Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee Hearings on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 17, 19
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee Hearings on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 17, 19
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee Hearings on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 17, 1973 - Testimony of Sergeant Paul William Leeper, Metropolitan Police Department United States Senate Caucus Room, Washington DC Sergeant Paul Leeper being sworn in by Chairman Sam Ervin. Sam ERVIN. ...give the Senate Select Committee on the presidential campaign activities shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? Sergeant LEEPER. Yes sir. Mr. Sam DASH. Sergeant Leeper, for the record would you please state your name and your address. Sergeant LEEPER. My name is Paul William Leeper, I'm a sergeant assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department. My address is 2301 El Street (L Street) Northwest, Washington D.C. Mr. DASH. And how long have you been a police officer sergeant? Sergeant LEEPER. I'm in my twelve year sir. Mr. DASH. And a Sergeant? Sergeant LEEPER. For the last two and a half, three years. Mr. DASH. What is your assignment on the police department? Sergeant LEEPER. My assignment right now sir is I'm in charge of the second districts casual clothes squad. Mr. DASH. And where does that operate, what is the area or region of the city? Sergeant LEEPER. In the area of the Watergate complex, the White House down in that area. Mr. DASH. Was that your position on June 17th, 1972. Sergeant LEEPER. Yes sir, we were working in that area. Mr. DASH. Now sergeant, is the dress that you are presently wearing at this committee hearing, the type of dress that you usually wear in your occupation? Sergeant LEEPER. No sir. Mr. DASH. What is your usual dress? Sergeant LEEPER. Well we vary, anything from old army shirts to golf jackets, golf hats, casual clothes. I had a pair, on the night in question, I had a pair of blue slacks on, a blue jacket with a University wrote across the front of it, and a golf hat. Mr. DASH. And the police automobile that you use, is this a marked automobile or un-marked automobile? Sergeant LEEPER. No sir, it's un-marked. Mr. DASH. And was that the kind of automobile that you were in on June 17th, 1972? Sergeant LEEPER. Yes sir. Mr. DASH. Now, can we have first chart five. While they're getting the chart, sergeant can you tell us, did there come a time, sometime early in the morning of June 17, or late in the evening (Sergeant Leeper opens up file folder) whatever time it occurred of June 16th that you received a call to come to the vicinity of the Watergate complex in Washington D.C.? Sergeant LEEPER. Yes sir. Mr. DASH. What was the nature of that call? Sergeant LEEPER. Well the call came out at about zero one fifty two hours on the morning of the 17th, Saturday. And the call originally came out for any scout car, which would be a marked vehicle on the police department and an official unit to respond to the Watergate, 2600 Virginia Avenue, to assist a special officer. The official vehicle would be either a sergeant, lieutenant, or a captains cruiser. These would be marked vehicles. No one answered up and the dispatcher.....