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Watergate Burglars

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

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Chronological records

1972

John Newton Mitchell19 June 1972

Washington · Politics / Watergate

A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, The Washington Post reports. Former attorney general John Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation

John Newton Mitchell29 September 1972

Politics / Watergate

John Mitchell, while serving as attorney general, controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance widespread intelligence-gathering operations against the Democrats, The Post reports

John Newton Mitchell10 October 1972

Politics / Watergate

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

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