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Virgilio González

Virgilio R. Gonzalez was a contract CIA operative and one of the five men recruited by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy in 1972 for a break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. Gonzalez was arrested in the Watergate building on June 17 1972 and convicted in the ensuing Watergate scandal. Earlier, he had worked in Operation 40 and the Bay of Pigs invasion. He was released on parole after serving only 4 months of a one-to-four year sentence.

Central Intelligence Agency

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Formed 26 July, 1947
Preceding Agency Central Intelligence Group

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Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G.
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George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Richard Nixon's Presidency. Along with E.
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Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political
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June 17 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which began with the arrest of five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., office/apartment complex and hotel called the Watergate on June 17, 1972.
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Operation 40 was a CIA-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the Caribbean (including Cuba), Central America, and Mexico. Created by US President Eisenhower in March 1960 after the 1959 Cuban Revolution and presided by vice-president Richard M.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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