Enemies: A History of the FBI (89 page)

  
7.
“revolutionary terrorism”:
“Presidential Talking Paper: Meeting with J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Helms, Lt. Gen. Bennett and Adm. Gayler, June 5, 1970,” Haldeman White House Files.

  
8.
“Individually, those of us”:
Sullivan memorandum, June 6, 1970, Church Committee files.

  
9.
“I saw these meetings”:
Cregar testimony, Church Committee staff summary, Aug. 20, 1975.

10.
“went through the ceiling”:
Sullivan deposition, Nov. 1, 1975, Church Committee.

11.
“in view of the crisis of terrorism”:
Nixon,
RN: Memoirs
, pp. 474–475.

12.
“Hoover has to be told”:
Huston to Haldeman, Aug. 5, 1970.

13.
“Mitchell and I”:
Haldeman,
Haldeman Diaries
, p. 243.

14.
“I was told five times”:
Mardian oral history, Strober and Strober,
The Nixon Presidency
, p. 225.

15.
“running all over the place”:
Mark Wagenveld, “Delco Raid Forced Changes in FBI,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, March 8, 1996.

16.
“to steal the nomination”:
Nixon White House tapes, May 26, 1971.

17.
“The national security information”:
Ibid.

18.
“Do you remember Huston’s plan?”:
Nixon White House tapes, June 17, 1971.

19.
“Why Watergate?”:
Miller oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

20.
“Hoover refused to investigate”:
Nixon White House tapes, May 9, 1973.

21.
“In terms of discipline”:
Nixon White House tapes, June 29, 1971.

22.
“As a young Congressman”:
Nixon at graduation exercises of the FBI National Academy, June 30, 1971.

23.
“He was trying to demonstrate”:
Nixon,
RN: Memoirs
, pp. 598–599; “At the end of the day”: Haldeman,
Haldeman Diaries
, p. 357.

24.
“He may have suffered”:
Ray Wannall,
The Real J. Edgar Hoover: For the Record
(Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing, 2000), p. 146.

25.
“playing on the paranoia”:
Felt and O’Connor,
A G-Man’s Life
, pp. 116–121.

26.
“There were a few men”:
Hoover memorandum of conversation with Rep. H. Allen Smith, May 23, 1966, FBI/FOIA.

27.
“We have those tapes”:
Nixon White House tapes, Oct. 8, 1971.

28.
“We’ve got to avoid the situation”:
Nixon White House tapes, Oct. 25, 1971.

29.
“Sullivan was the man”:
Ibid.

30.
“We got to get a professional”:
Nixon White House tapes, March 13, 1973.

31.
“As political attacks on him multiplied”:
Felt and O’Connor,
A G-Man’s Life
, p. 160.

32.
“That son of a bitch Sullivan”:
Wannall,
The Real J. Edgar Hoover
, p. 147.

P
ART
IV  •  War on Terror

35.
C
ONSPIRATORS

  
1.
“Oh, he died”:
Nixon White House tapes, June 2, 1972.

  
2.
“Pat, I am going to appoint you”:
L. Patrick Gray III with Ed Gray,
In Nixon’s Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
(New York: Times Books, 2008), pp. 17–18.

  
3.
“Never, never figure”:
Nixon White House tapes, May 4, 1972.

  
4.
“an interloper bent on pushing”:
“they lied to each other”: Gray,
In Nixon’s Web
, pp. 23–27.

  
5.
“Once Hoover died”:
Miller oral history, FBI/FBIOH. 310 “He laughed because”: Bledsoe oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
6.
“It was agreed”:
C. W. Bates, “Subject: James W. McCord Jr. and Others,” June 22, 1972, FBI/FOIA.

  
7.
“The FBI is not under control”:
Nixon White House tapes, June 23, 1972.

  
8.
“I again told him”:
C. W. Bates, “Subject: James W. McCord Jr. and Others,” June 22, 1972, FBI/FOIA.

  
9.
“These should never see the light of day”:
Gray,
In Nixon’s Web
, pp. 81–82. Dean corroborated Gray’s account in his Watergate testimony.

10.
“There is little doubt”:
“FBI Watergate Investigation/OPE Analysis,” July 5, 1974, FBI/FOIA.

11.
if “the President decides”:
The oral arguments and the ruling are from the Supreme Court records of
U.S. v. U.S. District Court
, decided June 19, 1972, and more commonly known as the
Keith
case, after the federal trial court judge whom the Justice Department sued to prevent the disclosure of the warrantless wiretaps. It soon became clear why the Justice Department had fought so long and so hard against the disclosures. The FBI had placed a warrantless tap on the White Panther headquarters in Ann Arbor. The Bureau also had overheard the defendant Plamondon on a warrantless tap aimed at discovering ties between Black Panthers and Palestinian radicals; that surveillance had been part of a highly classified program called MINARET, in which the FBI and the National Security Agency had collaborated to spy on members of the radical antiwar and black power movements since 1967.

12.
“They will kidnap somebody”:
Nixon White House tapes, Sept. 21, 1972. 313 “Everybody at that meeting”: Gray,
In Nixon’s Web
, p. 117.

13.
“he had decided to reauthorize”:
Miller oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

14.
“hunted to exhaustion” and “No holds barred”:
Miller oral history, FBI/FBIOH; Felt and O’Connor,
A G-Man’s Life
, pp. 259–260. See also Gray,
In Nixon’s Web
, pp. 117ff. The FBI’s Paul Daly led the subsequent internal investigation of John Kearney, leader of the FBI’s Squad 47: “I believe I counted up over eight hundred break-ins, for which he was commended.” The Justice Department eventually dropped the case against Kearney, once its investigators understood that he had been following orders from the top of the chain of command.

15.
“It hurt all of us deeply”:
Bolz oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

16.
“There is a way to untie the Watergate knot”:
Woodward notes, October 9, 1972, Harry Ransom Center,
www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/woodstein/deepthroat/felt
.

17.
“They would meet at the end of the day”:
Daly oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

18.
“We know what’s leaked”:
Nixon White House tapes, Oct. 19, 1972.

19.
“we’ll screw up our source”:
The White House knew thanks to Roswell Gilpatric—a lawyer for
Time
and once JFK’s deputy secretary of defense. The magazine’s top editors had ordered their reporter, Sandy Smith, to identify Felt as his own source. Then they betrayed his confidence by telling Gilpatric, who told his friend John Mitchell that Felt was leaking the FBI’s secrets.

20.
“They would probably ask you”:
Nixon White House tapes, Feb. 16, 1973; Gray,
In Nixon’s Web
, pp. 152–77.

36.
“T
HE
B
UREAU CANNOT SURVIVE
”

  
1.
An FBI agent interviewed the Iraqi:
Finnegan testimony,
United States v. Khalid Mohammed el-Jessem
, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 73 CR 500, March 6, 1993.
   The case against el-Jessem, aka Kahlid Jawary, is reconstructed here from the federal court records of his 1993 trial; a partially declassified National Security Agency history, “The First Round: NSA’s Efforts Against International Terrorism in the 1970’s”; an FBI situation report sent out under Director L. Patrick Gray’s name, “Black September Organization Activities,” dated March 25, 1973; and Santo F. Russo, “In re Extradition of Khaled Mohammed El Jassem: The Demise of the Political Offense Provision in U.S.-Italian Relations,”
Fordham International Law Journal
16, no. 4 (1992). After serving sixteen years of his sentence, the Iraqi was deported to the Sudan in February 2009.

  
2.
“The Bureau cannot survive”:
Nixon White House tapes, March 1, 1973.

  
3.
“For Christ’s sake”:
Nixon White House tapes, March 1, 1973.

  
4.
“The quid pro quo”:
Nixon White House tapes, March 13, 1973.

  
5.
“Dean had lied to us”:
Gebhardt to Baker, “Subject: Confirmation,” March 7, 1973, FBI Watergate Special Prosecutor Files.

  
6.
“I would have to conclude”:
Hearings on the Nomination of L. Patrick Gray, Senate Judiciary Committee, March 22, 1973.

  
7.
“Gray is dead”:
Nixon White House tapes, March 22, 1973.

  
8.
“Dean has apparently decided”:
Gray,
In Nixon’s Web
, p. 238.

  
9.
“I’m worried”:
Nixon White House tapes, April 17, 1973.

10.
“This is stupidity”:
Nixon White House tapes, April 26, 1973.