“would know” to “learn a few things”: WHT #639-30 (Dec. 21, 1971).
“first person [Radford] called”: FBI memo, Tom Bishop to M. A. Jones (Jan. 26, 1972), “Meeting with the Director,” 6, JAP; “Radford had sounded very worried”: Ehrlichman, 308; “got a little code worked out”: WHT #317-6 (Jan. 24, 1972).
Radford finances: Young Report, 15, and Fred Buzhardt, “Report of Investigation” (Jan. 10, 1972), 9, 11, 20, LCP; “only place Radford”: Welander intv. Gettlin, LCP.
Anderson confided: JA intv. Gibson; “naïve,” “payoff”: JA intv.; nine thousand dollars: Oliva Anderson intv.
discontinued this eavesdropping: FBI memo, T. J. Smith to E. S. Miller (June 14, 1973), “Charles Edward Radford II,” JAP; “At that point”: Ehrlichman intv. Colodny, LCP.
Mudhen: JA and Gibson, 236.
“opinionated, self-righteous”: memo, Joseph C. Goodwin to CIA Director (July 10, 1967), 2, CIAFOIA; “first-class liar”: memo to Chief, Security Research Staff (July 25, 1967); memo to Chief, Security Research Staff (Sept. 7, 1967)—all in CIAFOIA.
twenty-five-page study, “extreme sensitivity”: “Project Mudhen Briefing Folder” (ND), 2, 23, JAP; “assumed names”: memo, “At Washington, D.C.” (Jan. 5, 1972), JAP; “flamboyant attitude”: memo, “Project MUD HEN” (Feb. 24, 1972), JAP.
“connections with the New York Times”: memo to Special Agent in Charge, “Subject: Project Celotex II” (March 9, 1972), 1, JAP; “my paper boy”: JA and Gibson, 237.
Upon learning that Anderson had landed a book contract, the CIA spooks reached an equally obvious conclusion: “It is believed that this work is to be published by a New York City concern, further identity unknown.” Memo to Special Agent in Charge, “Subject: Project Celotex II” (March 9, 1972), 1, JAP.
sixteen operatives: memo, “Project Mud Hen” (March 9, 1972), 1, JAP; telephoto lenses: deposition, Howard Osborn (Nov. 16, 1977), 114, JA v. RN.
“operational cryptonyms”: memo to Special Agent in Charge, “Project MUD HEN” (March 3, 1972), JAP; “BRANDY,” photos, maps: “Project Mudhen Briefing Folder” (ND), JAP.
Statler Hilton: memo, “SURVEILLANCES,” 2, CIAFOIA.
Jack Anderson’s bedtime: “Project Mudhen Briefing Folder,” 6–7; art museum, “two unidentified Negroes”: CIA Operations Log, “Celotex/Phase II” (March 4 and March 20, 1972), JAP.
“careless driver”: memo, “Project MUD HEN” (Feb. 24, 1972); “routine pattern”: CIA memo, “Joseph Carroll Spear” (Nov. 24, 1972), JAP; “boring as hell”: Spear intv. Gibson.
“our government is the best in the world”: memo, “Project MUD HEN” (March 30, 1972), 4, JAP.
60 Minutes: memo, “Project MUD HEN” (March 30, 1972), JAP; “caravan of cars”: JA and Gibson, 237.
“documented evidence”: memo, “BRANDY Audio Capabilities” (ND), JAP; “in possession,” “counter-surveillance”: memo, “Project MUD HEN” (March 15, 1972), JAP.
“no explanation”: JA and Gibson, 240.
“loitering” and “taste of his own medicine”: JA and Gibson, 233, 235, 236; “garbage on the doorstep”: Brindle intv.
“same as going”: notes, Robert Mardian (April 5, 1972), RMP; “If Mardian’s investigating”: Sanford J. Ungar, “Bare U.S. Papers on Pakistan War,” New York Post (Jan. 5, 1972), 5.
“What the CIA didn’t know”: JA and Gibson, 236.
“We drove around”: K. Anderson, Neider, Bruch, Oliva Anderson. intvs.
“On 27 March”: memo, “Project MUD HEN Summary of Significant Activities from 27 March–2 April 1972,” JAP. Actually, the “two young females” who waved at the CIA operatives were Anderson’s teenage son Kevin and another long-haired male friend. K. Anderson intv.
“copying down the license”: memo, “Project MUD HEN Summary of Significant Activities from 3 April–9 April 1972,” JAP; “failed to establish”: memo, CIA summary of Project Mudhen for Church Committee (ND), JAP.
“CIA farce”: JA, MGR (Nov. 19, 1975), JAP; “skulk around the bazaars”: JA, “Being Spied on Has Benefits of Sorts,” WP (Jan. 31, 1975), E17; “high, mocking theater”: Harringon, 44.
Jack Anderson lawsuit: D. Anderson, 238–40, 255; release many files: Timothy S. Robinson, “CIA Elaborately Tracked Columnist,” WP (May 4, 1977), A1.
“not general policy” to “don’t recall” (emphasis added): deposition, Richard Helms (Dec. 6, 1977), 99, 46, 106, 47, 72, JA v. RN; “daily basis”: deposition, Howard Osborne (Nov. 16, 1977), 93, JA v. RN.
“Bullshit!”: JA intv.; “anathema”: Hougan, 87.
“These guys”: Whitten intv.
11: BROTHERS
“make a million” to “super-achiever”: Ehrlichman, 170–74, 179.
“Having gone”: Maheu and Hack, 215; shady financial deals: Drosnin, 439; “playing the big shot”: Ehrlichman, 171, 173.
“His denial” to “the Government”: Ehrlichman, 174.
“I don’t want to use Hoover”: Gentry, 625; “really big deals”: Ehrlichman, 176–77.
newsman dining: Terry Lenzner, “Gemstone Plan” (ND), 6, SWC; bribed a hotel bellman: Trento intv.
“Nixon never forgot”: JA and Gibson, 219.
“Don must not get”: WHT #661-1 (Jan. 31, 1972); “protect the President’s interests”: Ehrlichman, 183, 185.
“Jesus Christ” to “You don’t talk to ’em”: WHT #661-1 (Jan. 31, 1972).
“cannot allow”: Haldeman notes (Feb. 7, 1972), Haldeman #45, NARA.
“latest horror story” (emphasis added): Haldeman, Diaries, 407.
“sniffing around the Hughes trough”: JA manuscript, untitled chp., 10, JAP.
“sent a reporter out to the coast” to “Goddamn Don”: WHT #319-11 (Feb. 7, 1972).
“throwing [my] name” to “mak[ing] an ass”: WHT #321-8 (Feb. 9, 1972).
“I’m gonna” to “lie low”: WHT #661-1 (Jan. 31, 1972).
“irrepressible”: JA, “Nixon Puts an Eye on His Brother,” WP (Feb. 16, 1972), D7.
“I realized”: JA intv.
Gordon on their payroll: G. Anderson intv.; Gordon actively solicited, fired: JA and Whitten intvs.; Maxine Cheshire, “The Muckraker and the Entrepreneur,” WP (May 25, 1972), C1; “Jack was very upset”: Mitchell intv.
black sheep: JA, G. Anderson, K. Anderson, T. Anderson, W. Anderson, Bruch, Jorgensen, Fritsch intvs.
“threatening telephone calls”: FBI memo (June 7, 1966), JA FBIFOIA; death threats: JA, G. Anderson, K. Anderson intvs.; “saddest part”: JA intv.
“a flurry of Administration favors”: JA manuscript, “Tailfins,” 2–3, 7, JAP.
“known for his closed mouth”: JA manuscript, untitled chp., 10, 11, and “Tailfins,” 3, JAP.
“siphoned off”: JA, MGR (Aug. 6, 1971), JAP; not spent or disclosed: Morton Mintz, “Nixon, Testimony in Conflict,” WP (Oct. 28, 1973), A3; “Everyone called it”: Drosnin, 323; illegal donation or gift: John Herbers, “Nixon Backs Move by Rebozo on Gift,” NYT (Oct. 18, 1973), 32.
“wouldn’t tolerate his brother”: JA intv. Gibson.
hundred-dollar bills, manila envelopes: Drosnin, 366, 398.
“insure favorable treatment”: memo, Terry Lenzner to Sen. Sam Ervin, “Hughes-Rebozo Summary” (ND), 3, SWC “camouflage”: Maheu and Hack, 205; Maheu’s attorney: Maheu intv.; paperwork over dinner: Howard Kohn, “Strange Bedfellows,” Rolling Stone (May 20, 1976), 84; “I am willing”: Drosnin, 47, 309.
“appeared to receive”: Dash, 203.
“documentary evidence”: JA, MGR (Jan. 24, 1972), JAP; “siphoned”: JA and Gibson, 218.
“Top Secret”: memo, H. R. Haldeman (ND), Hughes-Rebozo #804, WSPF; “goddamned Hughes thing”: WHT #317-6 (Jan. 24, 1972); “very discreetly”: memo, John Ehrlichman to John Dean (Jan. 25, 1972), Hughes-Rebozo #460, NARA; “Don’t deny it”: Drosnin, 438.
“payments coincided”: JA, “Senators Eye Hughes-Rebozo Dealings,” WP (Oct. 9, 1973), B15.
“aroused . . . panic”: Lukas, 179; “anticipate new alleg
ations”: Ouedes, 360; “hammered”: memo, Dick Hannah to Howard R. Hughes (Feb. 15, 1974), 2, JAP.
President’s private expenses: Lukas, 367–68. As early as 1971, “a troubled White House source” told Anderson that “Rebozo was collecting cash contributions as ‘walking around money’ for the President.” According to Anderson’s informant, “no written records were kept” but Nixon “sometimes would acknowledge the contributions by telephoning the donors.” Unable to corroborate the allegation, the columnist forwarded it to Senate Democrats, whose investigators issued subpoenas and eventually nailed down documentation. JA, MGR (May 16, 1974), JAP.
“tin box”: Haldeman and DiMona, 21–22.
12: “DESTROY THIS”
“Remember 1960”: Lukas, 112, 139, 143.
Contributors: Lukas, 126–27, 129, 140; Diederich, 89; Summers, Arrogance, 395–97. “Anybody who”: Reeves, 462–63.
ITT background: Sampson, passim; Schoenberg, passim; largest proposed merger: Curt Matthews, “Giant ITT Merger Spawns Election-Year Controversy,” WP (March 2, 1972), A4.
“Does ITT” to “deal is over”: Reeves, 324; Sequoia: Rosen, Strong Man, 187.
“hit Geneen:” Dean, Blind, 53.
“sudden largesse,” “lure”: JA and Clifford, 40; “aura of a possible scandal”: JA, “Aura of Scandal,” WP (Dec. 9, 1971), L15; “more rumination”: JA and Gibson, 195.
“personal and confidential”: memo, D. D. Beard to W. R. Merriam, “San Diego Convention” (June 15, 1971), Ehrlichman #15, NARA.
“single most incriminating”: Hume, 107; “Emerging eight months”: Sampson, 202; “smoking gun”: JA and Gibson, 195.
“Holy shit!”: Hume intv.; “unlined, guileless”: JA and Clifford, 49.
“I ruled out”: Hume, 113.
“My files”: Hume, 114–16; “dance a jig”: Hume intv.; two-hour interview, “poor girl”: notes, Robert Mardian, “Dr. Liszka” (March 3, 1972), Kleindienst #14, RMP; “ordered” to “lay off”: Hume, 118–23.
“another Anderson special”: Reeves, 460; “highly incriminating”: JA, “Secret Memo Bares Mitchell-ITT Move,” WP (Feb. 29, 1972), B11; “outright lie”: JA, “Kleindienst Accused in ITT Case,” WP (March 1, 1972), B15; “abruptly settled”: JA, MGR (March 2, 1972), JAP.
“lie [his] way out”: JA, MGR (March 3, 1972), JAP; “aiming their blows”: Sampson, 213–41.
“I’ve got to”: Kleindienst, 102.
“lobbed”: Dean, Blind, 52; “obviously very damaging”: memo, Charles Colson to David Shapiro, “Howard Hunt Work Assignments” (April 18, 1973), 3, CCP; “cluster bomb”: Cohan, 122; “news herd”: Klein, 231.
handed out copies: “Columnist Releases ITT Memo,” WP (March 2, 1972), A5, and “Text of Memorandum,” NYT (March 3, 1972), 20; “shock waves”: Woodward, 8; “suspicion”: Hugh Sidey, “The Presidency,” Life (March 31, 1972), 12; “nemesis”: WH news summary (March 14, 1972), 9, #39, NARA; Sherman Adams: Clark Mollenhoff, “Watch on Washington” (March 19, 1972); “blustery”: Fred P. Graham, “Maybe So, but Who Will Believe It?” NYT (March 5, 1972), E2; “well-known dealer”: “The ITT Affair,” Time (March 13, 1972).
“liar,” “Tea Pot Dome”: Kleindienst, 103; reopen: Spencer Rich, “Kleindienst Is Seeking New Hearing,” WP (March 1, 1972), A1; “very close”: Kleindienst intv. Rosen; “full confidence”: memo, “Anderson Talk at Georgetown” (March 24, 1972), Kleindienst #14, RMP; “Sir Galahad”: Dean, Blind, 52.
“ace up his sleeve”: Hume, 136; “tactical disaster”: Nixon, RN, 582.
protracted: Kleindienst, 104; “dress rehearsal”: JA and Gibson, 193.
“want to be fair”: Hume, 134; “What this meant”: JA and Clifford, 70; “Jack, now” to “back-page news”: JA and Gibson, 199; “Measuring,” JA and Clifford, 70; “saccharine”: JA intv. Gibson; “fair man”: JA and Gibson, 199.
“I told senators”: JA and Clifford, 69.
“many sacks,” “looks very suspicious”: Sanford J. Ungar, “ITT Shredded Files,” WP (March 17, 1972), A1; “goddamn paper-shredding”: Burns, 240–42; “might have been a lot of others”: Sanford J. Ungar, “ITT Executive Denies He Got Beard Memo,” WP (April 11, 1972), A7; “worst presentation”: JA and Clifford, 97.
“Hell”: WHT #688-18 (March 18, 1972).
“perhaps understandable”: “The Thickening ITT Imbroglio,” Time (March 27, 1972); “security precautions”: Time, “The Square Scourge of Washington” (April 3, 1972).
“I told [them]”: Hume, 196.
“public relations contest”: Hume, 158.
“perfect stage”: JA and Gibson, 199.
“Cronkite said”: White House news summaries (March 3–8, 1972), Dean #43, NARA; “playing us up”: JA intv. Gibson.
“explosion”: WHT #321-31 (March 8, 1972).
“But the problem”: WHT #677-5 (March 6, 1972).
“too much”: Haldeman, Diaries, 437.
“I do not want”: WHT #678-4 (March 6, 1972).
“Goddammit”: WHT #685-3 (March 14, 1972).
“Dita Beard had”: WHT #677-5 (March 6, 1972).
“just harassed”: WHT #679-1 (March 7, 1972).
“Do we have anything”: WHT #692-7 (March 23, 1972).
“The President’s men”: Lukas, 183; “flag-waving”: Brodie, 476.
“nail Anderson”: Dean, Blind, 320; “stole”: memo, “Questions and Answers for Jack Anderson,” Dean #43, NARA, and memo, “Kleindienst Nomination—ITT hearings,” Kleindienst #14, RMP.
“finish Kleindienst off”: Hume, 176; “hearings needed now”: JA and Clifford, 94, 69.
“blotted with falsehood”: JA testimony, ITT hearings, 392, 396, 403; “sedate hearing room”: “Slugging It Out over the ITT Affair,” Time (March 20, 1972).
“Are you a lawyer”: JA testimony, ITT hearings, 404, 402; “mediocre”: Kutler, Wars, 147.
“Conventions” to “eyesight”: JA testimony, ITT hearings, 405, 406; laughter, pornographic: Hume, 173, 167; skewered: Gibbons, 140.
“irresponsible”: Fred P. Graham, “Witness Disputes Mitchell Denial,” NYT (March 11, 1972), 13; “full responsibility”: JA testimony, ITT hearings, 428.
“What is the name”: JA testimony, ITT hearings, 449.
“Jack said”: Hume intv.; “remained in contact”: “Jack Anderson Looks at Muskie, ITT, U.S. Secrets,” Philadelphia Bulletin (April 30, 1972), 3.
“Did you pay”: JA testimony, ITT hearings, 449–50.
“sharp rebukes”: Sanford J. Ungar, “No Nixon Role in ITT Case,” WP (March 10, 1972), 12; “only in retrospect”: Spear intv. Gibson.
“Was Anderson an effective”: WHT #321-31 (March 8, 1972).
“keep Anderson’s testimony going”: WHT #682-9 (March 10, 1972).
Kleindienst called: Haldeman, Diaries, 428; “wild charges”: notes, H. R. Haldeman, “Kldst” (March 9, 1972), Haldeman #45, NARA.
“outrageous witch-hunt”: WHT #682-9 (March 10, 1972) and Kleindienst statement draft (ND), Kleindienst #14, RMP.
“just skunking them”: JA intv.
“That fellow’s”: WHT #682-9 (March 10, 1972).
Anderson “was awfully jumpy” when denying under oath that he paid informants, Colson told the President, so “my suspicion” is that “a fellow who overhears conversations and feeds them to Anderson, gives him leads, could have been on his payroll.” Colson was correct, but the Nixon administration never proved it. Anderson also apparently committed perjury during his Senate testimony by denying that he surreptitiously recorded conversations, which his legman Joe Trento said he had observed two years earlier. But Nixon’s men never discovered this compromising fact, either. WHT #688-18 (March 18, 1972) and Trento intv.
“proved to be”: Louis M. Kohlmeier, “Testimony in Deepening ITT Antitrust Case Links Controversy Directly with Nixon,” WSJ (March 10, 1972), A1; “whatever reputations”: Morley Safer, transcript, 60 Minutes (March 12, 1972), 8.
Sherlock Holmes: Cartoon, Jeff MacNeely, Charlotte Observer (
March 18, 1972), editorial page.
“Kennedy and Anderson”: WHT #688-18 (March 18, 1972); “conspiring,” “conspiracy”: WHT #682-9 (March 10, 1972).
“political conspiracy”: letter, Sen. Marlow Cook to Sen. James Eastland (March 11, 1972), MCP, and Sanford J. Ungar, “White House Runs ITT Counterattack,” WP (March 18, 1972), A10; RNC drafted speeches: JA, “Investigators Trailing Columnist,” WP (March 23, 1972), G13; “yellow journalism,” “gossip-monger”: WH news summaries (March 10 and 15, 1972), #39, NARA; “Coming from”: JA manuscript, “1972,” 9–10, JAP.
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