Posts published in “Burglary”

Bernard Barker, Watergate Burglar, Dies, 92

By mfarnsworth on June 5, 2009

Associated Press reports that Bernard Leon Barker has died in Florida, aged 92. Barker was a Cuban-born CIA operative who became of the burglars arrested at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.

Howard Hunt, Watergate Conspirator, Dies, 88

By mfarnsworth on January 23, 2007

E. Howard Hunt, the man who recruited the burglars and organised the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex, has died, aged 88. Hunt recruited four of the five Watergate burglars: Barker, Gonzalez, Martinez and Sturgis. Along with James McCord, they were arrested in the Watergate complex on the evening of June 17, 1972.

Frank Wills, Man Who Discovered Watergate, Dies, 52

By mfarnsworth on September 28, 2000

Frank Wills, the man who discovered the Watergate burglary, has died in the United States, aged 52. Wills was the security attendant who discovered taped locks in the Watergate office and apartment complex on June 17, 1972.

25th Anniversary Of Watergate Break-In

By mfarnsworth on June 17, 1997

Links to media coverage in 1997 of the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

James McCord’s Letter To Judge John Sirica

By mfarnsworth on March 19, 1973

This is the full text of the letter from James W. McCord to Judge John Sirica.

McCord claimed that his plea and testimony were perjured and given under “political pressure”.

The letter was filed in: United States v. George Gordon Liddy, et al., C.R. 1827-72, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; NARA, College Park, MD.