Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)

CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter

1972-09-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Donald Henry Segretti, hired by his friend Dwight L. Chapin (Nixon’s appointments secretary), ran an extensive campaign of political sabotage against Democratic candidates throughout 1972, with his work paid for by Nixon’s lawyer Herbert Kalmbach from presidential campaign funds. …

Donald Segretti Dwight L. Chapin Ken W. Clawson Herbert Kalmbach Edmund Muskie +1 more watergate electoral-manipulation disinformation institutional-corruption abuse-of-power

Five Burglars Arrested Breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Complex

1972-06-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

In the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, Washington D.C. police arrested five men inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. Security guard Frank Wills had discovered tape over door locks and called police, who caught the burglars preparing to install …

James W. McCord Jr. E. Howard Hunt G. Gordon Liddy Bernard Barker Eugenio Martinez +2 more watergate abuse-of-power obstruction-of-justice institutional-corruption intelligence-agencies