E. Howard Hunt was a former C.I.A agent. It was found that Hunt was recruited by Kissinger to be the one in control of the plumbers, the burglars of Watergate, and that he organized the whole break in along with G. Gordon Liddy. Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy and the rest of the group occupied the White House basement. Hunt was not only the leader of the break in at Watergate but he also was in charge of breaking into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office to get personal information on Ellsberg. It was later found out that the burglars were operating under the orders of Hunt. Howard Hunt was also one of the man that made the Watergate scandal get connected to the President. Woodward found that a few of the burglars notebooks they Hunts name written down along with “W.H” or “White House.”1 This is what caused Howard Hunt to be arrested the weekend of the the Watergate break in, and prove that Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy were communicating with the burglars. After he was arrested Hunt received 10,000 dollars in hush money to keep him quiet from revealing the connections between Watergate and President Nixon. In the end, Hunt was one of the twenty people that served prison time for the break in at Watergate.
1. Debra A. Miller, Living Through Watergate (Michigan:Greenhaven Press, 2006), 98
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- Liebovich, Louis W. Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. http://www.questiaschool.com/read/117250842.
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