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| Joint Chiefs Spied On Nixon Using NSC Mole |
| 2008-12-17 |
| Newly declassified White House documents shed light on a unique crisis in American history: when investigators working for President Richard Nixon discovered that the Joint Chiefs of Staff used a stenographer to spy on civilian command during the Vietnam War... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 ...This was also reported in Sideshow by Anthony Shawcross in 1979. And IIRC, the guy who gave the order to do it was Al Haig. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2008-12-17 19:13 |
| #2 Wasn't this already reported in a tell all book about Nixon called "Silent Coup" several years ago? Same book painted a very interesting picture of the real reasons behind the Watergate Break-in, having to do with the little black book in the secretarial area, not the DNC Chairman, Larry O'Brian's office. Had to do with the preferences for companionship among major donors to the DNC, and suppossedly a lady whose name appeared in the book was married to the White House lawyer John Dean, the apparent architect of the actual plan, and a deft matador at avoiding the central responsibility for the target? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2008-12-17 18:41 |
| #1 A trained stenographer, Radford was in his late twenties when he was assigned to the NSC staff of Henry Kissinger... Hopefully the billet is still FILLED! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-17 09:06 |