1. Dirty Tricks, 254; conversation between the President, Haldeman, and Dean, September 15, 1972 (5:27–6:17), exhibit 4, United States v. Mitchell, Nixon Library. HJC Hearings Book 2, 594.
2. Nixon: An Oral History, 178. “The North Vietnamese were trying to have us not only withdraw our troops—which increasingly we indicated we were ready to do but to overthrow our friends [South Vietnamese government] as we left,” said Winston Lord, an aide to Kissinger. “So the sticking point was ‘Do you have a military settlement, alone, and leave the political settlement up to the two sides to battle out in the future. Or do you arrange the political future of Vietnam as the same time?”
3. Richard Helms, State of the Agency, June 30, 1972.
4. James Rosen interview, Richard Helms, February 2, 1995. Courtesy of James Rosen.
5. “The Art of Flattery,” 13.
6. Dirty Tricks, 260.
7. Nomination of Earl J. Silbert to be United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, April 23, 1974, Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session, Part 1, p. 65.
8. Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File.
9. RN, 717.
10. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 310.
11. A Look Over My Shoulder, 410; The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 309.
12. American Spy, 261.
13. Nixon: An Oral History, 291.
14. Nightmare, 278.
15. A Piece of Tape, 46–47.
16. Nightmare, 268.
17. Strong Man, 336. On November 15, 1972, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean met in the president’s office of the Laurel Lodge at Camp David to discuss Hunt’s threats and demands for money and the Colson tape of his conversation with Hunt. Dean said he was going to New York to play the tape [made by Colson] for Mitchell. Dean said, “My instructions from them were to tell Mitchell to take care of all these problems.” SWC, 2260–61.
18. Richard Helms as DCI, 208.
19. Haldeman Diaries, 540.
20. Richard Helms as DCI, 211.
21. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 312.
22. Night Watch, 232.
23. John Ehrlichman, Washington Behind Closed Doors: The Company (New York: Pocket Books, 1977), 319.
24. Letter, John G. Kester, Williams & Connolly, to Oliver Stone, July 14, 1995. Courtesy of Oliver Stone.
25. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 344.
26. A Piece of Tape, 83.
27. A Piece of Tape, 83.
28. American Spy, 263.
29. A Piece of Tape, 47.
30. American Spy, 259.
31. American Spy, 264.
32. National Transportation Safety Board, Aircraft Accident Report, United Airlines Inc. Boeing 737, N9031U, Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1972, 9 (NTSB Report).
33. NTSB Report, 13.
34. American Spy, 267.
35. American Spy, 269.
36. Letter, EHH to WFB, December 9, 1972, WFBP.
37. Dirty Tricks, 418.
38. Nightmare, 278.
39. A Piece of Tape, 145.
40. Letter, James McCord to Paul Gaynor, December 22, 1972, SWC, 3840
41. Nedzi Hearings, 179–180; Dirty Tricks, 280.
42. Nedzi Hearings, 767.
43. Secret Agenda, 366.
44. Dirty Tricks, 149.
45. A Piece of Tape, 150. Letter, James McCord to John Caulfield, ud. SWC, 3839.