Watergate/White House Plumbers

Watergate/White House Plumbers   (Narrative control team)
Formation	1971
Membership	•  E. Howard Hunt •  Bernard Barker •  G. Gordon Liddy •  Frank Sturgis •  Eugenio Martinez •  Felipe de Diego •  [[..|...]]
A covert action group which intended to get caught, and attract odium to Richard Nixon

The White House Plumbers (or just The Plumbers) were a group of covert operatives that were used by the US Deep state in the Watergate Coup to implicate Richard Nixon. As the name suggests they were a kind of narrative control team, but not in the straightforward sense -- their purpose was not to secretly prevent leaks, but quite the reverse. They were set up to fail, the human equivalent of a straw man argument.

Activities

The Plumbers' first task was to burgle the office of Daniel Ellsberg's Los Angeles psychiatrist, Lewis J. Fielding. The operation was reported as unsuccessful to the White House. However, Fielding himself stated the file was in his office; he found it on the floor on the morning after the burglary and quite clearly, someone had gone through it. In a September 1971 conversation, John Ehrlichman advised Nixon, "We had one little operation; it's been aborted out in Los Angeles which, I think, is better that you don't know about."

Later activities resulted in the group's being caught.

 

Known members

5 of the 7 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Bernard Barker	A soldier/spook involved both in the assassination of JFK and the Watergate coup.
E. Howard Hunt	CIA officer and US DSO. Heavily involved in both the Watergate Coup and the assassination of JFK.
G. Gordon Liddy	White house plumber FBI agent
Eugenio Martínez	Spooky Cuban involve with the US DS
Frank Sturgis	An spooky assassin involved in so many deep state operations that his FBI file was over 75000 pages.

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