This was just about a month before the later-infamous "plumbers' breakin" at the Chilean Embassy which foreshadowed the Watergate scandal and snowballed to Nixon's forced resignation. A month after that( 6/17/1972), five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate hotel at 1:52 a.m. Within hours of the bust G. Gordon Liddy attempted to shred all related documents.

Carl Schloffler (1945-1996), undercover police officer, made the arrest. Little could he have imagined he was starting something that would topple an American President!


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