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Nixon?s committees were also deeply involved in the cover-up and

destroyed allot of evidence. ?Within hours of the burglars? arrest, G. Gordon

Liddy showed up at the CREEP office and began destroying his confidential

files on the political-spying operation? (150). Also, Howard Hunt?s safe in his

office was drilled open and it contained, among other things, bugging

equipment, a revolver, a psychological profile of Daniel J. Ellsberg, leakier of

the pentagon papers, a state department cable that had been faked to make it

appear that president John F. Kennedy had ordered the murder of president

Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam (Heritage 30). John Ehrlichman (the

presidents chief domestic affairs advisor) told John Dean to throw the

?sensitive materials? over the Potomac river and at night to shred the

paperwork (30).Also, L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI director destroyed the

documents from Hunts safe and withheld word of there existence (Dorman

157). Nixon?s chief aid, H. R. Haldman, also destroyed files which might

prove to be potentially dangerous (157).

As more problems came along, more pressure was being put on the

men in jail to keep quiet. CREEP agreed to pay the men about 400,000

dollars total, after a five month period, of hush money. CREEP did not have

that much money, so they put a down payment of 40,000 dollars, which was

to be divided amongst the men (170).

Although Hunt was incensed at receiving only partial payment,

he made no new threat to expose the cover-up. The day after the

payment was made, Mitchell met at the white house with Dean,

Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. he told them that Hunt was

?not a problem any more? (192)

The Nixon committees also repeatedly lied to the country. John

Mitchell issued a statement and flat out lied to the country.

We have learned from news reports that a man identified as

employed by our campaign committee was one of five persons