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Edited on Thu Sep-02-10 02:10 PM by MikeMc
Dorothy was the bag-woman who conveyed hush money to the 5 Watergate 'plumbers', when her husband and Liddy got indicted. 44 other people died in this commuter plane accident. Her death was discussed in the Nicholas von Hoffman and Garry Trudeau book "Trout Fishing in the Reflecting Pool, or The Fireside Watergate" (page 82):
"In the meantime, Mrs. Eduardo died in a great puff of $100 bills as her United Airline plane splattered short of the runway at Midway Airport, Chicago. United, unlike American Airlines, had failed to make a contribution and was experiencing a run of bad luck. Later on it was alleged that the plane had been brought down either by the Colson-Kalmbach faction or the Mitchell-Magruder clique. Enough credence was put in this fantasy that a late night emergency meeting was called in the EOB basement where H.R. Bob looked around the room at all His Leadership's advisors and asked, 'Has any of you killed anybody lately?' By way of answer, a voice from the ring of men asked, 'Does Wallace count as a kill?' "
"Newsweek", May 14, 1973, page 34 (2nd para in 3rd column):
"Months later, after the December ('72) plane crash that killed Hunt's wife as she carried $10,000 in $100 bills to an unknown rendezvous in Chicago, Dean's connection with the coverup became more intimate. Hunt, unnerved by his wife's death, sent his lawyer, William Bittman, to Chuck Colson with the message that 'something has to be done' to prevent a long jail sentence for Hunt."
The same "Newsweek" article, in the National Affairs section (Titled "John Dean Points a Finger") discusses Liddy's '72 campaign operations (p. 32, last para in 2nd column):
"while Liddy was talking about a mugging, bugging, kidnaping and even a prostitution squad."
Same article, discussion of Dean's black bag job on Hunt's office safe in the EOB (Exec. Office Bldg.), immediately after Hunt got indicted (Page 34, 2nd para in 1st column):
"Dean went through the contents of Hunt's safe with his assistant, Fred Fielding. They found a pistol, electronic bugging equipment, a psychiatric profile of Daniel Ellsberg and the phony cables tying the death of former South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem to President John Kennedy."
Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, stood by while his wife was drugged and kidnapped by Nixon operatives, who spirited her to CA, and held her there. One of her captors was a man named Stephen King, which is where the famous author got his pen name. Ted Bundy was investigated for his Watergate-related activities on behalf of the GOP in CA, well before he was busted as a serial killer. Another fascinating Watergate vignette was Colson's congressional testimony that he was joking about his plan to firebomb the Brookings Institute.
In Congressional testimony, and his book "The Ends of Power", H.R. 'Bob' Haldeman said that Nixon told him to stonewall the investigation of the Watergate break in. Nixon ordered Haldeman to tell investigators to back off or else the "Mexican stuff" or "Bay of Pigs" stuff "will come out". When asked what the wacky President meant, Haldeman said that Nixon "was actually referring to the Kennedy assasination." ("Deadly Secrets", by Warren Hinckle, p. 417.) DNC Chair Larry O'Brien, whose offices were burglarized and (re-)wiretapped in the Watergate office complex, had previously been part of the inner circle of John Kennedy's Administration (sometimes called the 'Irish Mafia').
After his plane crash and Chappaquiddick car crash in '69, Ted Kennedy wasn't running for president in '72. This was the first (open) presidential election since '60 with no Kennedy running, but the Dems had made one of the Kennedys' closest confidants the party Chair for the '72 election. Liddy's excuse for the 'Third rate burglary' was that they were trying to get evidence that the Dems were running a prostitution ring out of Watergate, but given Liddy's own 'prostitution' squad, and the prostitution/blackmail operation the repugs were caught running during the '72 Democratic Convention in Miami, Liddy's statement is a typical example of repug 'projection'. Haldeman was embittered, but correct. The GOP wanted to know how Dems were going to use repug involvement with the Kennedy assassination to go after the GOP and reclaim the White House.
Post-Watergate, several governmental reform hearings were held to clean up our Watergate-tainted government (the Pike Committee, the Church Committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations). A lot of high profile witnesses were murdered before testifying, including Sam Giancana, John Roselli, George de Mohrenschildt, etc. Likewise, there were dozens of un-natural deaths that occurred among witnesses to the JFK murder, starting the day of the assassination, continuing all through the Watergate era, and some of the same JFK witnesses were among the people killed when called to testify at post-Watergate reform hearings. The JFK assassination and the post-Watergate hearings were the book-ends to Watergate itself. Lawyers who were involved in the Warren Commission and who represented 'lone nuts' like Ruby, Bremer, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, turned up as lawyers defending Nixon's staff of Watergate offenders. (Melvin Belli, J. B. Stoner, F. Lee Bailey, spring to mind, but you can get a lot more names by reviewing the Ervin Committee hearings and the criminal cases against Nixon's Watergators.)
It's easy to see how a British national might have a different perception of Watergate killings than Americans have. Their press doesn't have the same pressure on it that ours does, since our 'History is written by the winners'. Their outside view of this American scandal is less obstructed than ours is by murderous big money repug criminals and their flunkies.
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