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The arrest was reported in the next morning’s Washington Post in an article written by Alfred E.

McCord, Jr., was the security chief of the Committee to Re-elect the President (later known popularly as CREEP), which was presided over by John Mitchell, Nixon’s former attorney general.

(Though often referred to in the press as “Cubans,” only three of the four were of Cuban heritage.) The fifth, James W. Four of them formerly had been active in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities against Fidel Castro in Cuba. Burglary, arrest, and limited immediate political effectĮarly on June 17, 1972, police apprehended five burglars at the office of the DNC in the Watergate complex. On August 9, 1974, facing likely impeachment for his role in covering up the scandal, Nixon became the only U.S. Nixon that were revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. Watergate scandal, interlocking political scandals of the administration of U.S.