Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five men arrested in the Watergate on June 17-James W. McCord, Bernard L. Barker, Eugenio R. Martinez, Frank A. Sturgis and Virgilio R. Gonzalez-were all charged with conspiring to break into the Democratic offices in order to plant bugs, tap telephones and intercept conversations. Also charged were G. Gordon Liddy, a onetime White House aide and former counsel to the Re-Election Committee's finance division, and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The violations carry penalties of up to 34 years in prison and $80,000 in fines...
...dragging," and added that Kleindienst seemed to treat the case "as some kind of joke." Nevertheless, sources inside the Justice Department expect indictments to be handed down within the week. The seven to receive them will reportedly be the five arrested in the Watergate office building-James McCord, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenic Martinez and Virgilio Gonzales-plus former White House Aide G. Gordon Liddy and former White House Consultant E. Howard Hunt. Evidence reportedly linked Liddy to the monitoring of the microphones planted in the Democratic offices and Hunt to the purchase of electronic bugs...
While the GAO report did not concern itself with who might have directed the political espionage at the Watergate, it did confirm earlier accounts that $114,000 of the unreported funds had wound up in the Miami bank account of Bernard Barker, a former CIA agent arrested with four other men at the Watergate. Of this amount, $89,000 had reached Barker by a circuitous route: from some Texas contributors identified as Democrats, to a Mexican intermediary, back to Texas, then to the Re-Election Committee and on to Barker. The other $25,000 was given by Andreas to Dahlberg...
...claim is that for a time, all of the money, plus another $136,000 that did not wind up in Barker's hands, was kept in a safe in Stans' secretary's office. GAO charges specifically that the Re-Election Committee had failed to "keep and maintain adequate books and records" on this total of $350,000. A phony notation on a deposit slip, falsely indicating that the money was left over from the 1968 campaign, was used in later depositing the $350,000 in a Washington bank, the report said. Other investigators believe that the total...
...Gordon Liddy, a former White House staffer and then attorney for the C.R.P.'s finance committee; Robert Mardian, a former assistant U.S. Attorney General and an official for the C.R.P., and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The lead man in the Watergate caper was Bernard Barker, an ex-CIA agent. Federal investigators learned that $114,000 from the C.R.P. had found its way into Barker's Miami bank account...