Wall Street Journal 1998 column by me: What If Judge Sirica Were With . . . The Watergate scandal began at 2:30 a m on June 17, 1972, when Washington, D C police arrested five men on burglary charges at the Watergate office building At 3:05 a m E Howard Hunt phoned me from his White House office and asked if he could come immediately to my Washington residence
In The First Hour of Watergate - The Education Forum Hunt and Gordon Liddy were the leaders of the seven-man burglary team and were in the Watergate Hotel adjacent to the Watergate office building as the arrests took place Their hotel room was the headquarters for the planned burglary
In The First Hour of Watergate - The Education Forum After the Watergate coverup was exposed followed by the criminal trials of those persons implicated in the cover-up, the Senate Watergate Committee held public hearings Here is testimony of Herbert Kalmbach, President Nixon’s personal attorney, before the Senate Watergate Committee on July 16, 1973:
Heidi Rikan’s Black Book of Watergate Prostitution Clients Author Phil Stanford is nearing completion of his lengthy research into the unique role played by Heidi Rikan in Watergate Heidi was the madam who headed the prostitution ring that operated out of the Columbia Plaza Apartments near Watergate There has always been an open question as to whether
The secret key to the Watergate break-in - The Education Forum The secret key to the Watergate break-in When Washington, D C Police Detective Carl Shoffler arrested the five Watergate burglars on June 17, 1972 at 2:30 AM, he claimed that he found one key on the person of the burglar known as Eugenio Martinez He asserted that the key was taped on the front
Evidence implicates Jack Anderson in Watergate - Watergate - The . . . The letters had, before the infamous Watergate break-in, been provided to both the DNC and to Anderson, warning about the Watergate and represent both an important and highly under-investigated and under-reported aspect of the Watergate affair
George HW Bush and the hierarchy of the Watergate conspiracy While reading "The Immaculate Deception, The Bush Crime Family Exposed" by Russell Bowen, I came across the interesting fact that the Texas campaign fund of Hugh Liedtke, who cofounded Zapata Off Shore with George HW Bush, had been used to partly finance the Watergate break in (page 20) I find
Why is Robert Merritt telling his story now? - Watergate - The . . . After the Watergate arrests and ensuing controversy, Shoffler went to great lengths on many occasions to impress upon Merritt the necessity to remain quiet In the two years before Watergate Shoffler and the FBI had directed Merritt as a Confidential Informant to commit hundreds of crimes, all done in the name of “national security ”