Ep. 11: The Dog Who Did Not Bark; Jack Anderson and the CIA

The Mysteries of Watergate

One of the lingering mysteries of Watergate is the foreknowledge, or lack of same, of the country’s most famed “muckraker,” syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. Anderson was known as a man with incredibly wide and deep sources at all levels of Washington, D.C. government scandals, and in 1972 won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Nixon Administration’s secret policies regarding the India-Pakistan conflict, seemingly getting inside information from a military spy ring which had infiltrated the White House. Anderson, intriguingly, was later said to be the target of a Nixon order to assassinate or disable him by poison, as testified to by Howard Hunt. Was he? And if Anderson did know of an impending Watergate breakin, wouldn’t he print it? If not, why not? Also, oddly, the CIA also seems to have had interactions of a threatening nature with him in early 1972. Anderson’s role, or lack of role, in Watergate is one of the scandal’s murkiest areas of mystery.
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