Tuesday, June 18, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five The break-in: Just two years ago WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two yars ago yesterday mornung, se- curity guard Frank Wills foiund masking tape on a door lead- ing into the Watergate office building and called the cops. That event changed Ri_:iard Nixon's life and put the word Watergate into the history b)iks. IT WAS about 2 a.m. when Sgt. Paul Leeper and officers Probers find torture in Uruguay UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. R') - Military authorities in Urug- uay have resorted to widespread torture of political prisoners to help stamp out the Tupamaro guerrilla movement, investigat- ors of the International Commis- sion of Jurists and Amnesty In- ternational says. "The situation in Uruguay is much worse than most people realize," Niall MacDermot, sec- retary-general of the commis- sion, told a news conference. He said that the lowest estimate said five per cent of the pri- soners were tortured. The tor- turers were describes as "in- variably hooded to avoid identi- fication." MACDERMOT said that among persons arrested and tor- tured were "doctors who had given or were believed to have given medical aid to Tupamar- or." MacDermot, a Briton, a n d Inger Fahlander, Swedish re- search officer for Amnesty In- ternational, visited Uruguay with the consent of the govern- ment in April and May. The two organizations are nongovern- mental associations involved in human rights causes. See URUGUAY, Page 9 Carl Shoffler and John Barrett answered Wills' call and search- ed the building. Barrett saw the shadow of a man outside a sixth-floor office and yelled,} "Hold it, come out!" "They got us," someone whis- pered into a walkie-talkie. Five men wearing blue surgi- cal gloves stood up, their hands raised. "Are you gentlemen me- tropiltan police?" asked James McCord, a security officer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP) who was ar- rested in the office of Democra- tic party chairman Lawrence O'Brien. THE TRAIL of the arrested men led to the White House, to the President's most trusted ad- visers, and recent public opin. ion polls indicate that many of the same people who over- whelmingly returned Nixon to the White House that year-be- fore the rest of the scandal un- folded - now favor his impeach- ment. A year ago today, former White House counsel John Dean was getting ready to tell his story to the Senate Watergate Committee. He testified t h at Nixon knew of the covar-up, even participated. A Watergate grand jury has named Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator Order Your Subscription Today 764-0558 .,. - , and the Supreme Court said this weekend it would decide whether that citation is legal. There are still unanswered questions about the break-in. No one has ever said for sure chat the burglars wanted, and who- ever knows won't tell. O'BRIEN apparently was the target. Asked about the informa- tion theburglars wanted, de- puty GOP campaign director Jeb Magruder said O'Brien was "certainly from our standpoint, their most professional poliiicat operator, who could be very dif- ficult in the coming campaign. So we had hoped that informa- tion might discredit him." Magruder told the Senate Wa- tergate Committee this break-in was part of a plan proposed by Gordon Liddy, a former F B I agent and CRP employe. His partner was E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent and spy novel- ist who saw himself as "a mem- ber of a special investigations unit, later known at the plumb- ers, which the President h a d created to undertake specific national security tasks for which the traditional investigative agencies were deemed to be in- adequate." Hunt said the reason for the break-in was, according to Lid- dy, "thtat he had information, the source of which I under- stood to be a government agen- cy, that the Cuban government was supplying funds to the Democratic Party campaign." OTHER BURGLARS had been recruited by Hunt in early 1971. Some were "plumbers." They were Cuban-Americans w h o remembered the Bay of Pigs and seemed like characters out of spy novels: Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gon- zalez and Bernard 3arker. On May 27, 1972, one of these teams - the exact mnembers re- main unknown - broke into Democratic National Co mmittee officers and tapped a series of phones. Barker followed Hunt's orders to look for evidence of Cuban contributions and found none, but stole and photograph- ed other documents. Across the street, in Room 419 of Howard Johnson's motel, sat former FBI agent Alfred Bald- win, eavesdropping and taping what he heard. He said he lis- tened to about 200 calls, some dealing with political strategy but others personal - "explicit- ly intimate," he recalls. BUT THE tap on the phane they wanted - O'"3rien's .- didn't work right, so on June 17, 1972, they went back. Barker, Martinez, Sturges and Gonzalez checked into $38-a-night rooms at the Watergate Hotel rext door. Sometime that night, Mc- Cord put tape on a door from the garage into the office build- ing. Wills, a 24-year-old guard, found it and took it off. He dis- missed it, figuring it had been done by maintenance men, and went out for coffee. The sur- prised burglars decided to break in anyway. They put on another strip of light-colored masking tape, a device burglars use to keep a door from locking. Wills found it again and placed his call. Across the street, Baldwin was standing on the balcony. The lights on the eighth floor went on. Ie grabbed 'Jhe walkie- talkie and told Hunt, teo floors below in the Howard Johnson's, but was reassured. "Thai's the two o'clock guard hecx,' Bunt said. THEN THE lights flickered on and off on the sixth floor. Bald- win saw two men, one with a gun, on the sixth floor balcony. "As I observed them," he tes- tified, "I called over the walkie- talkie again 'base 1, unit 1, are our people in suits or are they dressed casually?' and the call came back, "ourhpeople are dressed in suits. Why?' "I said 'you have trouble be- cause there are some individuals out here who are dressed cas- ually and who have got their guns out' and the guy on the other end went a little bit fran- tic." Perhaps the most prophetic was officer Barrett: "I SAW an arm," he said. 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