Meier crossed the border from Canada to the U.S. with his family to go crabbing and was arrested by IRS agents. Took him to Point Roberts jail where Nixon’s Secret Service agents talked to him. They said he was under arrest for tax evasion but could go home if he surrendered all documents with his lawyer, Robert Wyshak, pertaining to Hughes, Nixon, federal operations, and CIA. (This is the stuff the Watergate burglars were after months before. The White House didn’t want Meier giving this information to the Watergate committee.) Meier refused.
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