Woodward needs to come clean on his ties to Adm Moorer

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ADMIRAL MOORER, GENERAL HAIG AND THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE
by Frederick J. Graboske

http://www.watergate.com/stories/obit.asp

The last part begs the question, due to Bob Woodward's account of his ties to Adm Moorer and Mark Felt in today's papers, of what role he may have played (overtly or inadvertently) in Adm Moorer's spy ring.

The military wanted Nixon out of office so bad, with the navy especially. Pages 246-247 of Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher/Annette Drew, shows us why:

"Kissinger had made a glaring mistake during arms negotiations that threatened to leave the Soviets with a dangerous lead in submarine-based ballistic missiles. In secret talks away from his military advisers, he had agreed, offhandedly, not to ask for limits on the Soviet's massive efforts to build the Deltas, a new class of submarines that would far surpass the Yankees and carry ballistic missiles with ranges of 4,000 miles. Zumwalt was furious, convinced that Nixon had given away the barn in their zeal to get SALT completed before the year's elections." (1972)

On top of that, you had negotiations with the North Vietnamese in Paris dealing with possibly excluding those POWs in Laos etc taken out of uniform. If they were being left out of the loop, that would end up in the hearings held with Sen Kerry's committee and Ross Perot's and Kissinger's testimony held around 1990 - see newspaper items listed at http://members.tripod.com/thepatriotsinn/research.htm

One example: "Pentagon in 1973 thought P.O.W.'s were left behind. (former Secretary of Defense, Elliot L. Richardson testifies before Senate Select Committee on P.O.W-M.I.A. Affairs that Pentagon believed prisoners of war were left in Laos) (International Pages) The New York Times, Sept 25, 1992 v142 pA5(N) pA8(L) col 5 (16 col in)" If DoD thought that in 1973, they surely thought it in 1971-72 also...while building up to Watergate.

So, Nixon had two strikes against his with the military and, according to today's article by Woodward mentioning the Tom Huston Plan for consolidating domestic intelligence (on anti-war protesters and 'martial law') we have the CIA and FBI wanting to protect their turf so to speak, which Woodward offers as part of W. Mark Felt's motivation.

Why Woodward continues to avoid mention of the Adm. Moorer story is not too hard to guess.

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1. Exactly - do a DU search of Woodward and CIA nt

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2. Woodward, Butterfield, Strachan, Bennett and the CIA

"That the CIA should have infiltrated the White House is a startling idea, but McMahon is by no means its only adherent. As H. R. Haldeman has written: "Were there CIA 'plants' in the White House? On July 10, 1975, Chairman Lucien Nedzi of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee released an Inspector-General's Report in which the CIA admitted there was a 'practice of detailing CIA employees to the White House and various government agencies.' The IG Report revealed there were CIA agents in 'intimate components of the Office of the President.' Domestic CIA plants are bad enough, but in 'intimate components' of the Office of the President?"' Haldeman then goes on to speculate about the identities of the CIA men in the White House. His main suspect is Alexander Butterfield, the former Air Force officer whose White House responsibilities included overall supervision of the presidential taping system. That system consisted of some two dozen room microphones and telephone taps that Wong's Secret Service detachment had installed in the White House and at Camp David; voice-activated by the Presidential Locator System or manually by Butterfield, the microphones and taps fed into a set of concealed Sony tape recorders.' Haldeman's suspicions about Butterfield - who denies that he was a CIA asset-were shared by Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon's personal secretary. Together they criticize Butterfield for voluntarily revealing the existence of the taping system; they point with suspicion to Butterfield's early service as a military aide to GOP nemesis Joseph Califano, and make much of the fact that the circumstances of Butterfield's White House appointment are disputed."

From Jim Hougan's Secret Agenda shown at
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbutterfield.htm

You then have the CIA in on the Watergate burglary, the CIA in on the taping system, and the CIA inside the White House staff (another person of interest is Gordon Strachan - read bio at
http://www.answers.com/topic/gordon-c-strachan
who fits the profile of a CIA link due to his most lenient treatment after Watergate ).

With the military and CIA operating behind the scenes, we still have Woodward today glossing over his source Robert F. Bennett:

""I have told Woodward everything I know about the Watergate case, except the Mullen Company's tie to the CIA."--Robert F. Bennett, testifying before House Special Committee on Intelligence, July 2, 1974.

Robert Bennett was the head of Robert R. Mullen and Co., a CIA front headquartered in the very same building as the CIA's Domestic Operations Division.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.03.97/scoop-9727.html

Woodward today does disclose that Bennett is indeed Senator Robert F. Bennett R-UT today, but does not disclose his being misled nor that Bennett at the time was head of a CIA domestic front company, the p.r. company mentioned in Woodward's article today, the Mullen Company.

Please see to it that Woodward and the intelligence community, who today indeed have implemented the Huston Plan for domestic surveillance and martial law, are held accountable.

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3. Throw in ONI and Ben Bradlee. Better yet, read "Silent Coup"

by Colodny and Gettlin, even though it only touches on Felt, it provides good detail on the Kissinger-Moorer battle over the Vietnam settlement and normalization of relations with China, which was Moorer's bete noir. This part of it was definitely an ONI operation.

The threat which Nixon's endoresement of the Huston Plan posed to the independence of Dick Helms and J Edgar should also not be discounted in their motivation to aid in the operation that brought down Richard Nixon, publicly known as the Watergate Scandal.

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4. Interesting -the neocons were on the march even then

vI'm sure others will believe that I have on my tin hat but I will always believe that George Bush Sr.,alias Poppy, was right in the middle and trying to gain power at that time.

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5. Adrian Havill's book Deep Truth agrees with you n/t

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6. I'll have to read the book

I really believe that my tin hat tells me that "Deep Throat" is taking the fall for PoppyCo.