James McCord, Jr., alias Edward Martin Native of Texas, Wife attended Baylor College, Texas; on Board of Directors, McCord Associates,…
The Justice Department’s Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) submits a report on the role and actions of the FBI…
The Senate Watergate Committee begins its first day of public hearings. The hearings are televised starting May 18. [Gerald R.…
Jeb Magruder testifies before Watergate investigators. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Former CREEP deputy director Jeb Magruder testifies in private to…
James McCord demonstrates a bugging device during his testimony. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar James McCord testifies behind…
Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, former attorney Henry Rothblatt, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez, photographed during the trial. [Source: Wally McNamee…
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.…
During the trial of Watergate burglars G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord (see January 8-11, 1973), the court goes into…
During the trial of the “Watergate Seven” (see January 8-11, 1973), unbeknownst to the press, the prosecution, or Judge John…
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…
While awaiting trial, Watergate burglar James McCord (see June 19, 1972) tells his fellow burglars that he is going to…
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
Accused Watergate burglar Bernard Barker after being arraigned in June 1972. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] The first indictments against…
The FBI finds another electronic surveillance device—a “bug”—on the telephone of Spencer Oliver, an official with the Democratic National Committee.…
Watergate surveillance man Alfred Baldwin (see May 29, 1972) confesses to his role in the electronic eavesdropping on Democrats in…
President Nixon tells a gathering of reporters regarding the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), “The White House has…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein asks a former Nixon administration official about some of the White House officials who may…
Monday, June 19, 1972, the same day Helms and his principal deputies and aides met to discuss Watergate for the…
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…
After the Watergate Trials were on television, Los Angeles PD informant and agent-provacateur Louis Tackwood noticed a few defendants. Tackwood…
John Mitchell, the former attorney general who now heads the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), responds to the news…
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,…
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…
A security guard at the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Stephen Anderson, is told by CREEP security director and…
Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars. A covert unit of President Nixon’s “Plumbers” installs surveillance equipment in the headquarters…
Barker and a secret team of seven men went to Miami to hire provocateurs for a New York demonstration in…
According to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), White House aide E. Howard Hunt, whom he calls…
McCord rents an office suite adjacent to that of Muskie’s on K Street, Northwest, from which they plan to launch…
Nixon wants to get the columnist Jack Anderson. James McCord, a consultant and security goon for the RNC, former CIA…
Liddy runs his plans by James McCord as a dry run for his pitch to Mitchell. McCord provided input on…
Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, gives Plumber McCord an RNC office, upper-staff level passes,…
Another project involved the stealing of certain documents from the safe of Hank Greenspun, the editor of the Las Vegas…
When you create a front company it tends to last for a while. As evidenced by Zapata Oil from 1960 still in use in 1972
CIA’s James McCord, purportedly retired in August 1970, signs a contract with the Republican National Committee to handle “security.” The…
James W. McCord, Jr. Former FBI and CIA agent James W. McCord joins the staff of the Committee to Re-elect…
During the late 1960s & early 1970s, Louis Tackwood worked as a police informer for the LAPD. In this capacity,…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
McCord Comes on Board