1. Gerald S. Strober and Deborah Hart Strober, Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency (New York: Harper Perennial, 1996), 352.
2. Nedzi Hearings, 46.
3. Chronology of Discussions.
4. Chronology of Discussions; A Piece of Tape, 117; Nedzi Hearings, 46.
5. Dirty Tricks, 226; HJC Hearings Book 2, 472.
6. L. Patrick Gray III with Ed Gray, In Nixon’s Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate (New York: Times Books, 2008), 77; Nedzi Report, 19. Investigators later asked Helms, Why not let the FBI interview Karl Wagner? “Some of this goes back to the question of the covers that were in the Mullen office,” he replied evenly, “that we wanted to keep from being spread all through the government, that we have people under cover there. There were some perfectly sensible reasons.” Nedzi Hearings, 102.
7. Nixon’s Web, 78–79.
8. Richard Helms, Director’s State of the Agency address, June 30, 1972. CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP82M00311R0001002.
9. State of the Agency address, June 30, 1972.
10. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 337.
11. Nedzi Report, 19.
12. Nixon’s Web, 91–92.
13. American Spy, 255.
14. American Spy, 254.
15. A Piece of Tape, 146.
16. WFB-Dorothy Hunt, July 18, 1972, WFBP.
17. “Meeting with Robert Foster Bennett and His Comments Concerning E. Howard Hunt, Douglas Caddy, and the ‘Watergate Five’ Incident,” Martin Lukoskie, MFR, July 10, 1972.
18. Nedzi Hearings, 1071–73.
19. Secret Agenda, 320–21.
20. Senate Watergate Report, 1124.
21. Richard Helms as DCI, 196.
22. Dirty Tricks, 242; “Draft CIA Watergate History,” 126.
23. Dirty Tricks, 241.
24. Nedzi Hearings, 164. The name of the source is deleted from the Nedzi Hearing Records.
25. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 341.
26. Nedzi Report, 13.
27. Silbert Diary, 313.
28. Nedzi Hearings, 945–47.
29. Secret Agenda, 274–77.
30. Silbert Diary, 336.
31. Intriguing Life, 106.
32. Roderick McKelvie, interview with the author, March 1, 2021.