Joseph Kraft person

“The documentary record also reveals no national security justification for the FBI's electronic surveillance of Mr Kraft overseas…”

“Mr Kraft agreed that he was in contact with North Vietnamese officials while he was abroad in 1969…”

“In June of that year Sullivan was requested by the Director apparently at the urging of White House officials to travel to France for the purpose of electronically monitoring the conversations of journalist Joseph Kraft.…”

“The FBI developed a special filing system or more accurately a destruction system for memoranda written about illegal techniques such as break-ins, and highly questionable operations such as the microphone surveillance of Joseph Kraft.…”

“Other individuals who were the subject of such name check requests under the Johnson Administration included ... columnist Joseph Kraft…”

“Apparently on the instructions of President Nixon's aide John Ehrlichman and Director Hoover FBI Assistant Director William C Sullivan arranged for the microphone surveillance of the hotel room of columnist Joseph Kraft…”

“The basic facts surrounding the wiretapping and microphone surveillance of columnist Joseph Kraft are a matter of public record…”

“John Ehrlichman instructed John Caulfield and John Ragan... to place a wiretap on the Washington D.C residence of Mr Kraft…”

“John Ehrlichman instructed John Caulfield and John Ragan... to place a wiretap on the Washington D.C residence of Mr Kraft…”

“John Ehrlichman instructed John Caulfield and John Ragan... to place a wiretap on the Washington D.C residence of Mr Kraft…”

“W 'C Sullivan then Assistant Director of the FBI subsequently followed Mr Kraft abroad apparently on instructions from Mr Hoover and Mr Ehrlichman…”

“There does not appear to have been any genuine national security justification for example supporting the 'Plumbers' wiretap on Joseph Kraft's Washington residence or the FBI's bug in his hotel room abroad…”

“Mr Kraft stated in a 1974 Congressional hearing that he was in contact with North Vietnamese officials while he was overseas in 1969 but he noted that this was a common practice among journalists and that he never knowingly published any cl…”

“He further stated that Henry Kissinger then the President's Special Adviser for National Security informed him that he had no contemporaneous knowledge of either the wiretap or the hotel room bug and that former Attorney General Elliot Rich…”

“He further stated that Henry Kissinger then the President's Special Adviser for National Security informed him that he had no contemporaneous knowledge of either the wiretap or the hotel room bug and that former Attorney General Elliot Rich…”

“Attorney General Edward Levi recently wrote Mr Kraft that the FBI's 115-document file on the columnist "did not indicate that Mr Kraft's activities posed any risk to the national interest.…”

“Beyond these claims there is little evidence that any national security issue was involved in the case Former Deputy Attorney General and Acting FBI Director William Ruckelshaus testified "I did review the information on which the effort wa…”

“The "Plumbers wiretap against Joseph Kraft was similarly installed without the prior or subsequent approval of the Attorney General…”

“I remember the case of Joseph Kraft a distinguished columnist meeting with certain foreign agents of a certain foreign government in Paris during the Vietnam war…”

“I remember the case of Joseph Kraft a distinguished columnist meeting with certain foreign agents of a certain foreign government in Paris during the Vietnam war…”

“The staff has determined that President Johnson asked for similar name check reports on at least seven other journalists including NBC commentator David Brinkley Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett who at about that time won a Pulitzer P…”