Douglas Caddy

How a national conspiracy theory museum wound up in the 'boondocks' Mike Argento, York Daily Record Published 1:58 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2019 | Updated 11:19 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019 https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/columnists/mike-argento/2019/01/16/how-national-hidden-history-museum-wound-up-york-county-pa-conspiracy-theory-museum-john-judge/2582211002/?fbclid=IwAR3t08DWwyqGhdXLFnN7nA9GwoSqIecdmH2Q4uheA2ZbcC0kXLRMO7H_peQ

What a revelation: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/2019-04-22/reading-barrs-redactions-muellers-report

Your question raises basic issues about what was behind the arrests at Watergate. At the request of S. T. Patrick I am writing a piece about this for an upcoming issue of "garrison." I shall answer your question in my article and believe it will be an eye-opener. It is way too complicated to answer here now.

MWN Episode 116 – A Weekend in Olney (2019 JFK Historical Group Recap) https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-episode-116-a-weekend-in-olney-2019-jfk-historical-group-recap/?fbclid=IwAR1i0TsAIvFfEXhmVQyOs9Th6YeuzSuvETh3tyF_tArIoCCTXfIpY8n5BGY

The New York Times cannot get enough of Robert Caro. It has told us what a great man he is on the same topic three times now in less than two weeks: 11 days ago online; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/books/review-working-robert-caro.html 5 days ago online: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/books/review/robert-a-caro-working.html Today in the front page book review of the Times Book Review section.

The Mueller Report makes clear that President Trump can be indicted and tried in a criminal trial should he run again in 2020 and be defeated or alternatively choose not to run again and leave office in January 2021. The statute of limitation for some of his crimes does not expire until July 2022, leaving plenty of time to indict. This topic will emerge as major issue in coming months.

Joe: I think Hunt's confession about the Kennedy assassination was genuine but that it was way too limited in what he could have told. As for Watergate, which came nine years later, here is a short segment of a longer video that reveals much of what we still don't know about that scandal of which Hunt was again a central figure. Both the Kennedy assassination and Watergate remain incomplete historical mysteries. Hunt could have contributed many of the missing pieces but his legacy is that he chose not to do so.

Stephanie: No, I have never been afraid at what I know but maybe I should have been in past times. Right now I am being harassed frequently, including two entries into my residence when I have been away, by thugs stemming from my giving information to Special Counsel Mueller in 2017 about Roger Stone that Mueller undoubtedly explored during his investigation and which may or may not be in the redacted version of the Mueller Report released by AG Barr. The information may also be used by the prosecution when Stone faces his criminal trial in November. Also those who hired the thugs are upset about what I know about the history leading up to the two FISC (court) FISA warrants issued in 2017 that Barr is claiming are part of the "spying" on the Trump campaign. I plan to write about this in the EF in the near future. Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/steele-dossier-mueller-report.html

Prior to Watergate, almost any conversation that I had with Howard Hunt included his talking about the Bay of Pigs military debacle, which he is on record for blaming on JFK. Howard was consumed with bitterness at what had occurred as were his Cuban-American friends in Miami. MPD Carl Shoffler knew that Howard and Dorothy were my closest friends in Washington and he feared at some point in time they would have told me too much. As I have recounted elsewhere, in April 1972 Howard introduced me to Lawrence Houston, the CIA General Counsel, at a meeting during which they tried to recruit me as a CIA agent. I demurred in giving them an answer. Watergate broke two months later and that changed everything.

Washington Metropolitan Police Detective, who was a Military Intelligence Agent assigned from the Pentagon to the Police Department, wanted me killed in the early day of Watergate for several reasons, one being he feared that I knew too much because of Howard Hunt might have told me about the Kennedy assassination. After I turned down the overture from Kalmbach and Dean during the July 4, 1972, holiday weekend to pass "hush" money to the defendants , I have reason to believe that assassination was re-considered but passed upon. -------------------------------- AFFADAVIT 1972 CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE DOUGLAS CADDY, Original Attorney for the Watergate Seven I, Robert Merritt, attest to the following facts regarding my involvement with the Watergate attorney Douglas Caddy, who represented the burglars known as the Watergate Seven. On Saturday, June 17, 1972, five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee offices in Watergate and were arrested at 2:30 Watergate Exposed 6 A. M. by Washington, D.C. Police Officer Carl Shoffler. At the time the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department employed me as a Confidential Informant and assigned me to work directly with Officer Shoffler. Two weeks before the arrests at Watergate I provided information to Shoffler about the planned break-in of the DNC that I had obtained as a Confidential Informant from a highly unusual source. By using this advance information, Shoffler developed a successful triangulation strategy that in effect set the burglars up in a form of entrapment. The Watergate scandal thus began and ultimately forced the resignation of President Nixon. Shoffler came to my apartment in Washington, D.C. late in the morning of the day of the events at Watergate and exulted in having made the arrests. He told me that he had secretly telephoned the Washington Post soon after the arrests to tip the newspaper off to what had occurred. He then demanded his special birthday present from me, which I was only too happy to perform. (First meeting) Three days later, on June 20, 1972, Shoffler showed up at my apartment with his supervisor, Police Sgt. Paul Leeper. They asked me if I knew someone by the name of Douglas Caddy, who lived at the Georgetown House, a high-rise apartment, at 2121 P St., N. W., which was directly across the street from my apartment. They told me Douglas Caddy was an attorney who was representing the Watergate burglars and that Douglas Caddy was a communist and pro-Cuban and was a leader of the Young Americans for Freedom. They wanted me to establish a sexual relationship with Douglas Caddy to find out how Douglas Caddy knew to show up for the arraignment of the burglars after their arrest. They asserted that Douglas Caddy had to be in on the conspiracy with the burglars and that in the past he had been shadowed when he frequented a leather-Levi gay bar in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Shoffler and Leeper related that Douglas Caddy had been working as a White House attorney in a sensitive position. They claimed that I was butch enough to entice Douglas Caddy, a masculine gay guy, into a sexual affair to obtain the information they wanted. They told me that this was the most important thing that I could do for my country and that I would be well-paid if I undertook the assignment. Their initial offer was $10,000. I asked Shoffler about who it was that so desperately wanted this information from Douglas Caddy and he said that it was Prologue 7 from very high up sources in the Department of Justice and the U. S. Attorney’s office. I did not commit to doing the assignment. Two days later, on June 22, 1972, which was my birthday, Shoffler came to my apartment to give me my birthday present. He spent the entire day with me. Afterwards, when we were relaxing in bed, he gently tried to persuade me to cooperate with him and Leeper regarding the Douglas Caddy assignment. I emphatically told him “No.” I didn’t know Douglas Caddy and I didn’t know how to get to know him and I was bothered that undertaking the assignment could lead to the destruction of another gay person who apparently was still in the closet and merely attempting to represent his clients. We talked about the break-in and Shoffler told me straight out that the burglars were hired indirectly by one of the 100 families of America, which Shoffler named as the Kennedy Family. Shoffler said, “The intention of the Watergate break-in was to destroy the Nixon presidency. President Nixon was guilty of nothing in its planning.” Shoffler said that there were hidden motivations involved, such as the fear of law enforcement agencies that their turf would be reduced by President Nixon through a scheme known as the Houston Plan, the CIA’s concern that President Nixon planned to reorganize the intelligence agencies and their operations, and the Defense Department’s opposition to Nixon’s new China policy. I asked Shoffler if he was angry at me for refusing to take the Caddy assignment and he smiled at me and said he was glad that I didn’t. (Third meeting) In the March 1973, nine months after the initial overture and a month after the first Watergate trial ended, I met with Shoffler and Leeper, FBI agents Terry O’Connor and Bill Tucker and their FBI Agent-In-Charge, whose name escapes me. Leeper did most of the talking. He again tried to persuade me to take on the Douglas Caddy assignment, making an initial offer of $25,000. I refused outright. The group then said that I could be paid as much as $100,000 if I took the assignment but I still refused without providing any explanation. Once it was understood that I would not accept the offer, Leeper declared that the least I could do was to spread the rumor around Washington, D. C. that Douglas Caddy was gay in an effort to force him to come out of the closet. Their intention was to defame Douglas Caddy. This was the last attempt to persuade me to take the Douglas Caddy assignment. The group departed angrily, with the exception Shoffler, who secretly winked at me as he went out the door. Watergate Exposed 8 DISCLOSURE OF SECOND MEETING On June 17, 2009, 37 years after Watergate, I notified Douglas Caddy, now an attorney in Houston, Texas, of a well kept secret and informed him of a new Watergate revelation. (Previously I had disclosed to Douglas Caddy that there had been two meetings regarding the Caddy assignment as discussed above.) I then informed Douglas Caddy that there had been a second meeting about the Caddy assignment. It took place on June 28, 1972, with Shoffler and four others agents who were never introduced to me. I am quite certain that these agents were from either Military Intelligence or the CIA. I know that they were not FBI agents from their manner and the special type of assignment they asked me to do regarding Douglas Caddy. Shoffler and these agents met with me in my apartment at 2122 P Street, N.W. Douglas Caddy did in fact live across the street from me in the Georgetown House at 2121 P St., N.W. One of the agents, whom I will never forget, had two plastic bags, one containing two small blue pills and another that had a laboratory test tube with a small gelatin substance that was approximately ¼ inch in diameter. He referred to it as a suppository. The assignment was to become intimately acquainted with Douglas Caddy as quickly as possible. The exact description of the assignment was to engage in oral sex with Douglas Caddy and in doing so I was suppose to fondle his balls and ass, and at the same time insert the small gelatin like suppository into his rectum, which would have caused death within minutes. If there were any delay in the lethal process that would prevent me from leaving fast from his presence, then I was to take the small blue pills, which would have caused me nausea, providing me with an excuse to leave for home immediately. The agents told me that Douglas Caddy had to be eliminated without fail. My first reaction was that they were “nuts.” But then Shoffler pulled me aside and whispered that this was a very real and serious situation and the decision was entirely up to me. The agents were planning a pre-arranged way for me to meet Douglas Caddy, which they did not disclose at the time. I asked the agents what the reason was that they wanted for me to go to this length and why they and the government were taking such a risk. I was told that this matter involved a high national security situation that they were not at liberty to disclose. The Prologue 9 agents stated that their orders did not allow them to know the answers and that they were only following orders from their superiors who sometimes did not know the answers either and merely implemented instructions from those above. However, from the agents’ comments I inferred that because Douglas Caddy was gay, that was reason enough. The agents informed me that I would be well taken care of for this assignment. They also said that I would never have to worry about anything for the rest of my life. I was totally repulsed by the entire assignment and proposition. After I emphatically refused, the agents swore me to secrecy and left. Only in July of 1986 when I was subpoenaed by Shoffler to testify before the grand jury in the Lenny Bias case in Upper Marlboro, Maryland did he ever discuss this subject again. At that time he said, “Butch, I am glad that you did not go through with that Douglas Caddy assignment because I found out that those two little blue pills would have caused your instant death.” I regret that I never disclosed these facts until now. I suppressed this information out of fear for my life. Some of the background information in this affidavit about my relationship with Shoffler as a Confidential Informant was disclosed by Jim Hougan in his 1984 best-selling book, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA (see pages 320-323). Some was also disclosed in the Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandums of its two interviews of me and one of Officer Carl Shoffler in 1973. This sworn statement is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God. I, Robert Merritt, swear in this affidavit that the facts are true to the best of my knowledge under the penalty of perjury. Robert Merritt Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 28th of July, 2009, to certify which witness my hand and seal of office. Notary Public in and for the State of New York Ricardo S. Castro Notary Public, State of New York No. 01CA5041272 Qualified in Bronx County Comm. Exp. 08/29/09 7/29/09

In November 1972, after Nixon had been reelected, Hunt told Chuck Colson in no uncertain terms that the "hush" money for the defendants and their attorneys had better be forthcoming pronto or else. Colson recorded this spellbinding telephone conversation that can be listened to on YouTube. A month later, in December 1972, Dorothy Hunt was killed in a commercial plane crash in Chicago that is still controversial as to how it occurred. She was carrying a sum of money. Upon learning of her death Colson exclaimed that "now they have killed Dorothy." I attended Dorothy's funeral at which Hunt walked across the parking lot and embraced me with tears flowing down his cheeks. I cried too. The first Watergate trial was scheduled for January 1973, the next month. Prior to the trial Hunt called his four children together and told them that he was going to plead guilty because if he did not he feared that they would be killed next to keep him quiet. Hunt did plead guilty and the four Cuban-American defendants loyally followed his lead. Liddy and McCord stood trial and were found guilty. I believe that McCord had reason to fear for his life. Maybe Liddy did too and this could have been a motivating factor in his making the decision of remaining quiet and not speaking out publicly until released from prison years later.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/obituaries/james-mccord-watergate-dead.html

While at the CIA, William Barr drafted letters calling for an end to the Agency’s moratorium on destroying records Decades before he was Attorney General (twice), Barr served in the Agency’s Office of Legislative Council in the wake of the the Church Committee hearings https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/apr/16/cia-barr-crest/?fbclid=IwAR2-EHPaIoyHNGe8MoPct6X3E7CJtNWqDAPUfXagjkbzYGCtHT5b6jKspI0

A Bradenton bank robbery and the killing of JFK https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20150816/a-bradenton-bank-robbery-and-the-killing-of-jfk?fbclid=IwAR1WE5t4mJRYY6OcnRQzqsJv4C3wF7gPFSDtSkyYMsrzmi6uXa7pQeniOco

The evidence that the US government got into the assassination business https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/opinions/us-assassination-attempt-maier/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2b_W5BOJ7JadQNkWYDwcJF1Sje2YYN1a8Nf-9pBJv8U2R8Rmh3fWtie2g

Robert Morrow Notes on Robert Caro book signing for Working at Book People at Austin, TX on April 14, 2019 (which, btw, was the same day that Tiger Woods won the Masters at age 43) Robert Morrow: Robert Caro was interviewed by Lawrence Wright for about 30 minutes and then opened up the floor for Questions and Answers. Robert Caro, age 83, said some notable things. Caro said that he thought that the thesis of avid Halberstam’s book The Best and the Brightest had held up all these years. That thesis (unstated by Caro, was the JFK’s governmental advisors were the ones who stampeded Lyndon Johnson into the Vietnam War, something that is harshly disputed by Jim DiEugenio and Univ. of Texas professor James K. Galbraith). I suggest googling DiEugenio’s essay “JFK’s Embrace of Third World Nationalists” for keen insight into JFK’s foreign policy. Ominously, Robert Caro also said that he and his wife Ina had become very close friends with Ed Clark and his wife Anne Clark. Caro said that the two couples had many dinners and that Ina Caro’s job was to keep Anne and Ed Clark talking so that more information would flow out. Barr McClellan, worked worked closely at Ed Clark’s law firm, has said that both Ed Clark and Don Thomas, law partners and decades-long inner circle Lyndon Johnson advisors, used to brag that Ed Clark (and LBJ) were behind the JFK assassination. In the Q&A, I asked Robert Caro why he never did interview Madeleine Brown, Barr McClellan or Billie Sol Estes. Caro said that he thought Madeleine Brown’s book Texas In the Morning was a plagiarism of a novel that he had read, although Caro was unable to tell the name of which novel that was. Caro needless did not say why he never interviewed Barr McClellan or Billie Sol Estes, except to say that in all his years of research he had never found a shred of evidence that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

New York Times analysis of the released Mueller Report: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/the-mueller-report-excerpts.html

Cleburnite Shaw closes book on mysterious JFK-era figure By Pete Kendall/reporter@trcle.com Jun 20, 2011 https://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/archives/cleburnite-shaw-closes-book-on-mysterious-jfk-era-figure/article_a798542b-0289-50fc-8470-76dfb6c6d8b9.html?fbclid=IwAR2jndwHVZwiNZYGjWfiaNO4yLxuNUrQXlHxF-WmkVEYm8eM2VGv80T8QgY [Note: it takes a minute or two for the article to be pulled up]

From the article: The [Vietnam] war did not go well for Mr. Conein. He was increasingly unhappy as a small covert operation grew into a huge military disaster. He retired from the C.I.A. in 1968 and contemplated a war-surplus trading venture in Vietnam. In 1971, he declined an offer from E. Howard Hunt, another retired C.I.A. officer, to join President Richard M. Nixon's ''plumbers,'' the secret team that bungled the Watergate burglary. Lucien Conein, 79, Legendary Cold War Spy By TIM WEINERJUNE 7, 1998 https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/07/world/lucien-conein-79-legendary-cold-war-spy.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0NxhbEcTWHoOXM8o0PQNERAgI3q9qjo4RrNDkrBM6VZWshuPSYr_c1sPc

McCord remains a mystery to me to this day. That said, he was the only one of the original seven defendants that sought me out to thank me for what I had done to protect their legal rights to a fair trial. He did this at the beginning of the first Watergate trial in January 1973. Hunt invited me to an appreciative dinner just before he want to prison in 1975 but at the dinner he never uttered a word of thanks even though I had allowed myself to be held in contempt of court by vicious and venal Judge Sirica to protect his and the other defendants' attorney-client privilege and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel.

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The foreman of Watergate grand jury No. 1 has been watching the confrontations with another president Washington Post April 15, 2019 From the article: Pregelj said his grand jury interacted little with Sirica or the special prosecutor, but grew close to the assistant prosecutors who worked with them day-to-day after they were convened June 5, 1972. Photo: James W. McCord Jr. demonstrated how to rig a bugging device in a telephone at a May 1973 hearing. (Charles Del Vecchio/The Washington Post) After three weeks of hearing routine street and violent crimes, they got the case of the June 17 Watergate burglary. When one burglar — James W. McCord Jr., a former CIA officer providing security for the Nixon campaign — began cooperating, it unraveled a scheme that occupied three grand juries over more than two years.

7th Annual JFK Assassination Conference in Dallas https://jfkdallasconference.com/?fbclid=IwAR1nRwPAVS1SSGO-UBvy2-BsqZGTnxJIUJSTIpdKHClRSXF6a7EwjfRJy9s

Dirty Money https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/22/archives/dirty-money-money-cont.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR3OuCM7fASHjkoVV56Ch7tAC5JmnhEdnpupSBjrYd9J_7iV9WD8lNA9nJc

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/03/07/burnout-trump-america/wcKcsTnWfZ1qSAMlk6uWlO/story.html