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E. HOWARD HUNT / RICHARD KLEINDIENST / G. GORDON LIDDY
 * Chapter 13 **

Richard Kleindienst of Winslow, Arizona served in World War 2 from 1943 to 1946 in the United States Army Air Corps. After he was relieved, he went to Harvard Colledge and Harvard Law School until he graduated in 1950. Richard served in the Arizona House of Reps. In 1964, he tried for the Govenor of Arizona, but lost to Sam Goddard, 53%-47%, however he became Deputy Attorney General from 1969 to 1972. On June 12, 1972 he was promoted to Attorney General by Richard Nixon. When the five burglers of the Watergate Hotel were arrested on Saturday June 17 Richard was notified but didn't seem to have much interest, but later that day he was approached by Gordon Liddy who told him that the break-in had origionated fro the Committee to Re-Ellect the President or CREEP. Liddy continued by telling Richard that in order to prevent word from spreading of the connection, Richard would have to release the prisoners quickly. The idea had apparently come from Richard's predicessor John N. Mitchell. Despite what he had been told, Richard neither tried to release the prisoners or to act on Liddy's confession. He later resigned April 30, 1973 during the middle of the Watergate Scandal. One of Richard's friends William H. Rehnquist who was Chief Justice at the time also managed to escape conviction from the Watergate tapes with the help of Richard. Though he never commited any real crimes personally, Richard did ignore all the illegal acts that were going on and even permitted some of them. In 1974, Kliendienst pleaded guilty to the charge that he had lied about saying that he hadn't been swayed to drop a lawsuit against ITT by Nixon. He was fined $1000 and sentenced to 30 days in jail but the judge suspended the sentence. It was found that ITT had made a $400,000 contribution to the Nixon campaign, but Richard was excused from that case. Kliendienst died of lung cancer February 3, 2000.
 * Richard Kleindienst **


 * Everette Howard Hunt **



**Before the Watergate Scandal ** Everette Howard Hunt Jr. was born in East Hamburg, NY on October 9, 1918. He was the son of Howard Hunt Sr. and Ethel Jean Totterdale and he attended Brown University in 1940 and then went on to attend the United States Naval Academy. After attending the Naval Academy, Hunt wrote for //Time// magazine until he was called upon for active duty. While serving on the naval destroyer, USS Mayo, Hunt was injured and honorably discharged from the Navy. Then in 1943 he enlisted in the Army Air Force Reserves. It was during this time that Hunt volunteered for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and ultimately led to him joining the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1949. Hunt also married that same year to Dorothy Wetzel de Goutiere whom he had four children, Lisa, Kevan, St John, and David. While serving in the CIA, Hunt worked to gather intelligence for the United States in numerous countries including China, Cuba, France, Mexico, and Japan, Italy, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. He was largely involved with covert operations such as overthrowing officials in other countries such as the Bay of Pigs. Hunt worked his way up in the ranks of the CIA and finally retired in 1970 when Richard Nixon was elected as President. Although he retired, Hunt accepted Nixon’s request to be a “part-time consultant” for his personal security group at the White House.

Hunt was in fact more involved than his job title perceived. This security group of President Nixon became known as the Plumbers. They were primarily in charge of ensuring that classified and important information did not leak out of the White House and to investigate those who may leak information. When it came time for Nixon to run for re-election, Hunt along with G. Gordon Liddy, organized the plan to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the Watergate Hotel. They wanted to tap the phone lines, and gather information that suggested the committee was accepting illegal funds which would help ensure Nixon’s re-election. The Plumbers, Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, Bernard L. Barker, and James W. McCord, broke into the headquarters on the night of June 17, 1972 and were arrested. Four out of the five had known Hunt from the Bay of Pigs operation in 1961. The Plumbers were arrested carrying large sums of money and contact information for Hunt including a phone number and the Watergate Scandal began to unfold. For a while the Hunt’s tried to blackmail the White House for money in return for their silence. However Dorothy Hunt was killed in a plane crash outside of Midway airport in Chicago on December 8, 1972; investigators found money in her bags. Shortly after, Hunt confessed to conspiracy, wiretapping, and burglary.
 * Watergate **

After serving around a three month prison sentence Hunt moved to Florida. He remarried to Laura E. Martin and had a daughter, Hollis, and a son, Austin. Hunt spent a lot of his time writing spy novels and ended up publishing around eighty stories. He later declared bankruptcy in 1997 due to legal fees as a result of the scandal. Hunt also faced some medical issues such as atherosclerosis which resulted in the loss of his leg. Everette Howard Hunt Jr. died in Florida on January 23, 2007 from pneumonia.
 * After **

**__ G. Gordon Liddy  __** George Gordon Liddy was born on November 30 1930 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He went to many schools all up through high school, trying to get the broadest education possible. He then went on to college at Fordham University. "There was no question of where I should go for college. My father, a loyal and active son of Fordham, was confident that the education there, under the Jesuits, would be superior. Once again he was correct." This is what G. Gordon Liddy said when talking about his choice of college. H e graduated from Fordham University in 1952 to then move on to Fordham Lay School and graduated as an editor of the Fordham Law Review. He joined and served in the Army in the Korean War for two Years. G. Gordon Liddy then joined the FBI in 1957 as a special Agent, and became the youngest Bureau Supervisor at the FBI national headquarters. He then resigned in 1962 to practice international law in Manhattan. He was then a ppointed as Assistant Attorney General, Dutchess County, New York, in 1966. Being a Republican G. Gordon Liddy ran the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in the district of New York. He was later appointed by Nixon as a lawyer in the Treasury Department. In 1971 he had been a staff assistant to President Nixon and became a member of the Special Investigations Group (SIG) (informally known as "the Plumbers"). A year later Liddy joined the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) G. Gordon Liddy was in charges of Planning the Break in to Water gate. He along with E. Howard Hunt was monitoring the break in from across the street in a different hotel when the break in happened and was only later caught in the investigation due to chain of evidence. Over all G. Gordon Liddy had used a total of $300,000 in political tricks as a plumber for Nixon’s re-election campaign. He also was caught on s upporting the conspiracy theory that Watergate was a cover up of the Call-girl ring run out of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. This theory got him involved with a defaming lawsuit with Ida “Maxie” Will, he was being sued for the accusation that her desk was targeted during the Watergate break in. This accusation did not hold up in court. Later however he was caught for the break in in the Daniel Ellsberg case, as a result he spent four and a half years in maximum security prison. G. Gordon Liddy had originally been sentenced to 20 but was released by President Carter “in the interests of Justice”. G. Gordon now has his own talk show which started in February of 1992 called “The G. Gordon Liddy Show”. It broadcasted on 232 stations nation wide and still is broadcasted on 150 markets including XM and Sirius Radio. G. Gordon Liddy also wrote many novels, some being: "The Monkey Handlers" "Out of Control" and an autobiography, "Will" (which became a Best seller). His most recent book, “Fight Back Tackling Terrorism Liddy Style” published in 2006 ranked high on the New York Times bestsellers list. G. Gordon Liddy is also known for acting in several films and guest starring in a few TV shows. Some of his more famous films are The Highwayman, Street Asylum, Camp Cucamonga, Adventures in Spying, and Rules of Engagement. The TV shows he appeared in are Airwolf, 18 Wheels of Justice, MacGyver, and his most famous appearance in Miami Vice. In April of 1986 G. Gordon Liddy appeared at Wrestle Mania II as a guest Judge for a boxing match.
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 * Watergate **
 * After **

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By: Brian Bourque, Chris Briere, Ben Whippen,Kath Vargas