Their goal in the infamous botched “third rate” burglary was not, Waldron argues, to gather negative political information about the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to use in the upcoming election, as generally believed. Waldron shows that veterans of then-Vice President Richard Nixon’s early use of Mafia members in cahoots with the CIA in attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro were also part of the later White House plumbers team used on June 17, 1972, to infiltrate Watergate. Here, Waldron takes that dark story back one significant step, tying it to Richard Nixon when he was vice president and going forward from there. Waldron distills thousands of recently declassified CIA and FBI records as well as newly disclosed tapes of Richard Nixon, and he combines that information with his encyclopedic knowledge of existing assassination history to draw a new picture of the Watergate plumbers, their master and their motives.Īssassination historians know that from the Eisenhower era to the Kennedy administration, there were complicated, sub rosa relations between notorious Mafia members and incumbent foreign policy figures, in the CIA and in the White House, focused on eliminating Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Here he deals with new information drawing on records of two of the most sensational episodes of 20th-century American history. In his new book, Watergate: The Hidden History, the historian Lamar Waldron, who has written about the JFK assassination ( Ultimate Sacrifice and Legacy of Secrecy), shifts his focus to Watergate.
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