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STATINTL Approved For Release 20WSC$rP8O1601 .27 June 1972 Paul Crume's . AT TIMES, it seems that the Repub- licans have more security now than they can handle. As all the experts say, it is bungled security. First, a security man for the Republican organization is arrested with a bunch of men trying to burglar- ize and wire-tap the Democratic Nation- al Committee headquarters in Washing- ton. Apparently, they were trying to steal the Democratic Party. Bungling is the word. Who in the world would want to steal the Demo- cratic Party in its present state? All those documents they were going to photograph probably said: "Sir, Your Account is overdrawn $9,000,000, and unless we reach some agreement for payment, we will have to fore- close. The fact that there isn't any- thing to foreclose on, is the only thing in. recent years that has made the Democratic Party .viable, to use a. fashionable word. NOW REPUBLICAN security may have tried to silence Martha Mitchell, which is bungling if there ever was bun- gling. Mrs. Mitchell has tearfully com- plained that she was locked up in a lux- urious dungeon in California, one pre- sumably recommended by Duncan Hines, and that when she tried to tele- phone out, a Republican security guard tore the phone 'ff the wall. Since Childe Harold John Mitchell did not the Dark Tower come running, she said she is going to leave Childe Harold until he gets over the Nixon election witchcraft. We accept Mrs. Mitchell's story. She has been one of the few lively people in a dull gray Washington. She is a hair tr;gger tallier who has the habit of rais- ing questions. An administration in' power never wants questions raised. It has the theory that if questions are nev- er raised, they will go away. Mrs. Mitchell's threat of temporarily leaving her husband doesn't seem that important because he wasn't there to leave. He was away trying to add to that 10 million he has for Nixon and trying to explain Henry Kissinger to the button-shoe Republicans. Still, .11rs. ,1litchcll is a -nice woman, and if she had called mre, 1 would hare rushed to her de. - /case, now that J. Edgar Iloorer is dead. REPUBLICAN SECURITY raises important policy questions, however. If all these security people are out steal- ing the Democratic Party and tearing out Mrs. Mitchell's telephone, who is watching the White House? That's what the Democrats want to steal. The administration should also re-. member that a Republican has his civil. rights, even if he is a member of the minority. A Republican is just as enti- tled to free speech as a member of the Black Caucus or the Ku Klux Klan, even though he may not seem to be. Mrs. Mitchell will take care of this. She is free speech incarnate. The last question is: Whv do th~ t` Sri n former CIA peoi?le e ol ih ub- lic J Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP80-01601 R001200230001-6