Reply #6: USA: “Meet the Vendors.” SAIC (ES&S’s) CEO Kenneth Dahlberg

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Well, Michelle Shafer was nothing compared to SAIC’s CEO. Years back, when the press occasionally reported the real news, we had this scandal called Watergate. Guess who was at the center of it, Kenneth C. Dahlberg. His deposit of $25,000 case (like $100k back then) in burglar Bernard Barker’s account was discovered by Woodward and it blew the scandal wide open. Dahlberg was never indicted for anything but now runs the company that counts a large percentage of our votes. Priceless.

SAIC

http://www.saic.com/

Meet KENNETH C. DAHLBERG.
SAIC CEO, President, Chairman of the Board, and Director

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Dahlberg


SAIC bought ES&S voting systems company from the right wing Republicans who founded it. Good news? Not really. Look at the provile of the company and then lets look at who runs it. Ken Dahlberg!!! That Ken Dahlberg, the Watergate Ken…never indicted but central to the discovery of the case.

“During the Watergate investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Bernstein traveled to Miami, Florida to see Martin Dardis, the head investigator for Dade County District Attorney Richard E. Gerstein. Since most of the Watergate burglars were from Miami, the district attorney's office had launched an investigation. Dardis showed Bernstein a photostatic copy of a cashier's check for $25,000 that had been deposited into the bank account of a real estate firm owned by Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate burglars. The check was drawn on a Boca Raton, Florida bank and was made out to Kenneth H. Dahlberg. Bernstein telephoned this information to Woodward who was back at the Post in Washington, D.C.

Woodward had a research librarian at the Post check the newspaper's files for any articles mentioning or pictures of Dahlberg. The librarian found a 1967 photograph of Dahlberg with Vice-President Hubert Humphrey at a Minnesota fundraiser.

The search for Dahlberg was narrowed to Minnesota and Woodward located Dahlberg's telephone number from information and called him at home. At first, Dahlberg did not believe Woodward was actually a reporter. He later called Woodward back and explained that his neighbor, Virginia Piper, had been recently kidnapped and it was an upsetting experience. Dahlberg told Woodward he had the check made out to himself while he was in Florida on business and did not want to carry that much cash around. Dahlberg could not explain how the check got into Barker's bank account but said it was either given to the Committee to Re-elect the President or to Maurice Stans.

Dahlberg was the midwest finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President during President Richard M. Nixon's 1972 campaign. In 1968, Dahlberg was the finance chairman for Clark MacGregor's unsuccessful Senate campaign in Minnesota. MacGregor was later appointed the head of the Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 after former attorney general John Mitchell had resigned.

It was later learned the $25,000 came from Dwayne Andreas, chief executive officer of Archer Daniels Midland, as an anonymous donation to the Nixon campaign.

Woodward later commented that finding Dahlberg's check was a turning point in their Watergate investigation because it led to the discovery of how the Watergate burglars were financed through a money-laundering scheme.

Dahlberg was neither accused of nor implicated in any wrongdoing as a result of the Watergate scandal.”