Welcome to this week’s Six Secrets, where Deep Throat and the Deep State collide in our Watergate 50th anniversary edition. We skulk around the dark corners of American politics to dig up the craziest conspiracy theories, examine links between Watergate and JFK’s shooting, and reveal our picks for the top movies and series in the wake of one of the most shocking political scandals in history.
Conspiracy theories
While many leaders weave conspiracy theories to distract from their failings, Richard ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon was in a paranoid league of his own. SPYSCAPE rounds up Watergate’s biggest whoppers - including at least one seemingly outlandish claim that may actually be true.
The assassination of JFK and the 1972 Watergate break-in at the Democratic Party HQ in Washington were almost a decade apart. Surely these two momentous events can’t be related? Think again. The key players in both incidents were either intelligence officers or their assets. Some experts even believe the Agency’s plot to topple Cuban leader Fidel Castro is the key to unlocking a much bigger cover-up.
As HBO gears up to release The White House Plumbers with Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, SPYSCAPE thought it time to look into the real-life dirty deeds of E. Howard Hunt and the plumbers - so-named because they fixed White House ‘leaks’. We get our hands dirty as we reveal the backstory.
For years, FBI agent Mark Felt denied being the source of White House leaks to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (brilliantly portrayed by Robert Redford in All the President’s Men). Felt finally admitted he was ‘the guy’ in 2005, but the mystery didn’t end there. Why did the FBI’s No. 2 risk everything? What did he stand to gain? And was Felt a hero or a traitor?
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From Gaslit to All the President’s Men, Watergate’s dirty tricks and skulduggery inspired a generation to ‘follow the money’. Here are SPYSCAPE’s must-watch picks of the top movies, series, and documentaries - all guaranteed to make you rethink everything you believe about politics and principles.
Read the first draft of history in these shocking exposés. From the fly-on-the-wall accounts inside the corridors of power to The Washington Post journalists who pried open the scandal, SPYSCAPE rounded up the most riveting books and page-turners to put you in the Oval Office.
