John Newton Mitchell19 June 1972
A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, The Washington Post reports. Former attorney general John Mitchellll, head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
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A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, The Washington Post reports. Former attorney general John Mitchellll, head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
John Mitchellll, while serving as attorney general, controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance widespread intelligence-gathering operations against the Democrats, The Post reports.
FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, The Post reports.
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