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United States. Service/ branch. United States Army. Years of service. 1952–1954. Rank. Lieutenant. George Gordon Battle Liddy (November 30, 1930 – March 30, 2021) was an American lawyer and FBI agent who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration. [1]
The original Watergate Seven and their legal dispositions were: [5] [6] G. Gordon Liddy – former FBI agent and general counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President; convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping; sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison; served 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 years in prison.
September 3, 1971: "White House Plumbers" E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, and others break into the offices of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Lewis Fielding looking for material that might discredit Ellsberg, under the direction of John Ehrlichman or his staff within the White House. This was the Plumbers' first major operation.
G. Gordon Liddy, the colorful chief operative in the Watergate scandal who went to prison for his crimes and later cut a wide swatch across pop culture as a talk show host and actor, has died. He ...
G. Gordon Liddy, who spent more than four years in jail for his role in Watergate, is dead at 90.
G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate break-in.
In 1972, on Colson's orders, Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy were part of an assassination plot targeting journalist Jack Anderson. [33] Nixon disliked Anderson because Anderson published a 1960 election-eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother, [34] which Nixon believed was a factor in his election defeat to John F. Kennedy.
G. Gordon Liddy, Special Investigations Group, convicted of masterminding the burglary, original sentence of up to 20 years in prison. [ 102 ] [ 107 ] Served 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 years in federal prison. [ 108 ]