Dialogue Conspiracy No. 106 · June 25, 1973 · KLRB-FM, Carmel
On the day George Wallace was shot, the Washington Post reported that week, Charles Colson telephoned Howard Hunt and told him to go to Arthur Bremer’s apartment in Milwaukee . Mae broadcast that evening with the report and the first day of John Dean’s testimony in hand. She reads both against her files: Hunt’s demand for money becomes the same bargain she sees in the book deals of earlier alleged assassins , and Dean’s mention of White House interest in Mary Jo Kopechne takes her to Chappaquiddick .
Key Topics
- From the Post’s anniversary chronology she argues that the 1970 domestic intelligence plan was never shelved, citing Judge Morell Sharp’s two weeks at a White House desk that winter .
- She sets Hunt’s message that “the writer has a manuscript or a play to sell” beside the book deals that, in her account, bought the silence of alleged assassins .
- In Bremer’s apartment the press found a comic book and a Black Panther newspaper , which she reads as arranged, as she reads the literature in Oswald’s room in Dallas .
- From Dean: Tony Ulasewicz’s assignment at Chappaquiddick and the White House question whether Ted Kennedy would notice the surveillance ; she argues the death removed Nixon’s strongest opponent for 1972 .
- The week’s code names include Caulfield’s Sandwedge and Sedan Chair 88 , and Virgilio González’s “Raoul”, which she wants to compare with the Raoul James Earl Ray described .
- She closes on Dean’s account of Colson and the Brookings Institution and of Herbert Kalmbach’s April 7 deadline for raising money .
Notable Quotes
"I've been on this program one hour a week for two years, talking about political assassinations in the United States."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 2 (25 Jun 1973), 0:39
"That is a payment for not talking. They buy the rights and buy their silence."Mae Brussell, on the alleged assassins' book deals, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 2 (25 Jun 1973), 9:00
"And Howard Hunt could blackmail the White House all the way back to Dallas."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 2 (25 Jun 1973), 7:30
Outline
- 0:00:25 — Opening: the hearings resume
- 0:01:45 — The Post’s chronology and the 1970 plan
- 0:07:25 — Hunt’s manuscript and the book deals
- 0:10:11 — Colson sends Hunt to Bremer’s apartment
- 0:15:40 — A man with a New York accent
- 0:18:42 — Nixon and the Wallace shooting
- 0:21:11 — Dean’s testimony and Chappaquiddick
- 0:25:38 — Mary Jo Kopechne
- 0:30:39 — Code names: Wisdom, Sandwedge, Sedan Chair 88, Raoul
- 0:35:45 — Demonstrators and the Brookings plan
- 0:38:58 — Lists, San Diego and martial law
- 0:40:50 — Walters, Kalmbach and April 7
- 0:43:47 — Judge Richey and the president’s enemies
Mentioned Resources
Press and testimony
- The Washington Post, Outlook section, June 17, 1973 — the anniversary chronology of the Watergate and its list of code names
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the Post — Colson’s call to Hunt after the Wallace shooting
- John Dean’s testimony to the Senate Watergate Committee, June 25, 1973
- Jack Anderson on Hunt and the Chappaquiddick investigation
- Life magazine
Books
- Burton Hersh, The Education of Edward Kennedy
- Bob Cutler’s book on the bullet, Commission Exhibit 399
- Robert Kaiser’s book on Sirhan
People
- E. Howard Hunt (CIA officer and novelist, White House consultant)
- Charles Colson (special counsel to President Nixon)
- Arthur Bremer (who shot George Wallace)
- George Wallace (governor of Alabama)
- John Dean (counsel to the president)
- Tony Ulasewicz (White House private investigator)
- John Caulfield (White House aide, Ulasewicz’s employer)
- Mary Jo Kopechne (who died at Chappaquiddick)
- Ted Kennedy (senator from Massachusetts)
- Richard Nixon (president of the United States)
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Washington Post reporters)
- Morell Sharp (Seattle judge offered the intelligence post)
- J. Edgar Hoover (director of the FBI)
- Herbert Kalmbach (the president’s lawyer and fundraiser)
- Egil Krogh and David Young (founders of the White House plumbers)
- G. Gordon Liddy (Watergate planner)
- Michael McMinoway (Sedan Chair 88)
- Donald Segretti (campaign saboteur)
- Virgilio González (arrested at the Watergate)
- James Earl Ray (convicted of killing Martin Luther King)
- Vernon Walters (deputy director of the CIA)
- Louis Tackwood (Los Angeles police informant)
- Bob Cutler (researcher)
- Burton Hersh (author)
Closing
No. 106 shows Mae on the first day of Dean’s testimony, folding the hearings into her files: the errand to Bremer’s door, Chappaquiddick and the code names read as one operation.
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