Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 5, 1973
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 5, 1973
[00.16.52] Senator ERVIN. Senator Montoya? Senator MONTOYA. Mrs. Harmony, other than transcribing from the bug information and the dictation from Mr. Liddy, did you type any other secret memorandums which were labeled as confidential or conveying something clandestine? Mrs. HARMONY. Senator Montoya, other than the ones that I have related, those are the ones that I can recall. Senator MONTOYA. What were your principal duties as secretary to Mr. Liddy? Mrs. HARMONY. Well, my main function was to set up the State finance committees, make certain they were properly registered with the GAO, all the forms were filed, they were properly chartered. that they received letters of authorization from Secretary Stans' that I they could collect and disburse moneys. They were in a constant state of perhaps changing treasurers Senator MONTOYA. Besides those activities relating to campaigns, did he dictate letters to you? Mrs. HARMONY. Yes sir. Senator MONTOYA. Other than the confidential memorandums? Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. Senator MONTOYA. About which you have testified? Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. Senator MONTOYA. Did you also answer the telephones? Mrs. HARMONY. Yes, sir. Senator MONTOYA. Did you arrange appointments for him? Mrs. HARMONY. I do not recall any occasion-yes, a couple of times when somebody from the State might have been coming in. they would have told me from some other office and I would have told him that someone was coming in at a given time. Senator MONTOYA. You knew he had met with Mr. Mitchell at the Department of Justice on several occasions, did you not? Mrs. HARMONY. Senator, I did not. I knew that he had gone, the Department of Justice but with whom he met I did not know- Senator MONTOYA. Did you keep his log of appointments? Mrs. HARMONY. No, sir. Senator MONTOYA. Did you have an opportunity to observe them? Mrs. HARMONY, I have never seen an appointment book that, he had. Senator MONTOYA, You mean he kept his appointment book locked in his desk? Mrs. HARMONY. I had access to his desk. He did not keep an appointment book as far as I am aware. Senator MONTOYA. Tell us what kind of a desk; did he have a key to the desk and also a combination lock? Mrs. HARMONY. No, he had only a key to his desk. Senator MONTOYA. 'Now you say that Mr. Liddy ordered the stationery with a letterhead Gemstone. How many copies of this Stationery or how many sheets did he, order? Mrs. HARMONY. Senator, I do not know. Senator MONTOYA. Did he place more. than one order? Mrs. HARMONY. Not, as far as I am aware. Only one was delivered. Senator MONTOYA. Where was this stationery kept? Mrs. HARMONY. The stationery -was kept in the bottom drawer of his file cabinet. Senator MONTOYA. Did anybody else use this stationery? Mrs. HARMONY. Not that I am aware, of, sir, no. Senator MONTOYA. How much did you pay for this stationery when you paid for it? Mrs. HARMONY. Well I made the statement, that the figure was $57. In the meantime I heard it, might have been $67. Senator MONTOYA. You mentioned in your statement before the committee during the interview that you took quite a few documents, secret documents, to your apartment,, did you not? Mrs. HARMONY. No, Senator I did not. Senator MONTOYA. You gave the testimony before. the, committee during the interview indicating that, you had taken some documents that, belonged to Mr. Liddy to your apartment. in your car, did you not? Mrs. HARMONY. Oh, I am sorry. I took some files, some pictures some things from his office to my apartment in my car-- yes, They were two cardboard cartons with things that belonged to him. Senator MONTOYA. Did you take them out of his desk or did you take them out of the file? Mrs. HARMONY. Actually the things that he and I had gathered up before, he, left the night before, other than taking the pictures off the walls. Senator MONTOYA. Where did you gather them from? Mrs. HARMONY, The boxes were On his desk. Senator MONTOYA. Were they confidential in nature. or were they reports of investigations or what? Mrs. HARMONY. Senator, I do not, know what he might I have put, in his briefcase and taken the night he left. I am only aware of what was put in those boxes and I was asked to bring home. It was not a bit confidential information. He had a voluminous gun control file which was part of it, I think copies of personal letters he had done. Senator MONTOYA. Did the fact that you were writing letters on Gemstone stationery ever arouse Your curiousity as to the clandestine nature of the activity which the information might have portrayed? Mrs. HARMONY. No Senator it did not. [00.22.11]