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June 18, 1972
Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee here.
Three of the men were native-born Cubans and another was said to have trained Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity after the 1961 Cuban missile crisis. -
January- December 1973
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April 30, 1974
Release of the 1,254 pages of the secretly recorded conversations of crucial Watergate-related meetings from September, 1972, through April, 1973, came in two distinct installments. -
DNC’s Stanley Greigg Dies; Signed Watergate Complaint
Stanley L. Greigg, 71, the former Democratic National Committee official who filed the original criminal complaint against the Watergate burglars, died June 13 in Salem, Va., where he was attending a meeting of his religious denomination. When his telephone rang at his home on June 17, 1972, Mr. Greigg, deputy chairman of the DNC, was one of the first people to learn of the arrests made that morning in connection with the break-in at DNC headquarters in the Watergate office building. -
Watergate Papers Sold For $5 Million
AUSTIN, April 7 -- In one of the largest such purchases in American history, the University of Texas at Austin has bought the Watergate papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for $5 million, the university announced today. The archive -- 75 file-drawer-size boxes of notebooks, memos, correspondence, photographs, clippings, manuscripts, transcriptions and loose notes from the authors’ reporting for The Washington Post and for their two books on the Nixon -
Helen M. Smith Dies; Aide to Pat Nixon
Helen M. Smith, 84, who worked at the White House as press secretary and trusted aide to first lady Pat Nixon during the turbulent Watergate years, died of vascular disease April 9 at her home in Washington. Mrs. Smith had been a secretary in the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News for 19 years when one of its reporters, Gerry Van der Heuvel, was hired as Pat Nixon’s press secretary in 1968. Van der Heuvel brought Mrs. Smith with her to the White House as a member of her staff. -
Politics Watergate-Era FBI Chief L. Patrick Gray III Dies at 88
L. Patrick Gray, 88, the acting director of the FBI who passed its investigative reports on the Watergate scandal to the White House, and who was left to “twist slowly, slowly in the wind” by President Richard M. Nixon, died July 6 at his home in Atlantic Beach, Fla. He had pancreatic cancer. -
Martin F. Dardis, 83; Investigator Linked Watergate Crime to Nixon
Martin F. Dardis, 83, whose investigative skills connected the Watergate burglars to President Nixon’s Committee to Reelect the President and who also brought down drug smugglers, gun runners and embezzlers in 1970s-era Miami, died of vascular disease May 16 at a nursing home in Palm City, Fla.
