"Haldeman," Mellinger said, "destroyed the first 17 minutes of his notes and left the conclusion of his notes, which was not incriminating. An electrostatic charge is applied to the page and then, tiny glass beads and black copier toner are cascaded or carefully brushed over the document. "What happens is the black particles will congregate in the areas where the indented impressions are," Lyter said. Watergate The 18 ½ Minute Gap and Haldeman's Notes. "When contacted to follow up on the statement, spokeswoman Miriam Kleiman declined to comment, abruptly hanging up the phone.Paynter referred all questions back to the public affairs office.Until the National Archives decides whether it will examine Haldeman's notes using electrostatic detection, professional historians and amateurs like Mellinger will continue to speculate on the 18 1/2-minute gap.
The Watergate Tapes (lost 18½ minute gap of audio recordings; 1972) ... re-recording roughly five minutes of the tape. "We're still debating the Lindbergh kidnapping.
You might find a grocery list embedded on a bank robbery note or, if you're lucky, somebody's name and address. The White House released a memo partially detailing the president's July call with Zelenskiy, but this only raised more questions as to his conduct.The memo is not a direct transcript of the call. "I've always been doing high-tech investigations of one type or another," said Mellinger, whose intelligence career has taken him from the Air Force and National Security Agency to the private sector.He is now the chief technology officer for Turiss LLC, a Virginia-based company that develops software and strategies to fight cyber and financial fraud. An electrostatic charge is applied to the page and then, tiny glass beads and black copier toner are cascaded or carefully brushed over the document. "It's been a godsend," said Albert Lyter, president and chief scientific officer of North Carolina-based Federal Forensic Associates. On this day in 1973, J. Fred Buzhardt, a lawyer defending President Richard Nixon in the Watergate case, revealed to U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica that a key White House tape …
"It's not clear that Haldeman's notes, now more than three decades old, would reveal anything. I would only add the following. "The two remaining pages of notes from the meeting -- written by Haldeman on yellow, lined pads -- are stored at the National Archives facility in College Park, Md. CLAYTON SANDELL. "For now, the conversation between Nixon -- who would become the first U.S. president in history to resign from office -- and one of his closest aides is still a puzzle. "The National Archives is apparently taking Mellinger's proposal to decipher missing parts of Haldeman's notes seriously. Watergate Tape: Nixon's Lost Minutes May Be RecoveredOver 70 Stanford doctors, researchers warn against Trump's latest task force expertArmy officials reveal new details in Vanessa Guillen caseBook: Kim Jong Un told Trump about killing his uncleTrump tries to deflect blame but stands by comments made in Woodward interview "Bob" Haldeman, that were captured by the president's secret White House recording system in the days immediately following the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters.But those tapes contain a mysterious 18.5-minute gap -- a patch of buzzes and clicks of missing audio -- in the middle of a recording made June 20, 1972, three days after the break-in.Rose Mary Woods, Nixon’s loyal private secretary, was tasked with transcribing the tapes before they were turned over to prosecutors. The erasure of the other 13½ minutes supposedly occurred while she was listening to the portion she had re-recorded. "It's not clear that Haldeman's notes, now more than three decades old, would reveal anything. Where are the missing minutes to the Watergate tape?