Word: mccord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liddy takes charge of the operation, aided by former CIA Agent E. Howard Hunt and C.R.P. Security Coordinator James McCord. Several Cuban refugees are recruited: Barker, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez and Frank Sturgis. The stage...
After two botched attempts, the burglars on May 27 get into the D.N.C. offices. McCord places wiretaps on the phones of Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien and Executive Director of Democratic State Chairmen R. Spencer Oliver Jr. Soon transcripts of Oliver's conversations are being passed to Magruder and through him to Mitchell. As Magruder later testifies, Mitchell orders Liddy to get better information...
Another break-in is arranged for June 17. But shortly after 1 a.m., Private Security Guard Frank Wills spots a door in the Watergate with its lock taped open. He summons the police, who catch McCord, Barker, Sturgis, Gonzalez and Martinez in the D.N.C. The police confiscate surveillance equipment and find 32 sequentially numbered $100 bills, which Barker has withdrawn from the $89,000 in Miami...
...Well-I guess I would have to say now I didn't have the guts. I went to the President on March 21 in part because I felt sure someone would break -McCord or Hunt or someone-at the sentencing of the Watergate burglars on March 23. I wanted the President to get out ahead. When they sent me to Camp David to write a "report," I made my final decision that I just couldn't live this way any longer. Anything would be better...
...violation of the agency's charter. Not until last February was the information released to the Ervin committee, and then only because a CIA employee stubbornly insisted on it. Explaining its delay in taking action, the CIA claims that its director of security did not learn of the McCord episode until last February...