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Famous Cases of the FBI - Watergate

Famous Cases of the FBI - Watergate

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This is an approximate 4,200 word illustrated monograph on famous Cases ot the FBI. Some are calling this series "Cliffs Notes for busy people."

Shortly after 2 a.m. on June 17, 1972, a security guard noticed several door locks had been taped so they would close but not lock. The guard called the police and they arrested five men photographing documents. They were Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, James W. McCord, the security director for the Committee for the Re-election of the President ), and Frank Sturgis
According to police sources, the men came from Miami. They wore surgical gloves, and carried thousands of dollars in cash. It was, said one source, "a professional type operation." Three of the men were native-born Cubans and another was said to have trained Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity after the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and another was allegedly a CIA employee.
Police said the men had with them two sophisticated devices capable of picking up and transmitting all room conversations, and phone conversations. In addition, police found lock-picks, door jimmies, and almost $2,300 in cash, most of it in $100 bills with sequential serial numbers.
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