Douglas Caddy: Profile on Spartacus-Educational.Com

[W. Niederhut]

Thanks for posting this, Mr. Caddy.

I was aware that Nixon didn't trust Helms and the CIA, but I have always been puzzled about the Company's motives for sabotaging Nixon, a Republican Cold Warrior and hawk.

JFK wanted to break the CIA into a thousand pieces and cast it to the wind.

At most, it sounds like Nixon wanted to marginalize the CIA and delegate some of their functions to the NSC (and Kissinger.)

Interesting that both JFK and Nixon fired a CIA Director before their demise.

 

 

Edited January 10, 2021 by W. Niederhut

[Cliff Varnell]

13 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

Thanks for posting this, Mr. Caddy.

I was aware that Nixon didn't trust Helms and the CIA, but I have always been puzzled about the Company's motives for sabotaging Nixon, a Republican Cold War and hawk.

JFK wanted to break the CIA into a thousand pieces and cast it to the wind.

At most, it sounds like Nixon wanted to marginalize the CIA and delegate some of their functions to the NSC (and Kissinger.)

Interesting that both JFK and Nixon fired a CIA Director before their demise.

Nixon made 3 attempts to acquire CIA files on the Bay of Pigs, the overthrow of Diem in Vietnam, and Trujillo in the Dominican Republic — early in his Administration in ‘69, November ‘71 and May ‘72.

CIA stiffed him each time.  Maybe they got tired of his asking.

[Douglas Caddy]

A Dark Journalist program in which I discuss historical events in my life in which I was a part::

 

 

Edited January 11, 2021 by Douglas Caddy

[S.T. Patrick]

I'd also like to put in a plug for an interview I did with Doug a while back, "Douglas Caddy: Eyewitness to Watergate." As the title says, we focused mainly on Watergate, but I still listen to this one and find it fascinating. Thanks, Doug.

https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-episode-084-douglas-caddy-eyewitness-to-watergate/

 

[Andrew Prutsok]

On 1/9/2021 at 6:59 PM, W. Niederhut said:

Thanks for posting this, Mr. Caddy.

I was aware that Nixon didn't trust Helms and the CIA, but I have always been puzzled about the Company's motives for sabotaging Nixon, a Republican Cold Warrior and hawk.

JFK wanted to break the CIA into a thousand pieces and cast it to the wind.

At most, it sounds like Nixon wanted to marginalize the CIA and delegate some of their functions to the NSC (and Kissinger.)

Interesting that both JFK and Nixon fired a CIA Director before their demise.

 

 

Russ Baker says it's because Poppy was tired of waiting to become president.

[David Andrews]

1 hour ago, Andrew Prutsok said:

Russ Baker says it's because Poppy was tired of waiting to become president.

It's because Nelson Rockefeller was tired of waiting...

[Douglas Caddy]

U.S. Appeals Court 1974 decision on U.S. v. Liddy

 

 

 

This segment also includes my article on Watergate that The Wall Street Journal published on March 24, 1998. titled “What If Judge Sirica Were With Us Today.”

[Douglas Caddy]

 

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE JACK

APRIL 2008

A CLAIM TO CAMELOT

What’s a V.F. editor to do when a respectable financier, Jack Worthington, who looks a lot like John F. Kennedy, says he believes he may be the murdered president’s son, and offers the magazine an exclusive? Answer: Try to get hold of J.F.K.’s DNA, dig through conspiracy theories and White House connections (Worthington’s lawyer represented the Watergate burglars, and an ex-girlfriend turns out to be Neil Bush’s ex-wife), door-stop Worthington’s mother in Texas, and take other desperate measures. Because—Who knows? What if? Remember the “Deep Throat” scoop?—it just might be true.

BY DAVID FRIEND

MAY 2, 2008

 

A Claim to Camelot | Vanity Fair

[Douglas Caddy]

From there I drove to the White House Annex – the Old Executive Office Building, in bygone years the War Department and later the Department of State.

Carrying three heavy attaché cases, I entered the Pennsylvania Avenue door, showed my blue-and-white White House pass to the uniformed guards, and took the elevator to the third floor. I unlocked the door of 338 and went in. I opened my two-drawer safe, took out my operational handbook, found a telephone number and dialed it.

The time was 2:13 in the morning of June 17, 1972, and five of my companions had been arrested and taken to the maximum-security block of the District of Columbia jail. I had recruited four of them and it was my responsibility to get them out. That was the sole focus of my thoughts as I began talking on the telephone.

But with those five arrests the Watergate affair had begun….

After several rings the call was answered and I heard the sleepy voice of Douglas Caddy. ‘Yes?’

Doug? This is Howard and I hate to wake you up, but I’ve got a tough situation and I need to talk to you. Can I come over?

‘Sure. I’ll tell the desk clerk you’re expected.’

I’ll be there in about 20 minutes, I told him, and hung up.

From the safe I took a small money box and removed the $10,000 Liddy had given me for emergency use. I put $1,500 in my wallet and the remaining $8,500 in my coat pocket. The black attaché case containing McCord’s electronic equipment I placed in a safe drawer that held my operational notebook. Then I closed and locked the safe, turning the dial several times. The other two cases I left beside the safe, turned out the light and left my office, locking the door.

         -- E. Howard Hunt, Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent (Berkley, 1974)      

[Douglas Caddy]

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 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 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 President 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.

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-arrange 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 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 28^th 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