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Unsung FBI figures in Watergate saga draw mixed lessons
FBI investigators and informants played crucial but opaque roles in the Watergate case. The piece weighs motives of McCord and unnamed agents, contrasts Ellsberg’s risk for truth with Nixon’s hostility to leaks, and notes public figures like Liddy Sloan Goldwater Cronkite and Judge Sirica urging integrity and courage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Berkow
Assn
Washington
James McCord
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
White House
L. Patrick Gray
Gray
Washington Post
Jack Anderson
Bureau
Watergate
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg
Defense Department
Pentagon
New York Times
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ervin Committee
McCord
John J. Sirica
G. Gordon Liddy
Stewart Alsop
Newsweek
Hugh W. Sloan Jr
Sloan
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Fred LaRue
Prostecutor
Florida
Donald Segretti