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Show J- 2 The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, August 7, 1973 Author Threatens Countersuit - Tribune Telephone Numbers Do you need Information, want sports scores, have a news story or feature you want to talk about? Is your paper missing? Do yon want to discuss a classified or display advertisement? rW t HERES WHERE TO CALL ( Information News Promotion Womens r If ! i if vv AV X, 44lk , - W T' S T ' 0 VViA & Editorial 524-45- W riters 324-45- Sports Magazine 0 1 Zolotow Maurice charged Mailer and his pub- 1 p.m.) 1 5 1 1 - -- Associated listens to testimony from Patrick Gray III, former acting director of Sen. Daniel K. Inouye Press Wireohoto Federal Bureau of Investigation, during questioning before the Senate Watergate Committee Monday :Staff Acting Improperly? old dishes rs RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE 1 . Take one Sonolone well-fitt- hearing aid side the Rose of Sharon Primitive Baptist church to be on the floor. After taking about $70 from the collection plate, $10 from the Rev. Edmonson, and $50 from two deacons, the pair fled I have something to say, said a man in the congregation, waving a gun This is a stickup. He and another man then ordered about 25 persons in feature writer heating up the of other featur-wnte- copies. Author Advertising Departments Classified Ads Retail Display DETROIT (AP) After concluding his sermon in his storefront church, the Rev. T. E. Edmonson asked if there were any questions 1960 book, Marilyn Monroe, for his own work and then described some of it as reamed with overstressed and hollow anecdotes untrustwort by the very style of their prose, a 1 Satan Works on Sunday Too v d large parts of "ilotow His publisher said, mean-wrnlMailer the book, Marilyn, which costs $19 95, has sold more than 300,000 0 f ." : 1 524-281- 9 S' '' '02-- f K 8 Newspaper Delivery Problems, (Weekdays before 10 a.m., Sundays before A Adv. Dispatch General Display f. Executive Editor, Scores lisher, Grosset and Dunlap, Iasi week with libel, invasion of privacy, interference with contractural relationships and inflicting emotional distress. The suit charged Mailer hft-e- NorNEW YORK (UPI) man Mailer said Monday a $6 million libel suit filed against him over his new book on Marily Monroe is not wonh 60 cents and threatened to file a countersuit unless he receives an apology 2. Relax and listen 3. Co hack to church and your Commented the minister: Iguess Satan is just as busy on Sunday as he is during the rest of the week. social group, be yourself lyaa toyaUr on the job. Enjoy everything youve been missing. OK 4w of SALT SOUOTOtlE 73 East 7th South Plenty Storefront Parking Tears Experience LAKE 521-416- 1 Gray Cites Warning to Nixon Continued From Page One John W. Dean III and John D. Ehrlich-ntan- , even after they handed him papers to destroy. -- ; FBI agents investigating Watergate Svere skeptical in the weeks after the break-ithat anyone high in the government would have anything to do with it, Gray said. n That same reasomng led to some dis-- . cussion that the burglars might have been double agents. t The assumption that the burglary led one no higher than G. Gordon Uddy of the seven convicted in the break-iand wiretapping prevailed in the FBI into late March this year when the case finally blew up, Gray said, adding: e . .Even in the discussions we had Federal Bureau of Investigation ;fpring my confirmation hearings ... we $tUl felt ... that these men were far too 'intelligent to have anything to do with this kind of sordid affair. with-ttrilh- No Valid Roadblocks I But Gray said he was led to call the ; resident on July 6 because he felt Dean nd Ehrlichman were going to ask CIA I Deputy Director Vernon A. Walters to . write a letter to him saying there were CIA reasons why the FBI should not pursue an investigation into the source of -- ihe Mexican checks. He said Jie had been assured theie wre no valid ' . . CIA Q. Do you think a reasonable and prudent man, on the basis of the warning you gave him at that time, would have been alerted to the fact that his staff was engaged in something improper, unlawful, illegal9 A. Ido. roadblocks. 1 got suspicious when I saw Walters lean back in the red overstuffed chair (in Crays office) and say, I have an Inher-- . itance, I have a pension, Im not going to ict those kids kick me around any biore, Gray said. the Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., committee chairman, questioned Gray closely about a telephone conversation Gray had with Ehrlichman in early March a conversation that was taped That was at the time Gray was before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering his nomination to be permanent FBI director Stand Tight in Saddle I I'm being pushed awfully hard in certain areas and I am not giving an inch, Gray then told Ehrlichman. I think you should tell John Wesley (Dean) to stand awfully tight in the saddle. Ervin suggested Grey was attempting to have Dean testify that he gave the FBI at one time all of the documents in the safe of E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of the Watergate conspirators. ' Dean had held out some of the mate- nals in the safe, among them two mamla folders that later were burned by Gray The message I gave to Ehrlichman was to tel John Dean to shut up, certainly not to message to him that if Dean were asked under oath that he could not testify ... I was telling Ehrlichman to tell Dean to shut up unless he told all the facts Leads to Soft Questions . Gray insisted the FBI investigation was thorough, but admitted some of the . agents might have been overawed by the positions of some of the people they were interviewing and that may have led . to some soft questions. '. 'Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., asked if Gray w ere overawed. -- . ' - !T certainly had a very deep and 'abiding respect built up over the years for the office of the presidency ... and I I believed the individuals in that office ' have always been above and beyond rep--I roach, Gray said. I believed and I trusted. I believed I had every right to believe and trust. ' He said he does not believe the mo- I rale of the FBI has been hurt through all ; ;this. What has happened is that an acting "director had to leave, he said. He had Tto leave proudly, but with a broken ! heart. Put Him on Notice? After Gray testified about the July 6 K 'telephone call with Nixon, Sen. Daniel asked: -Inouye, : Did you think that your conversation I 'with the President on July 6. 1972, was to adequately put him on notice Ithat the White House staff was engaged i;in obstructing justice? dont know that I thought , aJi . Contradicts Statement 1 n I terms of obstructing justice, but I certainly think it was adequate to put him on notice that members of the White House staff were using the FBI and the Gray was answering the Senate Watergate committees questions after havopening ing read a statement on Friday Gray contradicted Nixon's statement of April 30 this year that on March 21 I perafter getting new information sonally ordered those conducting the investigations to get all the facts and report them directly to me, right here in this office. Said Gray. I was not requested by the President or anyone else to give them facts on the Watergate situation until April 16 . . . when( Asst. Atty Gen Htnry E ) Petersen asked me to give him the Howard Hunt files And under further questioning by Sen Weicker, Gray said. 1 recall absolutely no requests of me for information regarding the conduct of the investigation or about the continuance of the investigation other than reports going back to specific items Receives Call From Nixon the course of his confirmation heanngs before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be permanent FBI director. Gray had said that John W. Dean III, th, - the White House counsel, probably lied about the whereabouts of Watergate conspirator Hunts White House safe. On March 22, in On the following day. Gray said, he received a telephone call from the President It was in the nature of a buckup call, he said, to say J know the beating you are taking up there, it is very unfair, there will be another day to get back at our enemies, there will always be a place for you in the Nixon administration. I thanked the President. Gray said remember him distinctly saying I told you, Pat, I told you to conduct a I thorough investigation.' Gray said that he felt that statement was in the nature of trying to put the July 6 conversation on record Trying to Figure Out W hy At the time I didnt know these conversations were being taped, Gray told the committee. I had an eerie feeling the President was reminding me of He said he was trying to figsomething. ure out why. Gray resigned his post April 27, shortly after Weickers disclosure that Gray had destroyed files taken from the Hunt safe. Gray had gone to Weicker. his homestate senator, to tell the story He said he had received the files which included cables forged to make it Kennedy had a appear President John hand in the assassination of South Viefrem tnams premier Ngo Dinh Diem Dean and domestic aide John D Ehrlich-man- . They instructed him that the papers and never were politically sensitive should see the light of day. Gray said But he waited six months before he burned them with Christmas trash , Asked why. Gray said I was not in any hurry to burn these papers Consider It Proper? Q. At that time did you consider proper9 A. I did it Q And if it was proper, why can't Mr John Wesley Dean take it home and bum it in his backyard9 Those questions were not raised m my mind, said Gray, a Naval Academy graduate who served 20 years in the Navy. On the basis of my training in dealing with the office of the President when I was on active duty in the Imted States Navy, I revered that office, and I revered the people in it. and I respeed them and I had no reason-t- o raise any suspicions Gray said that he and Walters, were concerned in the early days of Watergate over what they believed were attempts by Dean and Ehrlichman to limit the FBI investigation for fear of disclosing a CIA link they knew didnt exist The July 6 wounded mortally remark to Nixon was coupled with the statement that the White House staffers were trying to use the CIA and BFI and by confusing the question of CIA interest in, or not in. people the FBI wishes to interview. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, asked Gray to which members of the staff he was referring in his conversation seeking to alert the President Gets False Assurance Had the President asked me. I would have .mentioned Mr. Dean and Mr Ehrlichman, Gray replied Gray also testified that Dean falsely assured him last year he was relaying information about the FBI's Watergate investigation directly to Nixon. He said he didnt question the authority of Dean and Ehrlichman and emphasized throughout his questioning he had followed what he believed were orders from proper authonty. Gray said he thought the Hunt papers wer genuine and that he was shocked when he read the forged Diem cable before burning it. How could they have been politically embarrassing to the Nixon administration? asked Inouye I don't know, I didnt get suspicious. Gray said. I did not become suspicious because at that point m time I thought I had copies of cablegrams that were in the State Department Had No Suspicions And why then did he not call the President? I really had no suspicions of them Gray said he did not consult with Per-terse- n Kleindienst about givor then-Atting FBI data to Dean. I didnt do it because I thought I was the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and when I have a reqeuest from the counsel to the President of the United States ! dont have to go run around to the attorney general and to the assistant attorney general . . . and ask them to hold my hand and help me respond in making a decision. I did not do that and I would not do that. y At files refrigerator-freezer- s: another point, Gray said cf Hunt the very best by whirlpool I dian't believe they were explosive files the basis of all my background training and expenence, I had not need to know, I didnt have the curiosity of a cat or of the female. ... Defends FBI Probe Gray defended the FBIs investigation as being thorouth and free of any limiting command influence He said that last March 7 or 8 he had a call from Ehrlichman who seemed to approve of the way Gray was handling himself in the confirmation hearings. Deputy chief counself Rufus L. 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