"An Analysis of the FBI's Inquiry Into Watergate" by Thomas J. Ninneman
 

Date of Award

5-1985

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Abstract

On the morning of June 17, 1972, Frank Willis, a security guard at the Watergate Apartment complex, found a bolt lock that was held open by strips of tape. This guard had found tape on this same lock two weeks earlier. Believing that a burglary was in progress, Willis called the police. The Washington police arrived, and they apprehended five men in the offices of the Democratic National Committee. (This was the second burglary of this office by these five men, who had reentered to replace a faulty bug.) The police found that these men had telephone listening devices, camera equipment, and $3,000 in their possession. The Washington police contacted the FBI for information on these five men. Using its massive fingerprint files, the Bureau identified these five men as James Walter McCord, Bernard Baker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis.

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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