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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 42
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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[...continued...]
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Now obviously, people are aware of the role of the Washington
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Post, Woodward and Bernstein in particular, in breaking the
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Watergate case. It appears that Woodward and Bernstein, through
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Katherine Graham the publisher and Ben Bradlee, were manipulated
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by CIA -- and specifically, Richard Ober, an associate of
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Bradlee's and himself a key CIA counter-intelligence official,
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along with Cord Meyer, Bradlee's brother-in-law. Richard Ober
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was indeed the "Deep Throat" who alerted Woodward and Bernstein.
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Interestingly enough, Richard Ober was also head of "Operation
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Chaos," a CIA domestic counter-intelligence operation which
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involved setting up provocations as well as infiltrating radical
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groups.
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Of the Washington Post's role in removing Richard Nixon and in
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the Watergate case, Debra Davis writes as follows. (You'll see
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some references here to the book, *All The President's Men*, by
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Woodward and Bernstein.)
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Watergate was, according to this scenario, a
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counter-intelligence operation of the highest order,
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carried out for patriotic as well as bureaucratic reasons
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which were, in the minds of the intelligence directors, one
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and the same. It is clear what their motives must have
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been. Kissinger was pursuing a disastrous policy in
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Cambodia, disregarding the CIA's advice and blaming the CIA
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when he failed -- all the time adding fuel to the anti-war
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movement. Nixon's harsh and stupid attempts to "get
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political control over the CIA," as Watergate burglar James
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McCord later told the Senate Watergate Committee, his
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intention to have the Agency's judgements conform to rather
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than inform his policies, "smacked of the situation which
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Hitler's intelligence chiefs found themselves in" before
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the fall of Germany. But primarily because Nixon seemed at
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times to be insane, a terrible and a dangerous head of
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state, double-agent Ober, by this logic, arranged for
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double-agent McCord to be arrested during the Watergate
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break-in. And then Richard Ober, the head of Operation
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Chaos, the only man in the nation with access to classified
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information at the White House, the FBI, the CIA, and CRP
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[Committee to Re-Elect the President], became Deep Throat,
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a favor to Ben Bradlee, an old Harvard chum. Ober's boss,
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James Angleton, finally had achieved the ultimate dirty
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trick. Bradlee would take all the risks, and either
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Bradlee would succeed in getting rid of Nixon, or Katherine
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Graham would have to salvage her newspaper by getting rid
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of Bradlee.
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That, basically, is the view of Richard Ober, the
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counter-intelligence official of CIA. The further information
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that Richard Ober was, in fact, Deep Throat, and that the CIA and
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Washington Post were involved in removing Nixon, is added here by
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Debra Davis. (It doesn't really matter the order here, but I
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read that a little out of order.)
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But again, reading more about the use of Washington Post by CIA
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and CIA counter-intelligence to remove Nixon, Debra Davis writes
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as follows.
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The minor deception in the book is that only Woodward knew
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who Deep Throat was.
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(That book, of course: *All The President's Men*.)
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Bradlee knew him; had known him for longer than Woodward.
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There is a possibility that Woodward had met him while
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working as an intelligence liaison between the Pentagon and
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the White House, where Deep Throat spent a lot of time, and
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that he considered Woodward trustworthy or useful and began
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talking to him when the time was right. It is equally
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likely, though, that Bradlee, who had given Woodward other
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sources on other stories, put them in touch after
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Woodward's first day on the story, when Watergate burglar
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James McCord said at his arraignment hearing that he had
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once worked for the CIA. Whether or not Bradlee provided
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the source, he recognized McCord's statement to the court
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as highly unusual. CIA employees, when caught in an
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illegal act, do not admit that they work for the CIA unless
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that is part of the plan. McCord had no good reasons to
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mention the CIA at all, except apparently to direct wide
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attention to the burglary, because he had been asked to
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state only his present occupation and he had not worked for
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the CIA for several years.
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(I think that last statement is open to question. That last
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statement of Debra Davis is open to question.)
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What matters is not how the connection with Deep Throat was
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made, but why. Why did Bradlee allow Woodward to rely so
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heavily upon it? And ultimately, why did the leaders of
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the intelligence community, for whom Deep Throat spoke,
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want the President of the United States to fall?
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All of that, really, highlights the ongoing association of not
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only the Washington Post, but Katherine Graham, a key partner in
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the Ms. [magazine] axis, in working with CIA.
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Now one scenario that is not discussed by Debra Davis concerns
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the possibility that Richard Nixon was not only removed because
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he was a dangerous leader, but there are a lot of indications
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that he was removed, basically, because the military and the "far
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right" were upset with his policies of detente towards the Soviet
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Union and China. The China lobby in particular (and we've looked
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at that in great detail in Radio Free America shows #11, #14, and
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#15, the second of our "Aryan Nations" programs and our two
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"Anti-Communist League" programs), the China lobby is a dominant
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and extremely reactionary force in American politics. Nixon was
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very close to them and many researchers feel (and there's
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indications that they felt betrayed by Richard Nixon) that they
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wanted a harder "Cold Warrior" than Nixon turned out to be --
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even though he was a lifelong anti-Communist -- and that as a
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result they had him removed. That's another interpretation that
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many researchers have.
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I also think... (I think that is correct.) I also think, to a
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certain extent, Debra Davis's analysis is correct. In a sense,
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Nixon wanted to become larger than the system. As of 11/22/63,
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the intelligence services and military were giving orders to the
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President, not the other way around. Nixon (although he was
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involved in the Kennedy assassination himself, as we looked at in
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the "Guns of November," program #3, about Watergate connections
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to the assassination), Nixon wanted to basically gain control of
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the whole show. He didn't want to be a servant; he wished to be
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a master. I think Davis's analysis in that respect is correct,
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and that that was one of the reasons why he was ousted.
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Many people feel that the Kennedy assassination and Nixon's
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involvement in it was the lever used to oust Richard Nixon. The
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fact that Kennedy's assassination and discussion of it appears to
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have been involved *with* the Watergate tapes themselves we went
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into in great length in "Guns of November" #3. Also, there's
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some interesting information in an interview that I had with
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Gordon Novel(sp?), one of the principal figures in Jim Garrison's
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investigation in New Orleans. The full tape is available from
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Dav-Cor(sp?), and a little blurb of that is something that you
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hear on our little promotional part that I'm going to play in
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just a couple minutes.
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Again, this discussion of Katherine Graham and the Washington
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Post, and their mutual association with CIA, is being included
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here not only for the information about Watergate, the fact that
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CIA official Richard Ober, in charge of Operation Chaos, appears
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to have been Deep Throat, but primarily because, in connection
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with all the other associations -- Clay Felker and Gloria
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Steinem, Elizabeth Forsling Harris -- it paints a rather damning
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picture not only of Gloria Steinem herself, and her association
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with people like Pottinger and so forth, but that it shows a
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larger pattern of CIA co-operation with and manipulation of the
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media.
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[...to be continued...]
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