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forth a single drop of Pepsi. Air America had been shuttling out its actua/ product: heroin. However, Anderson agreed not to publish this material. In return, we agreed not to publicize the fact that he knew about the Watergate break- in weeks before it occurred. He had warned Lawrence O’ Brien at Democratic National Committee headquarters, but O'’ Brien remained silent because he assumed that such a scandal would provide ammunition for a Democrat coup in the ' 72 election. He overestimated public outrage. Anderson held back because he did not wish to endanger his source, one of the “burglars,” Frank Sturgis, whom he had known for some twenty years. Shortly after my resignation in 1974, | received a long letter from Sturgis. | shall quote here a portion of that correspondence: Now, I’ m telling you this because | still consider you my Commander in Chief. | realize that the same faction of the CIA that masterminded the assassination of Kennedy was also behind your downfall. They thought JFK was soft on Communism in Cuba, and that you were soft on Communism in China, but that they didn’ t necessarily have to kill you to get rid of you. While | participated in Operation 40, our job was primarily to infiltrate foreign countries. | was a member of the Assassination Section. Orders would filter down, and our job would be to kill, say, a military official or a politician. Even in those days, unstated policy included domestic as well as foreign enemies. But | had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination myself. The FBI came to interview me the day after it happened, and | didn’ t have a thing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015113