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1972
January 1972
G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt are collaborating on a "political espionage" plan to replace the Sandwedge proposal. One of the items they have factored into the budget, ostensibly for "political espionage," is a chase plane.[1][51]
T-38 Talon, commonly used as "chase plane"
Monday, 10 January 1972
G. Gordon Liddy is in New York city at the apartment Ulasewicz has established at 321 East 48th Street, Apartment 11-C.[70][51]
Wednesday, 12 January 1972
G. Gordon Liddy is still in New York city. Ingo Swann learns that "two men in suits," flashing credentials, have visited the ASPR facility investigating him. They have met with Dr. Osis, and have looked at the experiment rooms and some of the experiment results. Osis tells Swann that he (Osis) isn't "free to tell" Swann what was discussed.[44]
Friday, 14 January 1972
Origin date of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, "Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR"[71]
Tuesday, 25 January 1972
Buell Mullen tells Ingo Swann that a small group of her "high-placed friends" has begun establishing a pool of money for Swann. Already some $70,000 has been "pledged" from "several sources."[44]
Monday, 31 January 1972
"Information Cut-off Date" for a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report entitled "Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR" concerning Soviet research and development of "psi" technologies.[71]
E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy return from a weekend trip to Los Angeles, during which Liddy also has gone to San Diego and back.
[NOTE: Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel has a home just outside San Diego.][1][51]
The secret DIA report,
"Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR" will say
when published that Soviet knowledge in parapsychology
"is superior to that of the U.S."
Early February 1972
Buell Mullen calls Ingo Swann to say that Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel will be in New York city on 17 February with "some friends" who want to meet with Swann. She is having a dinner party for the occassion. Swann says he'll be there.[44]
G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt fly to Miami, home of Bernard Barker and other CIA-connected Cubans.[1][51]
G. Gordon Liddy "recruits" CIA's James McCord as a "wire man," purportedly to be able to do electronic eavesdropping for "political espionage" purposes.
[NOTE: At the time, Liddy has no approved budget for any such activities, nor are there any approved plans for, or targets for, any such activities.][53]
Thursday, 17 February 1972
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
At a dinner at Buell Mullen's home in New York, Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel has brought four "friends" in suits who Kinzel will only introduce to Swann by first names. They have a one-hour meeting that is "strictly confidential," concerning "big-time funding for a new research organization" that's separate from the $70,000 already collected. According to Swann, at least one of the "friends" is CIA.[44]
On or about the same date, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy again fly to Miami, ostensibly to meet with Donald Segretti (a.k.a. "Donald Simmons"). While there, Hunt is in contact with CIA's Bernard Barker.
Tuesday, 22 February 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann performs the first of a series of "out-of-body" (OOB) experiment with Vera Feldman of the ASPR as the outbound experimenter. Swann is hooked up to brainwave leads and locked in the OOB room while Feldman goes to the Museum of Natural History a few blocks away. Swann gets a high number of "hits" on what Feldman is seeing, one of them being a display case full of gemstones. Swann and Feldman talk about ESP being used for psychic spying.[44]
Liddy and Hunt name the operations they are engaged in "GEMSTONE"
G. Gordon Liddy meets with CIA in connection with CIA "special clearances" he has been granted.[34]
Thursday, 24 February 1972
G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt meet with a "retired" CIA doctor, introduced by Hunt to Liddy as "Dr. Edward Gunn," to get briefed by him on various covert means of murder for a possible assassination.
[NOTE: Although Liddy and Hunt relate many similar incidents, if disjointedly, in their respective autobiographies, Hunt mentions nothing about this incident in his, while Liddy devotes several pages to it.]
Late February 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann, connected with ASPR, meets Robert D. Ericsson, Executive Director of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (SFF).
[NOTE: Chicago's W. Clement Stone is a member and major contributor to both the SFF and ASPR. About two months later, E. Howard Hunt will deliver an undisclosed amount of cash in a sealed envelope to the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago. See April 1972.][44]
One of the members of the board of ASPR, A.C. Twitchell, Jr., purportedly calls Ingo Swann early in the morning saying that there is a move afoot at the ASPR to have Swann ejected on the grounds that he is a Scientologist. Twitchell says that it has been circulating that Swann is "Hubbard's spy," and is seeking to take over the ASPR on Hubbard's behalf. Swann threatens to sue the board over his civil rights.[44]
E. Howard Hunt travels to Nicaragua on an "undisclosed mission."
[NOTE: See entry for 3 March 1972.][38]
Wednesday, 1 March 1972
Russell Targ, Charles T. Tart, and David Hart release a proposal entitled "Research on Techniques to Enhance Extra Sensory Perception."[44]
On or about the same date, Douglas Caddy begins to do "legal tasks" for G. Gordon Liddy.[72]
Friday, 3 March 1972
Gary O. Morris, psychiatrist of E. Howard Hunt's wife, Dorothy, vanishes while on vacation on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. No trace is ever found of the pleasure boat he had left on for a cruise with his wife and a local captain, Mervin Augustin.[38]
Wednesday, 15 March 1972
A memorandum is sent to Director of FBI J. Edgar Hoover from the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Copenhagen titled "SUBJECT: L. RON HUBBARD." It says: "On 3/13/72, [BLACKED OUT] advised that he has not yet completed preparation of his report concerning the Scientology Organization and its operations in Denmark. He reiterated, however, that when completed a copy of this report will be designated for [BLACKED OUT] Contact will be maintained with [BLACKED OUT] in order to insure that this office receives copies of his report and Bureau will be kept advised."[73]
Monday, 20 March 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann is at Cleve Backster's lab in New York. Backster hands some papers to Swann on Hal Puthoff and purportedly says, "You two might get along. He's into Scientology, too."
[NOTE: Both Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann have been connected with Yvonne Gillham at Celebruty Centre for some time. Both also are OT VII, and the only place in the United States delivering the OT Levels is the Advanced Organization in Los Angeles (AOLA), where Yvonne Gillham had been the senior executive before starting Celebrity Centre.][44]
Wednesday, 22 March 1972
Janet Mitchell writes regarding out-of-body brightness comparison experiments with Ingo Swann, saying, "It may be possible that he can see all the waves in the atmosphere from infrared to ultraviolet."[44]
Monday, 27 March 1972
G. Gordon Liddy's job abruptly changes to general counsel of the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President.[53]
Wednesday, 29 March 1972
Two days after Liddy's job changes, E. Howard Hunt "terminates" in his paid capacity as a White House consultant—yet he keeps his office and the safe he'd used as such, and keeps his White House credentials because he continues to "work there a few hours each week."[22][1]
Thursday, 30 March 1972
The day after E. Howard Hunt's "official" disconnection from the White House, OT VII Ingo Swann contacts OT VII Hal Puthoff saying Cleve Backster has "suggested" for Swann to contact Puthoff. Swann has several phone conversations over several days with Puthoff, who suggests that Swann come out to Stanford Research Institute (SRI) for a couple of weeks to do some experiments.[44]
Early April 1972
Unknown amount of cash delivered by CIA's E. Howard Hunt to offices of W. Clement Stone's foundation
CIA's E. Howard Hunt flies to Chicago and delivers an undisclosed amount of cash in a sealed envelope to W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.[1]
Tuesday, 4 April 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann receives word that an independent judge, blind to the fact that she was judging an experiment in out-of-body (OOB) perceptions, has correctly matched all eight of the former "picture drawing" trials—a 100 per cent match between the OOB drawings and the contents of the target trays.[44]
Friday, 7 April 1972
L. Ron Hubbard gives three taped lectures to students on the Expanded Dianetics course. They are the last public lectures Hubbard ever will give.
[NOTE: As of this date, L. Ron Hubbard had given over 1,300 public lectures since 1950—averaging a little over one a week.]
Monday, 10 April 1972
A timely Minnesota court ruling puts a shipment of Scientology E-meters into permanent federal custody and control
A court ruling this date by the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, in St. Paul, Minnesota, allows the U.S. federal government to keep a shipment of Scientology e-meters that had been seized by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on the basis of "improper labelling," putting an unknown number of e-meters in permanent custody and possession of federal agencies.[74]
Saturday, 15 April 1972
E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy fly to Miami and deliver checks drawn on a Mexico City bank to CIA's Bernard Barker.
[NOTE: Several of the checks have originated from Gulf Resources and Chemical Corporation in Houston, which at the time controls half the world's supply of lithium, used in the making of hydrogen bombs and in psychiatric drugs.][1]
Monday, 17 April 1972
Physicist Dr. Russel Targ meets with CIA personnel from the Office of Strategic Intelligence (OSI) and discusses the subject of paranormal abilities. Films of Soviets moving inanimate objects by mental powers are made available to analysts from OSI.[19]
Thursday, 20 April 1972
CIA Office of Strategic Intelligence personnel who have been briefed by Russell Targ contact personnel from the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Technical Services Division (TSD) regarding films and reports of Soviet investigations into psychokinesis.
[NOTE: Although the name of CIA's Technical Services Department (TSD) later changes to Office of Technical Services (OTS), some sources anachronistically refer to TSD as OTS when it was still TSD. The name isn't officialy changed until November 1972.][19]
Monday, 24 April 1972
CIA's Bernard Barker cashes a cashier's check for $25,000 at his bank in Miami.
[NOTE: This $25,000, from the Dahlberg check, plus two later withdrawals by Barker will equal $114,000. See 2 May and 8 May 1972.][75][76]
Monday, 1 May 1972
Russell Targ has joined the Stanford Research Institute, and is visited by a CIA Office of Research and Development (ORD) Project Officer. Targ proposes that some psychokinetic verification investigations can be done at SRI in conjunction with Scientology OT VII Hal Puthoff.[19]
J. Edgar Hoover found dead
CIA's James McCord contacts an ex-FBI agent, Alfred Baldwin, who is living in Connecticut. McCord purportedly doesn't know Baldwin, but wants Baldwin to come to Washington, D.C. that night.[77]
Tuesday, 2 May 1972
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is found dead in his home in the early morning hours. L. Patrick Gray—who has no background in law enforcement—is appointed as Acting Director of FBI.
[NOTE: Hoover's death is attributed to a heart attack, and no autopsy is done. L. Patrick Gray later will destroy material taken from the White House safe of E. Howard Hunt, then will resign.]
CIA's Bernard Barker withdraws an unspecified amount of cash from his bank in Miami.
[NOTE: This is the second of three transactions by Barker that will total $114,000.][75]
Alfred Baldwin meets with James McCord. McCord issues Baldwin a Smith & Wesson .38 snub-nose revolver. Baldwin is assigned to travel as a bodyguard with Martha Mitchell on "a trip to the midwest."[77]
Wednesday, 3 May 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann performs an experiment that he says "scared the bejesus out of the experimenters, and parapsychology as well." In it, Swann perceives not just things the two outbound "beacons" are seeing, but also senses confusion in them. When they come back and confirm that they had gotten lost in some construction work being done in the Museum of Natural History, one says with concern, "Does this mean you can read our minds, too?"[44]
CIA's Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, Frank Sturgis, and Filipe De Diego arrive in Washington, D.C. from Miami and meet with G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt.[65][1]
Thursday, 4 May 1972
Lt. George W. Bush is ordered to "report to commander, 111 F.I.S., Ellington AFB, not later than (NLT) 14 May, 1972."
[NOTE: Bush does not report as ordered. See 19 May 1972.][78]
Friday, 5 May 1972
CIA's James McCord rents room 419 of the Howard Johnson's motel across the street from the Watergate. The room is registered in the name of McCord Associates.[79]
Monday, 8 May 1972
Alfred Baldwin returns to Washington, D.C. from his trip with Martha Mitchell. He is told by James McCord to keep the .38 revolver because "he might be going on another trip."[77]
G. Gordon Liddy, in D.C., calls CIA's Bernard Barker in Miami.[79]
Bernard Barker withdraws another unspecified amount of cash from his bank in Miami which, with two other transactions, now totals $114,000.[75]
Though not all in this timeline, cash pay-outs to CIA's James McCord will total at least $71,000
James McCord receives $4,000 in cash from G. Gordon Liddy.[80]
Tuesday, 9 May 1972
Alfred Baldwin leaves Washington, D.C., ostensibly going to his home in Connecticut to "get more clothes." He takes the .38 revolver with him, purportedly because he has been told by James McCord that he might be going on another trip with Martha Mitchell that is scheduled for 11 May 1972.
[NOTE: Baldwin doesn't return until 12 May 1972.][77]
Wednesday, 10 May 1972
CIA's James McCord is in Rockville, Maryland. He pays $3,500 cash for a "device capable of receiving intercepted wire and oral communications."
[NOTE: Rockville, Maryland is about six miles from Laurel, Maryland. Five days later presidential candidate George Wallace will be shot in Laurel, Maryland by Arthur Bremer with a .38 calibur revolver. See 15 May 1972.]
Friday, 12 May 1972
Alfred Baldwin returns to Washington, D.C. James McCord tells Baldwin he won't be going with Martha Mitchell so he can "turn in his gun." Baldwin purportedly gives the .38 revovler to McCord. McCord tells Baldwin to move from the the Roger Smith hotel, where Baldwin has been staying, into room 419 at the Howard Johnson's motel.[77]
Monday, 15 May 1972
Presidential candidate George Wallace is shot in Laurel, Maryland with a .38 revolver
Presidential candidate George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland, ending his presidential campaign and partially paralyzing him.
Wednesday, 17 May 1972
CIA's Bernard Barker makes two calls from Miami to G. Gordon Liddy, and two calls to CIA's E. Howard Hunt.[79]
A memorandum is sent to Acting Director of FBI L. Patrick Gray from the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Madrid titled "SUBJECT: L. RON HUBBARD FPC." It says: "Enclosed for information and completion of Bureau and Legat, Copenhagen files is one copy of a memorandum dated 4/26/72, received from the [BLACKED OUT]."[73]
Friday, 19 May 1972
Ambassador to UN George H.W. Bush will become CIA Director, then President
Lt. George W. Bush (Jr.) contacts a superior officer in the reserves to discuss "options of how Bush can get out of coming to drill from now through November." The memo recording the conversation says that Bush "is working on another campaign for his dad." The memo writer thinks Bush is "also talking to someone upstairs."
[NOTE: George H. W. Bush (Sr.) is U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. at this time.][81]
President Richard M. Nixon, about to embark on an historic trip to the Soviet Union, writes the following in a letter to Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig: "The performance in the psychological warfare field is nothing short of disgraceful. The mountain has labored for seven weeks and when it finally produced, it produced not much more than a mouse. Or to put it more honestly, it produced a rat. We finally have a program now under way but it totally lacks imagination and I have no confidence whatever that the bureaucracy will carry it out. I do not simply blame (Richard) Helms and the CIA. After all, they do not support my policies because they basically are for the most part Ivy League and Georgetown society oriented."[82]
E. Howard Hunt makes two calls to Bernard Barker in Miami.[79]
Saturday, 20 May 1972
Richard Nixon leaves Washington, D.C. on his trip to Austria, the Soviet Union, Iran, and Poland. He will not return until 1 June 1972.[83]
James McCord sends Alfred Baldwin to Andrews Air Force Base, where Nixon is leaving on Air Force One, purportedly because there might be demonstrations and McCord wants Baldwin to be there for more "surveillance activities."
[NOTE: The "reason" supplied by McCord in testimony for this trip by Baldwin is too thin to slice, particularly in light of the amount of security surrounding Nixon's departure. Besides Air Force One, there is a fleet of White House planes at Andrews for use by VIPs and various staff connected with the White House.]
On or about the same day, CIA's E. Howard Hunt flies to Miami and meets with Bernard Barker.[1]
Monday, 22 May 1972
CIA's Frank Sturgis
Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow and is toasting Soviet leaders at a dinner.[83]
The CIA "Cuban contingent" arrives in Washington, D.C. from Miami: Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, and Virgilio Gonzalez. They are in D.C. purportedly to carry out a "first break-in" on the following weekend of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate with G. Gordon Liddy, CIA's E. Howard Hunt, and CIA's James McCord.
[NOTE: There is no physical evidence that any such "first break-in" ever took place. For full coverage, see Watergate first break-in. Note also that while E. Howard Hunt claims that six Cubans arrived on 22 May 1972, the referenced criminal appeals court ruling names only four.][1][84]
Tuesday, 23 May 1972
A memorandum is sent to Acting Director of FBI L. Patrick Gray from the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Copenhagen titled "SUBJECT: L. RON HUBBARD FPC." It says: "Mr. Victor Wolf, Jr., U.S. Consul, American Embassy, Copenhagen, advised on 5/15/72 that he has not yet found time to prepare the report referred to in relet concerning the Scientology Organization. Mr. Wolf stated that he hopes to devote attention to this matter in a short time. This case will be placed in Pending Inactive status for a period of 90 days."[73]
Alfred Baldwin leaves Washington, D.C. again, purportedly going to his home in Connecticut again. No reason is given for his departure.[77]
CIA's Virgilio Gonzalez
Friday, 26 May 1972
G. Gordon Liddy, Alfred Baldwin, CIA's E. Howard Hunt, CIA's James McCord, and several Cuban CIA contract agents purportedly are engaged in a failed attempt to break into the Watergate—the "Ameritas dinner" attempt.
[NOTE: But see Watergate first break-in.]
Saturday, 27 May 1972
G. Gordon Liddy, Alfred Baldwin, CIA's E. Howard Hunt, CIA's James McCord, and several Cuban CIA contract agents purportedly are engaged in a second failed attempt to break into the Watergate.
[NOTE: But see Watergate first break-in.]
Sunday, 28 May 1972
There apparently was no "first break-in" at the Watergate. Then where were Liddy, Hunt, McCord, and Baldwin over Memorial Day weekend? AWOL with Lt. Bush?
G. Gordon Liddy, Alfred Baldwin, CIA's E. Howard Hunt, CIA's James McCord, and several Cuban CIA contract agents purportedly are engaged in a successful "first break-in" at DNC headquarters at the Watergate. According to their later claims, McCord placed two electronic bugs in the DNC headquarters during the "first break-in," and Bernard Barker purportedly had photos taken of the office of the Chairman, Lawrence O'Brien, and of documents on his desk.
[NOTE: There is no physical evidence that any such "first break-in" ever took place, or the purported two earlier failed attempts on the same holiday weekend. Barker later testified that he never was in O'Brien's office at all, and a telephone company sweep found no electronic bugs in the DNC at all (see 15 June 1972). For full coverage, see Watergate first break-in. There is nothing to account for the whereabouts of Liddy, Hunt, McCord, and Baldwin over the entire Memorial Day Weekend except the conflicting and contradictory anecdotal accounts of the co-conspirators themselves, which they volunteered when "caught" inside the building on 17 June 1972 (see). See also 3 September 1971 for similarities in the purported "Fielding office break-in," including personnel involved and the use of a holiday weekend, in that case the Labor Day weekend.]
On the same weekend as the purported Watergate "first break-in," L. Ron Hubbard goes absent from his usual duties and activities in the company of Green Beret Paul Preston. He's reported to have "moved ashore."
The crew of the Scientology Flagship
Apollo are told that L. Ron Hubbard has "moved onshore." His "bodyguard" purportedly is Green Beret Paul Preston.
[NOTE: From this date until his reported death in 1986, L. Ron Hubbard never makes another public appearance. His whereabout generally are unknown except to a few close people, who later claim that while with them he had been either "in hiding" or "on the run" or ill the entire time, including donning various disguises.][85][62]
Monday, 29 May 1972 (Memorial Day)
Ingo Swann is told by psychiatrist Karlis Osis that there are to be "no more remote viewing experiments at the ASPR." No reason is given. Swann calls fellow Scientology OT VII Hal Puthoff at SRI and offers to come out.[83][77][51][44]
Sunday, 4 June 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann flies from New York to San Francisco, where he is met by OT VII Hal Puthoff and taken to SRI.[44]
Tuesday, 6 June 1972
Ingo Swann mentally affects a supercooled magnetometer encased in solid concrete five feet beneath the foundation of the Varian Hall of Physics, Stanford University, witnessed by Dr. Arthur Hebbard, Dr. Marshal Lee, and representatives of CIA.[44]
Wednesday, 7 June 1972
Willis Harmon meets OT VI Ingo Swann at SRI and takes Swann to a meeting where there are 16 people. Harmon is Director of his own Educational Policy Research Center at SRI, a center for "Futurology." At the time, futurology constitutes one of the most important and biggest efforts in the world, and Harmon is well connected in Washington, D.C., with offices there. Harmon explains to Swann at the meeting that part of their ongoing project is to see if parapsychology and/or psychic abilities can or should be factored into "future scenarios." Harmon explains that all was known about the ASPR goings-on, and that the attempt to expel Swann "gives you more credentials than you realize, and also makes it easier for various people."[44]
Thursday, 8 June 1972
Ingo Swann goes to the home of Kirlian researcher Bill Tiller and there meets psychiatrist Shafica Karagulla.[44]
Friday, 9 June 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann leaves SRI and returns to New York City.
John Paul Vann—who had been closely involved with Lucien Conein and Daniel Ellsberg in Vietnam contemporaneously with Green Beret Paul Preston—is killed in a bizarre helicopter crash in Vietnam.
G. Gordon Liddy purportedly has a private meeting with Magruder where they purportedly discuss problems with "the room monitoring device" in the DNC and the prospects of "another entry" into the Watergate.
[NOTE: There is no "room monitoring device" in the DNC. See Watergate first break-in.][44][86][53]
Monday, 12 June 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann agrees to return to the ASPR "for further research and experiments."[44]
Jeb Magruder purportedly has another private meeting with Liddy and orders Liddy to "go back into Watergate."[79][53]
The telephone company sweep
of Democratic National Committee headquarters in
the Watergate finds no trace of bugs that
Watergate burglars later will claim they had planted.
Thursday, 15 June 1972
The telephone company does a sweep of Democractic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate. No electronic bugging devices are found.
[NOTE: For full coverage, see Watergate first break-in.][118]
Saturday, 17 June 1972
Five burglars are arrested at 2:30 a.m. in Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate: James McCord, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, and Virgilio Gonzalez. All five men have a history of being employed by CIA. CIA veteran James McCord has had to tape a door latch twice to get them arrested. They have bugging equipment with them, and several of the men have in their possession amazingly traceable $100 bills that will trace back to the White House. Bernard Barker has the phone number of E. Howard Hunt on him, indicating another connection to the White House.
CIA Watergate Goon Platoon:
Hunt, McCord, Barker, Baldwin, Martinez, Sturgis, Gonzalez, and Liddy.
Director of CIA and convicted perjurer Richard Helms says: "We know the people... . But there is no CIA involvement."
Almost at once the men start claiming to authorities that they had broken in weeks earlier, on 28 May 1972 (see), and were there to "fix" failures from the purported "first break-in," mainly electronic bugs.
[NOTE: But there was no "first break-in," and the phone company had just days before found there were no bugs in DNC headquarters. See Watergate first break-in. The amazing amount of obvious evidence on the men soon leads investigators to Liddy, Hunt, and Alfred Baldwin, who also are linked to the purported Memorial Day weekend "first break-in," providing them with an alibi for their whereabouts during that weekend.]
CIA Director Richard Helms claims to have been "preparing for bed" (at 3:00 a.m.?) when he gets a call from CIA Chief of Security Howard Osborn informing Helms that "District police" have picked up five men in a break-in. Helms is told that James McCord is one of them, along with "four Cubans." Osborn also purportedly tells Helms that "Howard Hunt also seems to be involved in some way." Helms purportedly asks Osborn: "Is there any indication that we could be involved in this?" and is told "None whatsoever." Next, "still sitting on the edge of the bed," Helms calls Acting Director of the FBI L. Patrick Gray, who is "in a Los Angeles hotel room." Gray says that he's been informed of the break-in, but has no details. Helms tells Gray that "despite the background of the apparent perpetrators, CIA had nothing to do with the break-in."[87]
Sunday, 18 June 1972
Ingo Swann flies to Northfield, Minnesota to give lectures at the annual retreat of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (SFF).[44]
Thursday, 22 June 1972
Charles Colson is interrogated by the FBI on the Watergate break-in. After interrogating Colson, the FBI is of the belief that the break-in is "a CIA thing."
Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray has a meeting at about five o'clock with SA Bates, the Assistant Director in charge of the General Investigative Division of the FBI. Following the meeting, Gray places a telephone call to Richard Helms, Director of CIA, to "tell him our thought that we may be poking into a CIA operation in connection with the Watergate burglary." Helms tells Gray that Helms has been "meeting with his men on this every day," and that "although we know the people, we cannot figure this one out. But there is no CIA involvement." Helms then meets with Gray and "asks" Gray "not to interview the two CIA men." Gray issues the order. Gray calls FBI SA Bates "immediately following that visit" from Helms, and tells Bates that "there was some CIA involvement here," that "we should proceed very gingerly and very discreetly and carry out the investigation at the Banco Internationale, and also continue to try to trace these checks through the correspondent banks, but to hold off interviewing Mr. Ogarrio." Later that evening, Gray meets with John Dean. He tells Dean that Richard Helms has said "there is no CIA involvement."[88][22]
Friday, 23 June 1972
10:04 to 11:39 a.m.: In an Oval Office conversation, President Richard Nixon says "...the FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that's what it is—this is CIA. ...[W]e protected Helms from one hell of a lot of things. ...This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves." Ehrlichman answers that after interviewing Charles Colson the FBI "are now convinced it is a CIA thing."
11:06 a.m.: Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray has a phone conversation with John Dean. Dean tells Gray that if the FBI persists in investigating the Mexican money chain they will "be uncovering or become involved in CIA operations." Gray tells Dean that CIA Director Richard Helms told Gray the day before that "there is no CIA involvement" in the Watergate break-in. Gray also tells Dean, "if there is CIA involvement, let the CIA tell us."
[NOTE: Nixon and Haldeman are still in their meeting, which goes until 11:39 a.m.]
Acting FBI Director L. Patrick and the CIA waltz. Gray soon will destroy crucial evidence taken from the White House safe of CIA's golden boy, E. Howard Hunt.
2:19 p.m.: Dean calls Gray to find out if Gray has made an appointment with Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters. Gray hasn't. Dean tells Gray that Walters will be calling Gray for an appointment and Gray should see him.
2:20 to 2:45 p.m.: Haldeman reports to Nixon that he and Ehrlichman [and John Dean] have met with CIA Director Helms and Deputy Director Vernon Walters. Helms has said, "We'll be very happy to be helpful," but Walters has said, "I don't know whether we can do it." Walters, though, is going to put in a call to Patrick Gray.
2:35 p.m. Vernon Walters meets with L. Patrick Gray. Walters says that if the FBI proceeds with the investigation into the Mexican money chain, they "would uncover CIA assets and resources" and could "interfere with some CIA covert activities." Walters then mentions to Gray "the agreement between the agencies not to uncover one another's sources," saying further that the FBI has "the five people and that the matter ought to be tapered off there."
2:53 p.m. After the meeting with Walters, Gray calls John Dean and tells Dean that Walters has indicated that there is "some CIA involvement," and that they will "proceed very gingerly and very discreetly and work around this until we can determine what we have ahold of."[89] [22][88]
On the same day, an airgram is sent from the American Embassy in Copenhagen to the U.S. State Department from the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Copenhagen titled "SUBJECT: L. RON HUBBARD FPC ." Its contents are unknown.
[NOTE: The only record of this airgram is a later memorandum, dated 5 September 1972 (see), to Acting Director of FBI L. Patrick Gray, enclosing a copy of the airgram, saying it is "self-explanatory."]
Saturday, 24 June 1972
According to Ingo Swann, he arrives in Washington, D.C. from Minnesota, ostensibly to "do book research at the Library of Congress"—but Swann says elsewhere that his trip to D.C. in 1972 was "to discuss psi phenomena with a variety of officials."[44]
Tuesday, 27 June 1972
Hal Puthoff contacts K. Green, Office of Strategic Intelligence (OSI) at CIA, informing Green of the results of the Varian Hall magnetometer experiment with Ingo Swann. There are also subsequent conversations between Puthoff and CIA personnel regarding this event.[19]
Wednesday, 28 June 1972
L. Patrick Gray gets a call from CIA Director Richard Helms, who asks Gray "not to interview active CIA men Karl Wagner and John Caswell." Gray immediately orders "that the interviews of John Caswell and Karl Wagner be held in abeyance." Caswell and Wagner's names have been found in a telephone-address notebook belonging to E. Howard Hunt.
In the evening, John Dean turns over some of the items from the White House safe of E. Howard Hunt to Gray. Gray is provided with a large brown envelopes to carry the items away in. Dean tells Gray that included papers have "national security implications," saying they should "never see the light of day." Gray purportedly never looks at the papers, but takes them to his apartment in Washington D.C. and puts them on a closet shelf under his shirts.
Gray has a meeting with Mark Felt and SA Bates on "the CIA ramifications."[88]
Friday, 30 June 1972
Scientology OT VII Hal Puthoff says in a letter to Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler in New York that he has "obtained a contract to investigate the primary perception hypothesis of Cleve Backster."[44]
Saturday, 1 July 1972
The classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report entitled "Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR" is published, though its findings have been known by top personnel for months. In part, it states: "The Soviet Union is well aware of the benefits and applications of parapsychology research. The term parapsychology denotes a multi-disciplinary field consisting of the sciences of bionics, biophysics, psychophysics, psychology, physiology and neuropsychology.
Celebrity Centre's Yvonne (Gillham) Jentzsch has standing orders to be located for any incoming calls from Puthoff or Swann
Many scientists, U.S. and Soviet, feel that parapsychology can be harnessed to create conditions where one can alter or manipulate the minds of others. The major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetic and bionics are said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB [Committee of State Security; Secret Police]. ...Soviet knowledge in this field is superior to that of the U.S. ...The potential applications of focusing mental influences on an enemy through hypnotic telepathy have surely occurred to the Soviets... . Control and manipulation of the human consciousness must be considered a primary goal. ...Soviet efforts in the field of psi research, sooner or later, might enable them to do some of the following: (a) Know the contents of top secret US documents, the movements of our troops and ships and the location and nature of our military installations (b) Mould the thoughts of key US military and civilian leaders at a distance (c) Cause the instant death of any US official at a distance (d) Disable, at a distance, US military equipment of all types, including spacecraft."[71]
Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch, Executive Director of Scientology's Celebrity Centre, is married to Heber Jentzsch. Despite running an organization with over 200 staff members and a grueling schedule, including appearances around the U.S. and several foreign countries, she has standing orders with her office and public relations staff to locate her wherever she is if a call should come in for her from OT VIIs Hal Puthoff or Ingo Swann.
[NOTE: According to staff members who contributed the information, Yvonne Jentzsch had no specific knowledge at the time of Swann or Puthoff's connections with CIA or NSA, only that they both had contact with various influential people, and possibly even was of the belief that their connections were related somehow to NASA and the space race, but not to military intelligence.]
Monday, 3 July 1972
According to one of several conflicting accounts told by L. Patrick Gray, he burns the papers given to him by John Dean that had been taken from the safe of E. Howard Hunt in a wastebasket in his office at the FBI.
[NOTE: Gray later retracts this story, saying that he kept the papers first in his apartment, then moved them to his office, then to his home, where he burned them on or around 27 December 1972 (see).]
Gray has another meeting with Mark Felt, Bates, and also "Mr. Kunkel, the Special Agent in charge of the Washington Field Office" on "the CIA ramifications."[88]
Monday, 17 July 1972
Over $1.1 million in cash never accounted for except by ledger "credit" years later, during IRS's Meade Emory restructuring of Scientology
A sum equivalent to US $1,119,678 in Swiss francs is withdrawn in cash by Fred Hare and Vicki Polimeni from a trust fund (of questionable origin) in Switzerland and purportedly is brought aboard the Flagship Apollo and put into a safe.
[NOTE: Conflicting accounts in the same referenced Tax Court ruling say that the amount was "over $2 million," and also say the cash was put into "a file cabinet in a strongroom" instead of a safe. The same ruling also provides no accounting of what happened to the actual cash.][90]
Wednesday, 19 July 1972
Fred LaRue gives $40,000 to Herbert W. Kalmbach, who takes it to New York and gives it to Anthony Ulasewicz.
Ulasewicz delivers $40,000 to Dorothy Hunt—wife of E. Howard Hunt—and $8,000 to G. Gordon Liddy in unmarked envelopes left in lockers at Washington National Airport.[91]
Cash to Dorothy Hunt, wife of CIA's E. Howard Hunt, and more cash to G. Gordon Liddy
Wednesday, 26 July 1972
A report is issued entitled "Report of an Out-of-Body Experiment Conducted at the American Society for Psychical Research: Participants: Dr. Carole Silfen, Janet Mitchell, Ingo Swann." The report describes an OOB experiment that suggests that a point of perception exterior to the body is able to assume "at a different location the functions performed by the visual system and the brain in the body." This is the first such experiment that verified the capability of such remote points of view.[44]
Monday, 7 August 1972
Unknown amount of cash delivered by NSA's Hal Puthoff to Ingo Swann
OT VII Ingo Swann flies to San Francisco and is met by OT VII Hal Puthoff. Puthoff gives Swann an envelope containing an unspecified amount of cash, and a copy of their three-week schedule. They are to have a one-week informal period, and then a two-week formal set-up. The latter two-week segment will be attended by two CIA representatives.[44]
Friday, 11 August 1972
Ingo Swann flies to Los Angeles for the weekend with psychiatrist Shafica Karagulla and "her associate," even though he has come to SRI specifically to perform experiments in the presence of CIA personnel. No reason is given for the trip.
[NOTE: Karagulla is a neurosurgeon. and has studied under Canadian psychiatrist Wilder Penfield, infamously known for putting electrical probes into the brains of conscious subjects.][44]
Monday, 14 August 1972
Ingo Swann's weekend travelling companion Shafica Karagulla, a psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, shown here with her mentor, psychiatrist Wilder Penfield
Swann is back at SRI, after his trip to Los Angeles with psychiatrist Shafica Karagulla, and is ready to begin the two-week formal experiments in the company of two representatives from CIA.[44]
Wednesday, 23 August 1972
A CIA project officer contracts Hal Puthoff for a demonstration with OT VII Ingo Swann. Swann is asked to describe objects hidden out of sight by CIA personnel. The descriptions are so "startlingly accurate" that Swann purportedly is asked if he will complete the necessary forms "for a security clearance."
[NOTE: Swann is already on record as having a top secret clearance.] He agrees to do it once he gets back to New York "where his papers are." The CIA rep suggests to CIA that the work be continued and expanded. CIA's Sidney Gottlieb reviews the data, approves another work order, and encourages the development of "a more complete research plan."[19]
Saturday, 26 August 1972
Ingo Swann returns to New York from SRI. He prepares the application for security clearance and sends it off to Hal Puthoff.[44]
Wednesday, 30 August 1972
A once-sentence letter is received by the FBI. It says: "Did you receive the printed matter that was sent to you concerning Scientology, if so please acknowledge. Thank you."
[NOTE: In the released FBI copy, the signature is blacked out. The letter is answered two days later (see 1 September 1972) by Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray.]
September 1972
The Scientology Flagship
Apollo is moved to Spain for refit. The crew and officers are given the story that L. Ron Hubbard is still "living ashore" to account for his absence.
L. Ron Hubbard has functionally disappeared,
his purported whereabouts known only to a small
number of people called the "Special Unit" (SU).
Friday, 1 September 1972
Acting Director of FBI L. Patrick Gray responds to a once-sentence letter received by the FBI received two days earlier (see Wednesday, 30 August 1972). Gray's reply says: "Your letter was received on August 30th. With respect to your inquiry, a search of our records does not reveal any prior communication from you."
[NOTE: In the released FBI copy, the address block and the person's name is blacked out, and the letter has a note at the bottom: "Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles."]
Tuesday, 5 September 1972
Acting Director of FBI L. Patrick Gray receives a memorandum from the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Copenhagen (163-222) (RUC) titled "SUBJECT: L. RON HUBBARD FPC regarding an airgram sent to the State Department on 23 June 1972 (see). It says: "ReCOPlet 5/23/72. Enclosed are single copies [sic] of an airgram dated 6/23/72, captioned "THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY IN DENMARK," from AmEmbassy, Copenhagen, to U.S. Dept. of State, which is self-explanatory."
[NOTE: Copies go to Foreign Liaison, Legat Madrid, and Copenhagen]
Friday, 15 September 1972
Hunt, Liddy, McCord and the Watergate burglars are indicted by a federal grand jury. The involvement of McCord and Liddy provide investigators with a link to the Nixon campaign. The involvement of E. Howard Hunt provides investigators with a link to the White House.[92]
Tuesday, 19 September 1972
More cash to Dorothy Hunt, wife of CIA's E. Howard Hunt
Anthony Ulasewicz flies to Washington, D.C. and delivers $53,000 cash to Dorothy Hunt—wife of E. Howard Hunt—and $29,000 to Fred LaRue by leaving unmarked envelopes in a locker at Washington International Airport and in the lobby of a motel near LaRue's residence.[91][93]
Saturday, 30 September 1972
According to one of the conflicting stories he told, at the end of September Acting Director of the FBI L. Patrick Gray takes files that had been in E. Howard Hunt's White House safe to his home in Stonington, Connecticut, and puts them in a chest-of-drawers intending to burn them.[88]
Sunday, 1 October 1972
On a Sunday, CIA's Technical Services Division (TSD) awards OT VII Hal Puthoff a top-secret research contract to develop "remote viewing" for military espionage purposes.
[NOTE: TSD is the CIA division formerly known as "Technical Services Staff." TSD is also the division running MK-ULTRA. The head of TSD is Sidney Gottlieb. The name of TSD will change a month after this contract to "Office of Technical Services." Its acronym, OTS is a pun.][19][94]
November 1972
CIA Director Richard Helms calls L. Patrick Gray's "number two man," Mark Felt, stating that Helms is going to call Assistant Attorney General Peterson regarding the interview of CIA's Karl Wagner to see if it "could not be conducted...be held off."
CIA's Sidney Gottlieb "retires."
The name of CIA's TSD is changed to Office of Technical Services (OTS).[88][19]
OT III Pat Price
Sunday 3 December 1972
L. Ron Hubbard purportedly "goes into hiding" in New York in the company of Green Beret Paul Preston.
Scientology OT VIIs Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann, now under contract with CIA, "run into" Scientology OT III Pat Price, who purportedly is selling Christmas trees at a lot in Mountain View, California—close to SRI. Puthoff is reported to "have met" Price "several years earlier" at a lecture in Los Angeles.
[NOTE: Los Angeles is the location of Scientology's Advance Organization Los Angeles (AOLA), the only place in the U.S. at the time where the OT Levels are delivered.][94]
Friday, 8 December 1972
E. Howard Hunt's wife Dorothy is killed in a plane crash in Chicago
E. Howard Hunt's wife, Dorothy Hunt, is killed in the United Airlines airplane crash of Flight 533 as it approaches Chicago. Dorothy Hunt's purse contains $10,585 cash, most of it in hundred dollar bills.
Thursday, 21 December 1972
OT VII Ingo Swann arrives to begin his CIA contract at Stanford Research Institute.
James W. McCord writes a letter to Jack Caulfield that says in part: "If Helms goes, and if the WG (Watergate) operation is laid at the 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. Just pass the message that if they want it to blow, they are on exactly the right course." Caulfield replies: "I have worked with these people and I know them to be as tough-minded as you. Don't underestimate them."[94][44][95]