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Evidence Destruction

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1972

G. Gordon Liddy17 June 1972

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Begins shredding documents after learning that the Watergate burglary team has been arrested, seeking to eliminate evidence connecting him to the operation.

Names involved

G. Gordon Liddy

Provenance

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