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Bryce Harlow 3 H: That's a matter of interest to Case for some reason. K: No, William Beecher, William Beecher. H: Oh, it's Beecher? K: Yeah. But you see what he has to understand is that -- at least our official position is -- well, first of all, for your information, Bryce, there were 4 reporters bugged, right? H: Right. K: One was put on by the President personally for reasons I don't understand. The other was put on by J. Edgar Hoover personally. So that leaves two, William Beecher and Hedrick Smith. They put themselves on by what they wrote. You see they didn't have to be requested. H: Those two one that is the Times reporter, at least, apparently is of interest to Case. K: Yeah, but can one not take the position, which in the case of the Times reporter is correct, that any reporter that may have been on there was put on automatically through the stuff he printed. and not through any request. You see what I mean? H: And the other part is the degree of your involvement in all this. And apparently Case is unsatisfied on that score and that may be cleared up absolutely this afternoon, you see. Of course, Elliot and Ruck handle it, right? K: Well, what does degree of my involvement mean? Take the maximum degree of involvement, supposing I furnished every name on that list that had access to national security information, which isn't true, but supposing I had done it. H: Of course, I agree completely with your K: I mean, there are those three names that had no access whatever and the four newsmen, which I've explained. So then that leaves 10 names that had access to national security information. I'm telling you, Bryce Harlow, that some of those got on there because of their security file information and some of them got on there apparently because the President ordered them but they in fact did have access to security information.

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