Caulfield Says Dean Ordered Clemency Offer

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the country after the burglary of H. M. (Hank) Greenspun, a Las Vegas newspaper publisher.

McCord disclosed yesterday that he had written Caulfield a letter in December, when McCord said he became concerned that an attempt was being made to blame the Watergate break-in and bugging on the CIA, where McCord worked for 19 years.

McCord said he was reconstructing the unsigned letter from memory and it said: "Dear Jack, I am sorry to have to writé you this letter. If (then CIA Director Richard C.) Helms goes and the Watergate operation is laid at CIA's feet where it does not belong, every tree in the forest will fall. It will be a scorched desert. The whole matter is at the precipice right now. Pass the message that if they want it to blow, they are on exactly the right course. I'm sorry that you will get hurt in the fallout.”

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Caulfield's recollection of the contents of the letter to him from McCord was substantially the same as McCord's.

He later moved a few rows back from the witness tablet and sat expressionless, his arms folded across his chest, as Caulfield, a personal friend, confirmed much of the McCord testimony on executive clemency.

"I realized ... that I was involved in questionable activity," Caulfield testified at one point, "but I felt that it was important for me to carry this message (on clemency) for the good of the President.”

Caulfield, a former New York City policeman, worked as a security agent in the Republican presidential campaign of 1968 and afterward pressed various officials for important jobs in the administration and, later, in the Nixon campaign of 1972.

A few days after the 1968 election, Caulfield said, he told Ehrlichman he wanted to be chief U.S. marshall, but word came from John N. Mitchell, who later became attorney general, that the administration wanted to "militarize" that office and a "retiring high-military official” was under consideration.

In a "counterproposal" to Ehrlichman's suggestion that he set up "a private security entity," Caulfield proposed joining the White House staff to provide liaison with law enforcement agencies.

That would make him available, he said, "to process any investigative requests from the White House” and would mean using Ulasewicz, a colleague on the New York police force.

(The Washington Star, quoting informed sources, said Ulasewicz carried out a series of assignments from Ehrlichman that ranged from a probe of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident to an investigation of a teacher reportedly harassing Julie Nixon Eisenhower in Florida. Ulasewicz was also said to have investigated alleged ties between Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, and corporate pollu-

ters, the finances of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's campaign and the possibility that the brother of a possible Democratic presidential contender had been involved in a homosexual incident.)

Caulfield started work at the White House on April 8, 1969, and Ulasewicz started work on a monthly retainer from Kalmbach's Newport Beach, Calif., firm on July 9, 1969.

The Senate committee put off its examination of Caulfield until 10 a.m. today. The nature of the investigative work centered in the White House was not made clear in the opening statement.

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Caulfield said he could not “fully recall all of the investigations performed,' but he said he had a list of those he did remember.

In early January 1973, Caulfield said, he was at a "drug conference" in San Clemente, Calif., site of the Western White House, when Dean first approached him about making the clemency offer to McCord.

Dean asked Caulfield as Caulfield and Ulasewicz are later said to have asked McCord to go to a public telephone for discussion of the clemency offer.

When Caulfield got to the pay phone and called Dean, the President's lawyer

reportedly said a three-part mes should be given to McCord and that, although it seemed cryptic, the conspirator should understand it.

“A year is a long time,” the message reportedly began, apparently a suggestion that executive clemency could be granted after this time without great public outcry. The message also reportedly said:

"Your wife and family will be taken care of; you will be rehabilitated with employment when this is all over.”

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The witness said he immediately perceived he had been "asked to do a very dangerous thing" and suggested to Dean that the task should be carried out by Ulasewicz in an effort to mask its source.

But Ulasewicz wasn't enthusiastic, either. The audience snickered when Caulfield said his colleague "did not wish to convey the message at first, but I convinced him to do it merely as a matter of friendship to me." This was the message from a mysterious voice mentioned by McCord in earlier testimony.

Dean called Caulfield later and said McCord wanted a meeting, the witness testified. The White House lawyer finally overcame Caulfield's reluctance, he said, and the meeting took place on Jan. 12, as McCord had testified.