Overview
Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Houganāthen the Washington editor of Harperās Magazineāset out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nationās capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was āthe sixth man, the one who got awayā when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim McCord, led a break-in team into a trap at the Watergate.
Using the Freedom of Information Act to win the release of the FBIās Watergate investigationāsome thirty-thousand pages of documents that neither the Washington Post nor the Senate had seenāHougan refuted the orthodox narrative of the affair.
Armed with evidence hidden from the public for more than a decade, Hougan proves that McCord deliberately sabotaged the June 17, 1972, burglary. None of the Democratsā phones had been bugged, and the spy-teamās ostensible leader, Gordon Liddy, was himself a pawnāat once, guilty and oblivious.
The power struggle that unfolded saw E. Howard Hunt and Jim McCord using the White House as a cover for an illicit domestic intelligence operation involving call-girls at the nearby Columbia Plaza Apartments.
A New York Times Notable Book, Secret Agenda āpresent[s] some valuable new evidence and explored many murky corners of our recent pastĀ .Ā .Ā . The questions [Hougan] has posed hereāand some he hasnātācertainly deserve an answerā (The New York Times Book Review). Kirkus Reviews declared the book āa fascinating series of puzzlesāwith all the detective work laid out.ā
This book title, Secret Agenda (Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA), ISBN: 9781504075282, by Jim Hougan, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (May 17, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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