There’s an intriguing discrepancy in the Fielding burglary reports: Later, one of the burglars, Felipe De Diego, said that the burglars had found the Ellsberg file and successfully photographed it. Fielding too has said that the Ellsberg file was actually in the office that night, and when he arrived the next morning, it “looked as if it had been fingered,” leaving open the possibility that either De Diego was telling the truth or that the burglars had raced past it without realizing. Liddy, years later, would wonder if Hunt and the burglars had done an end run around him: Did they actually
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