Who is egil krogh

A former deputy assistant to the president and undersecretary of transportation, Krogh, who has died aged 80, was the first member of the Nixon administration sentenced to prison for his conduct in the White House. Krogh was 29 when he joined the White House, having worked with family friend John D Ehrlichman at a Seattle law firm. His work dramatically shifted after 13 June , when The New York Times published excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the Vietnam War that had been leaked by Ellsberg.

Its release spurred the White House to create the special investigations unit, later nicknamed the Plumbers because they aimed to plug the leak of classified information, in addition to generating advantageous leaks of their own.

According to Krogh, Hunt soon proposed digging up damaging information about Ellsberg through his psychiatrist, Fielding. They trashed the office in what Krogh described as an effort to disguise the burglary as a botched attempt to steal drugs, and apparently found nothing useful. Krogh was dismissed from the Plumbers unit three months later, after he refused to back the use of a warrantless wiretap on another suspected leaker.

On 7th November, Nixon easily won the the election with 61 per cent of the popular vote. Soon after the election reports by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post , began to claim that some of Nixon's top officials were involved in organizing the Watergate break-in.

Frederick LaRue now decided that it would be necessary to pay the large sums of money to secure their silence. Anthony Ulasewicz , a former New York policeman, was given the task of arranging the payments. This money went to E. Howard Hunt and distributed by his wife Dorothy Hunt.

The aircraft hit the branches of trees close to Midway Airport: "It then hit the roofs of a number of neighborhood bungalows before plowing into the home of Mrs. Veronica Kuculich at 70th Place, demolishing the home and killing her and a daughter, Theresa. The plane burst into flames killing a total of 45 persons, 43 of them on the plane, including the pilot and first and second officers.

Eighteen passengers survived. The airplane crash was blamed on equipment malfunctions. Carl Oglesby The Yankee and Cowboy War has pointed out that the day after the crash, Egil Krogh was appointed Undersecretary of Transportation, supervising the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Association - the two agencies charged with investigating the airline crash.

A week later, Nixon's deputy assistant Alexander P. Chapin , the president's appointment secretary, become a top executive with United Airlines. Hugh Sloan later testified that Frederick LaRue told him that he would have to commit perjury in order to protect the conspirators. LaRue was arrested and eventually found guilty of conspiring to obstruct justice.

He was sentenced to three years in jail but only served four months before being released. In January, , Frank Sturgis , E. Barker , Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping. Richard Nixon continued to insist that he knew nothing about the case or the payment of "hush-money" to the burglars.

However, in April , Nixon forced two of his principal advisers H. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman , to resign. Richard Kleindienst also resigned on the same day. A third adviser, John Dean , refused to go and was sacked.

On 20th April, Dean issued a statement making it clear that he was unwilling to be a "scapegoat in the Watergate case". Sam Ervin was appointed chairman of this committee. Hearings took place between 17th May to 7th August and 24th September to 15th November. On 18th May, , Attorney General Elliot Richardson appointed Archibald Cox as special prosecutor, with unprecedented authority and independence to investigate the alleged Watergate cover-up and illegal activity in the presidential campaign.

The following month John Dean testified that at a meeting with Richard Nixon on 15th April, the president had remarked that he had probably been foolish to have discussed his attempts to get clemency for E. Howard Hunt with Charles Colson. Dean concluded from this that Nixon's office might be bugged. On Friday, 13th July, Alexander P. Butterfield appeared before the committee and was asked about if he knew whether Nixon was recording meetings he was having in the White House.

Butterfield reluctantly admitted details of the tape system which monitored Nixon's conversations. Alexander P. Butterfield also said that he knew "it was probably the one thing that the President would not want revealed". This information did indeed interest Archibald Cox and he demanded that Richard Nixon hand over the White House tapes. Nixon refused and so Cox appealed to the Supreme Court. Richardson refused and resigned in protest. Ruckelshaus also refused and he was sacked.

He served as project manager over a staff of five assistants. The first series, Chronological Files, contains mostly carbon copies of outgoing memoranda and letters. The second series, Alpha Name Files, consists mostly of incoming correspondence to Krogh from Department and Agency officials and job-seeking candidates. The Alpha Subject Files have been arbitrarily subdivided into five series because of large concentrations of materials on drugs, crime, transportation, and briefing and reference materials.

The Alpha Subject Files series contains materials filed by subject that reflect all of Krogh's activities. The Oversized Attachments series contains files that the White House Central File Unit received from Krogh's office and placed in the Oversized Attachment files rather than in the subject category file FG under Krogh's name because of bulk of volume.

Photographs, cassette tapes, newspaper clippings, and "thermofax" copies of documents have been removed from the files and replaced with electrostatic "preservation" copies. Audiovisual Collection withdrawal sheets mark the place of the original photographs or tapes which are available in the AV Collection, PA Approximately eighty photographs and one cassette tape were transferred to the audio-visual collection. Boxes: Series: Chronological Files Spans: - Description: Carbons and electrostatic copies of staff memoranda and letters, some with original attachments, and newsclippings.

Arranged chronologically by month. Subject matter reflects Egil Krogh's responsibilities related to domestic issues such as law enforcement, crime, security, drugs, and transportation. Boxes: Series: Alpha Name Files Spans: - Description: Memoranda, correspondence, resumes, biographical sketches, press releases, printed materials, and magazine and newspaper clippings. Arranged alphabetically by surname. Krogh's incoming correspondence with Department and Agency officials, and non-government people, including candidates for various staff positions.

Boxes: Series: Alpha Subject Files Spans: - Description: Memoranda, correspondence, press releases, and printed materials. Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Materials concern Krogh's trips, meetings, conferences, and speeches, as well as background information, relating to his responsibilities as previously outlined. Some of the topics included are administrative procedures, government reorganization, demonstrations, obscenity and pornography, the take-over of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in , the election campaign, and Krogh's appointment as Under Secretary of Transportation Concerns meetings, trips, programs, legislation, and issues related to crime.

Concerns trips, conferences, meetings, and speeches concerning the Administration's anti-drug programs and legislation. Concerns meetings, planning, and programs relating to national and District of Columbia transportation matters. Some of the topics included are the air carrier industry, airports, the C-5A aircraft, airport and aircraft security, the railroad industry, Railpax, Amtrak, automobile and highway safety, urban mass transportation, and the Washington, D.

Series contains many printed materials, including reports and studies. Also briefing and background reference materials gathered for trips, meetings, conferences, legislation, and speeches. Topics are drugs, law enforcement, crime, government reorganization, transportation, and other domestic issues.

Series includes a carbon copy of a typewritten manuscript, Undercover , by C. Boxes: Series: Oversized Attachments Spans: - Description: Memoranda, correspondence, notes, telegrams, teletype messages, newsclippings, press releases, and printed materials. Each file contains a typed list of contents. See Appendix A for an alphabetical folder title list of the Oversized Attachments. Topics concern drugs, crime, law enforcement, government reorganization, revenue sharing, youth, transportation, internal security, environment, and the District of Columbia.

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