The Justice Department’s Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) submits a report on the role and actions of the FBI…
The FBI finds another electronic surveillance device—a “bug”—on the telephone of Spencer Oliver, an official with the Democratic National Committee.…
After a tirade about how humiliated and angry he was when he was investigated and audited by the IRS, President…
Alfred Baldwin, a former FBI agent now working for the Campaign to Re-elect the President and the man who spent…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
The FBI learns that a hotel room in the Howard Johnsons Motor Lodge across the street from the Watergate hotel…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward learns that two of the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) have the name…
Prosecutor Earl Silbert. [Source: Washington Post] The five men caught burglarizing the Democratic Nations headquarters in the Watergate hotel (see…
While the police are arresting the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), the team leader, E. Howard Hunt,…
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…
Alfred Baldwin After the “Plumbers” successfully install surveillance devices in the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (see May…
Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars. A covert unit of President Nixon’s “Plumbers” installs surveillance equipment in the headquarters…
According to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), White House aide E. Howard Hunt, whom he calls…
Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and Virgilio Gonzales (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) attempt to break in to the Democratic…
Frederick LaRue. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Two White House aides, Frederick LaRue and G. Gordon Liddy, attend a meeting of the…