-DOUG PORTER
- tee, and the Special Prosecutors office
wASHINGTeti~ver since the,Watergate
scandal began unfolding, rumors of all
stripes have swept the nation's -Capital.
Many of these rumors have turned up
in print through the efforts of dedicated
journalists. Most of them h~ve b~en
damning to the Nixon administration.
But the heaviest rumor of all-that
members of the White House staff were
authorizing or encouraging assassina-
tions of individuals in a position to do
extreme damage to the Nixon admin-
istration- is a stone that has been left
unturned by the straight media.
The mysterious death of White House
secretary Beverly Kaye in December,
1973 is serving as the focus of the as~­
ass111ation rumors currently sweeping
Washington. Highly placed sources in-
s ide the Federal Bureaucracy have told
Intelligence Report that they believe
Ms. Kaye was murdered because she
knew too much about the content of the
White House tapes.
Beverly Kaye began working as an
executive secretary in the White House
during the Johnson administration_. She
was according to friends, "a confirmed
De~ocrat, and very quietly anti-~ixon" •
Wring the Nixon administration she
worked as secretary to Stephen Bull,
the Secret Service agent who was (and
is) in charge of safekeeping tap~- record-
ings of Presidential conversat~ons. The
actual storing and preservation of the
tapes were among her daily tasks. With
the controversy over the "eighteen min-
ute gap" and numerous inaudible portions
of the White Bouse tapes coming to the
forefront of the Watergate investigations,
there can be no doubt that Ms. Kaye
would have been among themostimport-
ant witnessess that the Senate Watergate
Committee, the House Judiciary Commit-
could have u3ed. And various sources
have told lntellig.ance Report that her
te:{'l a&might have been among the
most d· ii'iirevidence ever presented
against the Nixon administration.
At the time of her death, Beverly
Kaye was 42 years old. Divorced from
her husband (who was in Air Force In-
telligence), she lived quietly in Falls
Chruch, Virginia. The stories that she
told her friends and neighbors about her
experience at the White House had them
,convinced that Nixon and his aides were
fully involved in the Watergate bugging
and cover-up long before the press and
investigative agencies began bringing
forth evidence to the American public.
Shortly beofre Christmas, 1973, Ms.
Kaye told her co-workers that she was
feeling ill. A White House physician
was summoned, and was in the process
of taking her downstairs in an elevator
when she reportedly collapsed. She died,
according to doctors at George Wash-
ington Hospital, of a massive stroke.
But did she really die of a stroke?
One prominent coroner reported that
Ms . Kaye's death by stroke represented
a "statistical abberation". One doctor
told Intelligence Report that Ms . Kaye's
death could have been very easily caused
by the injection of an air bubble into her
bloodstream. Any sort of superficial
autopsy would have analysed this as
being a death coused by stroke.
Beverly Kay's funeral was paid for
by the White House. At the Everly
Funeral Home in Alexandria, Virginia,
Stephen Bull, the Secret Service agent
that Ms. Kaye worked for, refused to al-
low the casket to be opened. Alleged-
ly this was because -of facia l disfigure-
men_!., but it i s normal during high
class funerals (such as this one) that
cosmetic methods are used to make
the deceased suitable for viewing.
POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
"Termination with extreme pre.
is the term used by intelligece agE
for assaisinations. It is consid
standard tool by most countrie
large intelligence forces, includi
United States. "Troublemakers,"
security risks , and opposition
ciaos are regularly assassinated
curity forces in countries with t
ships, like Greece, Chile, or
Vietnam ...In South Vietnam, the C
Intelligence Agency set up a pr
for mass assassinations of pc
opponents known as the Phoenbl
gram. over 40 ,000 civilians we
ecuted without trial during the pealj
of the Vietnam war by Phoenix ~
ination teams. The program coll
today under the name "F-6".
Many of the techniques and tt
logical advances developed duril
Vietnam War have been put to l
security agencies in the United ~
Some sources in Washington D.(
wondering whether or not assai
tion is one of the techniques thal
come home from the war.
Beverly Kaye is not the only pol
witness in the Watergate affair th
met a suddent death. Murray Ch
a key witness in the Vesco case
run over by a truck last winte1
Howard Hunt's wife died in a 1
strange plane crash while carrying
money" during the first week in DE
ber, 1972.
Clearly, there is no hard evide1
support any claims of assassina
at this time. But a key element
assassination programs of inte~
agencies is "plausible denial"- a
alibi, and a good cover. One ihi
is clear is that the Nixon admini
tion has benefited from all these dE