Howard Hunt, alias “Eduardo” Worked in CIA for 21 years. Ivy League New Yorker, field man for CLA in Latin…
E. Howard Hunt. [Source: Michael Brennan / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
Barbara Jordan speaking before the House Judiciary Committee. [Source: American Rhetoric (.com)] Barbara Jordan (D-TX), a member of the House…
The Justice Department’s Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) submits a report on the role and actions of the FBI…
Howard Hunt during the Senate hearings. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt testifies before the Senate…
Washington Post headline from Dean story. [Source: Washington Post] Former White House counsel John Dean has told Watergate investigators that…
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the offices of the Washington Post. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Washington Post reporter Bob…
Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972 and January 8-11, 1973) lies to the Watergate grand…
Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, former attorney Henry Rothblatt, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez, photographed during the trial. [Source: Wally McNamee…
The Senate hearings for L. Patrick Gray’s nomination as FBI director (see February 28-29, 1973) become ever more contentious after…
After the Dean “cancer” conversation (see March 21, 1973), President Nixon speaks with his senior aide, Charles Colson, about paying…
White House counsel John Dean warns President Nixon of a “cancer on the presidency.” When this phrase enters the public…
Rolando Masferrer, another Cuban exile employed by the CIA, was blown blown to bits when his car exploded on October…
President Nixon and White House counsel John Dean discuss several topics surrounding the Watergate investigation. The conversation is secretly recorded.…
While awaiting sentencing, convicted Watergate burglar James McCord (see January 30, 1973) tells fellow burglar Bernard Barker that he is…
Following on the five guilty pleas of their fellow defendants (see January 8-11, 1973), the final two Watergate defendants, G.…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward once again meets with his FBI background source, W. Mark Felt—known around the Post offices…
After the press reports that the Watergate burglars will receive cash payments in return for their guilty pleas and their…
E. Howard Hunt, the leader of the seven Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) currently on trial, tells fellow…
Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray burns key documents in the Watergate case. He has had the documents, originally kept…
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 secretary Kathleen Chenow (see June 28-July 3, 1972) confirms the existence of the “Plumbers,” the extralegal operation tasked…
White House aide Charles Colson and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt discuss Hunt’s demand for “hush money” (see June 20-21,…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
Accused Watergate burglar Bernard Barker after being arraigned in June 1972. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] The first indictments against…
President Nixon responds to the report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) alleging possible illegal campaign finances in his re-election…
Segretti often talked to his college friends of going to Miami—the home of most of the Watergate burglars—to meet…
White House counsel John Dean reports that the Watergate grand jury will hand down seven indictments—the five Watergate burglars and…
Watergate surveillance man Alfred Baldwin (see May 29, 1972) confesses to his role in the electronic eavesdropping on Democrats 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…
Alfred Baldwin, a former FBI agent now working for the Campaign to Re-elect the President and the man who spent…
During the FBI interview of Charles Colson in White House counsel John Dean’s office (see June 22, 1972), Colson tells…
Nixon and Haldeman, three days after the June 23 meeting. [Source: Washington Post]With the FBI tracing the Watergate burglars’ $100…
President Nixon tells a gathering of reporters regarding the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), “The White House has…
President Nixon tells his chief of staff H. R. Haldeman that the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) “are…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
The US Supreme Court, in what becomes informally known as the “Keith case,” upholds, 8-0, an appellate court ruling that…
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…
After the Watergate Trials were on television, Los Angeles PD informant and agent-provacateur Louis Tackwood noticed a few defendants. Tackwood…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward learns that two of the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) have the name…
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)…
Though the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) are not yet allowed to make telephones begin ringing at…
Mug shot of Bernard Barker. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] About two weeks after the burglary of the offices of the…
Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars. A covert unit of President Nixon’s “Plumbers” installs surveillance equipment in the headquarters…
Arthur Bremer, one of four sons, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 August 1950. His father, William Bremer, was…
According to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), White House aide E. Howard Hunt, whom he calls…
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