WFB begins by quoting John Dean's testimony to the Watergate committee: " 'I told the President that Hunt wanted $72,000 for living expenses and $50,000 for

attorneys' fees, and, if he did not get the money and get it quickly, he would have a lot of seamy things to say about what he had done for John Ehrlichman ...' " In Mr. Hunt's previous Firing Line appearance (#S77) the subject was the CIA and the Bay of Pigs; here he and his host explore the similarities and differences between official acts of clandestine agents and unofficial operations like the Plumbers'. Specifically, Mr. Hunt explains that the financial arrangement he had demanded was simply the clandestine services' traditional way of taking care of the families of captured agents. WFB: "I'm wondering what it is that caused [Nixon and his men] to use that term [blackmail], considering that you were saying this was really a traditional arrangement." EHH: "Well, I certainly understood it traditionally; obviously others did not, who should have."