The Watergate Op

For a couple decades now, I've been convinced that the Watergate affair, which ultimately resulted in President Richard Nixon resigning, was not what the common legend says it is.

Sure enough, Nixon was paranoid and ordered these things, and tried to cover them up, I'm not arguing about that.  Nixon was no saint (despite being "the last New Deal President").

But I question how the whole thing unraveled and was discovered.  This sort of thing had gone on for a long time, but this time the President got caught.

I suppose, it could have just happened, for example with Butterfields'  (mistaken?*) admission that there was a White House taping system.

But what I've been seeing for some time makes it look like more than just a few mistakes or random events.   There are many many pieces here which look very much like this was really a second Presidential assassination by other means.

And there were many people, including the Plutocracy itself, that might have wanted to see Nixon removed.  For one thing, he had just created a plan for Medicare for All.  Nixon's political populism was not consistent with the new winds that were blowing towards Neoliberalism, which would be picked up starting with Jimmy Carter.

But now I know there were other things.  As with JFK firing Allen Dulles, Nixon had planned a completely new way of doing intelligence.  He planed a new central functionary that would bypass the CIA--and in fact he had already been handling the CIA differently.  He never met a CIA director without Kissinger by his side.  For his China initiatives, he deliberately bypassed both CIA and Pentagon.  A lot of people in the deep state were furious with him, as became obvious later.  That was why Kissinger's briefcase was pilfered.

Nixon knew a thing or two.  In fact, as Vice President under Eisenhower, he had been deeply involved in the planning of the Bay of Pigs operation.  People I follow also place him in interesting roles during the JFK assassination.

Knowing a thing or two might be useful in becoming President.  However, they might also insure that certain others might not want you to make it all the way through.

If ideas like these sound ungrounded, you should read the 10 post series on Watergate by RAXFX (RIP).

There was definitely more going on than in the usual Woodward and Bernstein epic.

(*Following RAZFX's story, it does not appear like an accidental admission at all, but was part of the plan to destroy Nixon, along with McCord's letter.  If not for those two things, Watergate would have been virtually a dead story after the first trial.  Butterfield's subsequent appointment to FAA happened just in time for them to ignore certain things about the crash of the airplane which killed E Howard Hunt's wife, Dorothy Hunt, who was carrying $2M in hush money payments, and was found with a higher level of cyanide in her blood than ever before among plane crash victims.  It was judged to be 'Pilot Error' but there are a large number of strange facts about it.)