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The Nixon Administration was obsessed with leaks to the press and Ehrlichman made Krogh head of the "Special Investigation Unit" in the White House; Krogh and his associates were familiarly known as the "Plumbers." It was an unlikely choice. Krogh had a reputation as a "Mr. Clean," so much on the straight-and-narrow his friends nicknamed him "Evil Krogh." [[Theodore White]] would write "to put Egil Krogh in charge of a secret police operation was equivalent to making [[Frank Merriwell]] cheif executive of a [[KGB]] squad." Krogh brought Liddy into his new office.
When the administration decided to pursue the [[Pentagon Papers]] leakers, it was Krogh who organized the September [[1971]] burglarly of the office of [[Lewis Fielding]], the psychiatrist seeing [[Daniel Ellsberg]]. Liddy and [[E. Howart Hunt]] would commit the actual break-in. Ehrlichman, who himself went to prison, would write in his memoirs this was an example of "such doubtful personal judgement . . . that it has to be said
On [[November 30]], [[1973]], Krogh entered a guilty plea to federal charges of conspiring to violate Fielding's civil rights and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. He was sentenced to six months in prison, being released [[June 21]], [[1974]].
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