The Nation: A Gallery of the Guilty

In all, 26 former Nixon aides and agents have pleaded guilty or been convicted in the scandals known collectively as Watergate. The criminal acts involve the break-ins and bugging at Democratic national headquarters in Washington, the subsequent coverup, various acts of sabotage against the Democrats in the 1972 presidential campaign, secret payments of hush money to the Watergate burglars, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Richard Nixon's federal tax return claims and perjury in connection with the investigation into a possible connection between the settlement of antitrust suits against the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. and its pledges of money for the Republican National Convention. The former President, named an unindicted co-conspirator by the Watergate grand jury for his role in the coverup, was pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford for all offenses that he may have committed during his 5½ years in office. Here is a listing of the men who have been found guilty and the offices they once held:

JOHN N. MITCHELL, 61, Attorney General, later head of Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and three counts of lying; awaiting sentencing.

HARRY ROBBINS HALDEMAN, 48, White House chief of staff. Convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and three counts of perjury; awaiting sentencing.

JOHN D. EHRLICHMAN, 49, chief domestic affairs adviser. Convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and two counts of perjury; awaiting sentencing. Also convicted of conspiracy in the Ellsberg break-in and two counts of perjury for lying about his awareness of a White House plan to get a psychological profile of Ellsberg; appealing a sentence of 20 months to five years.

ROBERT C. MARDIAN, 51, attorney for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and once the chief of the Justice Department's internal security division. Convicted of conspiracy; awaiting sentencing.

JOHN W. DEAN III, 36, chief White House counsel and a major Watergate prosecution witness. Pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and to defraud the U.S. in the Watergate coverup; now serving a one-to-four-year prison sentence.

CHARLES W. COLSON, 43, Nixon's special counsel. Pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for devising a scheme to get and disseminate derogatory information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg in 1971; serving a one-to-three-year sentence.

DWIGHT L. CHAPIN, 34, appointments secretary to Nixon. Convicted on two counts of perjury for false testimony to a federal grand jury about his discussion with Dirty Tricks Specialist Donald Segretti about distribution of fake campaign literature; appealing a sentence of ten to 30 months.

JEB STUART MAGRUDER, 40, deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the coverup; now serving a ten-month-to-four-year sentence.

EGIL KROGH JR., 34, White House aide to Ehrlichman. Pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the Ellsberg breakin; has completed a six-month sentence.