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== Background ==
=== "Plumbers" unit ===

== DNC headquarters bugging ==

== Cover-up and exposure ==

== Nixon resignation ==

== Motive for break-ins ==
=== CIA involvement ===

=== Removing Nixon ===

=== Votescam theory ===

=== DC prostitutes ===

=== Pedophile book ===

== Perpetrators ==
=== Organizers ===
* [[E. Howard Hunt]]
* [[G. Gordon Liddy]]
* John Dean

=== Burglars ===
* James McCord
* ...

== See also ==
* [[JFK assassination]]
* [[1970 Dade County Democratic primary]]

== References ==

== External links ==
* ''Secret Agenda'' by Jim Hougan (1984)
* ''Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA'' by Shane O'Sullivan (2018)

=== CIA involvement ===
* [https://kennedysandking.com/images/pdf/watergate-saga.pdf Jim DiEugenio, "The Watergate Saga -- the Official Version vs. the Reality", 1996/01]
* [http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-history-of-gerald-ford-watergate.html Lisa Pease, "The Real History of Gerald Ford, Watergate, and the CIA", 2007/01/02]
* [[George H.W. Bush]] role
** ''Family of Secrets'' by Russ Baker (2008)
** Russ Baker, "Watergate Revelations: The Coup Against Nixon", 2012 (parts [https://whowhatwhy.org/2012/05/07/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-1-of-3/ 1], [https://whowhatwhy.org/2012/05/08/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-2-of-3/ 2], [https://whowhatwhy.org/2012/05/10/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-3-of-3/ 3])
* [[Barry Seal]] plot to smuggle C4 plastic explosives into Mexico
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20000118231546/http://madcowprod.com/secret2.htm Daniel Hopsicker, "Hey, Stop Barking. A Buck’s A Buck."]
** [http://web.archive.org/web/19991012235958/http://madcowprod.com/bagman_jack.htm Daniel Hopsicker, ""Bagman" Jack Caulfield—Here to Stop a Crime Wave?"]
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20000118221319/http://madcowprod.com/rj.htm Daniel Hopsicker, "The Marlboro Man Gets Into Smuggling"]
*** "The money for the Plumbers had come from one of George Bush's intimates, and at the request of Bush, a member of the Nixon Cabinet from February, 1971 on. Just two days before a new law was scheduled to begin making anonymous donations illegal, $700,000 in cash, checks, and securities had been loaded into a briefcase at Pennzoil headquarters and picked up by a company vice president, who boarded a Washington- bound Pennzoil jet and delivered the funds to the Committee to Re-Elect the President at ten o'clock that night."
*** "These revelations were widely interpreted as establishing a {prima facie} case of obstruction of justice against Nixon. That was fine with George, who sincerely wanted his patron and benefactor Nixon to resign. George's great concern was that the smoking gun tape called attention to a money-laundering mechanism which he, together with Bill Liedtke of Pennzoil, and Robert Mosbacher, had helped to set up."
*** "Why would Bush do that? Break out into assholes and shit himself to death? Could Barry Seal's arrest on explosives charges on July 2, 1972, have had something to do with the operations of Bush's Republican Texas money-raising squad of Hugh Liedtke, Pennzoil, and Robert Mosbacher?"
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20000118210112/http://madcowprod.com/hush_confidential.htm Daniel Hopsicker, "Hush Confidential"]
** [http://web.archive.org/web/19991013003834/http://madcowprod.com/richard_nixon_drug_kinpin.htm Daniel Hopsicker, "Choice of the New Generation."]
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20000118010845/http://madcowprod.com/trial_of_the_c4_seven.htm Daniel Hopsicker, "The Trial of the ‘C4 Seven’"]

=== Votescam allegations ===
* [http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam-.txt Copy of the first 13 chapters of ''Votescam'' by Jim Collier and Ken Collier]
* Nixon investigating [[Katharine Graham]]'s TV station in Miami
** [https://www.poynter.org/news/rememberance-courage ''Poynter'', "A Rememberance of Courage", 2002/08/20]: "The piece that I might add to the story is the perspective of a lawyer who worked with a large team to resist hostile challenges to the licenses of the two television stations owned by the Washington Post in Florida -- WPLG in Miami and WJXT in Jacksonville.<br><br>The Federal Communications Commission reviewed all the television licenses in a given state at a single time. Applications for Florida were up for review beginning in early 1973 just after Richard Nixon had been reelected in a landslide victory despite the early revelations about Watergate. Many of these reports came from the Washington Post's investigation.<br><br>[...]<br><br>In 1973, there were some 30 television stations in Florida and only two were challenged. These two, WJXT in Jacksonville and WPLG in Miami, were both owned by Post-Newsweek and the story of these challenges is worth repeating."
** [https://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/another-nixon-reminder-media-ownership-rules-109825 ''Politico'', "Nixon's newspaper war", 2014/08/08]: "The Post’s publisher during Watergate, Katharine Graham, faced a lot of pressure from the Nixon administration and wrote about the threats to the Post’s TV licenses in her biography.<br><br>“Of all the threats to the company during Watergate — the attempts to undermine our credibility, the petty slights, and the favoring of the competition — the most effective were the challenges to the licenses of our two Florida television stations,” she wrote. “No doubt there was a mixture of motives among the challengers — the perception of blood in the water, easy pickings, and understandable thinking that the atmosphere was right given the Nixon-dominated FCC.”"
* [http://medialogarchives.blogspot.com/2005/06/notes-on-deep-throat.asp Back in 1995, freelance journalist Wendell Woodman anticipated that "Deep Throat" was Mark Felt, drawing on the Votescam story]

=== Washington DC prostitutes ===
* [http://jimhougan.com/wordpress/?p=11 Jim Hougan, "Hougan, Liddy, the Post and Watergate", 2011/06/22]
* ''White House Call Girl'' by Phil Stanford (2013)
* VISUP, "The Office of Security: A Tale of Sex, Drugs and High Weirdness", 2016: parts [http://visupview.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-office-of-security-tale-of-sex_18.html II], [http://visupview.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-office-of-security-tale-of-sex_24.html III], ...

=== Other interpretations ===
* [http://jimhougan.com/wordpress/?p=230 Jim Hougan, "Carl Shoffler, Robert Merritt and the Scandal That Dare Not Speak Its Name", 2011/07/22]