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two checks totaling $33,655.68 to the White House. . . ." Thismoney, the report said, was used to help fund Richard Nixon'supcoming reelection campaign, and was allegedly spent fordirect-mail expenses. [18]So as Nixon administration officials were stalling the announcedbiological weapons cutback, the president was being rewarded byAmerica's espionage establishment, I realized, though the twomay not have been related.In April 1970, E. Howard Hunt, most famous for orchestratingthe Watergate break - in which led to President Nixon'sresignation, allegedly "retired from the CIA after having servedin it for over twenty years."With the help of the CIA's External Employment Affairs Branch,The Rockefeller Commission reported that Hunt then obtained ajob with Robert R. Mullen and Company, a Washington, D.C.,public relations firm, a CIA "front". [18]"The Mullen Company itself had for years cooperated with theAgency by providing cover abroad for Agency officers, carryingthem as ostensible employees of its offices overseas. Hunt, whileemployed by Mullen, orchestrated and led the [Dr. Lewis]Fielding and Watergate break-ins and participated in otherquestionable activities. . . .""During 1971, the CIA, at the request of members of the WhiteHouse staff, provided alias documents and disguise materials, atape recorder, camera, film and film processing to E. HowardHunt. . . .""Some of these materials were used by Hunt and [G. Gordon]Liddy in preparing for and carrying out the entry into the officeof Dr. Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. In particular, theCIA at Hunt's request developed pictures taken by him of thatoffice in the course of his reconnaissance for the break-in." [18]It took till 1974 before a stunned public learned that at least fourCIA operatives had engineered "Watergate" allegedly to discreditSenator Edward (Ted) Kennedy who was viewed as Nixon's onlyformidable Democratic rival.Nostalgic ForeshadowingIn retrospect, Ted Kennedy's brother Bobby had been considereda "shoe-in" for defeating Nixon in the 1968 presidential election.He was assassinated not long after Dr. Martin Luther King wasshot and killed. Besides embodying the Kennedy mystique,Bobby was gaining in the polls for being sharply critical ofAmerica's increasingly unpopular involvement in Vietnam. Inparticular, both John and Bobby Kennedy had found the use ofchemical and biological weapons abhorrent. [18,22]

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