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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...
...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...
...most questionable act that Baker examined was the burning of James McCord's files shortly after the breakin. McCord, one of the arrested burglars, worked for the CIA until 1970. When his wife set fire to his papers in their house, a CIA operative named Lee R. Pennington Jr. happened to be on hand. Pennington testified that his presence was just coincidental, but the Baker report charges that Pennington "destroyed documents which might show a link between McCord...
...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...