CLARIFICATION OF "THE YEOMAN STORY"

Created: 12/5/1973

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T0 KE THAT TKE REFERENCEBAKER'S TELLINGUT "THE YEOMAN STORY" IS UNNECESSARILY OPAQUE, HENCE THE FOLLOWING CLARIFICATION. ACCORDING TO GOLDWATER, WHAT BAKES PROPOSED TO HIM WITHIN THE RECENT PAST WAS ROUGHLY AS -FOLLOWS: WHY DONiT WE DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM THE WHITE "HOUSE

BY GETTING THE STORY OUT IN PUBLIC ABOUT ADMIRAL MqORSR. SPYING ON KISSINGER'S OFFICE BY USING THIS YEOMAN WHO THEN LEAKEc ALL THS INFORMATION TO JACK ANDERSON? IN OTHER WORDS, BAKER WAS PROPOSING A PLOY TO BLAME MQORSR FOR SOMETHING He DIDO. ADMIRAL WIELANDER'S JCS OFFICE IN THE NSC APPARATUS WASN AND Ago VE-BOARD AND EVERYONEHY IT WAS THERE*. f WAS CLOSED DOWN AF7ER_TH= FLAP ABOUT THE ANDERSON PAPERS DOES NOT ALTER THIS FACT, I TOLD SENATOR GQLDWaTER THATAD GIVEN HIM A

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BIASED STORY AND INDICATED THAT THE ACTUAL BACKGROUND HAS AS GIVEN ABOVE. TO SUM UP. HERE WAS EVIDENCE OF BAKER ATTEMPTING TO HELP OUT THE HHITE HOUSE BY ATTEMPTING TO DAMAGENCIDENTALLY. LAIRD IS THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR KITH "ThE YEOMAN STORY" AS ARE KISSINGER. HAIG. AND PRESUMABLY SCHLESlNGER BUT THERE APPARENTLYIGHEST LEVEL DECISION TO SIT ON IT AT THg TIME THEY NAILED THE YEOMAN. AVE NO EVIDENCE OF HOW BAKER GOT ON TO IT.

WHEN I SAW KISSINGER FOR A FEW MINUTES LATE ON WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON,e TOLD MEEW DAYS BEFORE HE HAD HAD A CALL FROM AL HAIG PROPOSING THAT SENATOR BAKER BE ERMITTED TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO THE EFFECT THAT THE AGENCY KNEW iflOUT THE WATERGATE BURGLARYINUTES BEFORE IT OCCURRED AND THEREFORE HAD SOME RELATIONSHIP TO It'. KISSINGER SAYS H= REPLIEDTO DO THIS MOULD BE WILDLYPPARENTLY THE PROPOSAL WAS DROPPED. AT LEAST FOR THE TlM= BEING, 3U7 ITIND OF DESPERATION ON THE PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE WITH SENATOR BAKER PREPARED TOELPFUL ROLE. IT IS

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STILL NOT CLEAR TO ME WHETHER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BASING HIS ALLEGATION ON INFORMATION FROM MARTiNEE OR JUSTN ANY

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TOLD HIM OF THIS POSSIBLE PLOY, AND'ASKEd HIM TO STAND UP AND TAKE ON SENATOR BAKER IF ANY OF THIS WERE TO EVENTUATE. .HE PROMISED TO DO SO.

one can do considerable conjecturing about senator baker's

BuTHi^BBIHiHHHilHHilHH presidential

ambitions can explain a LOT OF things, 5.

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