Nick Bryant

We were going to, we were allies with India, but Pakistan had a dictator that was friendly to China.

So the Nixon administration, although we, and Pakistan and India were engaged at a war, the Nixon administration tacitly approved what Pakistan was doing.

Then probably Admiral Moore leaked it out to the press and there was this huge blowback because the Pakistan dictator was a bloodthirsty type.

Nixon wanted so badly to open up communications with the Chinese that he was willing to do these things.

So the joint chiefs has this espionage ring where they're collecting all this information on what Nixon's doing.

But the Nixon administration ultimately outs them.

And at that point, the CIA starts infiltrating.

And the guys that, I mean, it's amazing how many CIA people, intelligence people infiltrate the Nixon administration.

And the big thing with Watergate is there were two conspiracies going on.

But the first conspiracy was the CIA trying to bring down the next administration.

And there were a number of leaks going on, like the Pakistan leak and the Pentagon Papers and these various leaks.

And they were driving Nixon crazy.

And Ehrlichman put together a crew called the Plumbers.

And the raison d'etre for the Plumbers was to plug leaks.

And that's where these CIA guys ended up.

is E. Howard Hunt, who was a scurrilous guy, and James McCord, who was... It's kind of difficult to describe James McCord, but they penetrated the plumbers.

And G. Gordon Liddy was supposedly the head of the plumbers, but McCord and Hunt

These guys were like super spooks and they just ran circles around Liddy.

Liddy had no idea what these guys were up to.

You've got the CIA wanting to take down Nixon and infiltrating the plumbers.