The Plumbers’ (Candu Plumbing of Thousand Oaks) motive for visiting the McGovern campaign is not clear. Depending on who you ask, the Plumbers’ goal could have been to get information about the McGovern campaign or to gather evidence that would connect Nixon’s White Counsel’s future wife to a call-girl ring.
G. Gordon Liddy
If you’re wondering who the Plumbers were in Watergate, they were the ones who began wiretapping the reporters from the New York Times. One of them was Neil Sheehan, the reporter who covered the Pentagon Papers. Another was Tad Szulc, who covered the State Department.
While in jail, they were hoping for pardons. In the early months of the investigation, they were enjoying prison benefits and were working toward getting out of prison. But when Nixon’s popularity waned, they began cooperating with investigators. In particular, James McCord wrote a tell-all letter that broke the case wide open. Liddy served four and a half years in prison.
The Plumbers in Watergate were former FBI and CIA operatives assigned to prevent leaks. Their job was to find and fix leaks in the White House, but something went wrong on June 17, 1972. A night watchman noticed a door with taped-on latch, which was propped open for staff to take breaks. Later, the guard noticed that duct tape covered the door latch.
E Howard Hunt
E Howard Hunt and Bernard Barker were the plumbers who sabotaged the DNC chairman’s office. The Plumbers had planted listening devices in the office. The Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein kept the story alive. E Howard Hunt was convicted of conspiracy.
E Howard Hunt was a former spy. The story he narrated in his authorized autobiography was controversial when it came out, but his son took it public after his father’s death. The Los Angeles Times called the book inconclusive, and some people said it was ludicrous.
He was born on October 9, 1918, in New York. He attended the Ivy League Brown University and was the son of an Ivy League lawyer. Hunt’s father, Everette Howard, was a successful lobbyist in state politics. His father’s ties to the mafia and C.I.A. led him to believe that the “French gunman” on Grassy Knoll was not the only gunman.
E Howard Hunt was a member of the CIA in the 1950s. He was involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and later worked with Allen Dulles in Miami, Florida. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed mission and Hunt helped plan the operation. In the same year, the communist forces in Cuba took control of the island nation. The CIA called it a “dagger aimed at the heart of the United States.”
James McCord
A longtime CIA counterintelligence operative, James McCord retired from the agency in 1971 to start a private security company. His job was to protect the Republican Party and a presidential fundraising committee. He was never supposed to break into the opposition’s headquarters, but his presence there may have limited the Plumbers’ vulnerability.
The Plumbers‘ purpose wasn’t to learn more about the McGovern campaign. Their motivation differed depending on their testimony. One version claims they were trying to find evidence linking Nixon’s White Counsel’s future wife to a call-girl ring. Another version says they were looking for evidence of their own involvement.
While McCord said the Plumbers’ activities were a mistake, it was not clear what Nixon wanted them to do. He was given vague instructions to take pictures of money. Eventually, Watergate became part of Nixon’s larger campaign to collect dirt on political opponents, including their sex lives, tax records, and marital problems. It was a desperate attempt to stay in power.
John Paisley
Did you know that plumber in Thousand Oaks John Paisley was involved in the Watergate scandal? He was a permanent liaison to the Plumbers and helped investigate the Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. In addition, he was known to go to high-class parties with his wife. While he was working as a plumber, Paisley was also known to be involved in high-profile parties.
Paisley was the CIA liaison to the White House’s Special Investigations Unit (SITU). Paisley agreed to work with the White House to find the source of the leaks. His investigation included Ellsberg’s activities, as well as Operation Odessa, the project to discredit leakers of the Pentagon Papers. However, Paisley kept all of his Watergate activities a secret from his friends and colleagues. Some suspect that Paisley may have been Deep Throat.
CIA officials were closely monitoring the case. They reviewed the Harold Weisberg archive and CREST database and even obtained a memo from Stansfield Turner, who allegedly discussed the case with CIA Public Affairs. The memo indicates that Paisley’s case was a serious concern at the top of the agency. However, the case is unsolved.
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