series only based on the howard hunts hack spy novels you know and that's just all forgotten because the cia knew that would be incredibly embarrassing which which also shows the cia did not set up watergate either to bring nixon down any more than the washington post did nixon and his crimes what nixon down and and when. you publish in the book. the documents that nixon sent this very sophisticated team to break into the chilean embassy to break into the watergate several times of the democratic national committee headquarters. what was it the these guys were looking for what they were looking for that nixon was looking and this and this this is borne out in the new war to get documents in the state from. and so of one of the watergate burglars and it's been kind of known and talked about in historical circles for years but it hasn't penetrated the mainstream media because there was no official paperwork about it what it was was it was an almost one hundred page dossier of cia attempts to kill fidel castro that started in one nine hundred sixty s. when richard nixon's president vice

howard hunt was doing with some cubans. cubans who were, by the way, involved in the plumbers operation and were brought back by the committee for the re-election of the president to be involved in the secret intelligence surreptitious entry business in 1971/'72. this is going to be the hardest thing for the president because he knows who hunt is. and he knows -- and we know this from the tapes -- he knows that hunt is involved in sketchy activities, if not illegal activities. for colson and the re-election campaign. also here, we have president nixon himself ordering a violation of the campaign laws by setting up -- coming up with the idea of a fake write-in campaign for ted kennedy in new hampshire. ted kennedy was not running. he was not an announced, declared candidate in the 1972 election. the president wanted to siphon off votes from ed muskie, senator muskie of maine, who was in late 1971 and early 1972 considered to be the front-runner. and so the president orders the setup of a fake write-in operation which the whi

hawn is low level kind of bumbling people james mccord was a high level cia security official he howard hunt just a couple of years before he went to work for nixon was the chief of covert operations for all of western europe at the height of the cold war this was no bumbling nobody these were and he was the protege of the cia director for richard nixon richard helms fact richard helms was so close to you howard hunt two weeks before the first word of the burglary richard helms was pitching a t.v. show to top hollywood executives jack valenti and the head of paramount for a t.v. series like the old f.b.i. series only based on the howard hans hack spy novels you know and that's just all forgotten because the cia knew that would be incredibly embarrassing which which also shows the cia did not set up watergate either to bring nixon down any more than the washington post did nixon and his crimes what nixon down and and if. you publish in the book. the documents that nick some sent this very sophisticated team to break into the chilean embassy to break into the watergate several times of the dem

howard hunt was. they so quickly found by subpoena, apparently a couple notebooks in the watergate room where the burglars were saying, but also in one of their cars, a notebook showing the initials h.h. white house and hunt's number at the white house. so this is one of the reasons that alex very quickly got a call. alex, just follow me for a minute. when you heard about the break-in, what

howard hunt was. they so quickly found by subpoena, apparently a couple notebooks in the watergate room where the burglars were saying, but also in one of their cars, a notebook showing the initials h.h. white house and hunt's number at the white house. so this is one of the reasons that alex very quickly got a call. alex, just follow me for a minute. when you heard about the break-in, what was your first reaction? >> we did it. no, really. i just felt i knew for sure that we did it, and that the president had to know about it. i'd been there three and a half years by that time, and that's the way things operated. i saw things -- everything that happened, nixon was the choreographer. he was the director of everything. and if he knew about it, haldeman knew about it. they were the two that had to know about anything that happened, and i still feel that white house aides don't go off and handle things willy nilly. they're as conscious as anyone or more so that anything they do reflects on the presidency

reporters stayed with it i can't the clues that in the first week one of the burglars was connected to howard hunt, who was a former cia man, who was a consultant in the nixon white house. >> reporter: all week long they have been offering reflections while attending events in town marking the 40th anniversary of watergate. >> you realized that the spying and sabotage and hostility toward all of the perceived enemies of nixon was a perceived way of life in the white house. >> reporter: woodward and bernstein found the scheme launched by the nixon campaign to undermine the president's political opponents. >> what is striking is how angry and unhappy nixon is, at being president. he really wanted to use the power of the office as an instrument of personal revenge. >> reporter: bruce johnson, 9news now. >> after his resignation from the presidency, richard nixon was pardoned by his successor, president gerald ford. nixon repeatedly denied ordering any of the dirty tricks, however it was all captured on the white house tapes. >>> student and faculty leaders want more information about the removal of p

. >> the clues, and then in the first week that one of the burglars was connected to howard hunt, a former cia man who was a consultant in the nixon white house. >> reporter: all week long they've been offering reflections, journalism insight while attending events in town marking the 40th anniversary of watergate. >> you realize that the spying and sabotage and hostility towards all of the enemies, or perceived enemies was the way of life in the nixon white house. >> they found the watergate break-in was only part of the scheme launched by the nixon re- election campaign. >> what's striking is how angry and happy nixon is at being president. he wanted to use the power of the office as an instrument of personal revenge. >> after his resignation from the appreciation den see will you recall that richard nixon was pardoned by his successor, president gerald ford. it was all captured in his own words in the white house tapes. >>> still ahead on 9news now tonight, a man would took a strike from lightning lives to talk about it. >>> and we're going to look at a mostly muggy week ahead. the fore

that appeared quickly that howard hunt his name was found in first a notebook but also in a remarkable document in the room of the burglars next door at the hotel where hunt had written a check to a country club out in maryland for $6.36 for his out of state dues asking bernard barker to mail it from florida so he could remain in out of state status. a pretty sure clue there was some trouble. not only did the police and the fbi find this immediately, so did the media because the washington post had one of its better police reporters right there in the room i have now learned all these years later covering that particular activity. >> now this is serious business, but there's a little by that's keystone cops about it. they also had stacks of money didn't they? >> in their pocket. >> stacks of money which would later be important when you had to follow the must be. >> they didn't follow the bills, but they quickly tracked bernard barker's bank account and found he had very large transactions. it's interesting historically we know that liddy could have cashed those checks at the rigs bank

why howard hunt's defense lawyer gets himself many trouble. he does. there's a whole set of explanations and problems, but a lot of it is incompetent. one of the basic things that you represent your client. i recognized early i didn't have the background in the criminal law and couldn't sell anybody on the problem. no one thought it was criminal. in fact, it's a long time before we're across the line before i'm down letting my fingers do the walking through title 18 trying to figure out what in the hell we had done, and then realizing it, and it's not pretty. so there is that. there is that terrific element of bungling into this. one of the things i noticed in looking at some of the material in scott's book, the bretheren is i was telling jill this last night how prepared and able the lawyers in the special prosecutors office are, how knowledgeable they are about, one, the criminal law, about how to take their tapes case to the supreme court. >> nixon people just blunder ahead and do all kinds of things that annoy the court going in. any questions on t

howard hunt is up to his ears in this. so the word stage is when he helped us but the real, quite frankly, turning point in watergate is when carl found the bookkeeper. the bookkeeper had the details on the money and who controlled it and who got the money. if you look at "all the president's men" i think the bookkeeper is the key source on money and then that led to all of the other -- >> i don't want to -- >> this one question. could you have discovered the story? could you have uncovered the story without mark felt? >> without his -- >> i think that we had uncovered the story. more than anything, he did contribute key details at various points. but, really what he did that was so terrific is he gave us his assurance that we knew we were right, that he confirmed these things and it eliminated a lot of doubt that i think we might have had. >> and i think in the end it was very -- even though ben never asked for the name of the source while we were doing the coverage, i think it was very comforting to bradley to know that

march 21st when i get another demand sent for the first time to the white house and to me from howard hunt that he's going to in essence blow the whistle on erlichman if he's not paid what he's owed for attorney's fees and living experiences as a part of this hush man that's being paid, that he'll have seam a seamy things to say and it was clarified that he was talking about the elsburg break-in. i don't know anybody that had promised him that money it start with. it's pure extortion, but it was working. so i tell nixon when that comes in, i need to talk to him and i tell halderman that the stuff we're doing is obstruction by justice. by then i had pulled the statute down and there's no doubt i can't convince -- this is the sort of thing my colleague and predecessor doesn't want to hear it. he says we're just not. i don't want to hear you tell me we're obstructing justice. just denial. so this is the kind of problem i'm dealing with. i had earlier had a similar probleming saying i'm not a criminal lawyer, i wasn't in the prosecutor's office. we should bring somebody like one of the assista

howard hunt, who retired from the cia. nixon and his aides believed that hunt could be relied on, but he needed other people to help him. where did he get them? hunt turned to cubans, who had been trained by the cia to commit acts of sabotage against castro. many of these same people were involved in the 1972 break-in, that had been involved in the 1971. after the watergate burglars were arrested, the leading idea among nixon's men was to quash the fbi investigation, claiming that watergate was a cia operation, having to do with the bay of pigs. nixon was later convicted if the court of public opinion by the disclosure of a june 23rd, 1972 tape in which he ordered his chief of staff, haldeman, to order the cia to carry out this plan. cia director helms and his deputy were kind of puzzled and confident that watergate had nothing to do with the bay of pigs and resisted these overturs. there's an important sense, however, in which watergate did relate to the bay of pigs and the cold war in general, which is one of my big them

21st when i get another demand that's first sent to the white house and the first time to me from howard hunt that he is going to in essence blow the whistle on ehrlichman if he isn't paid $122,000 he is owed for attorneys fees and living expenses as part of this hush money that's being paid, that he is going to have some steamy things to say about ehrlichman and what he did for ehrlichman, this being pretty clear by my understand and hunt's later clarifying years later. he was talking about the elzburg break-in, that he was putting pressure on to settle the accounts up. so i tell nixon when that comes in i need to talk to him. i tell haldaman that i need to lay it out that the stuff we're doing is an obstruction of justice. by then i had -- there's no doubt in my mind i can't wincethis is the sort of thing my colleague john ehrlichman and others -- my predecessor's counsel, he doesn't want to hear it. >> this is the kind of problem i'm dealing with. i earlier had a similar problem when this first broke saying, john, i don't understand. i'm not a criminal lawyer. i don't have any training. i

had been a break-in by daniel -- into daniel elsberg's psychiatrist office by gordon liddy and howard hunt for the white house. some of the same men who were used in that break-in were now in the d.c. jail after watergate having participated in both. this is what brought the white house's concern. the cover-up might have been cut loose at the re-election committee level had there not been a link back to the white house. that's what's concerning everybody. nobody knows if it's so-called national security. nobody really knows all of the details of it. we do, of course, today. we didn't early on. so finding out what nixon knew and how he deals with the facts he is being told and also figuring out why he is not being told things and being manufactured of other things has been a fascinating process. i'm very early in it. i have to get this bed of basic information completed first where i listen to what my transcribers had prepared because i hear things nobody else hears on those tapes. i was telling scott last night, for example, one of my favorites is one day in october of 1972 i was over visi

. >> in the first week, one of the burglars was connected to howard hunt, who was a former cia man, whoas a consult tan in the nixon white house. >> reporter: all week long they have been offering reflections while attending events in town marking the 40th anniversary of watergate. >> you realize the hostility toward all the perceived enemies by nixon was a way of live in the nixon white house. >> woodward and bernstein found the break-in was only part of the scheme planned to undermine the president's political opponents. >> what's strike asking how angry and unhappy nixon is, at being president. he wanted to use the power of the office as an instrument of personal revenge. >> bruce johnson 9news now. >>> despite nixon's public denials of dirty tricks and vendettas, his own words on white house tapes con deducted those -- contradict those claims. >>> we want to thank you for watching 9news now at 6:00 a.m. a special hello to david and sylvia. i'm andrea roane. >>> fantastic. i'm jessica doyle. mike will be back later this week. >> you probably have some problems generated by the rain t

howard hunt who had helped mastermind the break-in and gordon liddy and the bay of pigs veterans, the cubans and the c.i.a. men all part of this break-in team regarded not that they were blackmailing the nixon white house but they were expecting the traditional rules of the spy game to be observed which is when you're caught in an undercover or covert mission of some kind, your principles, the people that hired you take care of you and your families and your legal fees. the nixon administration had nine months in which to do that. they were skittish in doing that in the run-up to the november 1972 elections. john dean was the acknowledged ringleader of the effort to provide money to the burglars and their lawyers and their families and when we hear him in that famous clip that was just played in the cancer on the presidency meeting, it has been dean's contention this was his whole effort to pull the plug on the dean cover-up. they never fully paid up the burglars and their lawyers. they were always in arrears. frankly, if you imagine any subsequent administration being asked, how much

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hunt. he says he will not fight extradition. >>> crews rushed to a howard county hotel and ingredients fordangerous drug are found. we have the details on this unusual meth lab bust in elkridge. >> reporter: guests staying on the 4th floor evacuated after an unexpected wake-up call. >> firefighters came down the hallway. they were pounding on the doors. >> reporter: he soon found out police were busting a meth lab. the drug is usually made with mixing over the counter cold medicine. in some cases, the combination can be explosive. >> the room was just down the hall from me. they had arrested these three guys and they had them cuffed, they had them on the floor. >> reporter: police arrested two more outside the hotel. >> we've arrested five in total. facing charges of manufacturerring, possession, and possession with intent to distribute. >> reporter: more than 10,000 meth labs for busted in the u.s. last year. most cases are in the lower midwest. that's where these suspects are originally from. >> they were manufacturerring the meth because they were unable to find it in howard county. >>

hunt valley back in 2005. shoppers pleaded for one in howard county too. >> we've had more than 500 requests to build a store in's one of the most requested sights. >> they have two more stores coming to maryland by next year one in ann aern dell and one in columbia county. >> wegmans says it's looking to open another super store in the ownings mills area. >>> the oriels have some more inner league play today when they play the mets in new york after having won seven of their last eight games. chen picked up his 7th victory of the year. he pitch ed 7 shut out innings. closer jim johnson finished the job. the oriels get the win with a 2-0 victory. >>> in golf the final round of the u.s. open, tiger woods had a chance entering the day but that quickly vanished. it could be a relative unknown who survived the tur tough -- tough course. when -- web simpson won. the 25 25-year-old wins his -- the 25-year-old wins his first may skwlor. congratulations -- major. congratulations to him. >> web simpson. >>> mark paul and broken meyer, they're two guys who play buddies on the little screen. they are also buddies in perso

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