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The burglary aimed at Ellsberg’s psychiatric records
The White House Plumbers broke into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office seeking material to discredit him. The record includes a guilty plea and convictions; no psychiatric detention was involved.
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What the record says
California case and incident register · Batch 1
- Date
- 3 Sep 1971
- People / institutions
- White House Plumbers (Krogh, Liddy, Hunt, Cuban operatives); Dr. Lewis Fielding, Beverly Hills; Daniel Ellsberg
- Mechanism
- Psychiatric records sought to discredit a whistleblower (no detention, no 5150)
- Allegation
- Operation aimed to build a "psychiatric profile" to discredit Ellsberg
- Finding or outcome
- ADMISSION (Krogh guilty plea); JUDICIAL FINDING (Ehrlichman convicted 1974, affirmed 1976; Liddy convicted); Ellsberg prosecution dismissed May 1973 for government misconduct
- Open questions
- Strongest purpose-evidence in the California record, though the instrument was records, not confinement
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Reference and provenance
1971-CA-ELLSBERG-FIELDING