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Friday, December 21, 1973 The Dubois County DAILY HERALD, Jasper, Ind. Investigation Indicates 1RS Resisted Political Pressure Page 5 By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (UPI) Congressional investigators have concluded that the Internal Revenue Service did not buckle under pressures from John W. Dean III, author of a our political memo, when he came up with a list of 575 At the same time, former IRS Commissioner Johnnie M. Walters did not complain to the Justice Department about White House efforts to turn the IRS into a political an apparent violation of the law. Reporting Thursday on the results of a six-month investigation into the behavior under political pressure, the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation said it found no evidence the taxmen conducted harassing audits against the 575 taxpayers on list.

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11, 1972, and asked him see what type of information could be developed concerning the people on the Walters said he turned to his superior, Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz, who told him to So, Walters said, he locked the list in his safe and took it with him when he left government service on May 21, 1973. Remained Silent But neither he nor Shultz informed the Justice Department, the investigators said. Last summer, Dean testified about his memo on we can use the available federal machinery to screw our politi cal He told the Senate Watergate Committee that at a now famous Sept. 15, 1972, meeting Nixon complained about the political irresponsiveness Dean said he replied the IRS was staffed by a bureaucracy of left-over Demo crats.

Nixon replied he would change things after the elec tion. But Dean did not tell the Watergate committee about his visit with Walters four days before that meeting. Woodworth said Walters got the impression Dean wanted tax audits on the 575 life made tough on Reaction impression is Johnnie Walters was Woodworth told reporters. check showed that the 575 taxpayers had undergone about twice as many audits as would be normal for people in their brackets. But, he said, the were scrutinized not out of political motives but because as class they tended to have more entertainment deductions and other checkworthy deductions than most taxpayers.

One of those who was audited paid taxes of more than $1 million in one year, Woodworth said. He said most of the enemies appeared to be supporters of 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern or his contributors or wealthy supporters of liberal causes. Among the prominent people on the list were: Jean Westwood and Lawrence both former Democratic national chairmen; entertainers Burt Lancaster, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Polly Bergen, Gene Hackman, Joseph E. Levine, and Herb Alpert; Painter Georgia Sen.

William Proxmire, Rep. Bella Abzug, former IRS Commissioner Mor- timner Caplin; former Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford, Frances Farenthold, former Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Howard M. Metzenbaum of Cleveland, who was designated Wednesday to fill the vacant Senate seat of William B. Saxbe, the new attorney general.

Also Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, cosmetic naker Max Factor, Xerox executive Max Palevsky, liberal philanthropists Philip Stern and Stewart Mott, Harvard Professor George Wald, Sculptor Alexander Calder. Among the McGovern staff people or supporters were: Gary Hart, Frank Mankiewicz, Pierre Salinger, Gordon Weil, Anne Wexler, retired Adm. Gene LaRocque, Richard Dougherty and Kirby Jones. Job Exam In 165 B.C. Peking The earliest known civil-service examination was held in the Chinese court in 165 B.C.

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