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non in excnange ior ms testimony before a federal grand jury.A former FBI agent, Baldwin said he had been assigned at first as a security guard for Martha Mitchell. His instructions were not to let her out of his sight except when she went to tied. He was also handed a roll of money and was instructed to buy her anything she wanted and to pay cash, he said.When he joined the Watergate espionage operation, Baldwin said, McCord shoved a .38 pistol at him. Baldwin protested that he didn’t have a pistol permit. McCord allegedly told him that he didn’t need one, because he was attached to the President’s campaign committee On May 9, Baldwin said he caught an Allegheny flight to visit his home in ConnecticutAs he boarded, the electronic anti-hijacking equipment detectedthe pistol He couldn’t produce a permit, so he was detained while the airline checked with the President’s campaign committee.Apparently, pistols, burglar tools, bugging devices, surgical gloves and cameras suitable for photographing documents were all part of the standard equipment available at the President’s campaign headquarters across the street from the White House.BANK RECORDS Justice Department lawyers, apparently, have lied to the courts about the practice of snooping into people’s privatebank accounts without court authorization.On several occasions, we have published excerpts from FBI files which prove bankers willingly turn over their customers’ records without beingserved with a subpoena Arnonthago, however, government lawyers in San Francisco and Washington, D C told thefederal courts the governmentalways gets a summons or subpoena first Not only does this fly directlym the face of our documentary evidence, but it also contradicts the testimony of a highly placed Justice Department official The official, organized crime chief William Lynch, admitted to a Senate subcommittee last month that in certain types of investigations government sleuths get bank records without a subpoena with some degreeof frequency *'Under intense questioning by Sen John Tunney, D Calif whois leading a move to write laws protecting the privacy of bankrecords. Lynch also confessed that ‘ in particular situations they(banks) have been reasonablyThere was an excellent turn out of members at the DeWitt County Historical Survey Committee meeting last Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 5 p.m. The meeting was held in the museum in the DeWitt Countv Courthouse Four-wteen members were presentMrs. R. F. Blackwell, T 0. Buchel, Lester Giese, Mrs T. A. Graves, John Hamilton, Mrs.H N Henneke, Mrs Fain Mc-Dougal, The Rev C Rogers McLane.Mrs JoeB Reuss Mrs Bucky Sager, Mrs A W Schaf fner, Mrs. Henry Sheppard, Mrs. L. B Steen, and Mrs Murray Tarkington. It was a busy session Two guests were present, Monroe and Benjamin Giese The committee has planned a work session Tuesday. Soon after the public will be notified where and when articles for display in the museum will be accepted. The museum in the Reuss Drug Store Building on E Main Street will depict life in Cuero and its trade territory for the past 100 years.Four official Texas Historical Marker dedications arescheduled for the Centennial weekend Saturday, October 21, 10:30 a m , Emil Reiffert Home Edward Mugge Home, and William FrobeseHome. These three men represented H Runge and Company and had a distinct im pact on Cuero and the surrounding area On Sunday, St Mark Lutheran Church Marker will be dedicated after the second ser vice.Stacey Sagei daughter of Mtand Mrs, Bucky Sager enjoyed the festivities in Nordheim Saturday lastMrs C Rogers McLane istyping the Nordheim History thatMrs Everest Kolodziezvck com'-'ifpiled and gave on the program at Nordheim A copy will be placed in the County Archives and another sent to Austincooperative. ’In other words, what the U S attorneys said in court flatly contradicts the Justice Department’s testimony before the Senate. Someone, obviously islyingFootnote In his Senate testimony, Lynch said the FBI went after bank records only when investigating violations of criminal statute ’’ We have dor urnented cases in which the FBI got the bank records of dissidents like Jane Fonda, Dr Benjamin Spock, and black civil rights leader F loyd McKissickSo Senator Tunney was prompted to ask Lynch whether criminal statute’’violations included “po litical surveillance cases Re plied Lynch I do not know what you mean by that.
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Cuero Record
Cuero, Texas, US
Sat, Sep 23, 1972
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