1. Nixon: An Oral History, 172.
2. RN, 738.
3. Intriguing Life, 107.
4. Letter, James McCord to Paul Gaynor, January 3, 1972, SWC, 3839.
5. Letter, James McCord to Paul Gaynor, January 5, 1972, SWC, 3834.
6. John Dean, Blind Ambition (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 177.
7. “Draft CIA Watergate History,” pp. 126–27; Dirty Tricks, 276.
8. Ends of Power, 231.
9. Stanley I. Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990), 254.
10. Letter, L. Patrick Gray to Alexander Butterfield, January 19, 1973, Helms FBI File 1972.
11. “Congressional Record S. 8424-The Watergate Conspiracy” (1973); Mike Mansfield Speeches, 1105, https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfield_speeches/1105.
12. Rockefeller Commission Report, 203.
13. Fred D. Thompson, At That Point in Time (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1975), 173.
14. Deposition of Richard McGarrah Helms, Hunt v. Liberty Lobby, NO 80–1121-Civ.-JWK, June 1, 1984, 82 (Helms Deposition, Howard Hunt Jr. v. Liberty Lobby Inc.).
15. Rockefeller Commission Report, 204.
16. Nomination of Richard Helms to be Ambassador to Iran and CIA International and Domestic Activities, Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session, February 5 and 7 and May 21, 1973, pp. 1–16.
17. Nomination of Richard Helms, 20–21.
18. Nomination of Richard Helms, 24.
19. Nomination of Richard Helms, 25.
20. Nomination of Richard Helms, 26.
21. Morton Halperin, “Did Richard Helms Commit Perjury?,” New Republic, March 6, 1976, p. 15; The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 349.
22. Nomination of Richard Helms, 47.
23. Memorandum for: The President’ Files, From: B/Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAS, Subject: The President’s Meeting with Ambassador Helms (Iran) February 14, 1973. National Security Adviser Memoranda of Conversations, 1973–1977, Gerald Ford Library, https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0314/1552557.pdf.