Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 5, 1973
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 5, 1973
[00.00.13--in to Gordon LIDDY'S Secretary Sally HARMONY testifying] Mrs. HARMONY. Answering last minute mail, not requests for tickets, requests for refunds, the ball favors that people didn't get, that sort of thing. Actually, I think one of the main reasons I am down there, we would like to get the final report finished. I am trying to put the individual group file reports in good order for Mr. Marriott. We still have two bookkeepers who are working there and I think they would like me to stay there as long as they are working there, Senator TALMADGE. What is your salary there? Mrs. HARMONY. $12,500. Senator TALMADGE. Did you ever have any contacts while you were working for Mr. Liddy with people that were identified only by their first name? Mrs. HARMONY. Senator, not that I am aware. Senator TALMADGE. Neither personally or by telephone or otherwise? Mrs. HARMONY. No, on occasion when Mr. Barker has called he may have said this is Bernie rather than this is Mr. Senator TALMADGE. You knew who those were. Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. Senator TALMADGE. You had no contact with people you could not identify other than by their first names? Mrs. HARMONY. No, sir; not that I am aware of Senator TALMADGE. To whom did Mr. Liddy confer most frequently? Mrs. HARMONY. Senator, I don't quite know what you mean by the question. Senator TALMADGE. Did he have a lot of business telephone conversations; if so, who did he have most conversations with, most visits with? Mrs. HARMONY. He very infrequently had visitors in his office and I was sitting in a position I might not have been aware that somebody was in his office; I have on occasion tapped on the door and got in and not realized someone was in there. Senator TALMADGE. When his telephone would ring would you answer it first or would he answer it? Mrs. HARMONY. We had two outside lines and two that came through the switchboard, He always answered the one that came through the switchboard. He would frequently answer the outside line himself. Senator TALMADGE. You were his personal secretary? Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. Senator TALMADGE. You don't know who he conferred with the Most? Mrs. HARMONY. No. Senator TALMADGE. Neither personally nor by telephone? Mrs. HARMONY. No, sir. Senator TALMADGE. Who were Mr. Liddy's superiors in the Committee To Re-Elect the President and also the Finance Committee To Re-Elect the President? Mrs. HARMONY. The Committee for the Re-Election of the President, he would have reported to Mr. Magruder as general counsel and Mr. Mitchell. At the finance committee he reported to Secretary Stans. Senator TALMADGE. Did Mr. Liddy meet most of ten with his associates in person or by telephone? Mrs. HARMONY. I don't ever recall taking a phone call from Mr. Magruder. I would say offhand when he talked to Mr. Magruder he went, to Mr. Magruder's office, the same way with Mr. Mitchell, although I cannot, be sure, of the phone conversations at all. Senator TALMADGE, Did you ever shred any of 'Mr. Liddy's materials after the Watergate break-in on June 17? Mrs. HARMONY,. NO, sir; I did not, work on that Saturday, referring to that incident. Senator TALMADGE. Did you shred any subsequent letters? Mrs. HARMONY. Subsequent to that, he. asked me to check through his files with him the day he left. There was very little there that-- Senator TALMADGE. What, day was that,? How many documents did you shred? Mrs, HARMONY. I think it was the 28th. of June, on the day he left. He asked me to pick out anything that, might have his handwriting on. There were maybe some old drafts of something maybe three or four documents, perhaps. Senator TALMADGE. What, would those-- Mrs. HARMONY. I would have no idea. Senator TALMADGE. You shredded only those that, had his signature or personal handwriting on it? Mrs. HARMONY. Personal handwriting. Senator TALMADGE. With whom did Mr. Liddy? meet on a regular basis? Mrs. HARMONY. He had a staff meeting every morning in Secretary Stans' office. Other than that., I don't, know. It was a regular basis. Senator TALMADGE. Each morning he would leave and go to Secretary Stams office and have a meeting there. Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. Senator TALMADGE, Who else did he meet with besides Secretary Stans? Mrs. HARMONY. I am not aware he, met with anyone, regularly. Senator TALMADGE. What, is your knowledge of the extent 'Mr. Liddy was involved in the Watergate break-in and the McGovern headquarters attempted break-in? Mrs. HARMONY. What Is the extent of my knowledge of it? Mainly What I have read in the newspapers. Senator TALMADGE. You didn't know anything prior to that,? Mrs. HARMONY. No, sir. Senator TALMADGE. You had no information from Mr. Liddy? or others firsthand or subsequent thereto? Mrs. HARMONY. That he Intended to break in to those places? Senator TALMADGE. Yes. Mrs. HARMONY, No, sir. Senator TALMADGE. Or that he did break In. Mrs. HARMONY. No, sir. Senator TALMADGE. All you know is what you read in the newspapers subsequent to that time. Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. [00.05.05]