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Show UJ4Ls WESTERN AMERICANA it it it it itiriririrkirirtrir DneHependeinf dictated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Vol. 4 No. 17 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 April 26, 1973 HATERGATE' & HYSTER from Washington Reprinted Observer No. 157, Apr. 15, 1973 myth of innocence despite public exposes of the dirty tactics of the N'ixonites in the 1972 Presidential When I am a candidate, I run campaign, Nixon authorized Senate said President the campaign, leader Nixon during a televised interview Republican Hugh Scott (R-o- n January 4, 1971. But now he Penn) to 9uote him as saying: I claims to know, nothing about the have nothing to hide. The White espionage and sabotage activities House has nothing to hide. I of his Committee to ct the repeat, we have nothing to hide." No insider in Washington believes President. this. Moreover, Nixon's top White Re-ele- House aides and principal campaign managers vow that they had no personal knowledge about the $350,000 cash campaign fund in the office safe of Maurice Stans, chairman of the Nixon finance campaign. These funds were used for the secret pay-o- ff for wire- tapping, bugging and burglary performed by the operators of the ct Committee the to President. Nixon and his minions are still trying to perpetuate this Re-ele- Columnist-commentat- Jack or Anderson, for whom the White House leaks like a sieve, recently wrote: Nixon grew up in the Chotiner school of Murray Find out everything there politics. is to know about the opposition candidate,' Chotiner used to tell his political charges. Some protest we dont want to run that kind of campaign. They say they want to run a constructive campaign and point out the merits of our own say to you in all sincerity, that if you do not deflate the opposition candidate before your own campaign gets stated, the odds are you are going to be doomed to defeat. Our sources say the President ordered an espionage-sabotag- e effort in 1971 after Maine's Sen. Ed Muskie, then the Democratic front runner began to pass him in the presidential polls. The original purpose, they say, was to undercut Muskie. Another early objective was to push Alabama's Gov. George Wallace and South Dakotas Sen. George McGovern, who the President believed would be the easiest Democrats for him to beat. The instructions setting up the espionage-sabotag- e mission, say our sources, were issued through thejresidents chief of staff, H.R. Hatdeman. He had direct authority over Dwight Chapin, the candidacy'. 1 . Presidents appointments lesser functionaries in the Nixon campaign did not have the experience to orchestrate the complex and massive operation of ' the undercover campaign. But there was one person who had the implicit confidence of Mr. Nixon, and the. expertise to run a dirty That person was campaign. M. Chotiner, Nixons Murray long-tim- e campaign manager, fund collector and fixer. Chotiner played a background role in Nixons 1968 and 1972 campaigns. It is known that he sat in on all the top strategy conferences with Nixon, Mitchell, Stans. Finch and Flanigan, and collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in both campaigns. But his name is conspicuously absent in secretary, who routed money to Mr. Nixon's personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, to help finance the sabotage campaign. Kalmbach admitted to FBI agents that he had paid up to $40,000 to Donald Segretti who allegedly headed up the sabotage effort." It is now known that the Nixon campaign had at least three independent political espionage-cu- m sabotage rings operating during the 1972 campaign. Far .behind the scenes there was a mighty master of the show directing and coordinating the covert operations. The undercover operators claim they dont know the identity of the master intriguer who had the undisputed power to allocate the commentaries on the hundreds of thousands of dollars Watergate scandal. However, his of secret campaign funds for the name did briefly surface in dadestine activities. John N. connection with some of the Mitchell and Maurice Stans and Continuad On Page 7 ' far-flu- ng 7 At about 9:30 P.M. on April 19, against the Internal Revenue 1973, Mr. Bray,. owner of The Service, Karl J. Bray and two of his Rocky Mountain Mint, left his friends, Francis (Sam) Goeltz and office at 1381 South Main .Street. Robert Wrcy, all of Salt Lake City, As he was approaching his Utah, were arrested and held in the automobile he was confronted with Salt Lake County jail without, two FBI agents and one Internal being charged with any criminal Revenue Service Special agent. offense. The three agents threw him against In an exclusive interview with his car and searched him. They Karl Bray, we were able to get the then handcuffed him and put him in their automobile and proceded following details of this story. to take him to the c ountyjail. Bray asked several times why he was UTAH INDEPENDENT being arrested and the agents 2459 Major Street1 refused to tell him what the charges Salt Lake City, Utah 841 1 5 were. Instead they only told him Second Class Postage that he wasbeing held for the U.S. Paid at Attorney. The agents did not have Salt Lake City, Utah charges for his arrest, nor did they have a warrent. Bray asked repeatedly to know why he was being arrested and the agents failed to inform him of any charges. The agents transported Bray to the County jail and he was booked n into jail. When Bray arrived at the cii jail he learned that two of his friends, who were at his office MX I';: C'i earlier that evening had also been i m o M -t arrested and booked into jail. His -l ' friends, Francis (Sam) Goeltz, an (O :rc h rt air lines flight engineer, and Robert a4 i'l H D Wrey, an accountant, had been Five days after he led a protest V 4 r- Cl M fa O OH hi r: -- I rr: :i:: , O w rr. :)' -- m CJ & ft I M w m :z H : arrested undef similar circumstances and were being held without havingany charges against them. Mr. Bray said, While being booked, the agents, who arrested him, along with about seven other IRS agents, took all of his belongs, including the keys to his office and automobile. After they had taken the keys, one of the agents- - was overheard saying something to the effect that, Now we have his keys, lets go get the case." The case he referred to, said Bray, was a brief case belonging to him which contained his personal papers and records and also $30,000 in cash. Bray was allowed to make one phone call and called a friend to handle some matters. One of these matters was to obtain the brief case and secure the $30,000 in cash.Bray had left the case locked in his carat the time of his arrest. His friend arrived at his office about 11:45 P.M., about fifteen minutes after Bray had called. This was about one hour after the agents had taken his.keys. The friend has an extra set of keys to Brays automobile and looked there first for the brief case but was unable to find it. She then went into the office, which Bray had left locked, and looked further for the case. She was still unable to locate it. She then left the office and went to the county jail to see Mr. Bray. About 2:00 A.M., the friend again returned to the office. At this time she found the brief case in a very conspicuous place. A place she had looked for it earlier. The $30,000 was gone. The following morning, Mr. Bray's associate. Grey Greggson, went to the office as usual. When he opened the office, he was confronted with three men who identified themselves as IRS Speqial agents. These men were armed with a search warrant from . someone, who had his keys after his arrest, must have illegally entered his office and automobile between the time he was arrested and the time his friend went to the office, and then must have returned the brief case before his friend returned at 2:00 A.M. Bray also said that one of the jailers at the county jail had told him that his keys had been taken. We asked Bray what motive he felt the IRS had in this type of harassment. He said he felt that the IRS is just trying to scare the citizens of the United States into submitting to the tyranny of the IRS. He said he will resist tyrannical government where ever the U.S. District Court and signed by a U.S. Magistrate, Daniel Alsup. They searched the offices fro about three hours and were unable to' find anything illegal. Accouding to the xvarrent, they were lookig for forms which contained an illegal Internal Revenue Service insignia". During their search they were unable to find any such forms. At about 1:00 AM. on April 20, 1973, Bray, Goeltz, and Wrey were 1 transported to the Federal Building in Salt Lake City for a bail hearing. It was at this hearing that they first heard the charges for which they were being held. They were charged with illegal posession of an Internal Revenue Service insignia. This misdemeanor. charge is After being it is." ' Bray said he will file criminal and civil charges against certain a charged, they were released of their own recognizance and the leg irons and chains they had been transported in were taken off. During the interview with Mr. Bray, he indicated that it was strange that all this should happen to him so soon after he had led a group of protesters in a peaceful demonstration against the IRS. This happened just five days after the demonstration. Bray also had learned that a certain IRS agent who he preferred not to name at this time had been heard to say in a public meeting that he was personally out to get that Karl Bray." When we asked what he thought happened to the $30,000 Bray said that the only thing he could figure out, was that . agents on four government charges. He said that he has firm evidence that he was arrested illegally and without a warrent, that his office and automobile were illegally searched and that personal property was taken, and that the Internal Revenue Service has broken a restraining order Bray had issued against it restraining the IRS against harassment. STOP ABORTION liyi TOO YOUNG TO DIE! |