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Chapter 14 - JEB MAGRUDER / JAMES MCCORD / JOHN MITCHELL / DONALD SEGRETTI

__**Jeb Magruder**__

Jeb Magruder was known as President Nixon's deputy campaign director and was also the deputy director of the Committee for the Re-election of President Nixon (CREEP). During the Watergate Scandal, Magruder was resonsible for ordering the first break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate comples in may 1972. Since the wiretapes did not have a good outcome, Magruder ordered a second break-in on June 17, 1972. The second break-in ended with the burglars being arrested.

After the break-ins, Magruder was charged with perjury and conspiracy to obstuct justice for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. He was sentenced to Four Months to Ten years in prison but only served Seven Months. Magruder was said to be the only one in the scandal to confirm that Nixon had known about the watergate break-in and that he directed Mitchell to continue with the break-in. In 2003, in a PBS documentary called //Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History,// during an interview with Magruder and the Associated Press, he stated that Nixon knew about the burlgary from beginning which did contradict his earlier statements.

chard Nixon, figured in the Watergate Scandal, and was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison. Hunt, along with G

On May 28th, 1972, James McCord led a team of 5 into an apartment block called Watergate.They broke into a an office belonging to Larry O'Brian, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Spencer Oliver, the executive director of the Association of State Democratic Chairmen and placed bugs on the telephones.
 * __James McCord__**

McCord joined the FBI after graduating from college. In 1951, he became a member of the CIA and worked in the physical security division. After Leaving the CIA he taught a security course and later created his own security consulting firm. McCord was appointed as security director for the Committee to re-elect the president (CREEP) in 1972.

Gordan Liddy recruited McCord to help him plant wiretaps in the phones in the Democratic Party campaign office in Watergate. McCord and his men were succesful in planting the bugs but soon realized one bug wasnt working. McCord and his crew went back to fix the bug but were caught this time. They all pleaded guilty in court and everything seemed to be coming to an end until McCord sent a letter to the judge explaining how they had been forced to plead guilty and there were others involved. The 5 men were convicted on 6 counts burglary, conspiracy, and wire-tapping. A month later McCord wrote a letter to the judge claiming the 5 men had been forced to plead guilty and perjury was commited. This letter re-opened the investigation in the Watergate Break-ins and led to everyone involved being exposed.



__**John Mitchell**__ President Nixon’s’ attorney general On February 21, 1975 Mitchell was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

He served 19 months at the minimum security institution at Maxwell Airforce Base.

On September 29, 1972 it was revealed that John Mitchell, while serving as Attorney General, controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance intelligence-gathering against the Democrats.

John Mitchell was the first United States Attorney General to ever be convicted of illegal activities and was put in prison. He also was a part of the CREEP, a committee to re-elect the president. This organization employed the Watergate burglar James W. McCord.

He was sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.

__**Donald Segretti**__

I. Donald Segretti was a former Treasury Department lawyer from California. He worked for “CREEP”, the campaign organized to re-elect President Richard Nixon.

II. Segretti has been said to have promised “big jobs” in Washington after Nixon’s re-election. He tried to recruit men to help him interfere with the Democratic campaign events. They were reportedly told that they needed false papers of identification as well as fake names, and that as long as their tasks were completed, money would be no issue.

III. As a result of the scandal, Segretti was not thoroughly investigated by the FBI because he was originally uncooperative and nothing turned connecting him to the Watergate Scandal. But the investigation of Segretti is later re-opened by investigators and again it is decided to be dropped because he had apparently not broken any federal laws.

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