Watergate scandal
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The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives associated with Nixon's 1
A view of the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., with the Howard Johnson's motel to the left, with legal notation from the trial of the White House Plumbers
Nixon giving his staple V sign in Pennsylvania during his 1968 campaign
Retired CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (pictured 1964) were the handlers of the five Watergate burglars.
A Sony tape-recorder used by Nixon to record all conversations in the Oval Office
Richard Helms
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Richard McGarrah Helms was an American government official, intelligence officer, and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973 as well as United States Ambassador to I
Official portrait c. 1966–72
Helms wrote a letter to his son Dennis, celebrating V-E Day, on stationery which had belonged to Adolf Hitler.
William Colby ran the Far East and Soviet desks at the CIA under Helms and administered the Phoenix Program under Helms.
Vietnamese peasants detained on suspicion of Viet Cong affiliation as part of the Phoenix Program.