There were five arrested at the Watergate affair

The Watergate scandal
There were five arrested at the Watergate affair. for trying to bug Watergate. Among those arrested is James W. McCord Jr., a security director for the committee to Re-Elect the president. G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr. are linked to the break-in shortly afterward.
Many people were involved in the Watergate Scandal. Here are a few more people involved--Charles Colson, special counsel, Colson's more notorious ideas, according to some reports, included spreading known within the Nixon administration as the "evil genius.", false information about Ellsberg and firebombing the Brookings Institution. Carlson became a born again Christian. In 1976 he founded the Prison Fellowship Ministries.
John W. Dean III, White House counsel, was in cover-up. He wrote a book called "Blind Ambition." His wife, Maureen, wrote her own memoir--"Mo: A Woman's View of Watergate."
John D. Ehlichmam, Nixon's assistant for domestic affairs, approved the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the pentagon papers to the press, Ehrlichmam resigned from his White House post in 1973;he was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury in the Watergate case and of conspiracy in the Ellsberg case. After his release Ehrlichmam lived in New Mexico and wrote novels and a memoir, "Witness to Power. The Nixon Years."(1982)
H.R. Bob Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, resigned in April 1973 and was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice the following year. After prison, Haldeman wrote "The Ends of Power," a memoir published in 1978. He Died of cancer before publication of "The Haldeman Diaries.
Richard Milhous Nixon, the 55-year-old former vice president who lost the presidency for the Republicans in 1960, reclaims it by defeating Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in U.S. History. Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States on January 20, 1969.
On June 17, 1972, security guard Frankwills who was on duty at Watergate hotel and apartment complex in Washington D.C noticed a stairwell door, locked, had been taped so it would stay in the open position. He immediately alerted police. As it turned out, the burglars were still in the building. The arrest of these five men, intruding into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters, lead to an investigation that exposed, and unraveled a web of political spying, sabotage, and bribery, this trail of abuses led to the highest levels of President Richard M. Nixon's administration, and ultimately to the President. This break-in and the resignations of the politicians afterward became known as the Watergate affair.
A GOB security aid is amounted Watergate Burglars. Former attorney general John Mitchell/ head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
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Watergate prosecutors find a memo address to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Nixon reportedly orders the White House taping system disconnected on July 18, 1973.
On July 23, 1973 Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor. Nixon declares, "I am not a crook," maintaining his innocence in the Watergate case on November 17, 1973.
CIA employee James W. McCord Jr., 53, also hold a separate contract to provide security services to the Republican National Committee. McCord was employed to help install that committee's own security system. Mitchell said McCord and the other four men arrested at Democratic headquarters Saturday "were not operating either in our behalf or with our consent" in the alleged bugging attempt.
Dole issued a similar statement "we deplore action of this kind in or out of politics." Dole said he was unsure at this time exactly what security services McCord was hired to perform by the National Committee. Police sources said last night that they were seeking a sixth man in connection with the attempted bugging.
Other sources close to the investigation said yesterday that there still was no explanation as to why the five suspects might have attempted to bug Democratic headquarters in the Watergate at 2600 Virginia Ave. ,NW, or if they were working for other individuals or organizations. "We baffled at this point... the mystery deepens," a high Democratic party source said.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence F.O' Brien said the "bugging incident... raised the ugliest question about the integrity of the political process that I have encounters in a quarter century. No mere statement of innocence by Mr. Nixon's campaign manager will dispel these questions."
O' Brien, in his statement, called on Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst to order an immediate, "searching professional investigation" of the entire matter by the FBI.
A spokesman for Kleindienst said that "The FBI is already investigating.... Their investigative report will be turned over to the criminal division for appropriate action."
McCord,53, retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1970 after 19 years of service and established his own "security consulting firm," McCord Associates, at 414 Hungerford Drive, Rockville. He lives at 7 Winder Ct., Rockville. McCord is an active Baptist and colonel in the Air Force Reserve, according to neighbors and friends.
In addition to McCord, the other four suspects, all Miami residents, have been identified as: Frank Sturgis (also known as Frank Florin), an American who served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary army and later trained a guerrilla force of anti-Castro exiles; Eugenio R.. Martinez, a real estate agent and notary public who is active in anti-Castro activities in Miami; Virilio R.. Gonzales, a locksmith; and Bernard L. Barker, a native of Havana said by exiles to have worked on and off for the CIA since the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
All five suspects gave the police false name after being arrested Saturday. McCord told his attorney that his name was Edward Martin. The five suspects, well-dressed, wearing rubber surgical gloves and unearned, were arrested about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when they were surprised by Metropolitan police inside the 29-office suite of the Democratic headquarters on the sixth floor of the Watergate Hotel.
McCord was being held in D.C. jail on $30,000 bond yesterday. The other four were being held there on $50,000 bond. All are charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other conversations.
In his statement from Los Angeles, former Attorney General Mitchell said he was "surprised and dismayed" at reports of McCord's arrest. "The person involved is proprietor of a private security agency who was employed by our committee months ago to assist with the installation of our security system," said Mitchell. "He has, as we understand it, a number of business clients and interests and we have no knowledge of these relationships."
Referring to the alleged attempt to bug the opposition's headquarters, Mitchell said: "There is no place in our campaign, or in the electoral process, for this type of activity and we will not permit it nor condone it."
About two hours after Mitchell issued his statement, GOP National Chairman Dole said, "I understand that Jim McCord... is the owner of the firm with witch the Republican National Committee contracts for security services... if our understanding of the facts is accurate, added Dole, "we will of course discontinue our relationship with the firm.
The McCord's have been active in the first Baptist Church of Washington. McCord's previous employment by the CIA was confirmed by the intelligence agency, but a spokesman there said further data about McCord was not available yesterday.
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