Table of Contents
Introduction 5
I Well-Measured Steps
1 Of Hunt and McCord 11
2 ODESSA: The Plumbers Get to Work 32
3 The Unplumbed Depths of Daniel Ellsberg 45
4 Total Surveillance 59
5 The Prescient Investigator 76
6 Project Mudhen 83
7 The Tickler 93
8 Operation Sapphire 107
9 Mr. Hoover's Secret Files 117
10 The May Break-ins 130
II It Comes Down
11 The Surveillance and the Reports 149
12 "Why? Who Wants to Know?" 156
13 The Last Break-in 162
14 An Operational Overview 187
15 Summer Fires 195
16 Signposts Ignored 213
17 The September Bug 220
18 Robert Bennett, the Press and the CIA 236
19 Throat 253
20 Legacy: A Counterfeit History 272
Appendices
I Some Notes on Paisley 304
II "If I Was a Jury, I'd Convict Me" 310
III Ehrlichman vs. Cushman 314
IV Break-in Operations 317
V CIA Documents 319
CIA Employee Statement, January 17, 1974 319
Memorandum for the Record by Martin Lukoskie 321
Memorandum for the Deputy Director for Plans Eric Eisenstadt 323
Bibliography 329
Index 333
About the Author 353