The Watergate Break-in: 50 Years Later
Jefferson Morley
June 10, 2022
I’ll be speaking on a conference panel on The Watergate Break-in: 50 Years Later at 11: 45 am ET today.
…Watergate @ 50: a new history
Jefferson Morley
February 20, 2022
In the New York Times, historian Douglas Brinkley praises Garrett Graff’s new history of Watergate scandal, that convulsion of American politics in 1972-74 that culminated in the only resignation of an American president. Brinkley also notes some key questions that Graff’s book does not answer. He asks:
Were such central players as Howard Hunt and James McCord cooperating with the C.I.A. even as they orchestrated the break-in?
It’s a central issue that my forthcoming book on the CIA and Watergate, Scorpions’ Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate, answers that question with a definitive yes. Both Hunt and McCord had backchannel relationships with CIA director Richard Helms before their arrest.
To get the whole story, pre-order Scorpions’ Dance here.
Source: Book Review: ‘Watergate,’ by Garrett M. Graff – The New York Times
How the CIA protected a Watergate burglar
Jefferson Morley
May 20, 2018
James McCord was the most important of the Watergate burglars, Bob Woodward once noted. As this declassified JFK file shows, McCord was the chief of the Office of Security, an experienced officer, with impressive security credentials.
He was protected by CIA director Dick Helms. …