Five years ago, John Dean filed suit against me (Len Colodny), Robert Gettlin (my co-author), the publishers of "Silent Coup" and G. Gordon Liddy for 150 million dollars. The documentation produced and the witnesses deposed, especially over the past two years, have created a MOUNTAIN of evidence in support of "Silent Coup's" claim of Dean's prebreak-in involvement in the planning and execution of the "Watergate" wiretapping and burglary.
In my opinion, it has become clear to Dean during the past nine months that he has little chance of winning the lawsuit on the issues. More IMPORTANTLY, my attorneys, prior to Christmas, filed a "SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION" requesting a dismissal of this lawsuit by the Court.
This document is of great historical importance. It identifies my sources and the information provided by each source that corresponds to each of the 97 Dean sued-upon assertions of defamation. It serves as a resource for historians and journalists studying the "Nixon years" and the "Watergate" scandal for decades to come.
Let me describe the document to you. The body of the document is between 500 and 550 pages. Attached to it are 754 separate exhibits, spanning between 3,400 and 3,500 pages. The total document consists of nearly 4,200 pages and stands two feet high.
Lots of new evidence is contained in the document, such as information establishing that the true target of the break-in was NOT DNC Chairman Larry O'Brien's office telephone but another telephone in the DNC office complex used, among other things, to contact an ESCORT service for out-of-town male visitors. And there is much, much more.
The February 10th issue of "Insight" magazine reported the following about the filing of the motion.
"In December, Colodny's attorneys dumped a 4,200-page summary-judgment motion into Dean's lap asking U.S. Magistrate Alan Kay to dismiss the case. Dean immediately requested a continuance to respond to the motion. It was a briar patch."
"Even Dean's own words in his best-selling book "Blind Ambition" are being used in Colodny's motion to portray Dean as a liar."
In a last ditch effort to maintain Dean's fictional account of his true role in the "Watergate" scandal, Dean's attorneys made a vigorous attempt to have this document sealed by the court. That would have kept it from the public forever, and Dean's mythical story would continue unchallenged. This effort failed, the truth is out and the "Watergate" history will never be the same again.
After reading the motion, or a condensation thereof, I am sure you will agree with my opinion that "Silent Coup" has won the "Historical Struggle" on these issues. So that you can fully comprehend the substance and content of the Motion, I am publishing the Motion's printed TABLE OF CONTENTS. If you wish to obtain a copy of the Motion itself, please send me an e-mail.
We are looking forward to John Wesley Dean's ANSWER to this motion. He owes that, not to us, but to ALL the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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Liddy Challenges Dean's Version Of Watergate Events
by Len Colodny
When John Dean testified before the Senate Watergate Committee on June 25th, 1973, he read into record an opening statement that exceeded 240 pages. In great detail, he presented his version of the Watergate affair from beginning to end; knowing fully well that G. Gordon Liddy would remain silent. As a result, Dean's version of events remained unchallenged and became the accepted version of the Watergate affair for many years.
In 1980, however, Liddy published his own best selling autobiography and uncovered a whole new set of facts. The book Will portrayed Dean as being much more involved in both the pre break-in plotting and planning and the post break-in cover-up. Liddy painted an entirely different picture then the one Dean crafted for the Senate, for the Courts and in his own 1976 book Blind Ambition.
Following the 1991 publication of Silent Coup, Liddy reissued a paperback edition of Will. The newer edition directly contradicted Dean's version of events and accused him of being a "Serial Perjurer." The result was a lawsuit filed by Dean against Liddy in 1992. This suit created a unique opportunity for Liddy to recount his story under oath – subject to the laws of perjury. Until Liddy's testimony, historians relied solely on Dean's account and subsequent book – a version which had up to this time had accumulated more credibility then Liddy's account because of the official nature of Dean's testimony. This all changed in 1996 as Liddy provided several days of deposition testimony in the Dean lawsuit. It was the very first time that Liddy's version of events had been officially given under oath.
June 2004 marks the 31st anniversary of Dean's Senate testimony. The "Nixon Era Times" is publishing an exclusive – for the first time anywhere – a portion of Liddy's testimony that challenges the heretofore-accepted Dean version. From now on both John Dean and G. Gordon Liddy's testimony will carry equal weight. The reader can judge the evidence surrounding these versions to determine who is telling the truth and who is not. The significance is clear: if Liddy is telling the truth and Dean is not, then the currently accepted version of the Watergate events can no longer stand.
http://www.nixonera.com/etexts/core_subjects/core17.asp