For example a 1973 Congressional investigation of tax-exempt foundations came up empty when it looked into H.M.I. During the course…
Meier was interviewed for 6 hours by the Watergate Committee and asked them “Why not put the cards on the…
Meier is interviewed by the Watergate Committee for 7 hours – a second day is called one week later. Meier…
Meier crossed the border from Canada to the U.S. with his family to go crabbing and was arrested by IRS…
Meier was indicted by the IRS for unreported earnings from land holdings of the Hughes empire in which he held…
Republican legal strategist John Leon has a heart attack and dies. The Republicans’ “entrapment” counter-offensive ended. 7/13/1973
While Meier and his family were in Hawaii a man came up to Meier and told him to call Dr.…
Lou Russell had another heart attack and died. 6/2/1973
Shortly before his testimony to the Watergate Committee, Russell has a heart attack. He claimed he had been poisoned. 5/18/1973
Congressional Investigative member Republican John Leon and others were claiming that the Democrats had entrapped the Watergate burglars. Investigators issued…
Meier met with Susie Wyss in Paris. Hubert Humphrey had told Meier to call Wyss if he was ever in…
Bennett told the CIA he he could handle the Ervin committee if the Agency could handle Hunt. Bennett even stated…
In London on business Meier’s hotel room was searched, torn apart. He knew he was being followed. In London Meier…
Meier met with Buhler in Liechtenstein and asked about Hughes’ whereabouts. Buhler said it was impossible to see Hughes but…
It wasn’t surprising. The IRS was uncovering what The Wall Street Journal called the largest skimming operation the IRS had…
Mullen President Robert Bennett reported detailed knowledge of the Watergate incident to his CIA case officer [Martin Lukasky]. The case…
Maheu gave the first detailed account of the famous $100,000 gift to Nixon—in a sworn deposition. While there had been…
Humphrey told Meier that Don Nixon was heard threatening that the administration was going to do something against O’Brien because…
Donald Nixon offered Meier a solution to his IRS problems if he’d help retrieve what he had (supposedly) given to…
Nixon’s problem was that some money was intentionally moved in circuitous ways because at least $100,000 had been taken from…
May, someone at the IRS leaked the story to the press that Meier was under investigation by the IRS. Nixon…
The situation was beginning to get out of hand for Hughes, the CIA and the White House. The three groups…
During March, two additional Albuquerque break-ins were made at Meier’s campaign offices. The situation was beginning to get out of…
A Federal grand jury in New York investigating the Clifford Irving hoax for possible crimes subpoenaed Meier to questioning and…
Campaign Coordinator Harry Evans’ report to Meier on Nevada’s political structure was stolen when someone broke into the Downtowner Motel…
During March, two additional Albuquerque break-ins were made at Meier’s campaign offices. 3/10/1972
Telephone threats on Meier’s life became so common that he had to get a police monitor on his phones in…
After a sweep, Campaign Manager Tom Benavidez found a transmitting device on his office phone. The campaign was being directed…
Meier jumped into an early lead in polls and stood a good chance of winning over Domenici who was thought…
In some ways, Meier represented even more of threat, especially to the White House. Meier’s close friendship with Don Nixon…
After The Times article, Mitchell met with Liddy and the result was Liddy’s belief that he had the go-ahead for…
Just the seamier aspects of the AirWest bribery story were enough to threaten Nixon’s chances of reelection. Nixon hadn’t forgotten…
During February, there was a break-in at Meier’s room at the Marriott Hotel in New York. He was there meeting…
Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy discussed with Hughes security chief Ralph White a plan to burglarize the offices of Las…
During January, Meier’s Albuquerque home was broken into and bugged by a CIC team. 1/20/1972
Over the objections of his friends throughout the Hughes organization, who warned Meier not to raise too many questions about…
At a restaurant Don Nixon asked Meier if Larry O’Brien (now chair of the Democratic National Committee) had an office…
At the end of 1971, the IRS and the Justice Department—presumably unaware of the depth of the CIA connections to…
McGraw-Hill calls Maheu to corroborate portions of the Clifford Irving biography of Hughes. Irving’s fake autobiography accused Maheu (and not…
Virgino Gonzalez, an ex-CIA agent who was assigned by the agency to monitor the activities of John Meier, a former…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
Meier, George Clifford and Louis Russell met at a restaurant. Russell claimed that the Republicans were planning to break into…
Don Nixon asked Meier to help recover damaging information given to Larry O’Brien. Meier said no. Meier and his family went…
Mitchell authorized the burglary of O’Brien’s office at Watergate and publisher Hank Greenspan’s office in Las Vegas. Hunt met with…
The tension gradually increased through 1971. Maheu and Meier talked more and more. The agency, the Hughes Empire and the…
There was some concern about the dangers posed by the angry Maheu’s relationship with O’Brien. A White House memo dated…
Haldeman instructed Dean to get more information on Maheu and O’Brien: “You and Chuck Colson should get together and come…
After forging documents that gave Hughes’ land holdings (including some mines) to the clique of Mormons, And a few months…
Charles Colson wrote to another White House aide: “Bob Bennett, son of Senator Wallace Bennett of Utah, has just [taken]…
Whatever the causes of the Hughes power shift, however legal it was, the Nixon White House had to have known…