Watergate Hearings - Robert Mardian
Watergate Hearings - Robert Mardian
(09:31:19) Senator LOWELL WEICKER reads a statement about why Watergate happened issued by Presidential Counsel JOHN DEAN, he asks witnes ROBERT MARDIAN if he agrees with it - Mardian responds that he does agree with parts of it - Weicker then asks if agrees that there was intelligence gathering done by the White House, lists the alleged incidents of such activity - Mardian agrees (09:34:48) Weicker asks Mardian who asked him to head the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department and if that person instructed him to combat demonstrations- Mardian responds he presumes the Attorney General and no, there was no such request - Mardian goes on to detail the organization of the Division and explain its purpose, which he claims was to provide the President with information about civil insurrection within states so that the President can make a decision of whether to give support to the states to combat this insurrection (09:38:39) Weicker confirms that rather than an intelligence gathering agency the Division was a litigative organization - Mardian agrees - Weicker and Mardian discuss the Division's relations with the FBI's department of domestic intelligence (09:42:36) Skip in footage, back a few seconds (09:43:52) Skip in footage - Weicker and Mardain continue to discuss the Division's relationship with the FBI, Weicker sites statistics that show the growth of the FBI department of domestic surveilance after renewed interest in it by the White House (09:45:30) Skip in footage - Mardian and Senate Committee Member HAMILTON (?) discuss money given to GORDON LIDDY for his operations (09:46:59) Skip in footage - Hamilton and Mardian discuss NIXON's presidential campaign manager JOHN MITCHELL's attempts at cover-up after Watergate (09:48:54) Skip in footage (09:49:01) Skip in footage - Majority Counsel SAM DASH questions STRAACHAN (?) about his responsibilities as assistant to H.R. HALDEMAN, one of which was serving as a liason between Hauderman, the White House, and the Committee to Re-elect the President