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Judicial Watch Uncovers CIA Inspector General's 'Watergate History' Report
Document Reveals Deputy CIA Director Vernon A. Walters and Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray Advised President Nixon to 'get rid of the people involved in the cover-up, no matter how high.'
CIA lawyers reveal to Watergate prosecutors that CIA 'agent' Eugenio Martinez participated in June 17, 1972, break-in of Democratic National Committee
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5172
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2016 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch today released a new document obtained from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through litigation (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:16-cv-00146)) titled: "Working Draft – CIA Watergate History," that was prepared by the agency's Office of the Inspector General. The document was, "compiled during the latter part of 1973 and 1974." The introduction to the agency history states: "Undertaken as an internal CIA review of the matter, it is incomplete and remains a working paper." The CIA evidently never finalized the report.
The report reveals that Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters, the Deputy Director of the CIA, met with Acting Director L. Patrick Gray of the FBI on July 12, 1972, to discuss assistance the CIA had provided to retired CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, of the White House Special Investigations Unit ("The Plumbers"). CIA assistance to The Plumbers was terminated in August 1971. The report states the CIA assistance had been at the request of the White House for the purported purpose of tracking down security leaks in the government.
During the July 12, 1972, meeting, Gray told Walters that he had received a call from President Nixon. During the call, "He [Gray] told the President that he had talked to Walters and that both Walters and Gray felt the President should get rid of the people involved in the cover-up, no matter how high. Gray said he had also told this to Dean."
Also of note is the identification of Eugenio "Musculito" Martinez as the only one of the Watergate burglars still actively being paid by the CIA at the time of the arrests on June 17, 1972. At one point, the report quoted a CIA attorney referring to Martinez, in discussions with lawyers from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) on October 12, 1973, as "an agent."
"Under no circumstances would the Agency give up all records relating to the Agency's relationship with Martinez," the CIA lawyer told WSPF, for to do so would represent "the breaking of trust of an agent."
This means the CIA, at the time of the Watergate break-in, had "an agent" planted on the break-in team. (The FBI determined that when arrested, Martinez possessed a key to the desk of Maxie Wells, the secretary to Democratic Party official R. Spencer Oliver whose telephone was wiretapped in the Watergate break-in operation.) While Martinez's dual role has been discussed in other Watergate histories, the declaration by CIA lawyers of Martinez's status as "an agent" appears to add new information to the Watergate saga.
MORE: www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-cia-inspector-generals-watergate-history-report
CIA lawyers reveal to Watergate prosecutors that CIA 'agent' Eugenio Martinez participated in June 17, 1972, break-in of Democratic National Committee
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5172
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2016 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch today released a new document obtained from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through litigation (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:16-cv-00146)) titled: "Working Draft – CIA Watergate History," that was prepared by the agency's Office of the Inspector General. The document was, "compiled during the latter part of 1973 and 1974." The introduction to the agency history states: "Undertaken as an internal CIA review of the matter, it is incomplete and remains a working paper." The CIA evidently never finalized the report.
The report reveals that Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters, the Deputy Director of the CIA, met with Acting Director L. Patrick Gray of the FBI on July 12, 1972, to discuss assistance the CIA had provided to retired CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, of the White House Special Investigations Unit ("The Plumbers"). CIA assistance to The Plumbers was terminated in August 1971. The report states the CIA assistance had been at the request of the White House for the purported purpose of tracking down security leaks in the government.
During the July 12, 1972, meeting, Gray told Walters that he had received a call from President Nixon. During the call, "He [Gray] told the President that he had talked to Walters and that both Walters and Gray felt the President should get rid of the people involved in the cover-up, no matter how high. Gray said he had also told this to Dean."
Also of note is the identification of Eugenio "Musculito" Martinez as the only one of the Watergate burglars still actively being paid by the CIA at the time of the arrests on June 17, 1972. At one point, the report quoted a CIA attorney referring to Martinez, in discussions with lawyers from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) on October 12, 1973, as "an agent."
"Under no circumstances would the Agency give up all records relating to the Agency's relationship with Martinez," the CIA lawyer told WSPF, for to do so would represent "the breaking of trust of an agent."
This means the CIA, at the time of the Watergate break-in, had "an agent" planted on the break-in team. (The FBI determined that when arrested, Martinez possessed a key to the desk of Maxie Wells, the secretary to Democratic Party official R. Spencer Oliver whose telephone was wiretapped in the Watergate break-in operation.) While Martinez's dual role has been discussed in other Watergate histories, the declaration by CIA lawyers of Martinez's status as "an agent" appears to add new information to the Watergate saga.
MORE: www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-cia-inspector-generals-watergate-history-report
