Secret Agenda by Jim Hougan

Author:Jim Hougan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Baldwin’s recollection is diametrically opposite from Hunt’s. According to Baldwin, Hunt specifically instructed him to take the van, which contained the receiver, walkie-talkies and other incriminating equipment, to McCord’s home in Rockville. Which, Baldwin says, is what he did, awakening Mrs. McCord and prevailing on her for a ride back into the city. By 5:00 A.M., Baldwin was in his own car, racing toward his mother’s house in Connecticut.

“The Watergate affair” had finally begun.

1 Los Angeles Times interview with Baldwin, p. 99 of the transcript; see also March 30, 1973, interview of Baldwin by Senator Lowell Weicker and attorney William Shure.

2 Executive session interview of Yesbek before the Ervin committee: “Memorandum, Subject: Clo Yesbek Interview Digest,” dated July 19, 1974 (noted in the unpublished version of the Baker Report, Section IV).

3 The relevant FBI reports with respect to Wells’s key are serialized 139-166-356, -358, and -359; these are interviews, conducted June 27, 1972, with Wells and DNC secretary Barbara Kennedy. According to Wells, there were only two examples of the key in existence: one in her possession, which she wore around her neck, and one in Kennedy’s possession. (Both keys, in addition to the one taken from Martinez, were accounted for by the FBI.)

4 Following an observation period in the mental institution, Bailley was allowed to plead guilty to one of the twenty-six counts filed against him (in return for which the remaining twenty-five counts were dropped). In the fall, he was sent to the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Connecticut, where, ironically, he came to serve on the Inmates’ Committee with Howard Hughes’s biographer, Clifford Irving, and Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. See Jim Mann, “Mann Act Suspect Due Mental Test,” Washington Post, June 16, 1972; and Lawrence Meyer, “Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Call Girl Case,” Washington Post, September 30, 1972.

5 Jack Anderson (with George Clifford), The Anderson Papers (New York: Ballantine, 1974), pp. 35–37. The encounter, and Anderson’s explanation, have raised any number of eyebrows. Questioned by the Senate about the meeting, the columnist proved unable to document the trip to Cleveland. His calendar did not reflect it, he could not recall to whom his speech had been given, and there seemed to be no mention in the Cleveland newspapers of the famous man’s public visit. It was natural, then, that the “chance encounter” should cause some to charge that Anderson was engaged in his own cover-up. Those charges became even more heated when it was learned that, months earlier, Anderson had been apprised by William Haddad and A. J. Woolston-Smith of plans to bug the DNC—information with which the columnist seems to have done very little. In fact, however, Anderson’s presence in the Cleveland area that night can be documented. He was a featured speaker at the annual dinner meeting of Sigma Delta Chi (SDX), a fraternity of professional journalists. That the speech was not covered by the Cleveland press was due to an editorial decision that it was not newsworthy. The speech was

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