[0113-2300] Watergate Scandal – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

Before the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters became synonymous with presidential downfall, it was designed as a precision covert operation executed by veterans of the CIA’s deepest shadows. This Companion Dossier details the operational lineage of E. Howard Hunt, tracking how tactics honed during Operation PBSUCCESS in Guatemala and the disaster at the Bay of Pigs were turned inward against domestic targets. Inside this intelligence file, readers gain declassified visibility into the White House Plumbers unit. Follow the chronological unraveling of Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy’s operation, complete with annotated floor plans of the Watergate Hotel, surveillance logs from the Howard Johnson’s listening post across Virginia Avenue, and internal memoranda linking commercial front organizations to executive-level authorization. Documented with forensic precision, the dossier highlights the fatal paper trail—from laundered campaign cash to telltale address books—that fractured the cover-up and triggered an unprecedented constitutional crisis. Built for historians, intelligence analysts, and researchers, this dossier strips away decades of political spin to reveal the raw anatomy of a rogue domestic espionage campaign.