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Lewis said that he :.0k | _ This tape transcript was :| the cash home and then sev- introduced :at the Watergate {| eral days later called And- | cover-up trial. At that time (+ reas and asked to borrow the prosecutors did not kndws the money. The joan “Was , What the “100,000” refer- ;; confirmed by a letter which ence -meant. They pursued ‘/} Lewis said he sent to And- the subject with Woods and learned from her that there ‘ was $100,000 given by An- dreas. ; Neither Woods nor Nixon could be reached by a re- porter to discuss the - $100,000. * In part, because the money ' was kept after the election, } the prosecutors concluded _ that Nixon and Woods never : intended to use the $100,000 - inthe 1972 campaign, accord- ing to the sources, Moreover, the Andreas : $100,000: was not on Woods” * secret list of early contri- butors. This so-called “Rose Mary’s’ Baby” list was later made public and the An- dreas $25,000 giventhrough | Dahlberg was listed. The $100,000 has another twist. When Andreas wanted to give the nioney in 1971 ontacted a-golfing friend, obart Lewis, ¢chairthan of ‘éader’s Digest and*a ¢lose friend of Nixon’s, . Lewis put Andreas in con- , ae with Woods and the » $100;000 was soon delivered personally by Andreas to the White House, ; Andreas declined to com- ment on,the matter through his .attorney, Edwaid Ben- nett Williams., _ For reasons that are no clear, when Nixon and Woods decided to return the $100,000 in Juné, -1973, Woods asked’ Lewis — not Andreas — to come to the ; White House, She then gave | him $100,000 in cash — all | $100 bills in 10 packets of - $10,000 each, Ac¢ording to. the sources, Lewis then had Woods in- form Andreas the money : had been returned. Lewis | kept it for several days. and } then borrowed it from And- ewis, in a recent inter- , Vig¢w, confirmed the details | | ofjthe transactions and saitl . hij role was “perfectly in- | [notent” i i} reas. In addition, Lewis said i that he later signed a-formal promissory note for the {f $100,000 loan, which has not .| been paid back. The transactions involv- ing the $100,000 did not vio- late any law because there was no evidence that the $100,000 was anything more than a political contribution ' which was returned and . then loaned to another per- : a. Khashoggi said’ he sent ‘s . Khashoggi confirmed the sdetails of his Key Biscayne account, It was a trustee ac- count ‘sét up in’ 1968, Las Vegas real estate agent and -longtime Khashoggi friend. Eugene Warner was. the trustee for the account and . empowered to write checks. on it and withdraw money. More than $1 million was transferred into the account from foreign banks ftom 1968 to 1972. Khashoggi said he set up the account in Rebozo’s bank beeause he wanted to win favor. with the President's best friend. ' Phe discovery by, the pto-——"Warner from Las Vegas cutors of Saudi business- . Inan Khashoggi’s account in hw b ! 1 | Rebozo’s Key Biscayne bank became, part of the Rebozo grand jury investigation, according to. government sources. . In interviews earlier this year Khashoggi confirmed the two’ separate .$100,000 ' cash withdrawals, “T know it looks suspici- ous,” Khashoggi said, ack- nowledging ‘that he could provide no records to docu- mént where the money went, | He swid that the cash was spent gambling in the-Carib- bean and to pay off other gambling debts. . The $200,000 was “a drop in the bucket,” said the Saudi businéssman. He is a , abulously wealthy.man and, , for example, has been the ' recipient of at least $10 million in'commissions from ° ——e a 3 Lofkheed alone fo} acting i. twice to withdraw $100,000 in cash from: the trustee ac- count, Other , sources pro- vided the dates which Khas- “hoggi said “sound about right.” On each trip, according to Khashoggi and government sources, Warner saw Rebozo-: and ‘asked him to-get a pres- idential: endorsementfor a $818 million annual plan’ which would enable the Saudis te buy marketing and -. -Tefining facilities in the United States in exchange for a guaranteed’ supply of , Arab crude oil, ‘ The plan, called “Petro- sat,” did not win Nixon’s endorsement and was even- tually abandoned by Khas-. ' * hoggi. ° Rebozo.declined to answer the prosecutors’ questions asfagent in the salé of alme"VE craft to the Saudi govern. * ment. . | ia “If President Nixon asked ' me for a million dollars, I would have given it, to him,” Khashoggi Said, adding, however, that neither Nixon ' Nor Rebozo ever askéd for any.money in: 1972. As' préviously reported Khashoggi gave $50,000 to the 1968 Nixon campaign ‘ough John Pochna, a wealthy consultant ta nik, man J. Paul Getty. . — 4 CHARLES ‘G. REBOZO .. held Hughes contribution about the Khashoggi ac- count, according totnforn sources, His attorney, James Sharp, told the prosecutors that Rebozo would not an- swer questions ‘before the grand jury because he had already testified more than ,a dozen times. It is normal practice for prosecutors not to force tes- -timony through subpoena for someone who is a tar- get of a criminal investiga- tion. Rebozo was a target of the probe in 1974-75 but no charges were ‘brought, Sharp also declined to answer a reporter’s ques- tions. Warner’s attorney, R. Paul Sorenson of Las Vegas, con- firmed that Warner had testified before the grand ‘ jury here last year in the Khashoggi investigation and also declined to answer a re- porter's questions, Records. of the transac- tions involving the Khas- hoggi account were appar- ently kept by Warner in his Las Vegas home. But War- ner reported that his house was burglarized on Aug. 4, 1974, and his financial ree- ords for 1972 were ali that was listed as missing, ac- cording to Las Vegas police. The-burglary was:reported within days after the proge- wuttem learned awit [fre J0)\matiegg) account and Jin- dicated tyes had dwealipns to ask,