“There was political pressure applied to the defendants to plead guilty and remain silent,” McCord stated in the Maletter to Judge John Sirica, who presided over the Watergate trials. His sentence was reduced after he implicated White House officials in the cover-up. THE UPSHOT: McCord was convicted on charges of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping, but only served four months of his original sentence of one to five years. During the burglary, McCord, then security director of the Committee to Reelect the President (or CREEP), left a piece of tape on the latch of a stairwell door, inadvertently alerting a security guard to the burglary in progress. HIS ROLE: A former CIA officer and FBI agent, McCord was one of the five burglars arrested at the Watergate complex, and the “ chief wiretapper” of the operation.
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