Tucker Carlson on watergate: what the evidence says · JRE #2138
SUBJECT: WATERGATE
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
The people who broke into the Watergate office building from which the name is taken. Watergate. I think it was six of them or seven of them. All but one was a CIA employee.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Seven men were involved in the June 17, 1972 Watergate break-in: five arrested inside the DNC offices (James McCord, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez) plus two who directed the operation from outside (E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy). Only McCord and Hunt were former CIA officers, both having retired roughly two years before the break-in. The four Cuban exiles had worked with the CIA on anti-Castro operations in the 1960s but were not current CIA employees in 1972, though Martinez is often noted as an exception who remained on a CIA retainer. Liddy was a former FBI agent with no CIA background. Carlson's claim that "all but one" were CIA employees overstates the group's formal, current employment status: most had past CIA-linked backgrounds rather than active CIA jobs at the time of the burglary, and one (Liddy) had no CIA connection at all.