August 20, 1971: The CIA creates and supplied a counterfeit ID to G. Gordon Liddy. They book hotels with this.
President Nixon approves the “Huston Plan” for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. Four days…
President Nixon meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, CIA Director Richard Helms, and the heads of the NSA and…
The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms, by chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, and…
July 15 1970: Huston Plan – In a 43-page memo, White House official Tom Huston persuaded the heads of the…
Hunt Trails Ellsberg
Kissinger notes that New York Times reporter William Beecher has been asking some suspiciously well-informed questions about the operation. Beecher’s…
On March 6, 1970, during preparations for the bombing of a Non-Commissioned Officers’ (NCO) dance at the Fort Dix U.S. Army base…
Nixon had a favorite young dirty trickster, former Young Americans for Freedom president Tom Charles Huston. He signed memos “Cato…
FBI kill a leader
Nixon orders a Mission to discredit the My Lai Massacre whistleblower witnesses. One of the most shameful chapters in American…
On October 6, 1969, the statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago was blown up; the blast broke nearly…
President Nixon learns of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)‘s involvement in the death by drowning of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne…
Jack Caulfield was involved in at least two attempts to carry out illegal electronic surveillance on people Richard Nixon considered…
Henry Kissinger. [Source: Library of Congress] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, determined to prove to President Nixon that news stories…
Jack Caulfield (see April 2, 1969) arranges for a wiretap on a private citizen, syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft. While the FBI…
Kissinger’s military aide Alexander Haig has the FBI tap three more men “just for a few days,” warning the FBI…
Nixon suggests Kissinger’s own staff may be the source of the leaks. He is most suspicious of Kissinger’s aide Morton…
Kissinger called J. Edgar Hoover and told him it was time to move forward on a project they had discussed:…
On the porch of the Key Biscayne Hotel, Kissinger learns of more leaks. “Outrageous! Outrageous!…We must crush these people! We…
A University of Chicago sociology professor named Richard Flacks, one of the early members of SDS, appeared on local TV,…
When Gallup did its monthly poll in May, it asked, “Which one of the men listed on this card would…
Former New York Police Department detective Jack Caulfield begins his new job as a White House aide. Caulfield was added…
At his first political meeting, former Nixon, Mudge colleague John Sears and anti-Wallace point man Fred LaRue recommended a year-round…