Jewish, Jewish Defense League. Beverley Hills, California. A travel agency is bombed, causing SJOOO in damage.
Revolutionary leftist. Ben Lomond, California. A Bank of America branch is bombed.
Revolutionary leftist. Torrance. California. The courthouse is bombed.
Jewish, Jewish Defense League. New York City, New York. A Soviet diplomat’s car is firebombed.
Revolutionary leftist. Santa Cruz, California. The National Guard building is bombed.
July 23, 1971: Allies at CIA create fake IDs for E. Howard Hunt to travel and rent motel rooms under…
Hunt is at the Top of CIA
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. San Francisco, California. A bank is robbed by the BLA; $9400 is taken.
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman reports that he has successfully created the special investigations unit ordered by the president (see Late…
Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Shirley McClaine are given network variety shows but they all bomb. The next year,…
FBI agents visited Dr. Fielding to pressure him about Ellsberg but the doctor wouldn’t hand over his records. The CIA…
Hunt Nearly gets more than Nixon – would have been dangerous for him.
Thor Heyerdahl’s papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados after a 57-day voyage from Morocco. Heyerdahl deliberately selected a crew…
Revolutionary leftist. Providence, Rhode Island. City hall is bombed.
Revolutionary leftist. San Diego, California. The Sell-Clive Service headquarter5 is bombed.
Hunt Asks for some cover and is congratulated on what is the pinnacle job of his career.
Chicano Liberation Front, Los ,n8el<'S, California. The Pan American National Bank is bombed.
E. Howard Hunt. [Source: American Patriot Friends Network] Nixon White House aides Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman appoint former CIA…
They need to decide how to run this
Revolutionary leftist. San Jose. California. Federal offices are bombed, causing $500,000 in damage.
Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France.
Revolutionary leftist. Beverly Hills. California. The Army Reserve training center is bombed.
As far from the Oval Office as Possible
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution passed that same day. No one had expected it that fast: the Supreme Court…
Ellsberg’s ex rats him out
The boyscout is scared of Room 16 up on the Third Floor of the OEO Building
Jack Caulfield Takes Forever to Write His Action Memo
Cuban, Secret Cuban Government. New York City. New York, A theater is bombed to protest a performance by a Cuban dance group.
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein learns of White House aide Charles Colson’s plan to burglarize the Brookings Institution (see June…
President Nixon authorizes the creation of a “special investigations unit,” later nicknamed the “Plumbers,” to root out and seal media…
Nixon wants to flip the Senate with his people. People like Bob Bennett.
Donald Segretti. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] One of the Nixon campaign’s “agents provocateur,” California lawyer Donald Segretti, attempts to recruit…
Donald Segretti. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Three attorneys—one the assistant attorney general of Tennessee, Alex Shipley—are asked to work as so-called…
Revolutionary leftist. Detroit Michigan. The National Bank of Detroit is bombed.
Revolutionary leftist. Los Angeles, California. The Security Pacific National Bank is bombed.
Revolutionary leftist Freeport New York. The Selective Service board is the target of an attempted firebombing.
Revolutionary leftist. Oakland, California. Bank of America is bombed. Causing $2000 in damage·.
Revolutionary leftist, Caldwell New Jersey. One person is injured when a correctional facility is bombed
Jewish, Jewish Defense League, Glen Cove, New York. A Soviet residential estate is the target of an Attempted bombing
Revolutionary leftist. San Jose, California. City council office are the target of an Attempted bombing
Black militant. Black liberation Army. New York City. New York. A bank is robbed by the BLA
President Nixon tries to come up with ways to use the recently leaked “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971) to…
Donald Segretti, a Republican legislative aide, who Gordon Strachan had helped to hire admitted that he made secret payments last year…
Revolutionary leftist. Santa Cruz, California, A county office is the target of an Attempted bombing
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
Liddy Is Added
Culture War Rages
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers – the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War. The…
The Battle Is Engaged