Retired CIA agent Howard Hunt was hired as a part-time consultant by the White House in 1971 to help discredit Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the infamous Pentagon Papers.  Ellsberg exposed the foolishness of the Vietnam War as part of his role handling “sensitive assignments” for the Nixon Administration.  If, as speculated, Howard Hunt was also working for the CIA, how would this work help the CIA?  When he was arrested and charged in the Watergate burglary, why was he interested in retrieving the cloth-bound Hermes notebook he kept in his White House safe?  Would this notebook help solve one of The Mysteries of Watergate?   
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Mullen and Company was a worldwide public relations firm specializing in clients who grew fruit in banana republics.  Why would the firm hire “retired” CIA agent Howard Hunt as a copywriter?   Was it to pen the praises of United Fruit bananas, or some other purpose?  And why would it want this full-time employee to work part-time at the White House?  The Washington Post in its 3000 articles never explained this oddity,  but we'll tackle it in this episode of The Mysteries of Watergate.

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How do Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Papers, George Washington’s crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion, and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation explain the mysterious motives behind the burglary of the DNC Headquarters?  Be among the first to understand this little-understood Mystery of Watergate.
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What do a young widow from California, an alcoholic private detective, a civil rights leader, a CIA poisons doctor and a Washington, D.C. prostitution ring have to do with each other?  Seemingly disconnected story lines find themselves woven together in the bizarre 1970s political scandal we call Watergate. 
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Was Watergate just a “third-rate burglary” or something more insidious? And was the Washington Post investigative journalism depicting the scandal entirely accurate? In this episode we will put a steady gaze to the timing of Watergate and take a deep dive into these two interrelated topics: who was truly responsible for the June 17, 1972 burglary of the DNC headquarters, and did the Washington Post withhold key information from the public about it? 
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Watergate was the most impactful political scandal in American history, resulting in the only forcible removal of a U.S. President, Richard Nixon.  After seemingly exhaustive investigative reporting by the Washington Post and dozens of books and movies on the scandal since, there are many questions left unanswered.  Through this podcast series, The Mysteries of Watergate, lawyer, author and historian John O’Connor methodically presents the lingering questions, central truths and inconvenient facts of the scandal so we can finally solve the mysteries of Watergate.   

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