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Special Investigations Unit

United States of America · Politics / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1971

Everette Howard Hunt3 September 1971

Los Angeles · Politics / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Hunt's first assignment for the White House (Special Investigations Unit) was a covert operation to break into the Los Angeles office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis J. Fielding. In July 1971, Fielding had refused an FBI request for psychiatric data on Ellsberg. Hunt and Liddy cased the building in late August. The burglary, on September 3, 1971, was not detected, but no Ellsberg files were found

Names involved

Everette Howard Hunt

Provenance

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