Chile’s democratically elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende commits suicide during the…
George Bell, assistant to Charles Colson, special counsel to the White House, died of unreported causes on June 30, 1973.…
Four days after the arrests at the Watergate Hotel, Martha Mitchell called a UPI reporter from Newport, California: “I am…
Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972 and January 8-11, 1973) lies to the Watergate grand…
After the Dean “cancer” conversation (see March 21, 1973), President Nixon speaks with his senior aide, Charles Colson, about paying…
In March 1973, James Schlesinger became director of the CIA. According to Donald Burton, John Paisley “despised Schlesinger”. Burton adds…
Rolando Masferrer, another Cuban exile employed by the CIA, was blown blown to bits when his car exploded on October…
While awaiting sentencing, convicted Watergate burglar James McCord (see January 30, 1973) tells fellow burglar Bernard Barker that he is…
E. Howard Hunt, the leader of the seven Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) currently on trial, tells fellow…
Richard Lavoie, chief of security for International Telegraph and Telephone, died of a heart attack on December 27, 1972. At…
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
White House aide Charles Colson and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt discuss Hunt’s demand for “hush money” (see June 20-21,…
Chuck Colson idea: a White House agent provocateur could infiltrate the welfare rights picketers in front of one of the…
Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs was killed while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska. Also killed in the…
In October 1972, Dorothy Hunt attempted to speak to Charles Colson. He refused to talk to her but later admitted…
The Post reported yet more fishiness from early in the summer: a call to McGovern financiers from someone impersonating a…
Operation counter-operations cointelpro, and legit attacks
Edward Lansdale helped lead the development of Bay of Pigs invasion force, bringing the number of soldiers from 300 to…
advance team dirty trick
During the 1972 presidential campaign, Lucianne Cummings Goldberg joined the press corps covering Democratic candidate George McGovern claiming to be a…
Actual rats scuttled through a Muskie press conference; ribbons tied to their tails read, “Muskie is a rat fink.” Michael…
Segretti often talked to his college friends of going to Miami—the home of most of the Watergate burglars—to meet…
On Wednesday, as delegates arrived, militants pulled the engine wires to disable the buses of the Mississippi and South Carolina…
The Government Accounting Office was supposed to be releasing an audit of Nixon’s donations. On the day of Nixon’s nomination,…
Segretti plants pretty campaign moles. Patricia Griffin is paid $50 per month to infiltrate Senator Muskie and another senate HQ.…
Nixon Messes with Jane Fonda
Thomas Eagleton. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdraws from the campaign. A week before,…
Adding insult to injury, Time reported its own survey: 76.7 percent said Eagleton’s medical record wouldn’t affect their vote. Time…
Nixon arrested VVAW
Plumbers Framing Operation
Another friend of both Eugenio Martinez and Pablo Fernandez is Felipe De Diego, self-confessed member of the team which burglarized…
Jose Joaquin Sangenis Perdimo, a Cuban exile who worked with the CIA at the Bay of Pigs, died mysteriously in…
A staff member of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), G. Gordon Liddy, is fired after he refuses to…
’ChapStick’ surveillance devices similar to those destroyed by Gray. [Source: National Archives] FBI Director L. Patrick Gray meets with White…
Vernon Walters. [Source: Medal of Freedom (.com)] White House counsel John Dean meets with Vernon Walters, the deputy director of…
Alfred Baldwin, a former FBI agent now working for the Campaign to Re-elect the President and the man who spent…
Monday, June 19, 1972, the same day Helms and his principal deputies and aides met to discuss Watergate for the…
White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
It was well past midnight on June 18th, 1972. Saint, eighteen years old, was asleep in his basement bedroom, surrounded…
While the police are arresting the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), the team leader, E. Howard Hunt,…
During a conversation on how to best use the “Pentagon Papers” to their own advantage (see June 17, 1971), President…
Five burglars (see June 17, 1972) are arrested at 2:30 a.m. while breaking in to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)…
Mug shot of Bernard Barker. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] About two weeks after the burglary of the offices of the…
According to later testimony to Watergate investigators, the deputy director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Jeb Magruder,…
One week after the Watergate break-in, Pablo Fernandez offered to sell fifty machine guns to VVAW members. Fernandez’ boss, Major…
Alfred Baldwin After the “Plumbers” successfully install surveillance devices in the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (see May…
G. Gordon Liddy, Alfred Baldwin, CIA’s E. Howard Hunt, CIA’s James McCord, and several Cuban CIA contract agents purportedly are…
Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars. A covert unit of President Nixon’s “Plumbers” installs surveillance equipment in the headquarters…
G. Gordon Liddy, Alfred Baldwin, CIA’s E. Howard Hunt, CIA’s James McCord, and several Cuban CIA contract agents purportedly are…
On Wednesday Hunt went up “to the glass doors of DNC headquarters” and had “pressed a lump of plasteline against…