[kcvl]

So far as history is concerned, the foregoing is the Watergate story. It would take a further 16 years before anyone was able to revise history and show what had really taken place during those dark Watergate days, was a conspiracy to dethrone a President. In their acclaimed book "Silent Coup", Len Colodny & Robert Gettlin, reveal that a military spy ring working for the Pentagon had penetrated the White House. Opposed to Nixon's foreign policy goals, the spy-ring was engaged in stealing highly sensitive material that could be used to "spoil" emerging policy decisions.

Not least the authors turn history on its head by revealing that Bob Woodward was a former Pentagon Briefing Officer, with high security clearance, who they strongly suspect was involved in the Pentagon spy apparatus. As a young Navy lieutenant Woodward had briefed General Alexander Haig on numerous occasions, while Haig was working as military liaison to Nixon's National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger. While Woodward continues to deny this, Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former Joint Chief of Staff at the Pentagon has publicly confirmed it. Significantly, after Woodward left the Navy, he became a junior reporter at the Washington Post. Here, he was be catapulted into journalistic fame by his many stories on Watergate.

More White House Spies?

Not least, some questions have been raised about the loyalty of Alexander Butterfield, the man who revealed that Nixon had bugged the Oval Office. It was this revelation that eventually brought Nixon to his knees. A former career Air Force officer and CIA liaison, Butterfield had chased a White House job and got it. According to Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's private secretary, Butterfield had been a "plant" placed inside the White House by another agency - probably the CIA. This view was later shared by H.R. Hank Haldeman. In any event, Butterfield was on extremely close terms to Alexander Haig.

[beyond the sea]

So far as history is concerned, the foregoing is the Watergate story. It would take a further 16 years before anyone was able to revise history and show what had really taken place during those dark Watergate days, was a conspiracy to dethrone a President. In their acclaimed book "Silent Coup", Len Colodny & Robert Gettlin, reveal that a military spy ring working for the Pentagon had penetrated the White House. Opposed to Nixon's foreign policy goals, the spy-ring was engaged in stealing highly sensitive material that could be used to "spoil" emerging policy decisions. Not least the authors turn history on its head by revealing that Bob Woodward was a former Pentagon Briefing Officer, with high security clearance, who they strongly suspect was involved in the Pentagon spy apparatus. As a young Navy lieutenant Woodward had briefed General Alexander Haig on numerous occasions, while Haig was working as military liaison to Nixon's National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger. While Woodward continues to deny this, Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former Joint Chief of Staff at the Pentagon has publicly confirmed it. Significantly, after Woodward left the Navy, he became a junior reporter at the Washington Post. Here, he was be catapulted into journalistic fame by his many stories on Watergate.

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Yep, all true. Nixon should have never referred to Helen Gahagan Douglas as a pinko years and years ago ---- those communist/socialists never forget.