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Watergate Burglars

United States · Politics / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1972

John Newton Mitchell10 October 1972

Politics / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

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

Names involved

John Newton Mitchell

Provenance

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