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Show IU1H' i -- iiyuxifV Jane 8, 1973 Coisteaed From Page Oae and burglary were discussed in his presence but that he disapproved of the plan$. Told Prosecutors J ' Foster said on Apiil 18 he went to the proslcutors and told them the whole stonf'He said he was not resummoned before' the grand jury, however. Porter said Magruder told him he had already gone to the prosecutors io admit testifying falsely. U.S. Atty. Harold Titus has announced that one of the Watergate principals has already agreed to plead guilty Sources say that individual is Magruder Porter testified for more than two hours and was asked to return Tuesday, at the committees next hearing. Asked by reporters whether he expects to be indicted for perjury, Porter said, 1 sure hope not." But he said he had made no and deals with federal prosecutors Porter acknowledged that he told the committee staff that Magruder told him in the April 14 chance meeting that Magruder had perjured himself 12 times during the course of the Watergate scandal. And recounting his activities in California during the hours that followed the Watergate arrests. Porter said he recalled that Mrs. Magruder said her husband had been on the phone all morn- sought no immunity ing with Key Biscayne. There was no mention I HWIMpMMaMMMMMNMMMMMAMMaiHMlMM I Watergate Affair Here are key highlights of Thursdays de(AP) in the affair: velopments Watergate PORTER: Herbert L. Porter, a Nixon campaign lieutenant, told thp Senate Watergate hearings he lied under oath at the Watergate trial. He said he admitted it to federal prosecutors last April after being told the President has directed everybody to tell the truth. Sloan: Hugh W. Sloa.i Jr., former Nixon campaign treasurer, testified it became obvious to him early this year that no effort was being made to purge people involved in the Watergate affair. Haldeman: In a desposition, former White House chief of staff I R. Haldeman said ousted White House counsel John W. Dean III wasnt asked for a formal report on the Watergate raid until early this ylar. He said that until this year Dean had never even spoken directly t Nixon about the scandal, but spoke through Haldeman and John WASHINGTON trlichman. an Interview, Cox said he expects he will need a staff of carry out his investigation. inquiry Expansion By Sanford J. Ungar Washington Post Writer Far from WASHINGTON acceding to the request of special prosecutor Archibald Cox that teievised Senate hearings on the Watergate affair be suspended or restricted. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. chairman of the Select Watergate Committee, has drafted a resolution expanding the scope of the panels mandate. - ), The resolution, which Ervin may place before the Senate Friday, would authorize the committee to investigate actions taken by the White House and others in the Exec- $8fl,000-$85,00- then fused. Sloan said he 140,000-845,00- re- utive Branch during the Nixon administration in the name of national security and internal security." As drafted by Ervin and his staff, the resolution proposes an investigation of activities including, but not limited to the 1971 burglary by a team reporting to the White rfonse at the office of a Los Angeles psychiatrist who throated Pentagon papers trial defendant Daniel Elkberg. Cost Him Friends Sloan said his refusal to go along with the plan cost him friends at the committee. He also said it became obvious to him early this year that no effort was being made to purge people involved in Water- gate. 40 MVMl Nio whom of Magruder was talking to in Florida. Mitchell, who was Magruders boss, also was in California that day. Former campaign treasurer Hugh W. Sloan Jr. said in testimony Wednesday and Thursday that Magruder tried to persuade him to commit perjury by scaling down the $199,000 he had given Liddy. Sloan said Magruder first suggested a figure in the range, The Highlights to;50 to Ervin Seeks Aide Says He Lied at Trial Re-electi- on ; m',Mi y--0 T The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, 12 '!gg By that time, five of the men involved in the burglary and bugging had pleaded guilty and two had been convicted in the January trial partly on the testimony of Porter and Magruder, who disavowed any knowledge of Liddys activities. In effect, it would expand the Ervin committees man- date. Haldeman Explains Activity Nixon Data Second Hand 1 Aug. 29 that Dean had cleared all administration employes of involvement in Watergate. By Jean Heller Associated Press Writer - WASHINGTON Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman has testified that President Nixon didnt ask for a formal report on the Watergate affair until this year and got all his information about the scandal secondhand, through aides. The principal source of information would be inquiries that he would make of me or John Ehrlichman as to the status of the case . . . which I would subsequently direct to John In otner words, I Haldeman said. Dean, would relay the question to John and relay the answer back to the President." Ehrlichman was Nixon's chief adviser on domestic affairs until April 30 when he and Haldeman resigned. Dean, White House counsel, was fired by Nixon the same day. Civil Suit Deposition Haldemans testimony was in a deposition taken in connection with a civil suit filed by the Democratic National Committee in the aftermath of the bugging and burglary at the committees Watergate headquarters last summer. While Haldeman testified about the Watergate incident, he refused on the advice of his lawyer to talk about any subsequent cov-eru- p. Nixon never talked to Dean about the Wauntil a series of tergate case meetings beginning last February and even or anyone else for then did not ask Dean a formal investigation or report on the scandal until March 20, Haldeman said in his deposition. face-to-fa- For almost eight months the White House stood by President Nixons statement of last No One Involved ... Mr Dean has Under my direction conducted a complete investigation of all leads which might involve any present members of the White House staff or anybody in the I can say Nixon said then. government, indicates his that investigation categorically that no one in the White House staff, no one in this administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident. On April 17. when Nixon declared he had found major developments in the case, the White House said the Presidents original statement had become inoperative. Haldemand also indicated that he may have been told before the Watergate incident that political wiretapping and espionage had been discussed at campaign strategy meetings. But he said he later got conflicting reports on just what went on at the meetings. high-lev- Other Statements Haldemans deposition included statements that: He controlled a secret $350,000 campaign fund which he said was intended for use in making private campaign polls for the President. He had been told about accused political saboteur Donald Segretti. But he wouldnt answer questions about Segrettis operations because his lawyer claimed the information wasn't relevant to the DNC lawsuit. Nixon was frustrated last summer and fall because the whole story of the Watergate incident was not being made public. Watergate Jail Terms? By Michael Putzel Asociated Press Writer WASHINGTON The convictions of Watergate conspr-iator- ij G. Gordon Liddy and W. McCord Jr. are likeJamqs ly to,, be thrown out on the basis! of testimony that two witnesses perjured themselves atthe' Watergate trial, Sen. Lowell P. Weicker said Thursday. - The Connecticut Republican, a member of the Senate Wa- tergate committee, was at the ring to panels public hearings earlier Thursday by Herbert L. Porrefer-testimo- ter, former scheduling tor at the Committee direc- for the of the President. Porter also said Magruder told him he has admitted to prosecutors that he testified falsely Weaker cited the Pentagon Papers trial in which the charges against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo were dismissed because of governmental misconduct in connection with the case. He said in the Watergate trial, it was unlawful conduct by officials of the Committee of the for the President, but I dont think any judge would send a man to prison on the basis of false testimony by government nesses. wit- Witness Says Agnew Donors Falsified ANNAPOLIS, MD. 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