Nixon’s Fixers and the Systematic Sabotage of Federal Agencies
Nixon’s covert "fixers" turned the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Justice into weapons against political enemies and corporate rivals.
By Marcus Boone ·
Nixon Administration
Charles Colson and the Legal Gambit to Silence Watergate
He was the first of Nixon's inner circle to go to prison, but before the cell door closed, he tried to burn his indictment by claiming the news had poisoned the jury.
By Marcus Boone ·
Louis Patrick Gray and the ITT Ledger of Political Sabotage
A high-ranking FBI official provided documents to a task force while simultaneously destroying others, leaving a curated record of the Nixon administration's corporate alliances.
By Marcus Boone ·
9 Principals and the Silence of Richard Nixon
For years, the legal machinery of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force focused on the men who carried out the orders while the man who gave them remained outside this specific circle of defendants.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Big Five Media and the Nixon Narrative Map
For decades, the government's curated obsession with a handful of prestige outlets remained hidden, masking a system designed to track leaks and manage the public's reality.
By Marcus Boone ·
Plumbers Task Force and the Masked Names on Nixon's Wiretaps
Newsmen and government officials had their privacy stripped by a covert White House unit, but the records of those wiretaps remained under the control of the very men who carried them out.
By Miriam Adler ·
Nixon's Fixers and the May 3 Assault on Anti-War Protesters
Anti-war activists were beaten at the seat of government in 1972, and the investigation into the violence was handed to a covert unit of White House fixers.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Gulf Oil and the Volume of Evidence the Watergate Prosecutors Segregated
The records of corporate payoffs to the Nixon administration were kept in a separate, oversized file to manage a complexity that the public was never meant to map
By Marcus Boone ·
Nixon’s Reconnaissance Flights and the Strauss NPT Gambit
Pyongyang promises "severe punishment" for American incursions while German political infighting threatens to derail the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
By Constance Bell ·
Nixon orders Radio Liberty shut to save $15 million
871 overseas employees faced sudden termination as Nixon moved to quietly shut down a covert CIA-funded operation that no longer stressed the need to liberate the Soviet Union.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Nixon Suspended Fourth Amendment for Five Days
US citizens were secretly targeted by security operations after the executive branch dismantled constitutional guardrails for five days in July 1970.
By Miriam Adler ·