Nick Bryant

Wow.

He works at a, well, he's a big time lawyer, but he also works for a foundation that's funneling money to various CI causes domestically.

So Haig, and they're looking for the tapes that will incriminate Nixon into the cover-up.

Because shortly after Watergate, Nixon had Halderman and Ehrlichman, and Richard Helms was the head of the CIA, and Vernon Walters was the assistant director of the CIA.

He had those four get together.

And Nixon wanted the FBI or the CIA to quash the FBI investigation.

And Nixon had grilled Helms at a certain point because Nixon knew that the CIA had participated in the JFK hit.

And it's on the tapes.

It's actually kind of funny.

There's Richard Helms and Nixon's groaning, who shot John?

Who shot John?

So Helms is very well aware that Nixon knows who shot John.

So you've got this meeting between Halderman and Ehrlichman and Helms and Vernon Walters.

And Halderman says, you guys have got to play our national security guard and quash this investigation by the FBI into Watergate.

And Helms says, no, we're not going to do that.

And now Nixon said to Halderman,

If Helms says no, say, it's going to bring about the Bay of Pigs thing.

Because that was Nixon's kind of nomenclature for the Kennedy hit, the Bay of Pigs thing.

So as soon as Haldeman said, well, this could lead into the Bay of Pigs thing, then Helms just went ballistic.

And Helms is one of those bureaucrats that never shows his emotions.