#Watergate
17 entriesPeople (14)
- Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Kissinger's deputy and a Halperin wiretap defendant, Nixon's chief of staff, NATO commander, Reagan's first Secretary of State, and later a director and paid consultant of MGM Mirage, SDC International and DOR BioPharma.
- Elizabeth Dunlevy Richard Helms's secretary, who on his instruction in January 1973 ordered the destruction of the recordings of his office conversations, and who told the Senate she had read every transcript and none touched Watergate.
- G. Gordon Liddy Former FBI agent and Treasury aide who joined the Plumbers, planned Gemstone for Nixon's reelection committee, was convicted in Watergate and the Fielding break-in, and had his sentence commuted by Carter in 1977.
- Hal Hendrix Latin America correspondent who joined ITT in 1967, co-wrote its 1970 memorandum urging action against Allende, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator when his superiors were charged with lying to the Senate.
- Howard Hughes Sole owner of Hughes Tool Company (later Summa Corporation) whose cash gift to Bebe Rebozo, Nevada casino purchases and company name on the CIA's Glomar Explorer run through Senate, court and CIA records.
- Howard Hunt CIA officer who ran propaganda for the 1954 Guatemala coup and politics for the Bay of Pigs, headed covert action in the Domestic Operations Division, joined the Mullen Company, and was convicted in Watergate.
- Howard Osborn CIA director of security from 1964 who compiled his office's share of the Family Jewels and was retired in 1974 after a memorandum on papers burned at James McCord's house was withheld from the FBI.
- James McCord CIA Office of Security officer from 1951 to 1970, arrested inside the Watergate in June 1972, whose letter to Judge Sirica broke the cover-up and whose papers a paid CIA informant watched being burned.
- John N. Mitchell Nixon's law partner and 1968 campaign manager, Attorney General from 1969 to 1972 and 1972 reelection committee head, acquitted in the Vesco case in 1974 and convicted in the Watergate cover-up in 1975.
- Lee Pennington Retired FBI inspector kept on a monthly retainer by the CIA's Security Research Staff, who watched James McCord's wife burn papers days after the Watergate arrests, a fact the agency withheld from investigators until 1974.
- Paul Gaynor Chief of the CIA Security Research Staff, who paid Lee Pennington 250 dollars a month and received James McCord's unsigned letters in the winter of 1972, until the staff's abolition in August 1973.
- Richard Kleindienst Deputy attorney general and then attorney general under Nixon, sworn in five days before the Watergate break-in, who pleaded guilty in 1974 to not answering the Senate fully about the ITT antitrust settlement.
- Robert Peloquin Justice Department organized crime lawyer who founded the Resorts International subsidiary Intertel in 1970, took over security for Howard Hughes's Nevada casinos that December, and later chaired Resorts International.
- Vernon Walters US military attaché in Brazil whose personal relationships with coup-plotting generals helped ensure the 1964 overthrow of João Goulart, and who went on to become deputy director of the CIA under Nixon.
Organizations (2)
- Office of Professional Responsibility Justice Department office created in 1975 after Watergate to investigate misconduct by department lawyers, whose 2020 Epstein report found no misconduct by five Florida prosecutors but faulted Alexander Acosta's judgment.
- Robert R. Mullen Company Washington public relations firm that gave cover to CIA officers abroad from 1963, hired E. Howard Hunt on his retirement in 1970, represented Howard Hughes, and employed Hunt at the time of the Watergate break-in.
Events (1)
- CIA Family Jewels The CIA 'Family Jewels' was a 693-page internal compilation of potentially illegal activities assembled in May 1973 at Director James Schlesinger's direction, partly declassified in 2007, documenting assassination plots, domestic surveillance, illegal mail interception, and drug testing programs.
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