Nick Bryant
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guy, but he was also a D.C.
guy, a D.C.
police officer.
And one of McCord's
underlings called Shoffler and said, we're breaking into the Watergate tonight.
And Shoffler was parked two blocks away from the Watergate.
He should not have been there that night.
And here's where the two conspiracies come together.
Because some of those Cubans, one of them, Eugenia Martinez, has the key to the desk drawer that has the pictures.
And when they're busted, their photography equipment is set up on that desk.
So those were the orders by Dean and Magruder to go after that blackmail material.
And Dean knew about that blackmail material because his wife had been associated with that brothel.
But the CIA guys, McCord and Hunt, they had a completely different agenda.
Their agenda was to get busted.
So that's what makes Watergate so complex, is you've got a conspiracy within a conspiracy.
Wow.
And then they got busted, and...
McCord and Hunt, they're very intelligent guys and super spooks.
They really are.
Their exploits are legendary in the CIA.