Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.


In 1960, pretty much all of the intelligence and military community believed that Richard Nixon would be the next president and plans for the invasion of Cuba and other covert activities would continue undisturbed. As it turned out they were wrong and their plans as well as their entire world view ran afoul of the new President.

When Nixon did become president he requested information from the the CIA about the Kennedy assassination as well as the failed Bay of Pigs since he viewed the Warren Commission Report as pure BS. The CIA refused. Nixon was looking for information he could use a leverage should a conflict develop between himself and the intelligence and military communicates.

What happened instead was that it set the President and the CIA on a collision course. When his administration began looking into big oil and the interlocking directors he became an obstacle to the people who secretly ran the country.

When is administration began finding secret information in the hand of the public, the team of “plumbers” was formed to stop the leaks. He had several CIA men on this team, including the likes of James McCord, Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. He trusted them to look out for his interests, not realizing some, James McCord in particular, had stronger loyalties to the CIA. After all, presidents come and go, but the CIA goes on indefinitely.

After the arrests for the break in at DNC Headquarters in the Watergate complex, McCord's testimony led to Nixon's resignation. Reports were that McCord cracked under pressure and spilled the incriminating information. Nixon contacted Richard Helms the CIA Director, trying to get them to back off the investigation. Helms refused. Considering McCord's association with the CIA and the ongoing conflict with Nixon there appears to be another reason for his actions that destroyed the presidency.

Years later, during an interview Richard Nixon made the following statement: “Lyndon and I both wanted to be president. The difference was I wouldn't kill for it.”

It has been suggested that Nixon’s antidrug campaign was, in actuality, a bid to establish his own intelligence network. It has also been suggested that it was exactly that bid which brought the sucker setup that was Watergate and Nixon’s political assassination. ― Gaeton Fonzi
 

Six Ways From Sunday, The Watergate Coup: A Pre-Scripted Intelligence Operation to Preserve the Secret, Protect the Agency and Defend the Nation, by Removing Richard Nixon from Power
by Irvin Randall

What Watergate's investigating FBI agents didn’t and couldn’t have known, was the burglary case they were solving had been intentionally put in their lap by the plotters. With the passage of decades, we can now see what really happened.

What is an intelligence operation? What is a magic trick? What is con? The Watergate scandal was a pre-scripted coup by the intelligence agencies to protect the secrets, preserve their power, and defend the system bringing prosperity and power to those who benefited from it. Nixon walked into a well laid trap. This book’s use of dialogue from famous movies will help you take off the blinders and see what is right in front of all our noses.

Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon
by Roger Stone, Mike Colapietro

The mainstream media’s interpretation of the facts surrounding the Watergate episode are a fantastic and grotesque distortion of historical truth,” said Stone. “Cursory examination of the facts in Watergate will reveal that the actions which caused the fall of Nixon cannot be reduced to the simplistic account summarized by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post.”

The author outlines how White House Counsel John Dean, planned, pushed and covered-up the Watergate break-in , then sought to avoid responsibility for it. Stone examines the bungled Watergate break-in to determine what exactly Nixon’s agents were looking for and how the CIA infiltrated the burglar team and sabotaged the break-in to gain leverage over Nixon. Find out why Nixon demanded the CIA turn over the records of the Bay of Pigs and Kennedy Assassination.

Learn how a cabal of military and intelligence hard-liners spied on and
undermined Nixon to stop his pro-peace détente foreign policy, his withdrawal of troops from Vietnam, his arms limitation agreement with the Soviets, and his opening to Red China. Discover how Vice President Spiro Agnew was setup to move him out of the line of presidential succession.

Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by Jefferson Morley

Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms.

Nixon and Helms went back decades; both were 1950s Cold Warriors, and both knew secrets about the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as well as off-the-books American government and CIA plots to remove Fidel Castro and other leaders in Latin America. Both had enough information on each other to ruin their careers.

After the Watergate burglary on June 17, 1972, Nixon was desperate to shut down the FBI's investigation. He sought Helms' support and asked that the CIA intervene―knowing that most of the Watergate burglars were retired CIA agents, contractors, or long-term assets with deep knowledge of the Agency's most sensitive secrets. The two now circled each other like scorpions, defending themselves with the threat of lethal attack. The loser would resign his office in disgrace; the winner, however, would face consequences for the secrets he had kept.

Rigorously researched and dramatically told, Scorpions' Dance uses long-neglected evidence to reveal a new perspective on one of America's most notorious presidential scandals.