MAY
HAVE BEEN UNAWARE OF THE SPECIFIC WIRETAP REQUESTS.
26. HOWEVER, EIGHT WELL-PLACED SOURCES, INCLUDING
OFFICIALS PRESENTLY AND FORMERLY IN THE FBI, JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND WHITE HOUSE, SPEARATELY SAID THAT KISSINGER
WAS PROBABLY LESS THAN CANDID IN DESCRIBING HIS ROLE IN
THE WIRETAPPING TO THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMIT-
TEE HEARINGS ON HIS CONFIRMATION. THOSE SAME SOURCES
DISAGREE ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KISSINGER'S TESTIMONY.
27. ONE SOURCE SAID KISSINGER WAS "SIMPLY PUTTING HIS
BEST FOOT FORWARD," WHILE ANOTHER FELT THAT KISSINGER
POSSIBLY FAILED TO TESTIFY FULLY AND ACCURATELY BEFORE A
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
28. AT HIS CONFIRMATION HEARINGS, KISSINGER WAS QUESTIONED
BY SEN. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOREIGN
RELATIONS COMMITTEE.
29. THE CHAIRMAN: DID YOU AT ANY TIME SPECIFICALLY MAKE
A CLEAR INITIATIVE, TAKE THE CLEAR INITIATIVE YOURSELF
ON ANY TAP OR EVEN A SINGLE ONE?
30. KISSINGER: NO.
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31. THE CHAIRMAN: YOU NEVER DID?
32. KISSINGER: NOT IN THE SENSE THAT I SAID "TAP THIS
INDIVIDUAL." I CARRIED OUT THE CRITERIA OF A PREVIOUS
DECISION. THERE COULD HAVE BEEN, AS I POINTED OUT, A
DIFFERENT PERCEPTION BY THE FBI.
33. FULBRIGHT ALSO QUESTIONED THEN ATTORNEY GENERAL
ELLIOTT L. RICHARDSON ABOUT WHETHER KISSINGER HAD SPECI-
FICALLY ORIGINATED THE WIRETAP REQUESTS.
34. "ALTHOUGH HE IS IDENTIFIED IN THE FBI RECORDS AS
HAVING REQUESTED TAPS DIRECTLY OR THROUGH HAIG"
RICHARDSON TOLD FULBRIGHT," MY DECUSSIONS
WITH DR. KISSINGER HAVE CONVINCED ME THAT HE WAS NOT THE
ORIGINATOR, IN THE FUNDAMENTAL SENSE OF THE WORD, OF
ANY OF THESE TAPS."
35. SEVERAL OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THE WIRETAP INVESTIGA-
TION SAID YESTERDAY THAT HAIG, NOW THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF
OF STAFF, COULD PROBABLY GO FURTHER THAN ANYONE IN CLEAR-
ING UP THE DIFFERENT PERCEPTIONS HELD BY KISSINGER AND
THE FBI.
36. HAIG, WHO IS TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT
YESTERDAY. (END TEXT) SISCO
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