James W. McCord, Jr.

James W. McCord, Jr. ( born January 26, 1924 in Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma) was one of the five burglars in the Watergate building, and thus one of the key figures in the Watergate affair.

He spent his school years at the McLean and Electra High School in Texas. In 1949 he received his business administration degree at the University of Texas. In 1965 he was awarded the Master of Science at George Washington University. From 1942 to 1943 he was with the FBI in New York and Washington, DC, where he was involved with broadcast monitoring actions. From 1943 to 1945 he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Between 1948 and 1951 he was employed by the FBI as a special agent in San Diego and San Francisco. At the CIA, he served as Chief of the Division of Individual Protection of 1951 until 1979. Between 1962 and 1964 he held executive management positions for the CIA in Europe operates.

McCord was awarded by the then CIA director Richard Helms, the Distinguished Service Award for outstanding performance of duty. In 1970 he retired after 25 years from the federal public service. McCord was in his capacity not only a technician, but a professional in assessments of personalities. In this capacity he was one example of the interrogation team that interrogated the pilots of the U -2, which were shot down in 1959 over the Iranian - Soviet border. The former CIA chief Allen Welsh Dulles called McCord once " my best strength. "

After his retirement from the federal service, he made ​​his first independent and before he was proposed by Jack Caulfield and Al Wong to Chief of Security for CRP. He was hired by Gordon Liddy as the new head of security, especially because he knew his way around very well with electronic espionage. On May 27, 1972, McCord the bugs on the first breaking into the Watergate Hotel, the headquarters of the Democrats in the phone by Larry O'Brien's secretary Fay and Abel in the telephone of Spencer Oliver, the then managing director of the organization of the Democratic Party chairman the individual states. The first bug worked unreliable and the tapped telephone conversations were conducted only unimportant. The second bug did not work. For this reason, a second burglary from Attorney General John N. Mitchell was ordered - what this later, however, denied. The second burglary McCord taped the door in the garage, so they do not lock. Later, when the air was apparently pure, the five burglars sneaked into the garage. There they found that the tapes had been removed at the door. The action was still not canceled and new tapes were attached to the door and continued the slump. The new tapes were discovered again by the Security Service and the police were alerted. This then arrested the burglar.

In Watergate process McCord pleaded "not guilty". The federal judge John Sirica believed from the beginning no doubt that the burglars acted alone. Due to the threat of a long prison sentence of co-defendant James W. McCord finally handed the judge a letter. This letter was read aloud to the judge before the live audience. This confirmed McCord:

Then a commotion broke out in the courtroom. This letter was the first crack in the cover-up of the White House. Thus, this trial was not the end but the beginning of the scandal. McCord was therefore set against a relatively mild security deposit of $ 100,000 released. McCord should have received $ 25,000 from the slush funds for the Committee for the Re-election of the President to pay his lawyers. He later wrote a book about the break: The Watergate Story: Fact and Fiction.

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