Nixon Tape Tells of 1972 Burglary By KAREN GULLO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- On newly released tapes from the Nixon White House, President Nixon is heard discussing a break-in at the Chilean Embassy in Washington, according to a transcript. The transcript was made by the Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation from tapes kept at the National Archives. It was made public today simultaneously with the National Archives' release of tapes of 54 minutes of conversations that were recorded by Nixon's secret taping system in the White House. A break-in at the Chilean Embassy on May 13, 1972, was reported in the newspapers at the time, but no link was made to the White House. ``When we get down, for example, to the break-in, the Chilean Embassy -- that thing was part of the burglars' plan, as a cover,'' Nixon tells White House counsel J. Fred Buzhardt Jr. in an Oval Office conversation on May 16, 1973, according to the transcript. ``Those ... (expletive) are trying to have a cover -- or a CIA cover.'' Former Nixon aide John Taylor, co-executor of the Nixon estate and executive director of the Nixon library in Yorba Linda, Calif., said he could shed no light on the Chilean break-in. The tapes made public today had been withheld by the archives because they covered matters with national security implications. The archives previously released 201 hours of tapes that deal with alleged abuses of government power. More tapes are scheduled to be released over coming months. The National Archives does not make transcripts of the Nixon tapes, except under court order, because there is no way to ensure their accuracy, said Karl Weissenbach, director of the Nixon project at the archives. Transcripts are hard to prepare because of background noise, several people talking at once, the difficulty of identifying voices and the quality of the recordings, he said.
