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Starving People
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE # 210021 "Starving people - missionary." Actually, they don't look like they're starving at all. Setting looks like Southeast Asia. Looks kind of like some Pentecostal prayer service, with a couple of men placing their hands on others, native people lifting their hands in the air. At the end a group of men pose; one Caucasian man is among them, the rest are Asian and some carry what look like spears.
Bare breasted women on knees
African Rituals
African Rituals MS group of African women with long sticks standing in circle, they listen to man at the center. Brief action shot of women w/ sticks. MCU woman grabbing another woman by the throat as if to choke her.
African Woman Gives Birth at Clinic
African Woman Gives Birth at Clinic - Footage seems to suggest Islamic practices surrounding childbirth.
Ceremonial Cow Sacrifice
African council meeting - cow's blood Cow has a cinch put around its neck and a hole is made in its neck to release blood. Blood pours into a bowl. Color and b/w film interspersed. ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 98048 00:08:29:05 --00:18:38:20
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973
[00.19.07] Senator ERVIN. Did he ask you anything about any efforts of -Mr. Magruder or others to persuade you to commit perjury? Mr. SLOAN. No, sir; he did not. Senator ERVIN. Were there any questions asked by him concerning' the activities of officers or employees of the Committee To Re-Elect the President? Mr. SLOAN. I do not believe so. I am not positive of that. Senator ERVIN, Were you present when Mr. Magruder was interrogated by counsel in the criminal prosecution? Mr. SLOAN. NO, sir; I have never been present when 'Mr. Magruder has been interrogated. Senator ERVIN. Were you present, when Mr. Silbert made his argument to the jury? Mr. SLOAN. No, sir. Senator ERVIN. Did you hear any statement, made by any counsel in the case that there was no evidence anybody was implicated in the Watergate affair except, the seven men on trial? Mr. SLOAN. I am not sure, Senator. The only period of my appearance at, the trial was just my own testimony. Senator ERVIN. Do you recall the prosecution of Bernard L. Barker in Miami in connection with an allegation about which he had falsely notarized a signature. of Kenneth Dahlberg? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir; I testified at, that trial. Senator ERVIN. Did you have. a conversation with anyone, with John Dean- did you have a conversation with anyone concerning the trial in Miami, Fla.? [00.20.38--DEAN is President's hitman on the coverup] Mr. SLOAN. I did not. I had one conversation with John Dean myself not specifically with regard to the trial but, in terms of the extradition proceedings in Virginia where he expressed a hope that my attorneys would oppose extradition. Following that, one of my attorneys, Mr. Treese, received a direct phone call from Mr. Dean. Senator ERVIN. Mr. James T. Treese, was your attorney and he is the gentleman sitting right behind your counsel there? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir; he is. Senator ERVIN. What did -Mr. Treese tell you that had occurred? Mr. SLOAN. He related to me that -Mr. Dean had called him and indicated that Hugh Sloan would be a real hero over here if he took the fifth amendment. Senator ERVIN. That is in Florida. You would be a real hero. Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator ERVIN. Did Mr. Dean talk to you yourself about resisting extradition to testify in the Florida case?' Mr. SLOAN, Yes, sir. Senator ERVIN. And he advised you to oppose extradition? Mr. SLOAN. He expressed the hope that my attorneys would, yes, sir, Senator ERVIN. Mr. Treese, I wonder if you would mind testifying a moment. Just stand up and take the oath. Do you swear that the evidence that you shall give to the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. TREESE. I do. Senator ERVIN. You were attorney for 'Mr. Hugh W. Sloan? Mr. TREESE. That, is correct. Senator ERVIN. And did you receive a call on or about October 21, 1972, in which you received you a suggestion about what Mr. Sloan should do about his testimony in Florida? Mr. TREESE. Senator, I received a call on October 31 on that subject. Senator ERVIN. Do You know who the call was from? Mr. TREESE. Yes, it, was from John Dean. Senator ERVIN. what conversation did you have with him? Mr. TREESE. Mr. Dean called trying to locate Mr. Sloan. That happened to be the day that Mr. Sloan and Mr. Stoner departed for Florida in order to participate in the trial in Miami. As a matter of fact , Mr. Dean had just missed Mr. Sloan, who had left, about a half hour before the call. he called to discuss the case very briefly with me and he said are you prepared to advise your client to take the fifth amendment? I laughed. I would like to explain that. I did not think it was particularly comical as I look back at it now, but taking it in the context of the events at that time, to invoke the fifth amendment on that kind of case, knowing Hugh Sloan as I did and knowing about the, case, what I did, was probably like swatting flies with sledge hammers. It was just so out of place and inappropriate that it did cause me to laugh. He pursued the matter and said Hugh could be a real hero around here if the took the fifth. [00.24.15--shot of SLOAN'S wife listening to testimony, SLOAN is out of frame, holds her hand] And I said, John, relax. Hugh is with Jim Stoner, he is fully protected, This case has absolutely nothing to do with the Watergate, it just happens to be a case that has come up involving one of the participants in the Watergate, he is going to draw an amount of publicity and attention and quite frankly, Senator, I believe at that time he was reacting in terms of public relations considerations rather than legal analysis of the case. I did make a promise to him to try to get hold of Hugh and Jim Stoner at National Airport by having them paged at the Eastern Airline counter and I signed off with him at that, point. I tried -to get them, it was about 15 minutes before their flight time and missed them. I called Mr. Dean back and said you have absolutely nothing to worry about, Mr. Dean, Hugh Sloan is not, going to take the fifth amendment. It, is totally inappropriate in a case of this nature. Senator ERVIN. Thank you very much. Mr. Sloan can come back to the stand. [00.25.34]
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973
[00.25.34] Mr. Sloan, do you know Lee Nunn? Mr. SLOAN. Yes. Senator ERVIN. What position did he have with respect to the Committee To Re-Elect the President? Mr. SLOAN. He. was vice chairman of the Finance Committee To Re-Elect the President. Senator ERVIN. Did he give you any advice as to what you should do in respect to testifying about any' of the matters that are being investigated? Mr. SLOAN. He personally never suggested anything to me except to tell the truth. He relayed to me a telephone conversation, the fact that an individual whom he refused to name to me from the political committee upstairs had come to his office with the suggestion use Mr. Nunn's friendship with me to pressure me to take the amendment. I understood him to undertake that conversation with me on the basis of friendship. He told me essentially to tell the gentleman, whoever he was, that he would in no way advise whoever was in my position to take orders in this situation to take the fifth amendment. He just conveyed the fact, he wanted me to know that there Were pressures, external pressures, that might well be brought to bear on me and hurt my testimony as the case developed. Senator ERVIN. The only identification he gave to you about that certain person who had called him was that it was an official. of the Committee To Re-Elect, the President? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. I bad the distinct impression that it staff member of the political committee. Senator ERVIN. Yes; but he. told you that he was conveying the, message to you, but that he would advise, you to tell the truth? Mr. SLOAN. No; he was not conveying that that individual's request to me. He told the gentleman that he would in no way ever advise me to take that course of action. He called me just to let me know the fact that someone had approached him with that kind of request. It was purely to inform me, to alert me, that pressures might be brought to bear on me over a period of time. Senator ERVIN. Well, I still repeat what, I said earlier in my interrogation of you; I think you have strengthened my faith in the old adage that, an honest man is the noblest work of God. [00.28.05--classic ERVIN] I will also meditate for a, moment, on the old saying, "What a tangled web we, weave when first we practice to deceive.," That is all. Senator Gurney. Senator GURNEY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You have certainly been very full in your information to the committee, Mr. Sloan. I think you have covered about all that you know about it. There are one or two little loose ends I would like to clean up this afternoon, myself. On the interrogation Just recently by the chairman, let us go back to that Mexican-Dahlberg transaction. Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. When did you give the checks, to Liddy? Mr. SLOAN. Essentially what happened here, Senator, 'the four Mexican checks had come in the night of April 5'. They were drawn on a foreign bank. I had no knowledge of whether they were even legal or whether they could be accepted 'into the campaign. We were so busy in that period of time, I essentially set aside anything that was a problem area, to get through this transition period. Probably sometime during that following week, I addressed myself to the problem areas It. was in this case clear by the dates and the checks that they had been issued prior to April 7. Senator GURNEY. I must say I am really not interested in retracing ground we, covered before. I' am just curious about the date you gave them to Mr. Liddy. Mr. SLOAN. I would 'think it was probably sometime in the week following April 7--probably within a 10-day period. Senator GURNEY. And he said he would take, care of cashing them. Mr. SLOAN. If I could correct that, Senator, thinking of the Dahlberg check that, I gave to him immediately after I received it, from Secretary Stans, I would say I probably gave it to him within a day or two after the 7th. Senator GURNEY. Now, then, you have testified that he returned the cash to you when? Mr. SLOAN. My best recollection was in the two installments, probably separated by a week or two in mid-May. [00.30.20] Senator GURNEY. And how much was involved, in cash? Mr. SLOAN. What went out was $114,000, I think. It, came back $25,000 short, Senator GURNEY Did you ever inquire in that. intervening time-I think nearly a month went by--what happened to the money? After all, he was simply to cash these checks and bring back the money, Was he not? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir, I did question him on that. He said, "I have given them to people in different places- in the country and it takes a while; I will get them back as soon as I can. Senator GURNEY. Did he ever explain the brokerage fee of $2,500? Mr. SLOAN. I asked him that question, Senator. He indicated that there were expenses involved. He never gave me a detailed breakdown, At that point in time, it was an accomplished fact. I essentially broke it off, but I believe I told Secretary Stans of the fact that it had been short, by that amount. [00.31.16]
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973
[00.31.16] Senator GURNEY. Weren't you rather surprised that it came back that short? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir; that is a pretty large fee. Senator GURNEY. I judge, of course , from what we have learned in the testimony here, that the money was used for the Watergate operation, Mr. SLOAN. Evidently. What happened here, Senator, I think is that I did receive back $112,000 that, went into this safe where the funds were commingled and what I suspect probably happened was that some of those same physical $100 bills were paid out again to Mr. Liddy in either that $63,000, but probably in the later two $12,000's. Senator GURNEY. That was going to be my question. Where do' you think he got the money to return to you? Do you think he got it out of some of those first, payments out his $250,000 budget? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. I think time-wise, I think it must, have been part of the two $12,000 disbursements or distributions I made to him in late May or even early June. Senator GURNEY. By the way, on this fifth amendment advice of Mr. Dean's did you tell the committee about that before? Mr. SLOAN. This committee? Senator GURNEY. Yes. Mr. SLOAN. We told the staff investigators, yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. As a little bit of background, it is my under standing that you worked in the White House before you went to the Committee To Re-Elect the President? Mr. SLOAN. Yes sir that is correct. Senator GURNEY. For whom did you work? Mr. SLOAN. Dwight Chapin. Senator GURNEY. How long? Mr. SLOAN. Two and a half years. Senator GURNEY. And did you know in the White House Haldeman, Mr. Ehrlichman and Mr. Dean? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir, I knew all of them quite well. Senator GURNEY. You knew them. quite well? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. You used to see a, good deal of them? Mr. SLOAN. I would not say I saw them regularly. I was at a different staff level than they were. Most of the work went through somebody else, but I was certainly on a friendly, working-type relationship with them. Senator GURNEY. On the $20,000 payment to Mr. 'Magruder did you seek Mr. Stans' approval on that? Mr, SLOAN. I really do not precisely recall. I think that I accepted that on his own authority, since he was in a position to give blanket authority to other individuals within the campaign. Senator GURNEY. Do you know what he used it for? Mr. SLOAN. I have no direct knowledge. I just by rumor heard that it went to pay for a book by Mr. Victor Laskey. The, reason I am aware of that, is that I was talking to Mr. Vance Shumway, who was a press spokesman for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. At the time, he had a press inquiry to the effect, that Mr. Laskey had identified the Committee for the Re-Election of the President as the source of money for a book he had written. Mr. Vance Shumway asked me whether that was the $20,000 I had given to Mr. Magruder. I said I did not factually know. Senator GURNEY. What was the book? Mr. SLOAN. I have forgotten the title. Senator GURNEY. Was it used in the campaign? Mr. SLOAN. I think it, was. Senator GURNEY. We have gone over this before, but I am curious. How many people advised you to leave town from time to time? I am just interested in the number and who they are. Mr. SLOAN. I think the only occasion where, I was specifically requested to consider a trip was the occasion of going to California. This was a request by Mr. Parkinson and Mr. 0 O'Brien. Although they said they obviously could not essentially ask me to do it, they said would I consider it. The reason they gave me at, that time was that that they felt they had been lied to by other officials and the Information I was giving them for the first time---- Senator GURNEY. I recall that. I am just, again, interested in names now, not, what has been testified before as to why they told you to leave town. Did others sort of make that suggestion now? Mr. SLOAN. I think only the telephone conversations with Mr. LaRue that night, he emphasized the urgency of my departing. Senator GURNEY. Going back to the $350,000 to the White House through Mr. Strachan, weren't you curious about that, sum of money and what it was going to be used for? Mr. SLOAN, Senator, after having been through essentially 2 years in this Campaign, where there was a very clear separation of a decision as to What money is use for resting with the political campaign, I think my curiosity had really run out by that point, in time. So much money had, in a similar way, been distributed by me without, knowledge was beyond the point of really asking questions. Senator GURNEY. Did you ever hear Mr. Stans, Mr. Magruder, or anybody give any reason for this large disbursement" Mr. SLOAN. No, sir. Senator GURNEY. You testified that you talked to John Dean on many occasions. Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. Why was that? He was counsel for the President, he did not have anything to do with the Committee To Re-Elect. did he? Mr. SLOAN. This was essentially after I had left the committee. I am not sure precisely the time--it was at a time-- [00.36.50]
NATO Farewell? Sweeping Changes Would Mark Exit
The sweeping effects on life in France which could be caused by NATO's exit on the requested date of April 1, 1967. De Gaulle demands NATO forces and bases leave. The social and economic impact would be great. A panorama of the probable changes in the life of Frenchmen. US solider directing traffic out of NATO base. "Headquarters" U.S. Army - Communications - Zone Europe. High Angle Shot - NATO base, a three-dimensional map of France with little American Flags. Aerial shot - NATO base showing all the buildings, parking lots and Army barracks. Ground to air shot - Plane and then a close up shot inside the air control tower. Air Force planes parked on the tarmac, US Air Force trucks and a shot of Chateauroux Air Base tower. French men reporting to work on the US air base. US military man and his wife walking out of their apartment. American Air Force man and his family. Profile of a little boy smiling and buying candy. American officer and his wife looking at silverware. Woman trying on a hat. 78 rpm record on turn table / record player. Military radio station. A marching band in a parade. Low Angle Shot - American flag being lowered. American flag folded and carried by military MP. A little distortion at 00.16.03-00.16.05.
Circus Wedding
A dancer and acrobat exchange marital vows in the center ring at Madison Square Garden before a matinee performance of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Clowns and fellow-performers are witnesses...along with 15,000 invited wedding guests...the audience! Aerial of Elephants on parade, showgirls standing and sitting on the backs of these elephants. Miss Joyce McDougal of England is dressed in mouse ears and tail, she is standing on the elephants back waving to the people. Off the elephant she is standing in the center ring doing the frug and behind her an elephant is standing on his head. In the center ring Ms. McDougal is going to get married, Prince Paul the tiny clown is the ring bearer. Miss McDougal is in her wedding gown and she is escorted down the aisle by Henry Ringling North and the groom walks up to her side, he is an acrobat and production man. In attendance is their fellow circus performers all dressed in their circus costumes. CU of the couple as they exchange their vows and seal it with a kiss in front of matinee audience of 15,000 guests. Miss McDougal kisses the clowns as she thanks them for being there with them on their wedding day before the couple kisses again.
Happy Birthday, Charlie!
A gala birthday party, his 77th, for Charlie Chaplin on the London set of "A Countess From Hong Kong", which Charlie wrote, is directing, as well as doing the musical score. His stars, Sophia Loren, Tippie Hedren, and his son, Sydney, are joined at the party by Mrs. Chaplin, their daughters and another Hollywood "great", John Huston. A birthday cake with a replica of Charlie Chaplin on top of it. Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren and Tippie Hedren standing behind her. Hollywood press. Mrs. Chaplin the former Oona O'Neil joins her husband and two daughters, Josephine and Victoria. Sophia Loren and Sydney Chaplin. High Angle Shot - Charlie Chaplin and his big and tall birthday cake. Profiles of Tippie and Charlie engaged in a conversation while drinking champagne. John Huston. High Angle Shot - Guest drinking and enjoying the party.
Wheel Weirdos: Sunday Drivers Need Not Apply
The "Amphiroll", a Dutch invention that can move on all terrains: mud, quicksand, water, etc. U.S. Army authorities think it may replace the tank. Two men in raincoats sit and stand on top of a flat box shaped platform with long canister drums circulating beneath them. The Drums look like the cross between an oversized drill bit and a screw as it cuts treads into the ground below. It's called the 'Amphiroll." It moves sideways down a wet sandy beach. It cuts through deep mud or quicksand like a tank or small boat. It leaves wide tracks in the sand similar to a car tire. It can move in any direction as it is operated by a series of switches. CU of the Operator at work. The "Amphiroll" slowly moves from the beach into water treading and floating across like a boat to the other side as we get a final shot of the screw like wheels.
Angry Waters Spring Floods Hit Texas And Canada
Raging floods cover a wide area of North America from the Gulf Coast to Canada. Torrential rains batter the Dallas - Fort Worth area inflicting death and damage in the millions. In Canada, their latest anti-flood tool is plastic "wrapping" for houses and dikes. Texas: Cars at a stop sign as torrential rains pour down. Passenger looks through working windshield wipers at a flooding street. Cars drive down a semi-flooded street past a older house. Several shots of raging rivers that have overflowed their banks. High winds whip the trees back and forth as a single water marker shows that the river has risen 5 1/2 feet above flood level. A still street turned lake with a lonely dog sitting on a porch looking for its owner. A young African American boy swims down a street. Entire blocks are damaged from the flooding. In the downtown area light traffic moves in the rain. A gutter on the side of a brick building gushes water at the bottom and from a crack at the top. Trees are uprooted knocking over power lines to homes. CU of a cracked telephone pole base. Canada: Aerial shot of a flooded town. Homes are surrounded by flood water. The Red River completely floods over a bridge. Half of a Speed limit 30 sign is seen. Eight people in a fishing boat being taken to safety. In a small Winnipeg Canadian town people prepared for the storm by wrapping their homes in polyurethane plastic wrap and black garbage bags. One small home that has been lifted off its foundation by the water and is resting on its side. National Guard and Residents pile up sand bags also covered in plastic wrap to try to keep water out of their homes. Ground to Air shot of helicopter surveying the town. Aerial of the town in the process of building future flood water diversion routes.
Basketball Finals: Celtics Victory Sets Record
The Boston Celtics top the Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Garden -- 95 to 93. Boston's incoming player-coach Bill Russell is the Celtics high scorer and the Celtics win in their eighth straight championship, setting a record in major professional sports.... Fourteen thousand basketball fans are at Boston Gardens for the finials Celtics vs. Lakers MBA Playoff games. They are in the stands clapping and cheering. CU of Bill Russell in Boston front zipper sweatshirt and retiring coach, Red Auerbach. The opening tap off and John Havlicek executes a hot shot and scores a basket. Walt Hazzard, No 42 of the Lakers shoots and scores and the crowd goes crazy. High Angle Shot - Boston's K. C. Jones puts some points on the score board. Basketball fans totally intense on the game. Bill Russell of the Celtics executes a beautiful hook shot. Bill Russell has the basketball passed to him and he does a 2-point encore. Boston's Sam Jones and 2-points more is scored. Laker Jerry West scores 2-points. Walt Hazzard gets the basketball and he scores 2 more points. Celtics win the game 95 to 93 for their eighth straight title and fans pour out of the stands and on to the basketball court.
Alabama Elections: Gov Wallace's Wife Wins Nomination
In an unprecedented victory, Mrs. Lurleen Wallace, wife of Governor George Wallace, wins the Alabama Democratic Gubernatorial nomination by a landslide. She says if she's elected in November, she'll let her husband, Governor Wallace, run the State. while thousands of Negro voters cast ballots for the first time. The State House in Montgomery, Alabama, pan up to the flags at the top. Inside Lurleen Wallace, wife of Governor George Wallace descends a grand staircase. She walks around the foyer in a black and white stripped dress and pearl necklace. Current Governor George Wallace joins Lurleen as photographers follow them throughout the house taking photos. CU of Governor George Wallace and Lurleen. At the Primary voters queue in line to cast their votes. Many well dressed African Americans are seen. Thousands of negro voters are voting for the first time. A woman in a black shirt possibly dress and pearls sit at the voter's registration table helping to move the long line along. People coming out and going in to the voting booth's as others stand in crowds waiting to cast their vote. CU of the inside of the voting booth as curtains close behind woman inside. Establishing Shot of State House as Governor George Wallace and his wife, Lurleen walk down to the outer steps on the State House to meet the press. . CU of Governor George Wallace and Lurleen smiling.
U Thant Confers With DeGaulle
In a two hour conference in Elysee Palace, UN Secretary General U Thant and President DeGaulle meet to discuss the war in Vietnam. After the conference, both men see no possibility for peace negotiations. UN Secretary, General U Thant and President DeGaulle walk out of the front door on to the porch of the Elysee Palace. France's Honor Guard in full uniform stand at Review. General U Thant and DeGaulle stand around talking outside the entrance to Elysee Palace. News photographers take pictures. The men and their entourages head back inside. President DeGaulle and UN Secretary General U Thant sit at a desk. The elaborate "Salon Dore" or "Golden Room" is seen briefly in the background behind the men. UN Secretary General U Thant and President DeGaulle shaking hands as their conference ends back at the entryway.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973
[00.36.50] Senator GURNEY. First of all, did you talk to him at all when you were with the committee? Mr. SLOAN. In earlier periods with regard to advice on campaign law, particularly the old Corrupt Practices Act, prior to the time we had a full-time counsel with our committee. Senator GURNEY, I see. Now, then, go on about the other occasions. Mr. SLOAN. I do not believe I had any, other regular contact with him other than that context while I was at the finance committee. When I left, I saw him the day after I resigned, and after I retained counsel or thought I had retained counsel, because this had taken a considerable period of time and my car that was parked in the towaway zone of the White House had been towed away. It was sort of a frustrating day. Senator GURNEY. What was that? I missed it. [00.37.45--VERY FUNNY STUFF] Mr. SLOAN. My car, which had been parked in a towaway zone, that day lasted beyond 4:30 and -my car had disappeared following my resignation. Senator GURNEY. Did that have any connection with Watergate?, Mr. SLOAN. I do not believe so, Senator. I was somewhat frustrated at that, point and turned to John Dean, that he might be of some assistance locating where the Metropolitan Police Department might have placed it, and he was very helpful in that regard. Senator GURNEY. He certainly has a lot of contacts. Well, continue, now, on your contacts with Mr. Dean after you left the committee. Mr. SLOAN. Sir, he, Herb Kalmbach, and Maury Stans, throughout this period, would essentially call me every week or so to see how I was doing, take the temperature of the water, so to speak. Senator GURNEY. Could you tell us a little more about these conversations? Mr. SLOAN, I really can't Senator. They were very indefinite. Maury Stans occasionally would ask me advice on some of the civil litigation that had come up-- what do you think we ought to do about this, how is your family? It, was generally that kind of conversation. There a number, but I really can't characterize them in terms of any specific really substantive material. Senator GURNEY. But this was Dean calling you now? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir; and at various times, I would call him. At that point, I understood that, he was handling an within thin the White House the investigation of this matter. I sought him out, surely, after I had resigned to give him the same information I had given everybody' else with regard to the money and the 'Magruder approach. Senator GURNEY. As I understand it, these are conversations generally by him to you to find out anything he could find out. Is, that it? Mr. SLOAN. Well, he generally would not--my judgment was that he was not seeking information from me with regard to what had happened after I had resigned and the money and the Magruder approach. I really had to force it on him. I went over and saw him one, day said, this is what I think happened; I understand You are doing an investigation. One day we had a conversation about, Mr. Magruder which continued On. I think this must have been later after --I am not sure Of the exact timing, but I expressed a feeling to him that I had felt, so strongly about what, 'Mr. Magruder had--not so much what he had suggested, but, what he had forced on me in the, way of a personal decision, and the -very nature of the suggestion, that I expressed to Mr. Dean the thought that if 'Mr. Magruder ever were presented before a Senate committee for confirmation for a high public office, I would personally seek out that committee and voluntarily testify against him. Senator GURNEY. What did Mr. Dean say to that? Mr. SLOAN. He, said, it will never happen. Senator GURNEY. How many phone conversations would you say you had with him and during what period of time? Just approximately. Mr. SLOAN. I am not sure, Senator. They might have come up 2 or 3 weeks apart, throughout the period leading up to the trial. Senator GURNEY. This is from July 1972 until January 1973? Mr. SLOAN. Yes sir. Senator GURNEY. And is it, your impression, then, that he made these conversations because he was in charge of the, White House investigation the Watergate investigation? Mr., SLOAN. No; my impression more was that it was a, personal concern. He was just checking to see how I was. He was involved with-- Kalmbach, for instance, had offered to assist me in seeking private employment. We discussed my going to law school, he Suggested I see John Dean on that matter, if John had any suggestions. It was generally this kind of a conversation. Senator GURNEY, Has he ever made any suggestion to you other than the one you discussed with the chairman on the fifth amendment advice. as far as testimony in the grand jury or this committee is concerned? Mr. SLOAN, No, sir, I do not believe he has ever given me any legal advice in that context,. Senator GURNEY. In all of these conversations, did he ever mention the name of President Nixon? Mr. SLOAN. Not that I recall, Senator. Senator GURNEY. You testified that, you went, to California. That 'Was when you were asked to leave town for a while, I do not think you told us what you did in California. Would you describe to the committee what you did? Mr. SLOAN. Well, I forget where Secretary Stans was. I could not, join up with him until that Sunday night. There was a meeting on the California budget--- Senator ERVIN. There is a, vote on the floor of the Senate, so maybe we had better go over and vote and come back. [committee stands to recess, reporters/photogs mill around the front of the chamber] [00.42.58--LEHRER IN STUDIO]
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973
[00.42.58--LEHRER IN STUDIO] LEHRER summarizes GURNEY'S interrupted questioning [PBS Network ID--Title Screen--"SENATE HEARINGS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES"] [00.45.26--LEHRER in studio] LEHRER states that the Senate just rejected the Hubert Humphrey bill to require the US to maintain reserves of feed grain [00.45.39--in to committee room, Senators returning from vote to sit at table] Senator ERVIN. Senator Gurney. Senator GURNEY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think we were, discussing the time that you were in California, Mr. Sloan. Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. You had described what your activities were, there at that time. Mr. SLOAN. Until that Sunday evening when I joined Secretary Stans I had gone to San Francisco and spent a day and a half in my hotel room. I joined Secretary Stans for the budget meeting. When we concluded that we flew to--I think Portland, Ore., where we had fundraising meetings. I think there was one other stop and we went, to Des Moines for a meeting there and at that point I had a call to come back. Senator GURNEY. From whom? Mr. SLOAN. I am not sure whether it was one of the attorneys or Fred LaRue himself. I was asked to come back a day earlier than the scheduled trip for Secretary Stans. Senator GURNEY. What about the discussions on the budget, what budget was this? Mr. SLOAN. At this point, in time we were attempting probably I think for the first time in a Presidential campaign to incorporate the 50 State budgets in an overall budget nationally and there was rather acrimonious discussion of what was the proper amount for California to do the job they thought they ought to do. Someone had gone out there to try to solve a problem. Senator GURNEY. While you were in California, did you have any telephone discussions with anyone in the Committee To Re-Elect here in Washington? Mr. SLOAN-. I probably did. I am sure I probably checked with my office secretary. I recall none that would be pertinent in this context. Senator GURNEY. We have covered this before, the rather humorous advice you received from Mr. Mitchell and I don't want to go over that again except, I wish you would explain in more detail exactly how the conference between you and Mr. LaRue and Mr. Mitchell came about. Mr. SLOAN. I was talking to Mr. LaRue in his office about these general financial matters, particularly about a $50,000 contribution that Mr. Porter had brought in post-April 7, for which there was no identification of the donor. It was during this conversation that I had a call from my secretary indicating the two gentlemen from the Bureau were waiting in my' office to see me. I asked Fred what I should do and he said before you go down I think you ought to see John and why don't you wait here, I will go down and see him. And he went down and came back in a few minutes and took me down into the room I believe where Bob Mardian was. [00.48.45]
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[01.00.10] Senator GURNEY. Then after the transfer to the Committee To Re-Elect the President--that is the finance committee-- you just continued that practice and then as far as the amounts of cash were concerned, that remained in either lockboxes or laid in safes-, that decision was made by Mr. Stans is that correct? Mr. SLOAN, Yes, sir. I never made, to the best of my recollection, any deposit out of these funds without having had instruction from him. In terms of distribution, it would have been one of the various people we, have discussed that had authority, that I recognized their authority to make this decision. Senator GURNEY. Did you ever ask Mr. Stans, what do we need to keep this cash here, x hundred thousand dollars and what do we need it for? Mr. SLOAN. No, sir, I never asked him that, except in the--no; I never asked him that kind of question. Senator GURNEY. Who had access to the lockboxes? Mr. SLOAN. I think it varied at different times, I think initially, probably Mr. Kalmbach and myself were two of the signatories; probably two of the girls in my office were the other two. It would have taken two at any one time. Maybe there were only three at that point. Senator GURNEY. Where were the lockboxes? Mr. SLOAN. In the bank vault downstairs of the building where we were located, the First National Bank of Washington. At that time, Mr. Francis Raine--- Senator GURNEY. Mr. Francis who? Mr. SLOAN. Raine, R-a-i-n-e, of California, was a signatory on one of the boxes. Senator GURNEY. Now, he worked for the Committee To Re-Elect the President? Mr. SLOAN. No, sir; he did not. Senator GURNEY. Who did he work for? Mr. SLOAN. My first meeting with Mr. Raine was, I believe, sometime in February 1972, when he transmitted to Washington on behalf of Mr. Kalmbach several hundred thousand dollars in cash which were represented to me as being a carryover of 1968 funds. I think we had initially set up a separate safe deposit box from the one we already had for those funds. Senator GURNEY. Any of them had access to the lockboxes during the time Mr. Kalmbach was your boss; is that right? Mr. SLOAN. Mr. Stans may have been in place at that point in time, but Mr. Kalmbach was still very active as a fundraiser and at one point in time in March was actively an officer of the committee. Senator GURNEY. Do you know whether Mr. Raine ever made any withdrawals of cash at any time? Mr. SLOAN. I know he has not, because I kept the records and eventually consolidated this all in the safe in the office. I can verify that no money that ever came under my control was ever taken out without my knowledge. Senator GURNEY. And who else had access to the lockboxes? Mr. SLOAN. I think just so there would be other people around, think Jane Dannenhauer, my secretary, would have been a signatory. Eveline Hyde, might have been. I think Judy Hoback, just as a function of having somebody who would be there if Mr. Kalmbach came to town and I was out, just so somebody would be in the office who could act as a second signatory. Senator GURNEY. Any withdrawals of cash from lockboxes were made by you, is that correct? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. How many were made? Mr. SLOAN. I have forgotten, Senator, precisely when we got the safe. The procedural handling of cash funds was the same throughout. I kept a cash-in and -out book, recording receipts and distributions, so that I kept an ongoing record wherever it happened to be at that particular time. Senator GURNEY. This is a record you later gave to Mr. Stans? Mr. SLOAN. In summary form. In other words, the figures would be aggregated--Mr. Liddy, $199,000--not just the individual occasions when money was given to him. [01.04.03--TAPE OUT]
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[00.48.45] Senator GURNEY. He took you to Mr. Mitchell's office. Mr. SLOAN. Yes sir. Mr. Mardian was there, I believe. Of course, Mr. LaRue and possibly Jeb 'Magruder, Mr. Mardian suggested the first thing I ought to do is calm down a little bit. Senator GURNEY. This is when you first entered the office. Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. Mr. Mardian was the first person who said anything. Mr. SLOAN. I believe that was the sequence, yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. Go on. Mr. SLOAN. Then it was a very brief meeting. I think I asked what is going on. The agents are here, they want to talk to me and my assumption at, that, point was that they were probably there to talk about financial matters. I was hoping for some enlightenment or somebody to say don't worry about it, we have an accounting of all of this, or something of that sort. Instead, I got the remark of Mr. Mitchell's. Senator GURNEY, That, was the only thing that, was said in this meeting. Mr. SLOAN. Senator, I am sure there was more, said but that essentially rocked me back so far on my heels, I have forgotten all the rest. I came away from the meeting with a feeling of absolutely no guidance as far as what, I should do -with the, FBI and particularly no guidance with regard to the whole general problem. Senator GURNEY. How long did the meeting last? Mr. SLOAN. I think it was only a couple minutes because, the Bureau was waiting, Senator GURNEY. Was the advice flippant, was it serious or wasn't it? Mr. SLOAN. I don't think anybody was being flip. I think he was being Serious but I did not understand what he meant to convey by that remark. Senator GURNEY. I would like to go over again the Chapin and Ehrlichman meetings. They were very important. By the way, in that meeting with Mitchell, LaRue, -Mardian, Magruder, and yourself, did the name of President Nixon come up at, all? Mr. SLOAN. NO, sir, Senator, as a blanket answer to that, question, I don't believe the President's name. had come up in any conversations, I have had with anybody in any meaningful way. Senator GURNEY. Well, now, let go to these Chapin-Ehrlichman meetings again, and there again could you construct in narrative detail about the meetings with Mr. Chapin at 12 o'clock? Mr. SLOAN. I really with the passage of time cannot really reconstruct the nature of the way I expressed a concern to them. The responses, as in the case of Mr. Mitchell's response, were very cryptic and they stick very strongly in my mind. Beyond that, I really cannot be very helpful. Senator GURNEY. Mr. Chapin, of course, had been your boss for 2 1/2 years, hadn't he? Mr. SLOAN, Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. How long was that meeting? Mr. SLOAN. I am not sure,, probably 20 minutes. We, discussed some, other things. Senator GURNEY. Did you discuss with, him any Of the Liddy payments? Mr. SLOAN. I am not just sure,. I suspect, Senator, at that point in time I would probably have been very reluctant to make any specific accusations in terms of Mr. Liddy or anybody else. I think I was attempting to convey the general information there is a hell of a Problem over there and somebody has to really look into it. Senator GURNEY. As best YOU can say, well how long was the Ehrlichman meeting? Mr. SLOAN. I am just not sure, Senator. Aside. from the remark, they were all very friendly, talked about, other things, families. If was a Period of time of normal social interchange prior to getting these specifics we have discussed here. Senator GURNEY. And the only discussion was just, an indication on your part of a general alarm, as to what was going on down at the Committee To Re-Elect and somebody ought to do something about it. Mr. SLOAN. And also a personal fear I think with regard to the situation I found myself in. I just cannot reconstruct my own thinking or what I would have conveyed at that particular point in time. Senator GURNEY. And again was there any indication in these meetings that President Nixon knew anything about what was going on at the Committee To Re-Elect the President? Mr. SLOAN. No, sir, the President's name in any conversation I had with anybody with regard to the Watergate or related matters I don't believe has ever come up. Senator GURNEY. The summaries of cash disbursements that you gave to Mr. Stans, in your testimony you said you destroyed these after you gave them. Why was that? Why didn't you keep a* record of those? Mr. SLOAN, Senator, my understanding of Secretary Stans' instructions, and I think this has to be put somewhat in the context of what was happening there, we had had a number of different kinds of records. Decision had been made to remove all of the pre-April 7 records from the committee, as a part of the past. The question was constructing the kind of records for internal use that we want to have available to us as an aid in our fundraising post-April 7. Essentially, it would be we are after a man for you, target him as a man capable of giving $50,000. You would want to have available to you a record that indicates he has already given 25 in the pre-April 7 period, so when you went back to him you would have this fact in mind. So it was a 2 1/2 month period attempting to unscramble essentially what was a nightmare influx April 5 and 6, and put in a useable form. This finally consisted of the cash summary on the one side and on the other a total listing of all contributors by category. I might have been all contributors who had given above $50,000. Category 2 might be $100,000 or above, for instance. So, what was being requested was either a single copy or two copies to be tightly held of this kind of information and the request that had been made of me by Secretary Stans was a single copy of this final report. [00.55.24]
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[00.55.24] Mr. SLOAN. I, in destroying the backup material, I did so with the clear and positive understanding relayed to me by him that he intended the material I gave him, which covered the same transactions essentially in a different, format as a permanent record of the campaign. I assumed that that record would still be in existence but it evidently is not. Senator GURNEY. And you also understood as part of that transaction that he wanted you to get rid of the backup information there would only be one copy in his possession. Mr. SLOAN. I suppose it is an inference he asked for one and recommendations to me or the conversation that led to my destroying the earlier reports and the summary book was with Mr. Kalmbach. when I asked his advice now that we have checked this all out and I and have this final report ready, what do you think I ought to do with these records? He operated as my boss through the entire earlier period, had a very close relationship with Secretary Stans, he was clearly a person I would look to for guidance in this kind of situation. Senator GURNEY. Now then, on this whole business of cash, some of which was deposited according to the graph up there, and some was paid out. Was there any general discussion between YOU and Mr. Stans or anybody else as to how cash was to be handled, that is, what was to be kept in safes and what was to be deposited in bank accounts? I would say the physical security of the money would be a judgment I would have made as To where to keep it. I would say, on handling of any deposits or any distributions of funds, I never made--- one possible exception of reimbursing somebody for a travel expense when there wasn't somebody else to write a check -I would say virtually every decision was made by somebody else, and with regard to the deposits, all those instructions came from Secretary Stans. Senator GURNEY. Well, what were those instructions? You come on board as treasurer and Stans is the fundraiser. Somebody must, have said all cash that comes in we are going to put In a lockbox or a safe. Did anybody say that? When did they said it Who made that decision? Mr. SLOAN. Senator, it goes all The way back to March 1971 and I am not quite sure how it evolved. but it was clearly MY responsibility in terms of preserving the physical security and a record of what was received in cash and what, was not. Senator GURNEY. I understand that. BUT my question really is, who made the decision that cash would be kept in safes and lockboxes and not deposited in bank accounts? Mr. SLOAN. I would have to make an assumption here because I would not make the decision myself. I would suspect that, this procedure evolved back in the period of time because cash was being received then and It has always been handled essentially the same way by Mr. Kalmbach. As to the making deposits out of this, in reviewing periodically the interim reports on cash funds and balance on hand in the office, Secretary Stans often said in the pre-April 7 period, this is too high a balance. we don't need that much. Why don't you deposit $100,000 in $3,000 increments among a number of our committees, and I would follow that instruction Senator GURNEY. Well, now, when he said, this is too much we do not need this much--what did he think he needed the amount that he was keeping in cash for, anyway? Mr. SLOAN. Senator 1 am not sure. He was fully aware that people were drawing on a cash fund. He was fully aware that people did have, authority to come to him. I do not know how he made his estimate of what the appropriate amount available for any one time was. Senator GURNEY. Well, now, may I try 'to reconstruct the testimony As I understand It, from your understanding as the keeper of the money here, you first got the. idea from Kalmbach that cash Money was to be kept either in lockboxes or in safes. Is that right" Mr. SLOAN, I am sure it came from him. the more I think about it, because it was from him that I got the initial instructions on Who should be the signatories on a safe deposit box and a procedure to have more than one signature for access if two people would have to go at any one, time. [01.00.10]
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[00.02.00--In to Hugh SLOAN questioned by Sen. GURNEY about CRP expenditures of the 1972 campaign] Mr. SLOAN. My first meeting with Mr. Raine was, I believe, sometime in February 1972, when he transmitted to Washington on behalf of Mr. Kalmbach several hundred thousand dollars in cash which were represented to me as being a carryover of 1968 funds. I think we had initially set up a separate safe deposit box from the one we already had for those funds. Senator GURNEY. Any of them had access to the lockboxes during the time Mr. Kalmbach was your boss; is that right? Mr. SLOAN. Mr. Stans may have been in place at that point in time, but Mr. Kalmbach was still very active as a fundraiser and at one point in time in March was actively an officer of the committee. Senator GURNEY. Do you know whether Mr. Raine ever made any withdrawals of cash at any time? Mr. SLOAN. I know he has not, because I kept the records and eventually consolidated this all in the safe in the office. I can verify that no money that ever came under my control was ever taken out without my knowledge. Senator GURNEY. And who else had access to the lockboxes? Mr. SLOAN. I think just so there would be other people around, think Jane Dannenhauer, my secretary, would have been a signatory. Eveline Hyde, might have been. I think Judy Hoback, just as a function of having somebody who would be there if Mr. Kalmbach came to town and I was out, just so somebody would be in the office who could act as a second signatory. Senator GURNEY. Any withdrawals of cash from lockboxes were made by you, is that correct? Mr. SLOAN. Yes, sir. Senator GURNEY. How many were made? Mr. SLOAN. I have forgotten, Senator, precisely when we got the safe. The procedural handling of cash funds was the same throughout. I kept a cash-in and -out book, recording receipts and distributions, so that I kept an ongoing record wherever it happened to be at that particular time. Senator GURNEY. This is a record you later gave to Mr. Stans? Mr. SLOAN. In summary form. In other words, the figures would be aggregated--Mr. Liddy, $199,000--not just the individual occasions. Senator GURNEY. With regard to access to the safes, who had access to the safes? Mr. SLOAN. When it was in. my office, I had the combination. I think- my secretary had it as well. When it, was moved into Arden Chambers' office, only Secretary Stans and I had the combination. Senator GURNEY. . Whom did you have the most contact with in the Committee To Re-Elect the President? Whom did you see most of, have transactions with? Mr. SLOAN. You mean within the political committee in terms of--- Senator GURNEY. Yes. Mr. SLOAN. Probably Rob Odle, because in our internal procedures in approving bills and so forth, he was really the central point for the political committee on where those bills came from. His signature was necessary to approve them; they would come through him and be sent down to myself. I would say he was the principal person I had any regular contact with I obviously saw some of these other people almost day-to-day, but not too of often in the business sense. Senator GURNEY. Did you ever have any contact with Mr. Haldeman? Mr. SLOAN. Not from the time I joined the committee until fairly recently. I have seen him once since I joined the committee. Senator GURNEY. When was that? Mr. SLOAN. I think it, was probably sometime in January, Senator. Senator GURNEY. What was the occasion of that meeting? Mr. SLOAN. I sought him out. At that point I had rejoined the finance committee as a consultant. Since he had gotten me into the campaign, I had made certain decisions. I wanted to, before I left town--and I was making plans to do so--I wanted to advise him essentially on the basis of the information that I had at that time, that I had totally supported the President of the United States and that my leaving the campaign was not intended in any way to reflect on that, but that essentially, I was unwilling to follow' the advice of some of his advisers at this time. I felt that having worked for him, on the way out, I just wanted to let him know what I had done and why I had done it. Senator GURNEY. What is this about following advice of someone? Mr. SLOAN. I had the feeling--I think the term has been used by some of your staff investigators-that, I was considered "off the reservation" as far as the White House and the campaign committee were concerned because of the actions I had taken. I did not know for instance--I knew that, Bob Haldeman had regular access to the President. I felt that any information on me quite probably had never gotten there, and that I felt, that I knew him well and that I just wanted to make one effort to put on the record there how I felt about things and why I had done them. [00.07.26]
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