From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo)
Subject: Re: Hey! What About Watergate!
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:46:15 GMT
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
Keywords: Watergate, JFK Assassination, the Plumbers, the 5412 Committee


In article <BrxCwD.K4r@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:12:12 GMT,
  mfenster@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark Andrew Fenster) writes:

>Frankly, I was surprised that the twentieth anniversary 
>of the arrest of the Watergate plumbers came and went 
>so quietly here in alt. world.  There have been some 
>discussions on the topic (mostly to do with who Deep 
>Throat is --- a far less interesting question than asking
>who Bob Woodward is), but most of them have been basic 
>and superficial.
	
>Having recently gone through Carl Oglesby's "The Yankee 
>and Cowboy War" and taken a cursory glance at Colodny and 
>Gettlin's "Silent Coup" (both of which argue that Nixon 
>[whom they both make clear was a bad, evil man] was the unwitting 
>victim of a[n ultimately successful] conspiracy or plot to 
>overthrow him), it's clear that the most interesting questions 
>that need to be asked have less to with the act of what the 
>Plumbers were after than with:

>1) Why did the get caught?
>2) What were their actions and their arrest a part of (i.e., larger 
>machinations by Nixon, by those out to get Nixon, or by some 
>other hidden conspiratorial group)?

>Any ideas or comments?

    According to Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute, during the
    days of Nixon's reelection campaign, Nixon became very suspicious
    and paranoid that Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien might
    publicize (as customary campaign mud-slinging) the fact that Dwight 
    David Eisenhower's Vice-President Richard Milhaus Nixon had
    collaborated with O'Brien's former boss Howard Hughes in organizing
    and directing the ultra-secret White House mordgruppe (murder team)
    named the 5412 Committee [I think I've got that number right] 
    which was then designated to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
    Later, the 5412 Committee -- composed of anti-Castro Cuban exiles 
    and sordid & assorted CIA agents such as James McCord and Bernard 
    Barker of the future plumbers squad -- was redirected by the CIA 
    to be a shooter team in Dealey Plaza.

    Nixon was deathly afraid that any suspected revelations would incriminate 
    him as a co-conspirator in the assassination of the President. 
    So he sent word to the CIA that if O'Brien started to talk about
    Nixon's 5412 Committee of the late `50s, then the whole story of
    the CIA's assassination of President Kennedy would unravel from it.
    The CIA, either mistakenly or suspiciously, took Nixon's warning 
    to mean that Nixon might blow the whistle on them. And that fear 
    was the catalyst that spawned the decision by the CIA to entrap 
    Nixon in his planned burglary as the pretext for toppling Nixon
    from his presidential perch and into the abyss of political exile,
    an extremely perilous position from which to follow through on
    any threats, real or imagined, to rat on the CIA.

    The only operatives whom Nixon trusted to burgle the offices of 
    Democratic Chairman Larry O'Brien were the very same operatives who,
    by their own complicity in the 5412 Committee, would dare not
    hang the documents sought in their Watergate Break-in over 
    Nixon's head as blackmail in the remaining years of his life.
    The only problem was that these plumbers were CIA operatives,
    not Nixon's operatives. Hence, they obediently executed the CIA's 
    planned double-cross against Nixon by deliberately setting out
    to burgle the bunglary. 

          John DiNardo

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