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hifiguy

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20. The most believable story-behind-the-story of Watergate

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 02:55 PM

Dec 2014

that I have read is that the Trickster was scared to death that there were documents floating around out there from his VP days that directly tied him to attempted hits on Castro, which documents also directly tied him to Mafia figures involved in those plans, the planning for the Bay of Pigs and related unsavory and illegal activities involving Mob/low-level CIA entanglements. Nixon was apparently on good terms, albeit indirectly, with a number of major mobsters and his BFF Bebe Rebozo was a Mob associate.

Nixon thought that Larry O'Brien, then head of the Democrats and a friend of the Kennedy family, might have copies of the documents mentioned above. Nixon, being the paranoid he was, decided he needed to get those papers back - at least if O'Brien had them. Which is why a spook like E. Howard Hunt was involved and an ex-FBI guy like Gordon "Heil!!!" Liddy, not to mention CIA affiliated Cubans.

The burglars got caught, the WH and the Nixon campaign tried to cover it all up, and the rest is history.

I am currently reading John Dean's "The Nixon Defense" which is THE comprehensive history of what went on in WH during Watergate. Dean located, listened to, and had transcribed countless hundreds of hours of Nixon's Watergate related tape recordings. Fascinating reading.

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