FBI agents visited Dr. Fielding to pressure him about Ellsberg but the doctor wouldn’t hand over his records. The CIA did a psychological profile based on publicly available information. Its utility proved limited. It was time, the Plumbers decided, to plan a black-bag job. Ehrlichman brought the proposal to the president. “Krogh should, of course, do whatever he considered necessary to get to the bottom of the matter,” the president replied, “to learn what Ellsberg’s motives and potential further harmful action might be.” His only complaint was that the plan wasn’t aggressive enough. Young and Krogh filed the action memo, with the customary boxes for “approve” and “disapprove.” Ehrlichman scrawled his initials in the former and added, “if done under your assurance that it is not traceable.”