http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%...20Brussell.html
"Three weeks after the Watergate break-in, while the establishment press was calling it "a caper" and "a third-rate burglary," Mae Brussell completed a manuscript titled "Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?" She named names—John Mitchell, L. Patrick Gray, Richard Nixon, the FBI, the CIA—and I published her first by-lined article in The Realist.
"The CIA that killed President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy," she wrote, "did a test case in Greece on canceling elections. Andreas Papandreou, often compared with John Kennedy, appeared to have a good chance of winning the Greek election in 1967. The U.S. Army, the CIA and government agencies helped replace their elections with a coup d'etat. . . . The significance of the Watergate affair is that every element essential for a political coup in the United States was assembled at the time of the arrests."
Mae Brussell contends that Nixon's own Watergate plumbers, and the entire intelligence network they represented, were prepared to overthrow Nixon whenever it was deemed necessary by the true powers. Ultimately, she believes, the same men who brought Nixon to power via the Kennedy assassinations were also pulling the strings at Watergate."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...ters+bill+still
Per Bill Still, Producer/Narrator of The Money Masters at Tax Freedom Rally 2006, explaining how he got involved in investigative journalism:
"In October 1973 I was sitting watching the Watergate hearings with my dad, and he told me a story that drastically changed my life... He told me that a couple weeks earlier he'd been approached by someone claiming to be affiliated with the Nixon White House and asked how he and his friends in the military would feel about a military takeover of the US government, the purpose of which would be to install President Nixon into office for a third term, and possibly subsequent terms. He was told there was virtually unlimited money behind the effort, and that any military office that wished to join could name his price. [He then explains his dad's background, and why he would have been so critical to the coup effort. Still wrote about the episode in a book, and notes that no media person ever called his father to ask about the episode.]

After my dad told me this he and I tried to alert the DC press corp. We actually had an appointment scheduled with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who ended up authoring the book and the movie "All the President's Men." But they blew us off and only sent their editor Bob ? down to talk to us. And of course nothing appeared in the Washington Post about this. They had Watergate all figured out. They didn't need somebody muddying the waters with some vast conspiracy tale.

In the months that followed, between October '73 and Nixon's resignation in August '74, I continued to try to push the story and got a lot of heat for it. I looked down the barrel of a 38 special; believe me that's no fun. It was a time of car chases and paranoia and during that period I slept with a 9mm handgun under my pillow.... It was a scary time and I feared for my life every day. And once Nixon resigned the pressure was off but it took me quite a while to realize it. I knew that I was going to have to write about this incident and the meaning of it because no one else was going to do so."

He wrote about the Nixon incident in his first book:
"New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies" by William T. Still
http://www.amazon.com/New-World-Order-Anci...0988&sr=8-1

Myra, the same guys who backed the Greek coup backed Nixon. The CIA was pumping money into Greece to insure the country didn't go socialist. This money ended up in the hands of right-wing generals, the leader of whom had been on the CIA's payroll for years. Then..coincidence???...Nixon re-emerged on the political scene with the financial backing of a wealthy Greek-American, Thomas Pappas. In order to please his Greek-American backers, Nixon put the most prominent Greek-American, Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew, on the ticket. This is pretty much accepted history. What isn't as well known or established is that the money funding Nixon's campaign originally came from the CIA. I'm not sure if there's sufficient proof of this.

While looking through a book on Greece from the early 70's, however, I did come across a reference to a large public works project--I think it was a dam--that was being built by Greek-American Thomas Pappas. As we now all know, public works projects are quite over-priced, and a lot of the money gets kicked back to corrupt politicians. The thought occurred that the U.S. was funding the Greek government, the government was paying Pappas, and Pappas was kicking the money back to Nixon, who'd arranged the funding for the Greeks. A big circle jerk, at the expense of democracy. Dick Cheney learned by the older Dick's side.

Well that sure is interesting Pat, and frankly I didn't know any of it. Do you think it is related to Watergate?

I don't think these events led to Watergate, but they had an impact on the timing. When the Dems started looking into Watergate, they knew from the beginning it could lead to Nixon's resignation. This would have led to Agnew becoming president, something even Nixon wanted to avoid. Many believe that the leading Dems, including Ted Kennedy, worked out a deal. They told Nixon they'd lay off the investigation as long as Nixon dumped Agnew and replaced him with someone palatable. This would explain why, according to Agnew, Nixon himself was the major factor in his resignation. Agnew kept looking for a vote of confidence from Nixon, or some public statement of support, during his corruption investigation, with none forthcoming. He concluded the Justice Department was being guided by Nixon (Nixon secretly guided much of the early Watergate investigation.) Anyhow, they offered Agnew a deal--go quietly and there will be no jail--and he took the offer. Nixon replaced him with Gerry Ford, a loyal Republican but also a longtime congressman with friends on both sides of the aisle. Everyone involved agreed that Ford was not necessarily the best choice but that he was the most palatable choice.

I see Pat, thank you.

Would you mind expanding a little on your comment that "Nixon secretly guided much of the early Watergate investigation"?