Among the subjects being explored by the task force examining domestic surveillance activities are allegations with respect to (a) the 1969 wiretaps, (b) the Huston Plan, (c) the activities of Messrs. Caulfield and Ulasewicz, (d) the activities of the special investigative unit in the White House, and (e) the activities surrounding the Ellsberg trial. The task force charged with examining campaign intelligence activ ities is examining allegations with respect to the following activities, among others: (a) White House "dirty tricks," (b) intelligence activities of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, (c) the Diem cables. (d) the plan to burglarize and to firebomb Brookings Institution, and (e) Operation Sandwedge. Among the areas under consideration by the task force considering the Watergate break-in and aftermath are allegations with respect to (a) the Liddy plan, (b) the actual break-in at Watergate, (c) the destruction of files, documents and other evidence, (d) payments to the Watergate defendants, (e) the relationship between the CIA and the Watergate investigation, (f) offers of executive clemency to the Watergate defendants, (g) the role of John Dean in the Watergate investigation, (h) the firing of Mr. Cox, and (i) the Presidential tapes. The task force examining the President's personal finances is examining, among others, allegations concerning (a) tax deductions taken for the gift of Vice Presidential papers, (b) deductions and expendi tures attributable to private uses of San Clunente and Key Biscayne, (c) the sale of the New York apartment, (d) the deductions on the Whittier home, (e) the sale of certain Florida lots, (f) the possibility that income should be imputed by virtue of personal use made of Government facilities and services, and (g) improvements to San Clemente and Key Biscayne properties of a non-protective nature at Government expense. In connection with the President's personal finances, the Joint Committee on Taxation is reviewing the President's returns. We have not attempted to duplicate that investigation, nor could we with our present capability. There are a number of allegations under consideration by the task force nsidering agency practices. Before listing some of them, I want to emphasize again that these are mere allegations. The fact that an inquiry is being or will be made should not be taken to mean that we think there was necessarily wrongdoing there, nor should it be taken to mean that there has been any prejudgment whatsoever. Some of the allegations under consideration are (a) White House involvement in the solicitation of illegal campaign contributions, (b) allegations involving links between dairy contributions and dairy import quotas and price supports, (c) allegations involving the compilation of an "enemies" list and action taken with various agencies, particularly the IRS, to penalize or harass those listed, (d) allegations involving instructions to the Antitrust Division to accord ITT favorable treatment because of a campaign contribution, and (e) allegations involving a connection between the White House and the events leading to the indictment of Messrs. Mitchell and Stans. In each task force the attorneys are first collecting and sifting the evidence available in the public domain. Simultaneously, the attorneys are marshaling and digesting the evidence available through various governmental investigations, whether completed or in progress. The information is then collected in status reports compiled by each attorney on the area of investigation for which he is responsible. The status reports are designed to assist the inquiry staff in determining exactly what is known and what remains to be proved or disproved. Status reports generally contain a list of all sources researched thus far; a chronology of undisputed facts; a narrative version of these same undisputed facts; identification of key factual disputes; a list of the sources that remain to be examined; comments of the attorney conducting the research, including recommendations for further investigation and requests for legal research; and an appendix containing documents necessary to an understanding of key portions of the report. On the basis of these reports the investigation will be regularly evaluated and given further direction. The central file system is intended to support the work of the attorneys. It is operated by a staff of seven. The investigative files are organized to correspond to the six subject areas described in the preceding section: Domestic Surveillance, Campaign Intelligence, Watergate and Aftermath, Personal Finances, Agency Practices, and Other Conduct. There is a separate group of Persons files, as well as a set of files on Constitutional and Legal Analysis. Material which pertains to more than one category is filed in, or cross-referenced to, the files of all applicable categories. In addition to material pertaining to specific investigative areas, the library contains the following materials: selected case papers and testimony in Watergate-related litigation; transcripts of relevant congressional hearings and reports; the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents from 1969 to the present; the U.S. Code Annotated; several Federal Reporters; and various treatises. Other volumes are borrowed from the various libraries on Capitol Hill as needed. Office Management.-To provide support for the attorneys working in the substantive areas and for the library and file room, Robert A. Shelton, an attorney from Baltimore with experience in office management and security procedures, is in charge of the physical functioning of the office. He is responsible for the layout of the offices, office security and security procedures, secretarial and messenger services, xeroxing, office furniture and equipment, telephone equipment, supplies and the budget. His assistant is Ms. Janet A. Howard, who has had two years experience in office management, five years of experience on Capitol Hill and who joined the staff of the Judiciary Committee in October, 1973. Ms. Howard is responsible for organizing and supervising the delivery of secretarial services. With the exception of the senior attorneys, who have their own secretaries, the office secretarial needs are met by a flexible pool arrangement, since the need for services varies in each task force from day to day. In addition, Ms. Howard is responsible for tabulating and responding to all mail addressed to the Judiciary Committee concerning the special inquiry. Benjamin Marshall, a retired Air Force colonel who specialized for twenty-five years in all phases of security, has been hired to assist Mr. Shelton with the task of insuring the physical security of the office and designing secure procedures for handling documents, receiving and controlling sensitive material, and controlling the use of the two xerox machines. Barbara Fletcher (225-8465), who has worked for Members of Congress from her district in North Carolina for the past 6 years, has been hired to serve as liaison between the inquiry staff and the offices of members of the Judiciary Committee, the offices of Members of Congress and the public. All inquiries and requests for information, except from the press, will be routed through her. It is our intention to provide prompt and courteous service to members of the committee. and to keep them fully informed as to the progress of the inquiry. Donald Coppock who has had some experience with the press during his 32-year career with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, has been hired as a public information officer for the Judiciary Committee to handle relations with the press and to provide the press with information in accordance with the policies and directions of the chairman and the Judiciary Committee. The staff has been instructed to keep him abreast of developments and to cooperate fully with him in a manner consistent with the proper discharge of our professional responsibilities. Organization of central files and chronology. Acquisition of court transcripts and other documents.. Legal research___ Impeachment Inquiry Staff List COUNSEL-39 Fred Altshuler Thomas Bell William Paul Bishop Robert Brown R. L. Smith McKeithen Robert Murphy Bernard W. Nussbaum, Senior Richard Cates, Senior Associate James B. F. Oliphant Special Counsel Michael Conway Richard H. Porter Rufus Cormier Edward Lee Dale John B. Davidson Evan Davis John Doar, Special Counsel Samuel Garrison III, Deputy Constantine Gekas Richard Gill Dagmar Hamilton David Hanes George Rayborn James Reum Hillary Rodham Robert Sack Stephen Sharp Jared Stamell Gary Sutton Edward Szukelewicz Robert Trainor Jean Traylor Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Minority William Weld Counsel John Kennahan John Labovitz William White Joseph Woods, Senior Associate |