Editing Daniel Ellsberg (section)

==Fielding break-in==
[[File:Daniel Ellsberg psychiatrist filing cabinet.jpg|thumb|Fielding's filing cabinet, with break-in marks, on display at the [[Smithsonian National Museum of American History]]]]
In August 1971, Krogh and Young met with [[G. Gordon Liddy]] and [[E. Howard Hunt]] in a basement office in the [[Old Executive Office Building]]. Hunt and Liddy recommended a "covert operation" to get a "mother lode" of information about Ellsberg's mental state to discredit him. Krogh and Young sent a memo to Ehrlichman seeking his approval for a "covert operation [to] be undertaken to examine all of the medical files still held by Ellsberg's psychiatrist", Lewis Fielding. Ehrlichman approved under the condition that it be "done under your assurance that it is not traceable."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/opinion/30krogh.html|first=Egil|last=Krogh|author-link=Egil Krogh|title=The Break-In That History Forgot|journal=The New York Times|date=June 30, 2007}}</ref>

On September 3, 1971, the burglary of Fielding's office{{Snd}}titled "Hunt/Liddy Special Project No. 1" in Ehrlichman's notes{{Snd}}was carried out by [[White House Plumbers]] Hunt, Liddy, [[Eugenio Martínez]], Felipe de Diego, and [[Bernard Barker]] (the latter three were, or had been, recruited CIA agents).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/325566/united-states-v-felipe-de-diego/ |title=United States v. Felipe de Diego, 511 F.2d 818 |website=CourtListener.com |publisher=[[Free Law Project]] |year=1975 |access-date=December 5, 2017}}</ref> The Plumbers found Ellsberg's file, but it apparently did not contain the potentially embarrassing information they sought, as they left it discarded on the floor of Fielding's office.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hougan|first=Jim |title=Secret Agenda |publisher=[[Random House]] |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-394-51428-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/secretagendawate00houg |author-link=Jim Hougan }}</ref> Hunt and Liddy subsequently planned to break into Fielding's home, but Ehrlichman did not approve the second burglary. The break-in was not known to Ellsberg or to the public until it came to light during Ellsberg's and Russo's trial in April 1973.<ref name=Smithsonian>{{citation |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-filing-cabinet-36568830/ |title=The World's Most Famous Filing Cabinet |author=Owen Edwards |year=2012 |work=Smithsonian Magazine}}</ref>