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From Howard to Khachigian. RE: journalists spying on campaign members. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/12/1973
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
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Document Description
48
59
4/12/1973
Campaign
Memo
From Howard to Khachigian. RE: journalists
spying on campaign members. 2 pgs.
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Page 1 of 1
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection:
Kenneth L. Khachigian
Box Number:
28
Folder:
Executive Privilege/Ervin Watergate Hearings [2 of 3]
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177
Return Private/Political
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memo
Howard 0/0
4/12/73
(conn)
Victor Loshy's information
FILE GROUP TITLE
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28
FOLDER TITLE
Executive Primalage /Ervin L20/3]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
NA FORM 1421 (4-85)
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 12, 1973
EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR KEN KHACHIGIAN
In conjunction with your present special project and
per our previous telephone conversation, please keep
in mind the information Victor Lasky relayed to me.
Although I don't know where they would be most effective,
they may possibly be usable either relatively soon or
at least sometime in the future if the research has
been done. They are as follows:
1) NBC news was caught bugging Democratic
meeting room during the 1968 Convention in Chicago.
They were caught red-handed, admitted they had done
it, but there was no real follow-up or prosecution on
this issue.
2) Jack Anderson was caught slipping a bug
into the hearing room during the Sherman Adams hearings.
He also was caught red-handed and could not dispute
it but again he was never prosecuted.
3) Joe Raugh and Al Friendly of the Washington
Post paid many thousands of dollars to a fellow by the
name of Paul Hughs. Hughs was spposedly a spy in Joe
McCarthy's camp and the Washington Post was paying him
exorbitant amounts of money to obtain information on
McCarthy. Apparently this was well documented in
Freeman Magazine in the early '50s. This was the pre-
decessor to National Review.
Even if we don't use this information at this time it
would be good to have someone, now that we've got the
resources, to research this and have it available. I
would think the best line to take in this whole area
would be that the present activities are just an exten-
2.
sion of what we would call, during the campaign, "the
dirtiest campaign in history." The Democrats are
responsible for this dirty campaign; they were using
exorbitant tactics to try to get to the President and
they are just continuing these innuendos and hearsay
in order to discredit the President who won by a
massive landslide.
Depending on what is done with the information you are
putting together, we can continue to use it through
people like Bush, Colson, etc. so I really think
you're doing a valuable job there for future use.
Dick-
W. Richard Howard