@countZZero dunno' it was an interesting take. By 1972 lone gunmen had become passe'. If if undermining relationships with the USSR and China were the goal was it really achieved? McCord was supposedly expert in electronic surveillance. I forgot, who was the genius who taped then re-taped the door security found twice and reported?
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The door-taping thing was pretty standard fare at the time --the occupants of the Watergate themselves would do it on occasion. Howard Hunt was greedy, stupid, and corruptible. Plus he had ties to Nixon-run operations going back to the mid-Fifties.
Although why McCord taped it the SECOND time is pretty suspect --but these guys were pretty cocky, thinking they operated under the aegis of executive protection.
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