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...McCord's all right. He's a professional-FBI and CIA. So are the Cubans. They won't talk. But on a worst-case basis, you've got to know what they could...
...plan to break into Democratic national headquarters in an office in the Watergate Hotel complex was worked out by Liddy and Hunt, who recruited five Cuban Americans to help. Liddy also enlisted James McCord, chief of security at the Committee to Re-Elect the President, as the electronics expert. A break-in attempt in May 1972 succeeded, but the key listening device planted by McCord and the Cubans did not seem to be working. Liddy's superiors grew impatient...
Gordon Strachan [assistant to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's Chief of Staff] called me to the White House and told me that the original submissions from the electronic surveillance were unsatisfactory. I assumed he was speaking for Haldeman, so I repeated what McCord had told me of the technical problem and that we intended to correct it by going back in shortly...
About 11 o'clock McCord came in [to Room 214 of the Watergate Hotel] and said that he'd already taped the garage-level doors by the simple expedient of going in the lobby and down the stairwell. He now wanted to go back to the observation post...
...about 12:45 a.m. McCord phoned to say "It's clear" and that he was on his way over. Within a few minutes McCord, Barnard Barker and Eugenio Martinez were back wearing troubled expressions. McCord said that when they had gotten down to the garage-level doors they found that the tape he had put across the locks earlier had been removed. Hunt wanted to abort. McCord said Virgilio Gonzalez was unlocking the doors from the garage side so we could go forward or not, however it was decided...