Is Watergate connected to Roger Ailse and Rupert Murdoch?

http://mtracy9.tripod.com/dorothy_hunt.htm
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The Strange Death of Dorothy Hunt

Special for Fair Play
By Lalo J. Gastriani

November 1994
 
Was Dorothy Wetzel Hunt, the late wife of convicted Watergate conspirator, E. Howard Hunt, murdered? Was the plane on which she was traveling--along with other key Watergate characters--sabotaged? If so, why? And by whom?
These questions have troubled researchers for more than twenty years. Along with the unanswered questions about Hunt and how he relates to the forces that brought down the Nixon presidency, also too is the question about what more the Hunts knew about Nixon; what it was that made Nixon so paranoid; that made him so willing to come up with hush money ("...a million dollars? we could get that."). Could it be that Hunt and/or Nixon were complicit in the death of JFK?

The Crash

It was at 2:29 PM on Friday, December 8, 1972, during the height of the Watergate scandal that United Airlines flight 553 crashed just outside of Chicago during a landing approach to Midway Airport. Initial reports indicated that the plane had some sort of engine trouble when it descended from the clouds. But the odd thing about this crash is what happened after the plane went down. Witnesses living in the working-class neighborhood in which the plane crashed said that moments after impact, a battalion of plainclothes operatives in unmarked cars parked on side streets pounced on the crash-site [High Treason 2 (1992, Carroll and Graf); Harrison Livingston; p426] . These so-called 'FBI types' took control of the scene and immediately began sifting through the wreckage looking for something. At least one survivor recognized a "rescue worker"--clad in overalls sifting through wreckage--as an operative of the CIA [op. cit.; p428]

Nixon Whitehouse Asserts Control of Investigation

One day after the crash, the Whitehouse head of Nixon's "plumber's" outfit--Egil Krogh, Jr.-- was made undersecretary of transportation, a position that put him in a direct position to oversee the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Agency which are both authorized by law to investigate airline crashes. Krogh would later be convicted of complicity in the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's Psychiatrist's office along with Hunt, Liddy and a small cast of CIA-trained and retained Cuban black-bag specialists.
About a month after Krogh's new assignment, Nixon's appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, was made an executive in the Chicago office of United Airlines [op. cit.; p429], where he threatened the media to steer clear of speculation about sabotage in the crash. On December 19th--eleven days after the crash--Nixon appointed ex-CIA officer, Alexander Butterfield, as head of the FAA. Students of Watergate will remember Butterfield as the Whitehouse official who supervised Nixon's secret taping system and who exposed the existence of the infamous tapes that ultimately would force Nixon to resign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(magazine)
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Star was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1974 as competition to the tabloid National Enquirer with its headquarters in New York City. In the late 1980s it moved its offices to Tarrytown, NY and in 1990 Murdoch sold the magazine to The Enquirer's parent company American Media Inc. (Murdoch now owns the New York Post, which, although it has more of a regional, news-centered focus, still has significant celebrity coverage.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kwitny
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He was a former front page feature writer for the Wall Street Journal producing front-page columns and articles about national and international topics; he joined the Journal in 1971 and worked there for the next seventeen years

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/the-politics-of-heroin-at-fox-news-rupert-murdoch-the-cia-shackley-nugan-hand-bank-crimes-of-patriots
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The Politics of Heroin at Fox News – Rupert Murdoch, the CIA, Shackley, Nugan Hand Bank & Crimes of Patriots

9th November 2009

By Alex Constantine
A Brotherhood of Ultra-Conservative Swindlers …
Nugan Hand’s Status in the World
… Alexander Butterfield, political junkies recall, made headlines when he casually announced that the president had tape recorded conversations in the oval office. That was the end of Richard Nixon, who was badly kicked around .. and not one reporter stopped to ponder why a spook in the White House would crucify his boss with this devastating revelation.
Butterfield gave away the store at another key point in history when he spilled the dope beans to Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny, author of The Crimes of Patriots. When asked about Bernie Houghton and other principals at Australia’s Nugan Hand Bank, the CIA’s cash laundry, Butterfield gave him a few names that broke the bank, so to speak.
Kwitny was referred to General Heine Aderhold, who ran covert operations throughout Asia with John Singlaub, and was in a position to observe the actions of Maurice “Bernie” Houghton at Nugan Hand.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butterfield
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Taping system
When Nixon was re-elected, Butterfield was appointed on December 19, 1972 as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. He was routinely asked to appear before the United States Senate committee headed by Sam Ervin and was interviewed by staff of the committee on July 13, 1973, prior to going before the Senators. John Dean had previously mentioned that he suspected White House conversations were taped, and the committee was therefore routinely asking witnesses about it. Butterfield did not want to voluntarily tell the committee of the system, but had decided before the hearing that he would, if asked a direct question.
As it happened, Butterfield was asked the direct question by the minority (Republican) counsel, Donald Sanders. He told the staff members that "everything was taped ... as long as the President was in attendance. There was not so much as a hint that something should not be taped."^[3] All present recognized the significance of this disclosure, and Butterfield was hastily put before the full Committee on July 16 to put the taping system on the record. Chief Minority Counsel, Fred Thompson, catapulted himself into history by asking "Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?"

[edit] Post-Watergate

Butterfield was not involved in the Watergate cover-up and was therefore not prosecuted. He remained at the FAA under new President Gerald Ford until he resigned on March 31, 1975. He then became a business executive.
Butterfield was among those who correctly guessed the identity of Watergate informant "Deep Throat" prior to the disclosure in 2005. He told The Hartford Courant in 1995, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt."
Butterfield's son, Alexander Butterfield Junior, is in the US Navy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._McCord,_Jr.
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James Walter McCord, Jr. (born July 26, 1924 in Waurika, Oklahoma)^[1][2] is a former CIA agent, later involved involved, as an electronics expert, in the Watergate burglaries (which precipited the Watergate scandal).^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. Effects of the scandal eventually led to the resignation of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of any U.S. President. It also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and incarceration of several Nixon administration officials.

http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2008/11/politics-of-heroin-at-fox-news-rupert.html


http://gawker.com/5814150/
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http://open.salon.com/blog/lennon59/2010/06/15/watergate_kid_and_james_w_mccord_jr
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http://www.history.com/topics/watergate/videos?paidlink=1&vid=HIS_SEM_Search&keywords=watergate&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=watergate&utm_term=watergate#watergate-ends-nixon-presidency
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http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Patriots-True-Dirty-Money/dp/0671666371


http://www.thenation.com/authors/jonathan-kwitny
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From The Archive

MONEY, DRUGS AND THE CONTRAS (Cities, Journalists and Journalism, Media, Regions and Countries)

On July 22, 1987, The Washington Post carried an authoritative-sounding headline: "Hill Panel Finds No Evidence Linking Contras to Drug Smuggling." The U.S. House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, the panel that The Post alluded to, had not been able to send investigators to Miami or Central America. The House and Senate select committees investigating the Iran/contra affair have evaded the issue. And in the press, the real and disturbing story of contras and drugs has been obscured by misstatements and exaggerations.

Jonathan Kwitny

http://www.brookesnews.com/041406_reagan_eccleston.html
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A Rupert Murdoch journalist takes a swipe at Ronald Reagan

Gerard JacksonBrookesNews.Com
Monday 14 June 2004

It was inevitable that journalists would raise the phony Iran-contra scandal. Roy Eccleston, Washington Correspondent for Rupert Murdoch's Australian resist the urge (Jury out on the Reagan legacy 7 June). Marian Wilkinson did the same with her President who made Americans feel good (Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June) and so did Christopher Hitchens in his Not Even a Hedgehog The stupidity of Ronald Reagan (Slate 7 June).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin

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Regular columnists and bloggers on the magazine's website included:

• Patrick Cook
• Ellen Fanning
• Laurie Oakes
• Leo Schofield
• Paul Daley^[6]
• Julie-Anne Davies^[7]
• Roy Eccleston^[8]
• Katherine Fleming^[9]
• Chris Hammer^[10]
• Adam Shand
• Rebecca Urban^[11]

http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/roy-eccleston/
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Roy Eccleston is editor of SA Weekend at The Advertiser in Adelaide. He’s a former Washington correspondent for The Australian where he worked for almost 20 years, including stints as Queensland Bureau Chief and foreign affairs writer in Canberra. He’s covered two Olympic Games, and wrote the final cover for the now-defunct magazine The Bulletin . His work has appeared in Time, Australian Geographic, and The Weekend Australian magazine. He has won numerous awards for writing about health, and was the National Press Club of Australia’s health reporter of the year in 2007.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062908.html

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According to one Raymond-authored memo dated Aug. 9, 1983, then-U.S. Information Agency director Charles Wick “via Murdock [sic] may be able to draw down added funds” to support pro-Reagan initiatives.

Raymond’s reference to Rupert Murdoch possibly drawing down “added funds” suggests that the right-wing media mogul was already part of the covert propaganda operation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Gregg
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Committee_on_North_Korea
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Ambassador Donald Gregg - The Korea Society

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Public_Diplomacy
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The Office of Public Diplomacy, officially known as the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, was part of a White House ordered PR plan in the 1980s to provide cover for the secret CIA war in Nicaragua. CIA director William J. Casey initiated the propaganda campaign after meeting with private sector PR men. Walter Raymond, Jr., a CIA propaganda expert, moved over to the National Security Council to get the program up and running. Raymond is reported to have instructed his OPD subordinates to "concentrate on gluing black hats on the Sandinistas and white hats on UNO [the contras' United Nicaraguan Opposition]."[1] Raymond picked Otto Reich to run the new OPD, which was housed in the State Department. Despite the unraveling of the Iran-Contra scandal, the full story of the OPD -- a covert, illegal, inter-agency propaganda campaign aimed at US citizens and Congress -- never received full public scrutiny.