Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

486 Pages·2018·5.92 MB·English

by  Shane O’Sullivan

CONTENTS
Foreword by David Talbot
Cast of Characters
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: The Anna Chennault Affair
CHAPTER 2: Tell Your Boss to Hold On
CHAPTER 3: Hunt Knows Too Damn Much
CHAPTER 4: The Ellsberg Affair
CHAPTER 5: Eugenio Rolando Martinez
CHAPTER 6: James Walter McCord
CHAPTER 7: The Watergate Caper
CHAPTER 8: The Cover-Up
CHAPTER 9: The Investigations
CHAPTER 10: The Cuban Mission
CHAPTER 11: The Call-Girl Theory
Appendix 1: Martinez’ Car
Appendix 2: The September Bug
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
Photos
FOREWORD
By David Talbot The world is burning, and yet the firelight illuminates the way
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
THE CHENNAULT AFFAIR
Spiro T. Agnew, Vice President of the United States, 1969–73.
Richard V. Allen, senior foreign policy advisor, Nixon–Agnew campaign
committee, 1967–8. Senior staff member, National Security Council, 1969.
Jack N. Anderson, investigative journalist and daily newspaper columnist.
William P. Bundy, Assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, 1964–9.
George A. Carver, Jr. Special assistant for Vietnamese affairs, Central
Intelligence Agency, 1966–73.
Anna Chennault, Vice president, The Flying Tiger Line, Inc. Co-chair,
Women’s Advisory Committee for Nixon.
Clark M. Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense, 1968–9.
Ray S. Cline, Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1962–66.
Special coordinator and adviser to the United States ambassador to Germany,
1966–69. Assistant secretary of state for Intelligence and Research, 1969–73.
Thomas G. “The Cork” Corcoran, lawyer and lobbyist.
Saville R. Davis, reporter, The Christian Science Monitor.
Bui Diem, South Vietnamese ambassador to the United States, 1967–72.
Everett M. Dirksen, United States senator (R—Illinois), 1951–69. Senate
minority leader, 1959–69.
Cartha D. “Deke” DeLoach, Deputy associate director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
John D. Ehrlichman, White House Counsel, 1969. White House Domestic
Affairs Advisor, 1969–73. Served eighteen months in jail.
Thomas W. Evans, Special assistant to John Mitchell, Nixon–Agnew Campaign
Committee.
Bryce N. Harlow, Republican political strategist.
H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff, 1969–73. Served eighteen
months in jail for his role in Watergate.
Richard M. Helms, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1966–73.
Ambassador Robert Hill, former United States ambassador to Costa Rica
(1953), El Salvador (1954) and Mexico (1957–61) Chairman of the Foreign
Policy Task Force of the Republican National Committee, 1965–68.
Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States, 1965–69 and
nominated Democratic candidate for the 1968 presidential election.
Tom Charles Huston, Nixon aide, 1968–71.
Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, 1963–69.
Thomas H. Karamessines, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence
Agency, 1967–73.
Henry A. Kissinger, National Security Advisor to Presidents Nixon and Ford,
1969–75.
Karl E. Mundt, United States senator (R—South Dakota), 1948–73.
Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, 1969–74. Resigned from
office and was pardoned by President Ford.
John N. Mitchell, Manager of Nixon presidential campaign, 1968. United States
Attorney General, 1969–72. Director of the Committee to Re-elect the
President (CRP), 1972. Served nineteen months in jail.
Thomas W. Ottenad, political journalist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Eugene V. Rostow, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, 1966–69.
Walt W. Rostow, National Security Advisor to President Johnson, 1966–69.
Dean D. Rusk, United States Secretary of State, 1961–69.
Richard B. Russell, Jr., United States senator (D—Georgia), 1933–71.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1955–69.
Alexander Sachs, economist and banker.
George A. Smathers, United States senator (D—Florida), 1951–69.
Maurice H. Stans, United States Secretary of Commerce, 1969–72. Chairman,
Republican National Finance Committee, 1968 and 1972. Fined $150,000.
Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam, 1967–75.
John G. Tower, United States senator (R—Texas), 1961–85. Chairman of the
Nixon Key Issues Committee, 1968.
Rose Mary Woods, Personal secretary to Richard Nixon, 1951–74.
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WATERGATE
Nick Akerman, Assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution
Force (WSPF).
Gerald Alch, attorney for James McCord.
Phillip Mackin Bailley, attorney.
Howard H. Baker, Jr., United States senator (R—Tennessee), 1967–85.
Alfred C. Baldwin, former FBI agent employed by McCord Associates to
transcribe bugged telephone conversations and act as “lookout” for the
second Watergate break-in.
Bernard L. Barker, Watergate burglar. Served twelve months in jail.
Robert F. Bennett, President, Robert Mullen Company, 1971–3.
Gary Bittenbender, Metropolitan Police Department, Intelligence Division.
William O. Bittman, attorney for E. Howard Hunt.
Douglas Caddy, initial attorney for the Watergate burglars, Howard Hunt and
Gordon Liddy.
John V. Cassidento, attorney for Alfred Baldwin.
John J. “Jack” Caulfield, White House investigator, 1969–72.
John W. Coffey, Deputy Director of Support, CIA.
William E. Colby, Executive Director, CIA, 1972–3. Deputy Director of
Operations, CIA, 1973. Director of Central Intelligence, CIA, 1973–6.
Charles W. Colson, White House Counsel, 1969–70. Director of the Office of
Public Liaison, 1970–3. Served seven months in jail.
General Robert E. Cushman, Jr., Deputy Director, CIA, 1969–71.
John W. Dean III, White House Counsel, 1970–3. Served four months in jail.
Maureen Dean (née Biner), John Dean’s wife.
Felipe De Diego, Bay of Pigs veteran who participated in the Fielding break-in.
Leo Dunn, Acting deputy director of Security for Personnel Security, CIA.
Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in
1971.
Jake Esterline, CIA station chief, Miami, 1968–73.
Frederick N. Evans, Personnel Security Division, CIA.
Lewis J. Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, 1968–70.
Gerald R. Ford, House Minority leader, 1965–73. Vice President of the United
States, 1973–4. President of the United States, 1974–7.
J. Alan Galbraith. Attorney at Williams, Connolly, and Califano, representing
the DNC.
Paul Gaynor, Security Research Staff, CIA.
Cleo Gephart, TSD officer who supplied Hunt with CIA equipment.
Millicent “Penny” Gleason, personal secretary to James McCord.
Ramon Esteban Gonzalez III, CIA case officer for Eugenio Rolando Martinez,
1970–2.
Virgilio R. Gonzalez, locksmith and Watergate burglar. Served fifteen months
in jail.
L. Patrick Gray III, Acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
1972–3.
Stephen C. Greenwood, TSD officer who supplied Hunt with CIA equipment.
Tom Gregory, campaign volunteer for the Muskie and McGovern campaigns,
secretly working for Howard Hunt.
Alexander M. Haig, Deputy National Security Advisor, 1970–3. White House
Chief of Staff, 1973–4.
Sally Harmony, personal secretary to G. Gordon Liddy, CRP.
Seymour Hersh, investigative reporter for the New York Times, 1972–5.
Lawrence J. Howe, Personnel Security Division, CIA.
E. Howard Hunt, Jr., White House consultant and former CIA officer. Served
thirty-three months in jail.
Richard Kleindienst, United States Attorney General, 1972–3. Received a
suspended one-month jail sentence.
Egil (Bud) Krogh, Jr., deputy to Presidential Assistant John D. Ehrlichman and
White House Plumber. Served four and a half months in jail.
Richard Krueger, Deputy Chief, Technical Services Division, CIA.
Stephen L. Kuhn, Deputy Director of Security, Personnel Security Division,
CIA.
Howard Liebengood, Assistant to Minority Counsel Fred Thompson on the
Senate Watergate Committee.
G. Gordon Liddy, White House Plumber, 1971. Counsel, Committee to Re-
elect the President, 1972. Served fifty-two months in jail.
Martin Lukoskie, CIA case officer for the Robert Mullen Company.
James W. McCord, Jr., Chief of Physical Security, CIA. Head of Security,
Committee to Re-elect the President, 1971–2. Served four months in jail.
George McGovern, United States senator (D—South Dakota), 1963–81.
Democratic Presidential nominee, 1972.
Jeb S. Magruder, Deputy Director, Committee to Re-elect the President, 1972.
Served seven months in jail.
Bernard Malloy, Chief, Psychological Services Branch, Office of Medical
Services, CIA.
Eugenio Rolando Martinez, CIA operative and Watergate burglar. Served
fifteen months in jail.
Cord Meyer, Associate Deputy Director of Plans, CIA.
Robert Mirto, attorney for Alfred Baldwin.
Robert Mullen, founder of the Robert Mullen Company, which provided cover
for CIA employees.
Lucien N. Nedzi, U.S. House of Representatives (D—Michigan), 1961–81.
Lawrence F. O’Brien, Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 1970–2.
Paul L. O’Brien, attorney for the Committee to Re-elect the President, 1972–4.
R. Spencer Oliver, Executive Director, Association of State Democratic
Chairmen.
Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security, CIA.
Henry E. Petersen, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, 1972–74.
Lee R. Pennington, Jr., paid informant for the Security Research Staff, CIA.
Walter Pforzheimer, CIA historian, 1956–74.
Rob Roy Ratliff, CIA liaison to the National Security Council, 1972–77.
Heidi Rikan, friend of Maureen Dean and alleged madam of a call girl ring at
the Columbia Plaza apartments.
Robert Ritchie, CIA case officer for Rolando Eugenio Martinez, 1972.
Raymond G. Rocca, Deputy chief of Counterintelligence, CIA, 1972–5.
Felix I. Rodriguez, CIA officer.
Lou Russell, private investigator.
Andrew St. George, journalist.
Edward Sayle, Security Research Staff, CIA.