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SOURCE: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n23_v13/ai_19504400 Former Attorney General John Mitchell, Domestic Policy Adviser John Ehrlichman and White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman were tried on several charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury, and each received sentences of two-and-a-half to eight years. Mitchell, who died in 1988, was jailed for 19 months. Haldeman, who died in 1993, served 18 months. Ehrlichman, now producing a documentary on Watergate, also served 18 months. White House aide and Committee to Re-elect the President, or CREEP, legal counsel G. Gordon Liddy (see "Courage, Loyalty and Clarity Prized by G. Gordon Liddy Fans," p. 16), is now a popular radio talk-show host -- as well as a plaintiff in a libel suit by another Watergate figure, John Dean. Liddy served 52 months of a six- to 20-year sentence for multiple counts of burglary, conspiracy and interception of wire and oral communications. White House aide and CREEP legal counsel E. Howard Hunt, who has written several spy novels, pleaded guilty to six counts of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping and served 32 months of a two-and-a-half- to eight-year sentence. CREEP security chief James W. McCord was convicted on multiple counts of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping. He served two months of a one- to five-year prison term. The head Watergate burglar, anti-Castro activist Bernard Barker, served 13 months of an 18-month to six-year sentence for the crime. The three other burglars each received one- to four-year sentences. Eugenio Rolando Martinez served 15 months, and Virgilio Gonzalez and Frank Sturgis each served 13 months. A Watergate figure who turned to religion, Jeb Stuart Magruder, now is senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Ky. Magruder pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice and wiretapping. The deputy director of CREEP as well as the White House Office of Communications, he was sentenced to a 10-months to four-year prison term, but his time was reduced to seven months for testifying against other Watergate figures. Presidential counsel John W. Dean III, who is suing Liddy and the authors of the book Silent Coup for defamation in response to allegations about his role in Watergate (see cover story), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice -- a charge that, according to historian Kutler, "encompassed a collection of nefarious activities" including funneling money to Watergate defendants and gaining access to FBI reports. Dean's one- to four-year sentence was reduced after he served as the principal witness for the Watergate prosecution and testified against other Watergate figures. He served only four months in prison. Presidential-appointments secretary Dwight L. Chapin, who later was publisher of Success magazine, was convicted of lying to a grand jury and served almost eight month 10- to 30-month sentence.
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