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ITT and Watergate

We reported last week on other strange links between the ITT and Watergate scandals. We noted, for example, that acting FBI chief L. Patrick Gray and convicted Watergate felon E. Howard Hunt had been involved in an anti-Castro exile effort to reconcile about eight months before the Watergate arrests. E. Howard Hunt's role is known around the city that he had a 'team' available for 'Mission Impossible' type assignments and that the team would be willing to work for private clients.

"It is possible that E. Howard Hunt, setting as the contractor for the 'team,' had told the operatives that one element of their 'second effort' was that a second client of ITT, which was interested in obtaining information about its negotiations in Chile over the use of its investment in the Chilean Telephone Company. The members of the team may have been recruited, thinking they 'were doing a patriotic thing to work' for the White House, in"

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patch the knapsack that he carried, and FBI said it passed the inspection to ITT.

"This makes the story even more curious. It is known that deeds of ITT were lifted from its Chicago office by a number of federal agents and never returned. It asked the Chilean government to produce documents about its relations in other similar, mysterious instances."

The Chilean Embassy Bureau was briefed by the FBI, which dismissed its reports as just 'further investigation disclosures.' 'Careful investigation leads us to the conclusions,' Helgerson wrote, 'that it was not routine.'

"A White House office equipment and cash were led concerned. The Ambassador's office, a memo which tied a $300,000 donation from ITT with a settlement of its antitrust case."

The Washington Post reported that Hunt, apparently disclosed in an undated Gray report, was willing to work on renewing the memo. We reported that Gray, meanwhile, turned the original memo over to ITT for its experts to try to discredit.

Footnote: Jerry Levinson reported to Congress on his intended for publication. In the memo he called the allegations about the ITT-CIA-White House nexus directly but had delivered it to Hunt for any purpose. It was the White House, in"

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