Frank Sturgis

Frank Anthony Sturgis, born Frank Angelo Fiorini, ( born December 9, 1924 in Norfolk ( Virginia), † December 4, 1993 in Miami) in 1972 was one of the five burglars in the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate affair.

Sturgis was a member of the U.S. Marines in the Pacific participants in the Second World War. In 1952, he had to change his name and took the family name of his stepfather, whom his mother had married in 1937. Later, he came across the fallen of Fulgencio Batista in 1952 and since then living in exile in Florida Cuban Ex - President Carlos Prio in contact with the armed resistance movement in Cuba. Sturgis initially participated in the supply of the rebel army with weapons before the rebels led by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra later joined himself as a battle-tested instructor. The end of 1958 to mid- 1959, he talked in Cuba contacts to CIA employees, for which he recruited free of charge by its own account within the civilian government and the military agents.

After the victory of the revolution in early January 1959, he was commissioned by Castro to lead the investigation into the criminal backgrounds of various U.S. owner of gambling casinos in Havana and sought cooperation with the police authorities of Miami. As was clear that contrary to previous assurances umlenkte Castro revolution on a pro-Communist course, Sturgis but formed anti-Communist combat units, for which he received financial support in part by the same casino owners. In June 1959 he left Cuba and since lived in Florida, from where he again (now directed against Castro) armed resistance movement supported by smuggling fighters and material into the country and conducted leaflet airdrops over Cuban territory. He was one of the coaches of the Cuban exiles that the failed invasion resulted in the Bay of Pigs in 1961. According to the German Marita Lorenz, had begun with the 1959 Castro in Havana a love affair, Sturgis recruited her as a CIA agent, trying to win them to assassinate Castro.

He was also a friend of the columnist Jack Anderson. He made Anderson with another burglar, the well-known " photographers " the burglar Eugenio Martinez group. At the time of the break room 314 was rented in the Watergate Hotel for Sturgis and Virgilio R. Gonzalez. Other burglars were Bernard Barker and James W. McCord, Jr.. In the Watergate trial, he pleaded " guilty " on.