Question: Who were the parties on the tapes and when did the conversations take place?
About the article "Watergate scandal", section "Release of the tapes".

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Mitteager worked for the New York City Police Department before becoming a journalist.
While working as a freelance writer for the "New York Post", Mitteager was acquitted in 1979 on charges that he had bribed a correction officer to obtain photographs and information about murderer David Berkowitz.
In 1989, Mitteager helped "The National Enquirer" scoop "People" in getting the first photo of Riley Keough, oldest grandchild of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley.
Mitteager served as Los Angeles bureau chief of tabloid "The Globe".
Around the time of Mitteager's death, secret recordings of his conversations with celebrities and their representatives while at "The Globe" came to light.
The press also reported on his relationship with investigator Anthony Pellicano.
According to "Los Angeles" magazine, "Shortly before his death, he gave hundreds of tapes he had secretly recorded to Paul Barresi, an informant and sometime investigator for Pellicano."
Nikki Finke reported on the remaining tapes, "When Mitteager died of lung cancer, the tapes were left to his wife, who then gave them to her husband’s favorite tipster, Paul Barressi "the adult film producer and occasional leg man for Pellicano."
Conversations on a few tapes brought to light how Pellicano would approach celebrities and their representatives with tips from reporters, and then offer to have the stories killed in exchange for payment. 
In 1973, Thompson was appointed minority counsel to assist the Republican senators on the Senate Watergate Committee, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate to investigate the Watergate scandal.
Thompson is sometimes credited for supplying Republican Senator Howard Baker's famous question, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
This question is said to have helped frame the hearings in a way that eventually led to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
A Republican staff member, Donald Sanders, found out about the White House tapes and informed the committee on July 13, 1973.
Thompson was informed of the existence of the tapes, and he in turn informed Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt.
"Even though I had no authority to act for the committee, I decided to call Fred Buzhardt at home," Thompson later wrote, "I wanted to be sure that the White House was fully aware of what was to be disclosed so that it could take appropriate action.
"Three days after Sanders' discovery, at a public, televised committee hearing, Thompson asked former White House aide Alexander Butterfield the famous question, "Mr. Butterfield, were you aware of the existence of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?"
thereby publicly revealing the existence of tape recordings of conversations within the White House.
National Public Radio later called that session and the discovery of the Watergate tapes "a turning point in the investigation.
"Thompson's appointment as minority counsel to the Senate Watergate committee reportedly upset Nixon, who believed Thompson was not skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would be outfoxed by the committee Democrats.
According to historian Stanley Kutler, however, Thompson and Baker "carried water for the White House, but I have to give them credit — they were watching out for their interests, too...
They weren't going to mindlessly go down the tubes Nixon."
When the Watergate investigation began to pick up speed, tapes revealed that Nixon remarked to his then-Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, "Oh shit, he's dumb as hell.
"Journalist Scott Armstrong, a Democratic investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee, is critical of Thompson for having disclosed the committee's knowledge of the tapes to Buzhardt during an on-going investigation and says Thompson was "a mole for the White House" and that Thompson's actions gave the White House a chance to destroy the tapes.
Thompson's 1975 book "At That Point in Time" in turn accused Armstrong of having been too close to "The Washington Post"'s Bob Woodward and of leaking committee information to him.
In response to renewed interest in this matter, in 2007 during his presidential campaign, Thompson said, "I'm glad all of this has finally caused someone to read my Watergate book, even though it's taken them over 30 years."
In April 1974, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the tapes of 42 White House conversations.
At the end of that month, Nixon released edited transcripts of the White House tapes, again citing executive privilege and national security; the Judiciary Committee, however, rejected Nixon’s edited transcripts, saying that they did not comply with the subpoena.
Sirica, acting on a request from Jaworski, issued a subpoena for the tapes of 64 presidential conversations to use as evidence in the criminal cases against indicted former Nixon administration officials.
Nixon refused, and Jaworski appealed to the Supreme Court to force Nixon to turn over the tapes.
On July 24, the Supreme Court voted 8-0 (Justice William Rehnquist recused himself) in "United States v. Nixon" that Nixon must turn over the tapes.
In late July 1974, the White House released the subpoenaed tapes.
One of those tapes was the so-called "smoking gun" tape, from June 23, 1972, six days after the Watergate break-in.
In that tape, Nixon agrees that administration officials should approach Richard Helms, Director of the CIA, and Vernon A. Walters, Deputy Director, and ask them to request L. Patrick Gray, Acting Director of the FBI, to halt the Bureau's investigation into the Watergate break-in on the grounds that it was a national security matter.
The special prosecutor felt that Nixon, in so agreeing, had entered into a criminal conspiracy whose goal was the obstruction of justice.
Once the "smoking gun" tape was made public on August 5, Nixon's political support practically vanished.
The ten Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who had voted against impeachment in committee announced that they would now vote for impeachment once the matter reached the House floor.
He lacked substantial support in the Senate as well; Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott estimated no more than 15 Senators were willing to even consider acquittal.
Facing certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and equally certain conviction in the Senate, Nixon announced his resignation on the evening of Thursday, August 8, to take effect noon the next day. 
When Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers arrived at the scene, their efforts to investigate the pub and surrounding area were met with an impromptu riot.
Rioting by youths, specifically attacking the police, forced them to pull back from the area, which delayed initial investigation.
Police with riot gear arrived later in the evening, and were also attacked.
Alex Maskey of Sinn Féin claimed, "It appears the PSNI is using last night's tragic stabbing incident as an excuse to disrupt life within this community, and the scale and approach of their operation is completely unacceptable and unjustifiable."
There have been suggestions that the rioting was organised by those involved in the murder, so that a cleanup operation could take place in and around where the murder took place.
Clothes worn by McCartney's attackers were burned, CCTV tapes were removed from the bar and destroyed and bar staff were threatened.
No ambulance was called.
McCartney and Devine were noticed by a police car on routine patrol, who called an ambulance to the scene.
When the police launched the murder investigation they were met with a "wall of silence"; none of the estimated seventy or so witnesses to the altercation came forward with information.
This is not an unusual attitude among Irish nationalists, who have mixed views of the new police force.
In conversations with family members, seventy-one potential witnesses claimed to have been in the pub's toilets at the time of the attacks.
As the toilet measures just four feet by three feet, this led to the toilets being dubbed the TARDIS, after the time machine in the television series "Doctor Who", which is much bigger on the inside than on the outside.
Sinn Féin suspended twelve members of the party and the IRA expelled three members some weeks later. 
Sabrina, the five month old daughter of Marlene and Steve Aisenberg, vanished from their home in Valrico, Florida, on November 24, 1997.
On "Larry King Live", the Aisenbergs described how they cooperated with the police, prosecutors and investigators in every way once the baby was found missing.
However, since statistics show that usually a parent is responsible for a missing child, the police relied on this assumption in holding the Aisenbergs as the primary suspects.
Barry Cohen, also a guest on Larry King, said he was retained by the Aisenbergs a few days later.
He acknowledged that the police were fully within their rights to suspect the missing child's parents but said that they became obsessed with this hypothesis, even when they could find no evidence to support it, and ceased looking for other leads.
When the police failed to find evidence to support that conclusion, Cohen said, they lied to a state judge for permission to tape conversations in the Aisenberg household without their permission.
Since the tapes produced no incriminating evidence, evidence was fabricated according to Cohen.
The federal judge called the evidence false.
A Federal judge in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed the case in February 2001, after a hearing reviewing the evidence, primarily in the form of audio tapes obtained by the police.
The Aisenbergs were unaware that, for a period of 79 days, investigators recorded over 2,600 separate conversations on 55 different audio tapes.
The tapes, a key part of the prosecution's case, were ruled poor and inaudible.
Cohen, when asked why law enforcement fabricated the case, said that he did not blame the police in particular but that the whole system was pressured to successfully prosecute after the Susan Smith and JonBenét Ramsey cases.
When asked why he was still involved in the case, Cohen answered: