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(Friday, September 3, 1971, approximately 11:00 p.m. PDT; during the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Under the authorization of U.S. presidential adviser John Ehrlichman, the Beverly Hills, California, office of Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg (who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press, exposing systematic lies to the nation about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War), was broken into late tonight by a team of burglars. Continue reading White House ‘Plumbers’ break into office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 3 1971)