the break-ins might have been kind of amateurist, but nonetheless required certain discipline, training and equipment. they would not be ordinary criminals. that would leave the administration too vulnerable to involvement with unpredictable characters. the administrations had invested significant resources in training a convert army of operatives against castro. after the bay of pigs failed these operatives were based in the miami area. now, in this respect, the cold war efforts against castro, efforts led by the kennedy administration became braided together with nixon's efforts to destroy domestic opposition to his war policies. in a very dangerous way. it's likely the break-ins could not have occurred had these operatives, accustomed to living above the law, had not been available to the administration. i don't want to make a case, you know, that watergate is a joint kennedy/nixon enterprise. that would get too many people upset at me. but what i want to tell you is that the forces that were set in motion by the cold war put the united states government in some very dangerous situat