A lot of people have known for a long time that there was more to Watergate than we have been told in the mainstream press.

Watergate scandal - Wikipedia

Many bestseller books have hinted at this over the years, although I now assume those bestsellers were also misdirection.

They have been spun and were probably spun by the same people who spun Watergate.

Still, to spin information they have to release some information, and so to get the true story all someone like me has to do is de-spin it.

Since this is like trying to unwind a closet full of tangled coat hangers, most people don't get very far into it.

But since I have the time and the patience for such things—as well as some natural talent at seeing through walls—I tend to succeed where others fail.

It also helps that I am a lone researcher.

I can follow my nose, without anyone else's interference.

We are taught that committees get more done in the way of research, but I have not found that to be the case.

The greatest success is achieved by a single person with a good nose for the truth, and a great eye for a lie.

As it turns out, all the information I will use is already on the internet and is not seriously contested.

There is no original research in this paper, and I am not repeating any wild theories from the fringe.

I am just compiling things admitted at places like Wikipedia, but unburying it, unspinning it, and putting it back into logical order.

I first read the book Silent Coup when it came out in 1992.

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President - Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)

I was 29 at the time and didn't know much about Watergate going in—which is what the authors of these books count on.

John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is a disbarred American attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution ultimately resulted in a reduced sentence, which he served at Fort Holabird outside Baltimore, Maryland. After his plea, he was disbarred.

That book is the one that scapegoats John Dean once again (which was the mainstream line from the beginning) as well as outing Alexander Haig as deepthroat.

Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (/heɪɡ/; December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010) was United States Secretary of State under president Ronald Reagan and White House chief of staff under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to and in between these cabinet-level positions, he was a general in the U.S. Army, serving first as the vice chief of staff of the Army and then as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In 1973, Haig became the youngest four-star general in the Army's history.

That outing has since been proved wrong, since William Mark Felt admitted to being deepthroat in 2008.

William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was an American law enforcement officer who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1942 to 1973 and was known for his role in the Watergate scandal. Felt was an FBI special agent who eventually rose to the position of Deputy Director, the Bureau's second-highest-ranking post. Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's headquarters. In 1980, he was convicted of having violated the civil rights of people thought to be associated with members of the Weather Underground, by ordering FBI agents to break into their homes and search the premises as part of an attempt to prevent bombings. He was ordered to pay a fine, but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal.

So that has become the mainstream story since then.

I will show that both assignments are false.

Neither Haig nor Felt was deepthroat.

Deep Throat (Watergate) - Wikipedia

Although I knew even then that Silent Coup was misdirection, I didn't really know who or what it was misdirecting me away from.

I didn't have a big enough picture to figure it out until recently.

But that book at least put into my head the idea that the mainstream story was a whitewash.

Much more was going on with Watergate than we were told at the time, or than we are told now in encyclopedia entries.

The biggest clue getting me into this whole mess was a clue left out of Silent Coup and every other book on Watergate.

In short, we are supposed to believe that Richard Nixon was keeping tapes of himself in the White House.

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

We are supposed to believe that Nixon was bugging himself.

Since that isn't believable, someone else must have been bugging him.

Has any other President kept tapes of his private conversations?

No.

Why would he?

It is just creating incriminating evidence when there is no need to.

It makes no sense on any level, and I am surprised anyone would believe it.

But even if he had been making tapes, he would have destroyed them as soon as the investigation began.

There is no way those tapes would have survived to be turned over to Congress or any other body, subpoena or no subpoena.

We are supposed to believe that Rosemary Woods was in the front office meticulously erasing snippets here and there, but why not just throw the whole lot into the incinerator?

Rose Mary Woods (December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951 through the end of his political career. Before H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman became the operators of Nixon's presidential campaign, Woods was Nixon's gatekeeper.

That takes what, five minutes?

Once we understand that, we have a key that gets us into the wider scandal.

We have to ask who had the power and the capability to bug Nixon's offices?

the FBI or the CIA.

Given the greater arc of the event, we should immediately suspect the CIA.

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency – Library of Rickandria

Another clue that is generally passed over is the investigation of the CIA after Watergate by Congress.

the CIA and its reach.

Church Committee - Wikipedia

Since according to the mainstream story, the CIA wasn't at the center of the Watergate scandal, we should ask why Congress decided to investigate the CIA in the mid-70's.

I will be told that it was due to Seymour Hersh's blowing the whistle on CHAOS and other programs in the New York Times in 1974, but it turns out that was misdirection itself.

Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for The New Yorker. Hersh has won a record five George Polk Awards, and two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 11 books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), an account of the career of Henry Kissinger which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Operation CHAOS - Wikipedia

Although his article concerned “the family jewels” of the CIA and was sold as a major scoop, Hersh only leaked information about old foreign covert ops and domestic information gathering on peaceniks.

Although many at the time (and now) think this was a major leak, it wasn't.

It was damage control.

Although your average citizen may not have known the extent of it, he knew the CIA was involved in foreign covert operations.

That was the whole point of the CIA, after all.

Beyond that, most people didn't know or care anything about Iran or Chile, Mosaddegh or Allende.

Iran’s Jewish Rulers – Library of Rickandria

For Americans, most of it was old news and not terribly interesting.

The same can be said of CHAOS, and CIA spying on hippies and war protesters.

The CIA and the FBI and the media had already killed the hippie movement by 1970, via infiltration and subversion, and the same can be said of the anti-war movement.

The Hippie Matrix: How the Government Infiltrated the Environmental, Hippie, Progressive & New Age Movements – Library of Rickandria

By 1974 the war was mostly over, and people were sick of hearing about it.

Admitting that the CIA and FBI were involved in spying on hippies back in the 1960's didn't impress anyone in 1974 except the hippies themselves.

Probably 95% of those reading Hersh's articles in 1974 just shrugged their shoulders.

This is what Hersh, and his handlers were counting on, because the leak was done on purpose to keep the public eye off the real prize.

Congress wasn't investigating the CIA beginning in 1974 because of CHAOS or foreign operations.

Obviously, Congress was investigating the CIA in 1974 because of things the CIA had just done in 1972-73, and these things were much bigger than CHAOS or even the overthrow of Allende. 

That's right.

The CIA had just overthrown Nixon, using Watergate as a cover, and most in Congress knew that. 

Congress couldn't admit it knew that, but Congress hoped that those watching would get the clue.

We never did.

there had been a coup in 1972-73, but it wasn't a coup by the Joint Chiefs or the Pentagon.

Those entities may well have been involved, but they weren't the orchestrators.

The main actors were CIA, and that was generally known in DC.

They had both motive and ability, and all evidence pointed directly at them.

In fact, Colodny and Gettlin, the authors of Silent Coup, had to tie themselves in knots to keep the CIA out of their theory.

In hindsight, it looks a lot like the knots Noam Chomsky gets himself into, trying to keep the CIA out of his “manufacturing consent” theories.

Avram Noam Chomsky (/noʊm ˈtʃɒmski/ ⓘ nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, and corporate influence on political institutions and the media.

Noam Chomsky is & always has been A SPOOK – Library of Rickandria

Richard Helms hardly makes an appearance in Silent Coup.

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he rose in its ranks during the presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, yielding to James R. Schlesinger in early 1973.

John Daniel Ehrlichman (/ˈɜːrlɪkmən/; March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting his support for environmental initiatives. Ehrlichman was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury, and served a year and a half in prison.

and the Pentagon.

This omission tells us more about the book than anything else.

In all the books and investigations that I have seen, Watergate is never put in any proper historical context.

If a context is built, it is built quickly and with no logic.

All the fundamental facts are suppressed or spun, and only the minor details are studied closely.

For instance, another fact that is always suppressed or spun is J. Edgar Hoover's convenient demise in May of 1972.

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924. After 11 years in the post, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI in June 1935, where he remained as director for an additional 37 years until his death in May 1972 – serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight Presidents.

Hoover had been running the FBI with an iron fist since 1924, and he was only 76 in 1972—and not known to be in poor health.

He supposedly died in his sleep of a heart attack, but he had no history of heart problems and had not had any previous attacks.

Hoover was a staunch ally of Nixon and hated the CIA.

Since this whole thing looks like a turf war between the CIA and FBI, it is amazing that no one has ever thought to investigate it as such.

We know that the FBI and CIA had been at each other's throats for decades (since 1947, really) and that since 1968 the war had begun in earnest.

Hoover cut off all contact with the CIA in 1970, and that is widely known.

If you go to Richard Helm's page at Wikipedia, you get dozens of references to the war between the CIA and FBI in the early 1970's.

Behind the Bureau: On the FBI | The Nation

That page is like a book itself, and you can almost build my theory from it alone (as we will see below).

Nixon disliked the CIA and—with Hoover—tried to redirect its work either to the FBI or to Nixon's own private intelligence operation centered on the NSC.

Silent Coup admits this was the nut of the problem, since that book spends a lot of time showing how the Pentagon had been angered by Kissinger's heavy handedness in dealing with foreign and military matters.

Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Born in Germany, Kissinger emigrated to the United States in 1938 as a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi persecution.

You probably can't even name Nixon's secretary of defense, since he was so overshadowed by Kissinger.

It was Melvin Laird.

Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (September 1, 1922 – November 16, 2016) was an American politician, writer and statesman. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. First elected in 1952, Laird was the last living Representative elected to the 83rd Congress at the time of his death.

Anyway, although this was a problem, it wasn't the Pentagon that was the main danger to Nixon, it was the CIA.

The Pentagon wasn't in a turf war with Kissinger or Hoover, the CIA was.

and most of Nixon's staff were purposely ostracizing the CIA in the early 70's, and they only found out later what a colossal mistake that was.

It is fantastically easy to confirm this reading of the facts just by looking at the progression of history since then.

Hoover was gone by 1972.

Nixon was powerless by 1973 and gone by 1974.

The FBI has been in a tailspin ever since and the CIA has taken over most of the exciting domestic duties of the FBI.

In addition, the CIA has grown exponentially since the early 1970's and is now so big it can't even be weighed.

It isn't just the 500-pound gorilla in the room, it is the ever-expanding blob, devouring the room, then the building, then the town, then the world.

In a recent paper, I used published government numbers to estimate the total staff of Intelligence at over 6 million—which is twice as big as the entire military—and even that estimate may be low.

After the CIA destroyed Nixon and Hoover, it then destroyed the committee investigating it in the Senate, and then the Senate.

Congress has also been in a tailspin since the mid-70's, and it is now no more than an overpriced meeting of emeritus professors, paid to rubberstamp military and spy budgets.

We are told Nixon didn't trust anyone, and is it any wonder?

He was looking at ever-increasing CIA expansion which he couldn't ultimately stem or even avoid himself, and he was looking at a new high-tech world in which his own offices could be bugged without his knowledge.

He was looking at a high-tech world in which the CIA owned heart-attack guns, and it is probable these guns were tested in the real world—on has pal J. Edgar Hoover.

The CIA's Secret Heart Attack Gun | Military.com

The CIA brought one of these guns on the Senate floor in 1975, admitting the reality of it, so this is not a conspiracy theory.

It is on film and can be viewed many places on the web.

Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American politician and lawyer. A Democrat, from 1957 to 1981 he served as a U.S. Senator from Idaho, and is currently the last Democrat to do so. He was the longest serving Democratic senator from the state and the only Democrat from the state who served more than two terms in the Senate. He was a prominent figure in American foreign policy and established a reputation as a member of the party's liberal wing.

That is Frank Church and John Tower, with Church holding the heart-attack gun.

John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower is known for leading the Tower Commission, which investigated the Iran-Contra Affair in the Reagan administration.

The Church Committee was named for Senator Church.

Church lost his next re-election campaign and died three years later, at age 59.

I wish I could say it was from a heart-attack gun, but they are a bit cleverer than that.

This is also the reason Johnson didn't run for re-election in 1968.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz/; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative and U.S. senator.

He already knew at that time that he was over-matched by Intelligence.

Johnson didn't like being a pawn of greater forces, and he didn't wish to end up like Nixon. 

Nixon also knew what he was getting into, he just didn't quite realize the extent of it.

He mistakenly believed he could maneuver his way around the CIA, as we can see from his feints in the first two years.

But he was a poor chess player with too few pieces left on the board.

Hoover was his queen, and once he lost Hoover, it was basically checkmate.

of the CIA and had nowhere to run.

Beyond this turf war, Nixon dug his own grave by not fully supporting the Vietnam War.

He had been put into office with the understanding that the war would last at least five more years, but he began caving to public and Congressional pressure after less than two.

the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in January of 1971, which Nixon signed.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Wikipedia

This was a bold Congressional action, maybe the boldest we have seen in our lifetimes, and Nixon was blamed not only for allowing it to happen, but for actually supporting it and signing it.

It removed Congressional approval for the war and gave the Pentagon no real authority to keep fighting.

It also led inexorably to more bold moves by Congress, including the War Powers Act of 1973, which temporarily reversed the complete takeover of foreign policy by the executive branch.

War Powers Resolution - Wikipedia

These things were far more important to the history of the US, and to the events of the time; and compared to them Watergate is just frosting.

But if you look at the amount of press generated, there is no comparison.

Everyone knows about Watergate, almost no one knows about the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

In this sense, Watergate was a diversion.

get rid of Nixon and divert the public eye away from the more important events.

It succeeded admirably.

Also, a problem for the rich families invested in armaments was Nixon's detente with Russia and China in 1972.

Not only was Nixon failing to pursue the war in Vietnam to its full extent, but he was also pursuing peace with China and Russia.

Detente signaled an end to the Cold War, which signaled an end to using the Cold War as an excuse to build newer and more expensive weapons.

In more ways than one, Nixon was moving against the interests of his controllers.

In short, Nixon made the crucial mistake of pursuing peace in an economy based on “defense” spending.

Even Obama admitted that recently, when he told FOX News' Bill O'Reilly that Nixon had been a more liberal President than he is.

William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host.

Those Damn Liberals – Library of Rickandria

Sadly, that is very true, and it isn't just due to Nixon's forming of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Although Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he hasn't done anything to promote peace and everything to promote war.

JEWISH BANKSTERS’ WAR ON AMERICA & THE WORLD – Library of Rickandria

do what you are told.

European Royal Bloodline of the American Presidents – Library of Rickandria

In short, the CIA could see that Nixon couldn't control public opinion or Congress and couldn't or wouldn't promote the war economy to the fullest, so they had to step in themselves.

In 1972, they got rid of Hoover.

In 1974, they got rid of Nixon.

And by 1976, they had gotten rid of Congress.

You see, Watergate wasn't a scheme by Nixon, it was a scheme against Nixon.

Nixon was framed by the CIA.

Nixon had no reason to bug or burglarize the Democrats.

In the 1972 election, Nixon was up against George McGovern, who ended up winning just one state.

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician and historian who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

It was the most lopsided victory in modern history, even worse than Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984.

Nixon won by more than 23 percentage points.

Reagan only won by 18.

An election like this is won by being in control of the greater apparatus, so Nixon not only had it won going in, but he also knew he had it won going in.

There was never any question he was going to win the election of 1972.

Although it had apparently already been decided to torpedo Nixon, they couldn't torpedo him in the 1972 election since they didn't have time to re-manufacture the whole election apparatus.

That requires nationwide machinations and buying thousands of electors and so on (or it did then: they can now do it all with computers).

It was much easier to torpedo him with a quick false flag.

The CIA burglarized the Democratic headquarters and then pinned it on Nixon (we will see a lot of evidence for this below).

They then bugged Nixon talking about covering it up and the deal was done.

Congress, flush with its recent successes in repealing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and passing the War Powers Act was itching to strike again against the President and could be counted on to accept any evidence offered at face value, without looking any deeper.

Congress wanted Nixon as much as the CIA, not realizing they were next.

Nixon may have thought he could avoid the CIA in some policy matters, but he at least knew what he was up against.

After all, he had been installed with their help, and had to have known it.

But many in Congress appear to have been ignorant of the deeper workings of the government they fronted.

This is the only way to explain their repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1971.

That was the stroke that led to everything else, and if Congress had been aware of the true state of things, they would never have dared repeal it.

In this way, the Church Committee hearings were more the idea of the CIA than of the Senate.

The CIA needed to make Congress aware of the true state of things, letting them know who was really in charge.

And so, the hearings were actually an extended briefing of Congress by the CIA.

If you study the transcripts, I think that is what you will find.

That is why the heart-attack gun was shown on floor of Congress, among other things.

Believe me, Congress got the message, and it hasn't been the same since.

This is why I no longer bother to write letters to my representatives or bother to blame them for anything.

Their hands have been tied for a long time and giving them low approval ratings is a waste of time.

They are no longer anything but a decoy.

Which brings us back to deepthroat.

I said above that neither Haig nor Felt was really deepthroat.

So, who was?

No one.

Deepthroat is more misdirection, another decoy.

To accept the idea of a deepthroat, you have to assume that someone is necessary as a go-between from those who have information in the government to the press.

But of course, the Church Committee proved that is false.

In Congressional testimony in 1975-76, the CIA admitted it had been in control of large parts of the media since the early 1950's.

In 1972, the CIA had people in major positions in the press, so no pipeline was necessary.

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor and later as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the Post joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered that its award-winning story was false.

Ben Bradlee at the Washington Post was either CIA or a CIA asset [see Deborah Davis, Katharine the Great] so there was no need for any meeting in dark parking lots or anywhere else.

rigorousintuition.ca • View topic - The CIA and Wash. Post - 2001 interview w/Deborah Davis

Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the honorific title of associate editor though the Post no longer employs him.

Bradlee didn't need Woodward or Bernstein telling him anything.

Carl Milton Bernstein (/ˈbɜːrnstiːn/ BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by long-time journalism figure Gene Roberts.

Those guys are just decoys.

The CIA wires or phones in its stories to the executive editor directly, so reporters are just brightly colored pawns, placed to misdirect the most naïve readers.

Deborah Davis has outed Woodward as a spook, and no doubt he did a lot of dirty work for the CIA, but as far as meeting secret sources, that is all Hollywood bullshit.

STRANGE RELATIONS – Library of Rickandria

Bradlee may have gotten his telephone calls on Watergate from Helms or one of his underlings—it doesn't really matter.

What matters is that the phone calls were coming from Langley.

In this way, we can see that the Pentagon Papers were also just more misdirection and damage control.

Pentagon Papers - Wikipedia

All you have to do is follow the timing.

They came out in June 1971, just a few months after Congress had repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

By February 1971, the Vietnam War should have been over.

Once the resolution was repealed, the war was effectively illegal.

It had always been illegal and undeclared, but once Congress removed its weak stamp of approval, the war hadn't a leg to stand on.

So, the government had to keep people from coming to that realization.

The government intended to spin the war out for another several years, legal or not, and to do that they had to keep the repeal off the front pages.

In fact, Congress was passing other important legislation that year as well, although you wouldn't know it by reading history.

For instance, go to the Wikipedia page on the 92nd Congress.

I beg you to notice that no legislation is listed until December 18, 1971.

Go to the section entitled “major legislation.”

The first entry is dated December 18, 1971.

But the 92nd Congress convened January 3, 1971.

So, Wiki is telling you no major legislation occurred in 1971 in 11.5 months, until almost Christmas?

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was repealed on January 14, 1971.

Not major?

The revised Cooper-Church Amendment was enacted on January 5, 1971, and it also restricted action in Vietnam.

Not major?

Beyond that, on April 23, 1971, half a million protesters marched in DC, and thousands of veterans tossed their medals.

In May, over 12,000 people were arrested during war protests.

The Pentagon Papers were published to take everyone's eyes off current events and put them back on the Johnson administration.

The timeline of the Pentagon Papers was mostly 1955 to 1964, so they were taking your eyes off the present.

Even so, Johnson is the goat of the Pentagon Papers, which is odd in itself.

In that timeline, Johnson is responsible only for 1964, of course.

You may ask yourself why Kennedy doesn't take more blame in the Pentagon Papers.

THE HIDDEN KING(S): Camelot Ruled from the Cave of Merlin – Library of Rickandria

The Pentagon Papers also make a case for the war, explaining it as containment of China.

Curiously, they also whitewash the war in many other ways.

Again, what we are seeing is damage control, not a real leak.

We can tell this just from the mode of publication.

It is the New York Times that broke the Pentagon Papers, along with Ben Bradlee at the Washington Post.

Since we learned from the Church Committee hearings that the CIA “owned” both papers, we should immediately be suspicious of the Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg.

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.

Remember, Ellsberg was a spook himself, with “an extremely high security clearance.”

He worked for years for the RAND corporation, which is a major arm of military intelligence.

And yet he was spun as a hero of the anti-war movement.

How naïve do you have to be to take Ellsberg as a hero of the anti-war movement?

The anti-war movement has always been far too trusting, which was its downfall.

It was infiltrated over and over by obvious Intelligence people like Ellsberg, and they were never strongly outed.

Ellsberg is still being sold as an anti-war guy and is still infiltrating anti-government movements.

For more proof of this, we find all charges against Ellsberg being dropped in 1973, after the government claimed it had lost its records of wiretapping against Ellsberg.

Right.

The proceedings against Ellsberg are not believable in the least, since if what we were told about Ellsberg leaking information were true, he would have been prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and beyond.

When the government really wants to prosecute someone, they don't let technicalities get in their way.

If some evidence gets lost, they just re-create it.

If the truth isn't enough to convict, they lie.

If they didn't convict Ellsberg, it is because they didn't want to convict.

He was their own guy, following orders.

He was part of opposition control.

As I said, the war should have immediately ended in January of 1971, but because of opposition control, the front-page news was diverted to the Pentagon Papers and then Watergate.

While everyone was discussing those things, the war dragged on another four years.

Congress was still authorizing a billion a year to South Vietnam in 1974, and that money wasn't going for rebuilding infrastructure.

Most of it was coming back to the US in the form of defense contracts.

So, why had Congress continued to fund the war after repealing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

Because the CIA had already scared them.

The CIA hadn't just jumped all over Hoover and Nixon in 1972, they had also jumped on Congress.

The Church Committee hearings in 1975 were just the tail end of the CIA/Congress battle, but the Congress had been losing that battle since 1972, just like everyone else.

In 1973, the Congress was still fighting back against the President and had overridden Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act.

HOW WAR POWERS ACT WORKS - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

But even then, Congress was still mostly rubberstamping the military and spy budgets.

They could pass resolutions, but they didn't have the cojones to actually stop the money supply.

They would have needed a large majority of voters behind them to do that, and— due to the CIA's control of the press—they never got it.

Although there were large protests against the Vietnam War up to the end, the public never figured out the true reach of the CIA in the 1970's.

It still hasn't figured it out.

For more evidence of tampering with history, you should look at the terminology used then and now.

In 1973, the legislation was called the War Powers Act.

Now it has been demoted to the War Powers Resolution.

In 1984, the New York Times was still referring to it as the War Powers Act of 1973.

When was it demoted, and by whom?

We would assume by the CIA, and the reason was to make you think it was non-binding.

Acts are never non-binding, but resolutions sometimes are.

Although the War Powers Act has the status of a law, and no one disputes that, giving the title “Resolution” is small bit of misdirection.

When combined with the spin we see at Wikipedia, it can cause confusion.

Jimmy Wales & the founding of Wikipedia: All the World’s a Stage – Library of Rickandria

There is a long section entitled,

“Questions regarding constitutionality [of the act]”

Although there is no question regarding the Constitutionality of the War Powers Act, they are still trying to create the idea that there is.

Those trying to spread confusion know there is no question of constitutionality, since the question was never even thought worth putting before the Supreme Court.

The Supremes – Library of Rickandria

If there had been any question at all, they would have put it before the Supreme Court.

But there was never any idea of doing that, since they didn't want to lose the vote 9-0.

That would have prevented them from writing these ridiculous sections at Wiki, quoting from nobodies like Philip Bobbitt.

Sir Philip Chase Bobbitt KBE (born July 22, 1948) is an American legal scholar and political theorist. He is best known for work on U.S. constitutional law and theory, and on the relationship between law, strategy and history in creating and sustaining the State. He is currently the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School and a distinguished senior lecturer at The University of Texas School of Law.

To show how desperate they are, and how little they have, let us look at Bobbitt's argument.

He says that

Can you believe these people?

Organic Portals – Library of Rickandria

These “scholars” will make any argument they are paid to make, no matter how transparently stupid.

Wikipedia will then publish it decades later, as if it has merit.

The Jewish Hand Behind the Internet: Wikipedia – Library of Rickandria

Nothing is beneath these people.

But back to Watergate.

Let us go to that Wikipedia page on Richard Helms, to see how easy it is to get useful information from the mainstream.

I beg you first to notice that this bio has 812 footnotes and 50 subsections.

Printed out it would be at least 40 pages long.

John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War.

Compare it to those of his predecessors as Director of Central Intelligence John McCone and William Raborn, whose Wiki pages could be printed on two pages.

William Francis Raborn, Jr., (June 8, 1905 – March 6, 1990) was the United States Director of Central Intelligence from April 28, 1965, until June 30, 1966. He was also a career United States Navy officer who led the project to develop the Polaris missile system and retired from the navy in 1963 as a vice admiral.

Someone is trying very hard to tell us something.

Helms was one of the founding agents of the CIA, having been in OSS before 1947, and being in the CIA from its beginning in that year.

One of the first things we are told is that Helms was skeptical about the usefulness of clandestine operations.

Right.

That's like saying the manager of the Yankees is skeptical about the usefulness of pitching.

That's also interesting since he was the only CIA director convicted for lying to Congress.

He was against clandestine operations, but not against lying to Congress.

Wouldn't lying to Congress be considered a clandestine operation?

For lying to Congress about the overthrow of Allende, Helms was given a suspended sentence and a $2,000 fine.

That's about what you get fined if your dog poops in Central Park.

CIA didn't show Congress their heart-attack gun for no reason.

Helms' grandfather Gates McGarrah was a noted international banker, so don't tell me there aren't ties between the bankers and the CIA.

Gates White McGarrah II (July 20, 1863 – November 5, 1940) was a prominent American banker who served as the first president of the Bank for International Settlements.

McGarrah was the first president of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1930—which was of course tied to the Nazis.

Hitler’s Genealogy – Library of Rickandria

He was American director of the Reichsbank—the central bank of Germany—between the wars. 

linking him to the Kennedys by blood.

Looks like JFK was Gay & other interesting news – Library of Rickandria

He was also a Strong, linking him to Benjamin Strong, first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Benjamin Strong Jr. (December 22, 1872 – October 16, 1928) was an American banker. He served as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 14 years until his death. He exerted great influence over the policy and actions of the entire Federal Reserve System and indeed over the financial policies of all of the United States and Europe.

that of course links us to Bill Gates, who is from the same family of top bankers.

Bill Gates: Jewish Aristocrat – Library of Rickandria

Montagu Norman, of Barings Bank, Brown Brothers, and later governor of the Bank of England. 

He was also director of the Bank of International Settlements.

You can tell just by his name he was upper peerage.

He was a baron, and got there by marrying a Bertie, of the Earls of Abingdon.

His wife's grandfather was also named Montagu, so it was all in the family.

taking us straight to the top.

This connection to the top banks in the world tells us who was really behind Watergate: they were the deepest throats here.

Where the Gold Is: For Whom Does "the CIA" Really Work?

They torpedoed Nixon because he was costing them war dollars.

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show that he developed called Mark Twain Tonight! while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He continued to perform his signature role for over 60 years, only retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film.

Remember Hal Holbrook's hint to Robert Redford in All the President's Men?

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014.

“Follow the money”

Good advice, as it turns out, though in the movie they quickly misdirect you away from any truth by talking of paper bags containing $25,000.

$25,000?

No, this was about billions, possibly trillions, lost to war profiteering by the big banks due to Nixon pursuing peace.

Nixon the peacenik.

Nixon the hippie.

You have to find some humor in this, or you would go mad.

Helms was class president and editor of the school paper at Williams College,

and most other places.

In 1941, Helms volunteered for the Navy, receiving officer training at Harvard.

What?

Officer training at Harvard?

Since when is Harvard a military academy?

Since we know he ended up OSS, his training at Harvard was obviously for Intelligence.

That still begs the question,

almost since the beginning.

They tell you these things, but most people don't trip over the information.

It just runs through the brain like beer through the bladder.

By 1946, Helms was already head of Counterintelligence in Europe, making him one of the top guys in OSS by age 33.

In that capacity, he directed the search for German scientists to send back to the US.

By 1951 he was Chief of Foreign Intelligence, with only two or three guys above him.

At that time, CIA had already delegated to itself broad and undefined powers, so that it was basically beholden to no one.

Later, the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 provided a permanent and apparently legal method whereby the CIA could regularly exercise its newly enhanced covert operations power in the field. It was hurriedly passed by Congress, a supporter remarking at the time,

Central Intelligence Agency Act - Wikipedia

Congress gave the agency the widest conceivable powers. ... 

The CIA was barred only from behaving like a secret police force inside the United States. 

The act gave the agency the ability to do almost anything it wanted, as long as Congress provide the money in an annual package.

Approval of the secret budget by a small armed services subcommittee was understood by those in the know to constitute a legal authorization for all secret operations...

If it's secret, it's legal, Richard M. Nixon [later] said.

unvouchered funds—untraceable money buried under falsified items in the Pentagon's budget—meant unlimited license.

So, you see, CIA didn't really need heart attack guns to blow by Congress.

It had been doing that since the beginning.

I guess threatening Senators wasn't considered a “clandestine operation.”

It was just business as usual.

This was the beginning of the end for any sort of Constitutional Republic in the US.

They tell us that Eisenhower warned of it in the 1959, but even his warning was misdirection.

Dwight David Eisenhower (/ˈaɪzənhaʊ.ər/ EYE-zən-how-ər; born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

He said to watch out for the “military-industrial complex.”

That is unnecessarily vague.

We have had military and industry since before the Revolutionary war.

What we haven't had is a CIA with unlimited and unchecked powers.

Sometimes the CIA is working for the military and sometimes it isn't.

Sometimes it is working for the bankers, sometimes it is working for the politicians, and sometimes it is working for the Rockefellers, just helping sell their art.

The Stolen Century – Library of Rickandria

Amazingly, Helms' bio confirms this reading.

Robert Lovett and David Bruce wrote a report for Eisenhower in 1956, expressing alarm at the powers the CIA had shown in its recent overthrow of Mosaddegh in Iran.

Mohammad Mosaddegh[a] (Persian: محمد مصدق, IPA: [mohæmˈmæd(-e) mosædˈdeɢ] ⓘ;[b] 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923, and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iran coup aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. His National Front was suppressed from the 1954 election.

Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr. (February 16, 1916 – June 8, 2000) was an American intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services during and following World War II. A grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Roosevelt went on to establish American Friends of the Middle East and then played a lead role in the CIA's efforts to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Majlis-appointed prime minister of Iran, in August 1953.

Iran’s Jewish Rulers – Library of Rickandria

The authors—Lovett was Truman's Secretary of Defense—argued that CIA was too powerful and argued for outside intervention.

But it was already too late.

combined.

Because it was controlled by hidden hands, it was born too powerful.

Even in 1947, attacking the CIA was like attacking a ghost.

Helms' bio also gives us clues to the fate of Joseph McCarthy.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with, and abusing members of, the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.

Although McCarthy's fall in 1954 is generally attributed to the press (see Murrow's attacks on him) or to censure by Congress, it is really the CIA that got him.

Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.

McCarthy made the mistake of going after the CIA.

John Foster Dulles[a] (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949. Dulles was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, who advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.

He told Dulles,

The Helms Wiki page admits CIA director Dulles ordered Angleton to plant disinformation on McCarthy, and to run a “down-and-dirty” covert operation against him.

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) was an American intelligence operative who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975. According to Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, Angleton was "recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world". 

We can see that this operation included many planted stories in the press, which the CIA had direct access to.

Murrow's See it Now report in March of 1954 was just one of many reports written and directed at the instigation of Dulles.

Murrow had been in OSS himself and had always been a willing ally of Intelligence.

and others which used various drugs in the effort to brainwash and control.

So much for his opposition to clandestine ops.

In answer to why Intelligence was involved in this stuff, Helms and others answered,

Even if it is true, it isn't much of an answer.

It was also Helms who ordered the destruction of most documentation of these top-secret projects in 1972—the time period of Watergate.

Although Seymour Hersh gave us what little information we have about these projects in 1974, it isn't much.

Since his articles were damage control, we may assume the truth is much deeper and darker than even he hinted at, and that the projects never actually ended.

We were later told that a chastened CIA gave up its worst excesses after the Church Committee hearings, but we know that isn't true.

George Bush, Sr., told the press that the CIA was no longer involved in all those bad things from the past, but no one over six years old believed it.

George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan and previously in various other federal positions.

LOOKS LIKE the Bushes are Jewish – Library of Rickandria

The CIA didn't downsize after 1976, its budgets weren't cut, it wasn't subject to any oversight, and it didn't end any covert operations, either legal or illegal.

In fact, it actually accelerated its expansion.

Its smashing successes in the 1970's, including Watergate, convinced it that the sky was the limit. 

Not only had it taken down Nixon with almost no effort at all, but it also no longer had to worry about Hoover, either.

Hoover had been the greatest counterbalance to CIA for decades, since his power was almost equal to theirs.

With his demise, there was nothing to keep CIA from expanding both vertically and horizontally. 

Funny, isn't it?

Nixon and Hoover, looking sort of like good guys for once.

I am not saying they were good guys, but in their efforts to control CIA, they do shine a bit. 

However, they hadn't a chance against the CIA.

The real coup didn't happen in 1972.

It happened decades earlier, and the die was cast before the war even ended.

And I mean World War II.

Among those initially arrested (the "plumbers") were former CIA employees; there were loose ends with the agency.

former CIA employees.

The only former CIA employees are dead CIA employees.

It soon became apparent, however, that it was,

Only later did Helms conclude that,

Right.

The pointers to CIA were manufactured by Nixon?

No.

That is what you call a reversal.

The truth is the pointers to Nixon were manufactured by CIA.

Nixon hated the CIA, as we have already established, so why would he have used CIA agents in his squad of burglars?

The first person to research is John Paisley, the “CIA liaison” in the White House burglars.

John Arthur Paisley (August 25, 1923 – September 24, 1978) was a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Red flags all over this guy.

The Senate Watergate Committee completely ignored Paisley, and Wikipedia admits that the CIA link was never investigated.

An investigation “concluded the retirement [of Paisley in 1974] was a sham and the CIA was misrepresenting Paisley as a low-level analyst when in fact he was involved in numerous high-level clandestine operations.

We are told Paisley ended up being found dead floating in Chesapeake Bay in 1978.

Although he had been shot multiple times and the body had been strapped and weighted down with heavy diving weights, the death was ruled a suicide.

Do all coroners work for Intelligence?

Probably.

There is a strong possibility Paisley's death was faked.

The best way to end a compromised mission is a faked death and relocation.

and G. Gordon Liddy were also tied strongly to the CIA.

George Gordon Battle Liddy (November 30, 1930 – March 30, 2021) was an American lawyer and FBI agent who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration.

Some were called former CIA or recruits, but they were all simply hires, either permanent or contract.

E. Howard Hunt was also CIA, and that is admitted by everyone.

Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a central figure in U.S. regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration's so-called White House Plumbers, a team of operatives charged with identifying government leaks to outside parties.  Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. In the Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison. After his release, Hunt lived in Mexico and then Miami until his death in January 2007.

Hunt had been station chief in Mexico City in 1950, where he supervised William F. Buckley, Jr.

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator.

I tell people these things and they look at me like I am making it up, but it is on Wikipedia, the most whitewashed mainstream source there is.

E. Howard Hunt - Wikipedia

Unless I have magic access to Wikipedia pages that other people can't get to, these things I am reporting are common knowledge.

Hunt also told the Senate Watergate Committee he was CIA and had been the Chief of Covert Actions for the Domestic Operations Division.

Prior to Watergate, one of his long-term assignments (1962-1966) had dealt with “the manipulation of news and publishing organizations.”

Despite all that, the Committee still ignored the links to CIA.

To explain this, we are told Hunt retired “disillusioned” from the CIA in 1970.

But in the very next sentence after that at Wiki, they admit that Hunt immediately went to work for the Robert R. Mullen Company, which was a CIA front company.

Robert Mullen Company - Wikipedia

Haldeman himself admitted it was a CIA company, and that information is again straight from Wiki.

Hunt was still working for the company when he was hired in 1971 by Charles Colson to head the President's Special Investigations Unit.

Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.

So where exactly did the retirement come in?

Can you work for a CIA front company and retire from the CIA at the same time?

I guess he got over his “disillusionment” after a couple of drinks.

That proves my thesis right there, without going any further.

Hunt pulled the Watergate burglary and was convicted for it.

He spent almost three years in jail for it (we are told).

He was CIA at the time, being hired directly out of a CIA company.

Therefore, the CIA pulled the Watergate burglary.

I don't see the weak link there.

What is difficult to understand in that short line of reasoning?

This may be why they ignored Charles Colson's testimony in June of 1974, which confirmed exactly what I have been saying.

Colson had been Nixon's Special Counsel since 1968.

He testified to Congress in June that the CIA was behind Watergate, not Nixon.

Among many other things, Colson testified,

Colson further testified that Nixon was prevented early on from counterattack against the CIA by “disloyal people around him,” naming Kissinger, Buzhardt and Haig as “CIA-men” involved.

This was first reported in the Washington Star-News on June 23, and picked up in garbled form by the Washington Post a day later, but most people now forget that.

They forget it because, although those in Congress fully understood the import of Colson's testimony, that testimony didn't fit the story already decided upon the CIA, Congress, and the press.

The reports of Colson's testimony therefore had to be buried, and the impeachment process accelerated even more.

Just five weeks later, Nixon would be forced to resign.

In that five-week period, the press was instructed not to follow up on the testimony of Colson or the CIA involvement, but instead to concentrate on earlier testimony by others.

In the press, Colson's testimony—when mentioned at all—was spun as a last-minute desperate attempt to pass the blame.

And, given the fact that Nixon and his men waited so long to strongly counter-attack, Colson's testimony was easy to spin that way.

Given the published arc of the event—controlled from the first by the CIA—Colson's June testimony did indeed look desperate.

It was desperate and late, but that didn't make it false.

Colson's testimony is buried to this day.

It isn't mentioned at Wikipedia or any other mainstream sources.

The only thing we are told about Colson's Congressional testimony in June of 1974 is that he was convicted of obstruction of justice for defaming Daniel Ellsberg before the trial.

Right.

That just means he was convicted for trying to tell the truth about Ellsberg.

Besides, they never proved he was lying about Ellsberg, which means they cannot have proved defamation, which means they cannot have used the defamation as part of the obstruction of justice conviction.

The contemporary mainstream accounts are written for people who know nothing of the law.

Those who do know something of the law can see Colson was railroaded just like Nixon.

Colson spent seven months in a minimum security “country club” prison in Alabama, but he must have been broken there anyway because he came out a born-again Christian and evangelical prison reformer.

The Baker minority report in the Senate also fingered the CIA, and Colson said that

about CIA management of Watergate.

It was this Baker report that contained the CIA's fronting of the Mullen Co., where Hunt worked, among other things.

Unfortunately, the CIA had classified information in that Senate report, and that classification prevented it from being reported in the press until July 1974.

Robert Foster Bennett (September 18, 1933 – May 4, 2016) was an American politician and businessman who served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1993 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bennett held chairmanships and senior positions on various key Senate committees, including the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; Appropriations Committee; Rules and Administration Committee; Energy and Natural Resources Committee; and Joint Economic Committee.

But some things were known of this report, including the fact that Robert Bennett, son of a current Senator and President of Mullen Co., was a CIA agent.

Wallace Foster Bennett (November 13, 1898 – December 19, 1993) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a US Senator from Utah from 1951 to 1974. He was the father of Bob Bennett, who later held his father's seat in the Senate.

This was reported by Jack Anderson in a June 25 column.

Jack Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the founders of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret U.S. policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In addition to his newspaper career, Anderson also had a national radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System, acted as Washington bureau chief of Parade magazine, and was a commentator on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for nine years.

Bennett admitted under oath that he was reporting everything he did to the CIA during Watergate.

Mullen admitted under oath that Hunt was placed at Mullen Co. by Helms himself.

The Baker report also tells us that Bennett coordinated the plumbers. 

The Baker report was eventually released, but too late to do any good.

We find that it,

Note that the CIA destroys incriminating tapes, but Nixon doesn't seem to know how to do this with his own tapes?

And that the CIA is not punished for doing it.

Testimony by Ehrlichman indicates the same early involvement of the CIA.

On May 30, 1973, Ehrlichman testified that Deputy CIA Director Cushman called in 1971 to tell him that Hunt was on assignment from the Agency.

Robert Everton Cushman Jr. (December 24, 1914 – January 2, 1985) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 25th commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1972, to June 30, 1975. He was honored for heroism during World War II at the battles of Guam (Navy Cross), Bougainville (Bronze Star Medal) and Iwo Jima (Legion of Merit). He also commanded all Marine forces in the Vietnam War from June to December 1967, and served as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1969 to 1971.

Cushman wouldn't divulge what that assignment was, but implied the CIA was ending that assignment due to conflicting interests.

the phone call was a purposeful diversion, to make the White House think the CIA had ended any attachment to Hunt.

Most likely, the White House had formed some suspicions, and the phone call was made to answer those suspicions.

Ehrlichman indicates he had been fooled.

The FBI came to the same conclusion regarding the CIA being behind Watergate.

In Senate testimony on August 3, 1973, FBI Director L. Patrick Gray admitted his first impression of Watergate was as a CIA covert operation.

Louis Patrick Gray III (July 18, 1916 – July 6, 2005) was acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from May 3, 1972, to April 27, 1973. During this time, the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. Gray was nominated as permanent Director by Nixon on February 15, 1973, but failed to win Senate confirmation. He resigned as Acting FBI director on April 27, 1973, after he admitted to destroying documents that had come from convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt's safe documents received on June 28, 1972, 11 days after the Watergate burglary, and given to Gray by White House counsel John Dean. Gray remained publicly silent about the Watergate scandal for 32 years, speaking to the press only once, near the end of his life; this was shortly after Gray's direct subordinate at the FBI, FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, revealed himself to have been the secret source to The Washington Post known as "Deep Throat".

Before he was pushed away from the investigation, he said the FBI had found evidence of several CIA money chains, including most prominently one that led to plumber Bernard Barker.

Like most of the rest of the plumbers, Frank Sturgis was cleared of CIA ties by the Rockefeller Commission, who found that Sturgis had no ties to the CIA either before or after 1963.

Knowing what we now know, we have to laugh.

This finding tells us more about the Rockefeller Commission than about Sturgis.

To bury both the Colson testimony and the Baker report, the CIA purposely leaked a story in July 1974, into the press about a WH (Western Hemisphere) Flap, concerning a drunken ex-agent who had leaked everything to the Soviets.

The New York Times published several follow-ups and corrections to this story, to keep the public wanting more.

This fake story successfully diverted attention away from CIA involvement in Watergate.

We have seen that Colson tried to out Kissinger as a CIA mole in June 1974, to no effect.

Is that outing believable?

Completely, as it turns out.

From FBI reports, we know that Kissinger is the one who had initiated “internal” bugging in the executive branch, having,

This fact is extraordinary given the subsequent events, but it is never studied in context.

If Kissinger was bugging the offices of his own aides, what was to prevent him from bugging the office of his boss?

Of course he didn't do the bugging personally, he “ordered it.”

Ordered it from whom?

Not from the FBI, since they are the ones reporting it.

They would not have bothered to report on themselves.

Who else was capable of bugging the White House?

The CIA.

Those actually doing the bugging could bug one room just as easily as the next, right?

All they needed was access.

Kissinger had that access.

Now, if the CIA pulled Watergate, and if the CIA was in a turf war with FBI and Nixon, we should look at the possibility CIA framed Nixon, right?

They had motive, they had ability, and their man Hunt was convicted of the crime.

How is it that idea is never pursued?

We must assume it is because CIA has been in control of the story since the beginning.

It was in control of the story issued to the newspapers in 1972, and it was in control of the variants allowed to be published in books, and it is still in control of the story and all variants of it.

You know what the CIA wants you to know.

If you are told anything else—as in these clues I pull together from Wikipedia—you are told only to muddy the waters.

They assume you aren't smart enough to put the pieces of the puzzle together, so they think they can tell you anything as long as they don't put the pieces together for you.

I have come to believe they have reached the point of just playing games.

They have been so amazed by the gullibility and stupidity of everyone, they now test us by putting the real answers right out in the open, to see if anyone out there can think straight.

I think they are just as disappointed in the intelligence and gumption of those studying the media as anyone, maybe more so.

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As I have said before, it is no fun fooling fools, and CIA looks bored to me.

They start to think that all their work to remain covert was just wasted.

They didn't need to hide behind a beautifully camouflaged curtain, they could have hidden just as well behind a 2-by-4.

Most people are so blind they don't see the CIA when the CIA is standing in an open field waving their arms.

In short, CIA has lost all respect for its audience, which has led to its loss of respect for itself.

These agents might hold their heads up if they could fool a Sherlock Holmes, but fooling the American public isn't even a challenge.

They don't need CNN and green screens; they could fool the American public with Punch and Judy puppets.

If they can propagandize America with Anderson Cooper, they could propagandize America even more cheaply with Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop.

Shari Lewis (born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz; January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, and symphony conductor. She famously created and performed the sock puppet Lamb Chop for Captain Kangaroo in March 1956.