On May 16, 12:59=A0pm, cdddraftsman <cdddrafts...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 15, 1:19=A0pm, curtjester1 <curtjest...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Without Johnson and Kennedy, former Vice-President Richard NIxon
finally=
> > managed to become the 37th President of the United States, with no
serio=
us
> > opposition. =A0After taking office Nixon discussed the Warren Re****t
wit=
h
> > aides H.R. Haldeman and Charles Colson and said, "It was the greatest
ho=
ax
> > that has ever been perpetuated."
>
> > The new Preident soon created a "dirty tricks" department to harass
> > politcal opponents that included CIA veterans E. Howard Hunt, Frank
> > Fiorini Sturgis, Bernard Barker, James McCord, G. Gordon Liddy, and
many=
> > anti-Castro Cubans from Miami. =A0Their job was to create situations
and=
> > fabricate do***ents to embarrass and humiliate those who opposed Nixon
a=
nd
> > his policies. =A0Their targets were the most pominent democratic
leaders=
of
> > the late 1960's and included Senator Edward Kennedy, and Presidentail
> > hopefuls Edmund Muskie and George McGovern.
>
> > By early 1970 the war in Vietnam continued to divide the country and
> > haunted Nixon as it had President Johnson before him. =A0In Febrary
Nati=
onal
> > Security advisor Henry Kissinger began secret one-on-one meetings with
> > North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho outside of Paris, and by the
end =
of
> > the year the Nixon administration ordered large numbers of troops were
> > withdrawn from combat. =A0As increasing numbers of troops were
withdrawn=
and
> > peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese dragged on, Nixon began
to
> > pursue detente with both communist China and the Soviet Union. =A0He
was=
> > eager to end the war in Vietnam and win back the sup****t of the public
> > before the election in the fall of 1972. =A0But like Presidents
Kennedy =
and
> > Johnson before him, Nixon earned the animosity of the military
industria=
l
> > establishment as he tried to end their war in Vietnam.
>
> > As Nixon and his political machine geared up to run for a second term,
t=
he
> > Committee to RE-Elect the President was formed. =A0Known as "CREEP"
the
> > committeee was comprised mostly of CIA agents and was funded by the
Mull=
en
> > Company, a notorious CIA front. =A0On June 17, 1972 members of CREEP,
> > including Frank Sturgis, Bernard L. Barker, Virgllio R. Gonzales,
Eugeni=
o
> > R. Martinez, and James W. McCord, broke into the Democratic National
> > Headquarters at the Watergate apartment-office complex in Wa****ngton.
=
=A0
> > These people had access to the most sophisticated electronic and
burglar=
y
> > tools in the world, yet they used an ordinary piece of tape to keep
the
> > latch on the door unlocked.
>
> > A security guard, Frank Wills, noticed the tape and called the
Wa****ngto=
n,
> > D.C. police. =A0When the police arrived at 2:30 A.M. and the men were
> > arrested, and had in their possession a walkie-talkie, 40 rolls of
> > unexposed film, two 35 mm cameras, lock picks, pencil-sized teargas
guns=
,
> > and bugging devices. =A0Their tools made it appear that they though
they=
> > were going to "bug" the Democratic National headquarters, but most
> > political analysts agree that their efforts were unnecessary.
=A0Preside=
nt
> > Nixon was so far ahead of his opponents in the polls that to most
> > political observers the "Watergate break-in" didn't make any sense.
>
> > In jail the veteran intelligence agents said nothing, but the police
fou=
nd
> > E. Howard Hunt's telephone number on one of the men. =A0The following
da=
y
> > the police learned that one of the men worked for the Committee to
> > Re-Elect the President, which soon led investigators to the White
House.=
=A0
> > The FBI soon began an investigation.
>
> > (According to E. Howard Hunt, the burglars were trying to learn what
> > information the Democrats had concerning President Kennedy's
> > assassination. =A0Frank Sturgis(Fiorini) said, "The reason we
burglarize=
d
> > the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news
leaking
> > related to the photos of *our role* in the assassination of President
Jo=
hn
> > F. Kennedy." =A0OUR ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY???
=
=A0Hunt
> > and Sturgis' accusations made it appear as though Nixon was involved
in
> > the assassination of President Kennedy, which would have destroyed his
> > political career.)
>
> > Less than a week after the break-in, and long before the Watergate
> > burglary made national headlines, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R.
> > Halderman, discussed how to stop the FBI investigation. =A0Nixon told
> > Haldeman to ask CIA Director Richard Helms to pressure FBI Director L.
> > Patrick Gray into curtailing the FBI's investigation. =A0Helms
refused,
> > perhaps because he may have been part of the plot to destroy Nixon
> > politically.
>
> > Two months later veteran CIA agent E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy
we=
re
> > arrested as co-conspirators and indictments were issued on September
15,=
> > 1972. =A0Within a month it became clear that all of the men involved
in =
the
> > Watergate break-in were linked to the CIA and to the Committee to
Re-Ele=
ct
> > the President (CREEP).
>
> > (Hunt, while in jail, attempted to blackmail the President by
threatenin=
g
> > to expose many of Nixon's "secrets." =A0White House Chief of Staff
John
> > Ehlichman responded by ordering FBI Director L. Patrick Gray to remove
t=
he
> > contents of Hunt's safe and "deep six" them. =A0On December 8, 1972
Hunt=
's
> > wife, former CIA agent Dorothy Wetzel Hunt, was carrying a large
amount =
of
> > cash and was killed when United Airlines flight #553 crashed prior to
> > landing at Chicago's Midway Air****t. =A0Her death ended Hunt's threats
t=
o
> > reveal Nixon's "dirty secrets."
>
> > After CIA Director Richard Helms refused Nixon's requests to pressure
th=
e
> > FBI into curtailing their investigation, Nixon fired him on February
2,
> > 1973. =A0Five days later, on February 7, 1973, the Senate Watergate
> > Committee was formed as public interest in the affair grew. (Helms was
> > replaced by 53-old William Colby, a lawyer and OSS veteran from WWII.)
>
> > After firing the Director of the CIA President Nixon's days in the
White=
> > House were numbered, just as Kennedy's days were numbered after he
fired=
> > CIA Director Allen Dulles. =A0Six weeks after Helms was fired his
close
> > friend James McCord, who had worked for the CIA in the Security
Research=
> > Staff, wrote a letter to Watergate Special Prosecutor Judge John
Sirica
> > and said that he and other defendants had been under pressure by the
Whi=
te
> > House to remain silent about the Watergate break-in.
>
> > From March 25-29 McCord testified before the committee and named
Nixon's=
> > former Attorney General, John Mitchell, as their "overall boss" and
said=
> > that John Dean and Jeb Magruder were also involved. =A0He also claimed
t=
hat
> > E. Howard Hunt had promised him an executive (Presidential) pardon if
he=
> > would plead guilty. =A0CIA -asset James McCord's revelations were the
> > beginning of the end for Nixon's term as President.
>
> > On June 25 White House counsel John Dean testified before the
committee
> > and further inplicated the President. =A0He said that Nixon proposed
to
> > raise $1,000,000 to pay the Watergate burglars for their silence.
=A0He =
also
> > told the committee that for the past 4 years the Nixon White House had
> > used the powers of the Presidency to attack political enemies by
harassi=
ng
> > those who disagreed with his policies. Dean's testimony was sup****ted
by=
> > Donald Segretti who also told the committee about Nixon's "dirty
tricks.=
"
>
> > While Nixon continued to deny any knowledge of involvement in the
> > Watergate affair one of his aides, Alexander Butterfield, told the
> > Watergate committee on July 13 that Nixon had secretly recorded all
> > conversations to and from the Oval Office. =A0On July 17, 1973 the
Senat=
e
> > Committee requested that President Nixon turn over the secretly
recorded=
> > White House Tapes. =A0Nixon, who feared exposing the contents of the
tap=
es,
> > refused and soon an 18-minute segment in one of the reels was erased.
=
=A0
> > One of the recorded conversations, in which the President was talking
wi=
th
> > H.R.Haldeman, shows that Nixon was very concerned that E. Howard
Hunt's
> > involvement in the "Bay of Pigs Thing" would be exposed:
>
> > "....Hunt, you will-that will uncover a lot of things. =A0You open
that =
scab
> > there's a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it would
be=
> > very detrimental to have this thing go any further....This involves
thes=
e
> > Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky...the problem is that this will
> > open up the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing...Just say....very bad
to=
> > have this fellow Hunt, ah, he knows too damned much, if he was
> > involved....If it gets out that this is all involved, the Cuba thing,
it=
> > would be a fiasco. =A0It would make the CIA look bad, it's going to
make=
> > Hunt look bad, and it's going to blow the whole *Bay of Pigs thing*
whic=
h
> > we think would be unfortunate-both for the CIA and the country....."
>
> > (According to Haldeman, Nixon always used code words when talking abut
> > President Kennedy's assassination. =A0Haldeman wrote in his book, "The
E=
nds
> > of Power," that whenever Nixon referred to the "Bay of Pigs thing," he
w=
as
> > referring to President Kennedy's assassination. =A0If Haldeman is
correc=
t,
> > then during their conversation President Nixon was very concerned that
E=
..
> > Howard Hunt would expose the CIA's involvement in the assassination of
> > President Kennedy.)
>
> > (During the same conversation Nixon also referred to the "Cubans." =A0
> > (Felix Rodriguez, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, etc.) and the
"Texan=
s"
> > (George H.W. Bush, Robert Mosbacher, and James Baker.).
>
> > Amid the political turmoil of Watergate Nixon's Vice President, Spiro
T.=
> > Agnew, resigned on October 10 after pleading "nolo contendere" (no
> > contest) to charges of tax evasion. =A0Two days later, On October 12,
19=
73,
> > Nixon nominated Gerald Ford as the new Vice-President a man described
by=
> > Newsweek as the CIA's "best friend in Congress."
>
> > As members of Nixon's staff continued to implicte him in the Watergate
> > affair he continued to deny any involvement and on November 17, 1973
tol=
d
> > the nation in a nationally televised speech, "I'm not a crook."
>
> > On April 30, 1974 the Nixon White House released more than 1200 pages
of=
> > edited transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee, but refused to
> > release the tapes. =A0The Committee then sought help from the Supreme
Co=
urt
> > who, on July 24, ruled unanimously that President Nixon had to turn
over=
> > the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations, rejecting the
> > President's claims of executive privilege.
>
> > In late July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee recommended that
Preside=
nt
> > Nixon be impeached on three charges: 1) Obstruction of justice, 2)
Abuse=
> > of Presidential power, 3) trying to impede the impeachment process by
> > defying committee subpoenas. =A0These charges stemmed mainly from
Nixon'=
s
> > refusual to turn over the secret White House tapes to the Watergate
> > Committee. =A0We know that on one of the tapes Nixon discussed E.
Howard=
> > Hunt's involvement in the "Bay of Pigs Thing" and we know that an
> > 18-minute segement on one of the tapes was erased. =A0We also know
that =
fter
> > Congress heard some of these recordings they went into secret session,
a=
nd
> > only *12 hours* of more than 4000 hours of recordings were ever
released=
> > to the public.
>
> > On August 7, 1974 oilman, CIA agent, and Republican National Committee
> > chairman George Herbert Walker Bush publicly called for the President
> > Nixon's resignation. =A0The following day (August 8) Nixon resigned
and
> > former Warren Commission member Gerald Ford (the CIA's best friend in
> > Congress) became the 38th President. =A0A month later, on September 6,
t=
he
> > new President granted Nixon "a full, free and absolute pardon....for
all=
> > offenses against the United States which he ..... has committed or may
> > have committed or taken part of while President." =A0President Ford
> > protected the secretly recorded (White House) tapes and soon nominated
N=
ew
> > York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as Vice-President.
>
> > The public learned from nationally televised Watergate hearings about
> > Nixon's abuse of Presidential power, and also learned that former CIA
> > operatives were involved. =A0As public attention began to focus on CIA
> > involvement in Watergate, and their abuse of power, some members of
> > congress suggested the Agency should be dissolved. =A0President Ford
qui=
ckly
> > interceded on the CIA's behalf and established the "Rockefeller
> > Commission" to conduct yet another investigation. =A0He appointed
former=
> > Warren Commission counsel David Belin and other like- minded
individuals=
> > to investigate the alleged CIA abuses, *which virtually guaranteed a
> > political "whitewash."
>
> > Incidentals. =A0Nelson Rockefeller was the brain-child of the CIA
agency=
> > after WW!!. =A0Bernard Barker was identified as the 'SA' who was
brandis=
hing
> > a badge on the Grassy Knoll by Dallas Sheriff Weitzman, right after
the
> > final headshot that killed President John F. Kennedy. CREEP, how apt a
> > name for Nixon's committee and the folks behind the dirty tricks of
the
> > CIA and the murderers of John F. Kennedy.
>
> > CJ
>
> Of course, what Robert Kennedy (above) or any other political figure
> thought about the assassination is irrelevant unless we assume that
person=
> had some sort of "inside information" that has never become part of the
> public record. Otherwise, their opinion is no better than anybody
> else=92s, and less good than that of anybody who has studied the case.
But=
> that doesn=92t stop conspiracists from quoting a BBC story that said
that
> Nixon called the Warren Commission a "hoax." The quote is all over the
> Internet, but the people who are using it apparently have not bothered
to
> check the primary source and see what Nixon actually said :
=A0http://mcad=
ams.posc.mu.edu/nixon_hoax.htm
>
> Looks like your hoax story hit a bump and got upended !
>
> tl
Yes but doesnt it scare you that Nixon was prepared to present Bremer
as a "left winger?" - even if he wasn't? It was all about PR, not the
truth. "he will be seen as a (left winger) by the time we get
through." Scary!!
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