Nixon keeps Lennon away
Then, on the way back, in March 1972, Hunt visited International Telephone and Telegraph lobbyist Dita Beard. Before he spoke…
A Federal grand jury in New York investigating the Clifford Irving hoax for possible crimes subpoenaed Meier to questioning and…
Campaign Coordinator Harry Evans’ report to Meier on Nevada’s political structure was stolen when someone broke into the Downtowner Motel…
Jewish, Jewish Armed Resistance. New York City, New York. Jewish Armed Resistance intends to bomb the house of a Nazi concentration camp guard but bombs the wrong house.
During March, two additional Albuquerque break-ins were made at Meier’s campaign offices. 3/10/1972
Dates: March 10, 1972 – March 23, 1972 W. Mark Felt, the number three official at the FBI, is given…
Mrs. Jane Astrid Knudsen Morris & Dr. Gary O. Morris died in March of 1972 when their boat mysteriously disappeared off…
Dates: March 1, 1972 – September 5, 1972 During the 1972 presidential election, Nixon political strategist Murray Chotiner served as…
John Mitchell. [Source: Southern Methodist University] Attorney General John Mitchell resigns, and immediately assumes the position of chairman of…
A young ratfucker needs training. It’s a Senator’s son
The novelist had completely fabricated notes and “interviews” with Howard Hughes in an attempt to write an autobiography on the…
White racist. San Jose California. James Carr, a black militant, is shot to death by two whites in his front yard.
Cuban, Secret Cuban Government. New York City, New York. A theater is bombed.
Cuban, Secret Cuban Government. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Two drugstores are bombed.
John Lennon’s U.S. immigration visa expires, beginning his three-and-a-half year fight to remain in the country.
Caulfield at DEA had uncovered involvement of the brothers Omar Torrijos in narcotics trafficking. The military dictator of Panama, General…
President Nixon’s personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, delivers over $900,000 in secret campaign contributions to the Committee to Re-elect the President…
Edmund Muskie. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Less than two weeks before the New Hampshire presidential primary, the Manchester Union-Leader publishes…
Easy ways to spike meds.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley separate.
CIA wants to reign in Liddy
Telephone threats on Meier’s life became so common that he had to get a police monitor on his phones in…
Segretti told to STFU
Revolutionary leftist. Manchester, New Hampshire. The police department is bombed, causing $5000 in damage. The People’s Liberation Army claims responsibility for the attack.
Lennon Gets Too Political
Black militant. Black Liberation Army. St. Louis, Missouri, A shoot-out with police results in the death of a BLA member Ronald Carter, and the arrest of two other BLA members. The gun found was later identified as the one taken from one of the policemen killed in New York in January 1972
After a sweep, Campaign Manager Tom Benavidez found a transmitting device on his office phone. The campaign was being directed…
Meier jumped into an early lead in polls and stood a good chance of winning over Domenici who was thought…
In some ways, Meier represented even more of threat, especially to the White House. Meier’s close friendship with Don Nixon…
After The Times article, Mitchell met with Liddy and the result was Liddy’s belief that he had the go-ahead for…
In February 1972, HUNT traveled to Nicaragua on an undisclosed mission. Artime was involved in efforts to set up Cuban…
Just the seamier aspects of the AirWest bribery story were enough to threaten Nixon’s chances of reelection. Nixon hadn’t forgotten…
Hunt and Liddy are given oversight of an operative posing as a chauffeur loyal to Muskie who in fact photographed…
G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt fly to Miami, home of Bernard Barker and other CIA-connected Cubans. Around the…
During February, there was a break-in at Meier’s room at the Marriott Hotel in New York. He was there meeting…
Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy discussed with Hughes security chief Ralph White a plan to burglarize the offices of Las…
For once, that E. Howard Hunt’s reticence when first meeting someone pays off. Scare the prick Segretti
Steve McQueen and Love Story actress Ali MacGraw begin dating after meeting on the set of “The Getaway” when her…
First Appearance on Tonight Show
“Plumber” G. Gordon Liddy lays out an elaborate $1 million proposal for a plan for political espionage and campaign “dirty…
Liddy’s first presentation, McCord’s cost estimates and the cost of hiring specialists were high. It had a budget of $1,000,000…
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. New York City, New York. Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are ambushed and killed as they leave a restaurant after enquiring about an illegally parked Car One of the three attackers does a victory dance after the Shooting
Black militant, Black Liberation Army, New York City, New York. A policeman is wounded by a gunshot.
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood begin dating.
Jewish, Jewish Defense League. New York City, New York. Sol Hurok’s booking office is bombed, killing Iris Kones, a secretary. Hurok was targeted by the JDL because he booked Soviet performers. Vigilantes shouting “Never again!”—the slogan of the Jewish Defense League—firebombed the office of a talent booker who handled Soviet acts. (One secretary died.) “Fire Bomb Kills Woman, Hurts 13 in Hurok Office,” NYT.
Revolutionary leftist. New York City, New York. Portuguese airline offices are bombed.
During January, Meier’s Albuquerque home was broken into and bugged by a CIC team. 1/20/1972
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, died on May 1, 1972, a month before Watergate. There is considerable evidence…
In Miami, antipollution activists shut down a Pepsi bottling plant by cementing over a drainage pipe.