31 Mayıs 1973 Perşembe Tekrar oynatılıyor

HALDEMAN DENIES ROLE IN COVER-UP CONFLICT WIDENS; Former Aide Says He Did Not Tell General Walters to Seek Curb on F.B.I. EHRLICHMAN DISPUTED Cushman Says C.I.A. Data Shows Domestic Chief Asked Aid for Hunt Difference in Testimony Two Points at Issue Haldeman Denies Cover-Up Role; Conflict Widens Actions Called 'Proper' Haldeman Recalls Parley Cuban Invasion Cited Haldeman Called 'Vague' Dispute Over Hunt Nothing Improper' Here's Mr. Hunt'

Date: 01 June 1973

By DAVID E. ROSENBAUMSpecial to The New York Times

David ROSENBAUMSpecial

former Atty Gen Mitchell, in int with Watergate com investigators on May 10, said that he learned of after break-in last June 17 that 2 of the arrested men, E H Hunt Jr and G G Liddy, had broken into office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist

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CLOSED TALKS QUIT BY MERRILL LYNCH

Date: 31 May 1973

Merrill Lynch confirms May 30 that 5 or 6 of its research analysts, in conformance with recent co policy, have resigned from splinter groups that do not permit press attendance at meetings; such groups are small orgns of analysts that hold private meetings or luncheons to discuss particular industries

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Peking's Envoy Received By Nixon at White House; Left for Iceland After Talk Chinese Journalists on Tour

Date: 31 May 1973

group of Chinese journalists, touring US as guests of ASNE, are in Washington on May 30; on May 29 they met with Nixon at White House, toured White House and talked with Kissinger, who told them US is firmly fixed on policy of normal relations with Peking

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The Outrage of Wiretaps

Date: 31 May 1973

By InaMorton H. Halperin

Inamorton Halperin

article by I and M H Halperin on wiretapping says their phone was tapped in '69 when he was on staff of Natl Security Council; questions what was contained in summaries of taps then-Col Haig prepared for Dr Kissinger and J D Ehrlichman; say they are bewildered when they read claims that this intrusion into their privacy is legal and that they are outraged at being tapped; drawing

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Comments of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and General Cushman on the Watergate and C.I.A. Investigations; HALDEMAN STATEMENT

Date: 01 June 1973

Special to The New York Times

excerpts from statement to US Sen subcom by former White House aide J D Ehrlichman, including Ehrlichman contention that when CIA officials Helms and Walters were asked if FBI probe into Watergate break-in would jeopardize any past or present CIA operations in Mex, Walters gave 'equivocal' response, prompting Ehrlichman to direct Walters to give acting FBI dir Gray 'all the facts'

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EHRLICHMAN SAYS NIXON SOON KNEW OF MEXICO INQUIRY; Asserts the President Was Fearful of Harm to C.I.A. 6 Days After Watergate

Date: 31 May 1973

By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

David ROSENBAUM

J D Ehrlichman, former chief domestic adviser to Pres Nixon, tells Sen subcom that Pres Nixon knew 6 days after Watergate break-in that Fed agents were investigating 'Mex aspects' of case; several Sens say they feel Ehrlichman was referring to transfer of $89,000 through Mex City bank that ended up in hands of Watergate burglars, money which came from Pres's re-elect com; Ehrlichman says Nixon was worried that investigation of Watergate break-in might expose covert intelligence operations being conducted by CIA in Mex; says that is why Nixon had him and H R Haldeman, former White House chief of staff, meet with CIA officials and ask them to tell FBI to call off investigation in Mex if Nixon's fear was true; says Gen V Walters, then deputy to former CIA dir R Helms, reptd that no CIA operation in Mex would be imperiled by FBI investigation, but that Nixon did not believe Walters; illus

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RUSK REMEMBERS NO TAPS ON AIDES; He Terms Spying to Stop News Leaks 'Futile'

Date: 01 June 1973

Special to The New York Times

D Rusk says on May 31 that he cannot recall any use of wiretaps during his 8 yrs as State Sec on Govt personnel or reporters to trace news leaks, procedure he calls 'rather futile and unwholesome,' speech. Women's Natl Dem Club; says that use of 'certain sophisticated techniques' for 'partisan pol purposes' is step toward 'police state in this country,' news conf following speech; refers several times to Watergate scandal and cautions Dem audience that 'there is no comfort in this for Dems'; says he has 'personal confidence' in abilitites of special Watergate prosecutor A Cox and Atty Gen Richardson to reach 'all the truth'

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Break-In by F.B.I. Alleged Before 1969 Inauguration; Clark Directive Cited

Date: 31 May 1973

By SEYMOUR M. HERSH

2 former Army intlligence operatives say on May 30 that FBI agents broke into offices of radical newspaper Washington Free Press, Washingon, DC, without search warrant shortly before Pres Nixon's inauguration in '69 in attempt to find evidence of overseas Communist influence

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HALDEMANDENIES ROLE IN COVER-UP; CONFLICT WIDENS; Former Aide Says He Did Not Tell General Walters to Seek Curb on F.B.I.

Date: 01 June 1973

By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

David ROSENBAUM

June 1-15: ex-White House aide H R Haldeman denies 'categorically' on May 31 before Sen Appropriations Subcom on Intelligence Operations that he participated in Watergate cover-up; disputes earlier testimony by CIA Deputy Dir Walters that he had instructed Walters to try to get FBI to stop investigating certain aspects of Watergate affair; Sen Pastore, after hearing Haldeman's testimony, complains of 'glaring inconsistencies' between testimony of Haldeman and J D Ehrlichman on 1 hand and that of Gens Walters and Cushman on other; 2 basic points of conflict are over what was said at a June 23 White House meeting that was called on Pres Nixon's orders and over source of instructions to Walters to provide assistance to Watergate conspirator E H Hunt Jr; Haldeman says 'I can categorically state...that at no time nor in any way did I suggest, direct or participate in any cover-up of the Watergate Investigation,' statement to newsmen following testimony before subcom; says he never asked CIA to participate in any Watergate cover-up and never suggested that CIA take any responsibility for break-in; Sens Pastore and McClellan point out direct conflict between statements of Haldeman and those of Walters; Walters has testified that he was ordered by Haldeman to try to get FBI to stop investigating Mexican aspects of Watergate case; Haldeman says Walters was asked to meet with then-FBI Acting Dir Gray to insure that any unrelated covert operations of CIA or any unrelated natl security activities had been previously undertaken by some of Watergate principals not be compromised in process of Watergate investigation and attendant publicity and pol furor; says this was done with 'no intent or desire to impede or cover up any aspect of Watergate investigation itself; McClellan says he cannot understand why, if their stories were accurate, Haldeman and Ehrlichman did not simply ask then-CIA Dir Helms whether CIA operations would be endangered; also questions why, if purpose of meeting was 'to get the 2 agencies together, Gray was not invited to be present so they could have them all there'; Sen Hruska says Haldeman told subcom that Gray was not invited because there could have been 'high-level discussions' about secret CIA affairs that Gray should not have known about'; Haldeman suggests that ex-White House counsel Dean 1st suggested possibility of CIA involvement in Watergate burglary and that it was because of Dean's suggestion that meeting was called with Helms and Walters; illus of Cushman, Haldeman and Haldeman's atty F Strickler

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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day

Date: 01 June 1973

correction story repts that UPI photo published in NY Times on May 24 that was said to show R Boiardo leaving funeral of A Chieppa is not picture of Boiardo

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