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part of an overall plan “to destroy,” in the words of Frank Sturgis, “the office of the presidency.” Haldeman was a saboteur in the guise of a sycophant. In 1967, when he was a vice president at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, he sent me a long memo on how | could use the media in my‘ 68 campaign. | have since learned that during World War Il, various corporations—Standard Oil, Wrigley Chewing Gum, Paramount Pictures—lent their services to the Office of Strategic Services, which later became the CIA. The Thompson Agency supplied Kenneth Hinks to be chief of the OSS planning staff. One of Haldeman’ s predecessors, Richard de Rochemont, a vice president of J. Walter Thompson, was offered a position with the Secret Intelligence Branch of the OSS. Another Thompson official, Donald Coster, stayed on with the CIA in South Vietnam from 1959 to 1962. That’ s when Haldeman really latched on to me, in the ’' 62 campaign. And when we lost, it was Haldeman who persuaded me to make a public fool of myself with that godawful “You won’ t have Nixon to kick around any more” press conference. It was Haldeman in 1972 who acted as a double agent and conspired with Dick Tuck to have all those Chinese fortune cookies contain the same message: “What about the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015125