One file contained top-secret cables apparently forged by Hunt that made it appear the administration of president John F. Kennedy had been implicated in the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. A second file contained false letters apparently intended to embarrass Senator Edward Kennedy if he ran for president.
Gray said he burned the papers because he was following the instructions of Dean and John Ehrlichman, Nixon's top domestic affairs adviser, never to reveal their contents.
"I had an order, direct order from the president's principal adviser, to whom he had previously ordered me to report," Gray said, saying that he trusted Nixon and his aides.
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