The Mysteries of Watergate
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The Mysteries of Watergate
Watergate was a serious American political scandal resulting in the only forcible removal of a U.S. President, Richard Nixon. After seemingly exhaustive investigative reporting by the Washington Post and dozens of books and movies on the scandal since, there are many questions left unanswered. Thr...
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Ep. 34: Watergate Journalism's Bitter Harvest
Prior episodes have shown that the Nixon Presidency, churlishly cynical though it may have been, was the victim of deceitful journalism by the Washing...
Ep. 33: Watergate Journalism, The Seeds of Our Discontent
Clearly the full and correct Watergate story was not reported by the Washington Post. Often a journalist simply gets a story wrong while acting in goo...
Ep. 32: A Lid on Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy, a lawyer, former FBI agent and chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit at the time, was a central focus for Watergate activ...
Ep. 31: Baking Baker
As impeachment was closing in on President Nixon, the CIA could, it seemed breathe a sigh of relief, as it had skillfully and luckily, with the unstin...
Ep. 30: Stranger Danger, Hiding Stevens and Russell
As of late March 1973, it looked like all the pieces were falling in place for the CIA to avoid exposure of its role in the Watergate scandal and to h...
Ep. 29: Misrepresenting McCord's Misconduct
James McCord is a highly intriguing character, if an opaque one. As we described earlier, John Mitchell had wanted a personal security officer, but A...
Ep. 28: Blacking Out Blackmail
If the Washington Post was not intentionally covering up the “CIA defense” which we discussed in the last episode, it would blare a headline about it...
Ep. 27: Covering Up the CIA Defense
In a trial of profound public significance, it is particularly important that the media informing the public of the prosecution cover all impactful c...
Ep. 26: Burying Baldwin
History has paid little attention to Alfred Baldwin, the Watergate wiretap monitor, and his knowledge. That is most likely the result of the Washingt...
Ep. 25: Mullen and Company’s Covered Up Cover Contract
All five burglars were involved in the ill-fated CIA-planned fiasco, the Bay of Pigs, and one supervisor, Howard Hunt, was a leader in that abortive C...
Ep. 24: Burglary Information Gone Missing
The Watergate burglary and arrests were noteworthy, but the scandal did not heat up or capture the public's attention for four months. So, why does i...
Ep. 23: Big Questions About Big Journalism
It is not an overstatement to say that American history's most lauded reporting is the Washington Post's Watergate journalism. There is also no doubt...
Ep. 22: The True Watergate Narrative, Part 2
This second part of our discussion of The Narrative explains how otherwise odd, idiosyncratic evidence from The Mysteries of Watergate fits snugly int...
Ep. 21: The True Watergate Narrative, Part 1
In this series we have shown solid proof solving specific, discrete Mysteries of Watergate. But humans understand morality through narratives: there...
Ep. 20: Deep Throat and the Garage Meetings
The character Deep Throat, who we now know was Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI at the time of Watergate, is the most intriguing of Water...
Ep. 19: Analyzing the Evidence
We have presented in the previous episodes solid evidence of hidden motives, veiled intentions and outright deceit, involving an intriguing cast of ch...
Ep. 18: Liddy, Watergate's Unguided Missile
G. Gordon Liddy’s salience comes from his unmatched centrality to all major factions participating in this odd drama. He worked with the White House...
Ep. 17: Pennington
If Martinez, Russell and Stevens form a triple play of CIA involvement in prostitute taping, Lee R. Pennington is a guilty plea to criminal coverup of...
Ep. 16: Martinez and the Key
Watergate can only be explained by its target. Yet for the past 49 years the Washington Post and historians have not told us where in the office the b...
Ep. 15: Lou Russell, the Sixth Burglar?
Lou Russell is the most intriguing figure in a scandal full of intrigue. Perhaps much like Michael Stevens, his potential role could not have been s...
Ep. 14: Michael Stevens, Bug Fabricator
On the night of May 16-17, 1973, Bob Woodward had his most dramatic encounter with his normally cool source Deep Throat. Agitated, hurried, he warne...
Ep. 13: James McCord, Cipher
While most Watergate histories do not focus on James McCord, except for his dramatic letter to Judge Sirica at sentencing, this enigmatic, “retired“ C...
Ep. 12: John Dean's Historical Blunder
We know that the first wiretapping and burglary were fruitless. Why did the burglars go in a second time, against the wishes of both Howard Hunt and G...
Ep. 11: The Dog Who Did Not Bark; Jack Anderson and the CIA
One of the lingering mysteries of Watergate is the foreknowledge, or lack of same, of the country’s most famed “muckraker,” syndicated columnist Jack...
Ep. 10: White House Call Girl
Sexual obsession throughout D.C.’s established institutions leads by labyrinthine path to Watergate. In this episode we meet the White House Call Girl...
Ep. 09: The CIA and Sex
Sex, drugs and wiretaps. These were the tools used by the CIA to perform social research experiments such MK-Ultra, Project BLUEBIRD and Project ARTI...
Ep. 08: John Dean, Clever Counsel or Conflicted Quisling?
John Dean, the shrewd young White House Counsel who was the main witness to the obstruction of justice which forced President Nixon’s resignation, has...
Ep. 07: Prosecution and Trial
As the Watergate burglary trial approached in December, 1972, and January, 1973, both burglary supervisor Howard Hunt and Prosecutor Earl Silbert prep...
Ep. 06: The Undetermined Target
The target of the Watergate burglars has always been a matter of speculation and head-scratching. While many have focused on the knowledge of DNC Chai...
Ep. 05: CIA Operations Under White House Cover
When FBI Associate Director Mark Felt surveyed the aftermath of the Watergate burglary, he concluded that it had been "a White House operation, a CIA...
Ep. 04: Howard Hunt, Man of Mystery
Retired CIA agent Howard Hunt was hired as a part-time consultant by the White House in 1971 to help discredit Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the infa...
Ep. 03: Mullen and Company
Mullen and Company was a worldwide public relations firm specializing in clients who grew fruit in banana republics. Why would the firm hire “retired...
Ep. 02: Infiltrating the White House
How do Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Papers, George Washington’s crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion, and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation...
Ep. 01b: What's Past is Prologue
What do a young widow from California, an alcoholic private detective, a civil rights leader, a CIA poisons doctor and a Washington, D.C. prostitution...
Ep. 01a: Big Questions from a Small Burglary
Was Watergate just a “third-rate burglary” or something more insidious? And was the Washington Post investigative journalism depicting the scandal ent...
The Mysteries of Watergate: Trailer
Watergate was the most impactful political scandal in American history, resulting in the only forcible removal of a U.S. President, Richard Nixon. Af...