spying funds

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        The Bookkeeper had been right about the money in Maurice Stans' safe.  It had financed the Watergate bugging and "other intelligence-gathering activities," he said.  John Mitchell's top assistants were only "among those" who had controlled the fund.  He would not say if the former Attorney General had had prior knowledge of the bugging attempt.

        The wiretap logs had reached some of the same Mitchell aides who had disbursed the spying funds, he said.

        Following the conversation, Woodward read his scrawled notes to Bernstein, who typed a new lead:

------------------ Funds for the Watergate espionage operation were controlled by several principal assistants of John N. Mitchell, the former manager of President Nixon's campaign, and were kept in a special account at the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the Washington Post has learned.

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All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. 1974.  Simon & Schuster 

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