03-05-2015, 04:07 PM
If you look at the timeline of this curious break-in, it could have been the first act that led directly to Watergate.
3-8-71 Media, PA break in. Cointelpro exposed by WashPo.
4-5-71 - House Majority Leader Hale Boggs(D. LA) rails against illegal activities by the FBI and Hoover, including the bugging of Congressmen. Boggs calls for Hoover's dismissal during House speech.
4-23-71 Boggs again calls For Hoover Ouster
4-28-71
COINTELPRO was officially terminated by Hoover . Hoover suddenly gets cold feet about doing any more Black-Bag jobs for the White House
June, 1971
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/iss...rshwh3.htm
"By mid-June of 1971, the White House had already been threatened with exposure of its wiretapping by J. Edgar Hoover, who understood only too welland let the President and his advisers know he understoodthat national security had little to do with the twenty-one months of wiretapping.
7-24-71 White House plumbers unit formed to find out who has been leaking info to the press on sensitive materials\
6-17-72 Watergate burglars arrested
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146862081/...emies-list
On Hoover's relationship with President Nixon:
"It was deep. It was based on mutual respect and dependency. And then it broke down during the last year and a half of Hoover's life around the time that Nixon turns on the White House tapes and starts bugging himself. Nixon wants his enemies destroyed all of them. Hoover is no longer willing to do his dirty work for him his black bag jobs, his breaking and entering, his bugging. Nixon becomes increasingly frustrated with this and he sets up his own bucket shop the plumbers. Six weeks after Hoover dies, they get caught breaking into the Watergate."
3-8-71 Media, PA break in. Cointelpro exposed by WashPo.
4-5-71 - House Majority Leader Hale Boggs(D. LA) rails against illegal activities by the FBI and Hoover, including the bugging of Congressmen. Boggs calls for Hoover's dismissal during House speech.
4-23-71 Boggs again calls For Hoover Ouster
4-28-71
COINTELPRO was officially terminated by Hoover . Hoover suddenly gets cold feet about doing any more Black-Bag jobs for the White House
June, 1971
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/iss...rshwh3.htm
"By mid-June of 1971, the White House had already been threatened with exposure of its wiretapping by J. Edgar Hoover, who understood only too welland let the President and his advisers know he understoodthat national security had little to do with the twenty-one months of wiretapping.
7-24-71 White House plumbers unit formed to find out who has been leaking info to the press on sensitive materials\
6-17-72 Watergate burglars arrested
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146862081/...emies-list
On Hoover's relationship with President Nixon:
"It was deep. It was based on mutual respect and dependency. And then it broke down during the last year and a half of Hoover's life around the time that Nixon turns on the White House tapes and starts bugging himself. Nixon wants his enemies destroyed all of them. Hoover is no longer willing to do his dirty work for him his black bag jobs, his breaking and entering, his bugging. Nixon becomes increasingly frustrated with this and he sets up his own bucket shop the plumbers. Six weeks after Hoover dies, they get caught breaking into the Watergate."