When FBI Associate Director Mark Felt surveyed the aftermath of the Watergate burglary, he concluded that it had been "a White House operation, a CIA operation, or both." How could it have been “both”? No one has ever testified that the CIA had been involved. In this episode, we will examine whether the earlier burglary of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg could be seen as a template for Watergate. That prior Ellsberg burglary failed. Or did it? The first of the two Watergate burglaries also failed. Or did it achieve its hidden purpose? We'll dig into the evidence to help elucidate the puzzling purpose of the second Watergate burglary, which ended in arrests.
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