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…
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the offices of the Washington Post. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Washington Post reporter Bob…
US District Court Judge W. M. Byrne, Jr dismisses all charges against “Pentagon Papers” leaker Daniel Ellsberg (see March 1971)…
White House counsel John Dean meets with President Nixon to discuss his upcoming testimony before the Watergate grand jury (see…
The Senate hearings for L. Patrick Gray’s nomination as FBI director (see February 28-29, 1973) become ever more contentious after…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward once again meets with his FBI background source, W. Mark Felt—known around the Post offices…
A confident G. Gordon Liddy leaves the courtroom. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] The trial of the seven men accusing of…
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,…
FBI agents are now convinced that the Watergate break-in (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) is one example of actions conducted…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
Hugh Sloan. [Source: Washington Post] The former treasurer for the Campaign to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Hugh Sloan, tells Washington…
Accused Watergate burglar Bernard Barker after being arraigned in June 1972. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] The first indictments against…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein interviews a reluctant source, a bookkeeper for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). In…
The FBI finds another electronic surveillance device—a “bug”—on the telephone of Spencer Oliver, an official with the Democratic National Committee.…
President Nixon responds to the report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) alleging possible illegal campaign finances in his re-election…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), learns…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), gives…
Watergate surveillance man Alfred Baldwin (see May 29, 1972) confesses to his role in the electronic eavesdropping on Democrats in…
’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…
The FBI learns that a hotel room in the Howard Johnsons Motor Lodge across the street from the Watergate hotel…
Headline from Washington Post identifying McCord as a ‘GOP Security Aide.’ [Source: Washington Post] James McCord, one of the five…
White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
Prosecutor Earl Silbert. [Source: Washington Post] The five men caught burglarizing the Democratic Nations headquarters in the Watergate hotel (see…
Richard Kleindienst. [Source: public domain] Hours after the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), Attorney General Richard Kleindienst is…
While the police are arresting the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), the team leader, E. Howard Hunt,…
A security guard at the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Stephen Anderson, is told by CREEP security director and…
A cross-department action group called “Squad 19” sets its sights on the GOP Convention in Miami. Vietnam Veterans Against The…
L. Patrick Gray. [Source: Associated Press] L. Patrick Gray, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, is named the…
According to the FBI’s Watergate investigation, John Mitchell, the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), and his…
Dates: March 10, 1972 – March 23, 1972 W. Mark Felt, the number three official at the FBI, is given…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman gives a progress report on the activities of the “Plumbers” to the president. “Plumbers” head Egil…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein learns of White House aide Charles Colson’s plan to burglarize the Brookings Institution (see June…
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 New York Times reveals the secret bombings of Cambodia, dubbed “Operation Menu” (see February 23-24, 1969 and March 15-17,…