More on Nixon the Spy Victim

In The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon UW Emeritus Professor of History Stanley Kutler provides further detail on military spy scandal without the overheated rhetoric found in some of the Internet resources. Check out pages 116-119, which you can do here for free on Google books. I recommend reading the entire book if you have any interest in Nixon or Watergate.

Nixon's Attorney General and campaign chief John Mitchell thought that Alexander Haig, who worked as Kissinger's deputy was at least involved if not indeed the one running the whole spy ring for the military. Kutler aptly calls the whole thing a "curious shadowy business". Maybe ity will become clearer one day, but one of the problems in sorting it out is that so many of the participants were convicted liars - or 'unindicted co-conspirators'.