Mrs. Andrew Topping, the wife of an Upper West Side man arrested for plotting to kill Nixon, died of gunshot wounds on April 6, 1972, two weeks after the Watergate break-in. Her death was declared a suicide… soon after she returned from the hospital having given birth to their son. Wounds. Andrew Topping told police that “pro-rightist forces” beyond his control caused his wife’s death. Topping, a far right-wing ex-GI and Vietnam veteran carried a small notebook with him, and in minuscule script was constantly jotting down his thoughts. Police suspect Topping of once having been in army intelligence – in fact he does have contacts in the DIA. Authorities were alerted to Topping’s desires to kill Nixon after he blamed his wife’s death on far-right forces who wanted to kill him because he knew about Nixon’s connection to the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Topping is a violent, convicted rapist – he claims to have been a CIA assassin. In August of 1972, Andrew was arrested in Central Park for plotting to kill President Nixon. He asked a Secret Service agent, undercover, pretending to be an assassin for hire to kill Nixon.