I have heard that, too, but I suspect it is either disinfo to distract from this much larger story, or possibly true but irrelevant to the real reason he was removed from office.
There is ZERO chance that a major would have that level of knowledge. The fact that he told what he believed to be true to a 1st lieutenant is irrelevant to whether or not it was the REAL reason to boot Nixon.
Gossip filters its way down the chain of command. At least it did in 78. There were a lot of pissed off people in MI that didn’t want to see the change from Nixon to Ford to Carter.
And misinformation/disinformation also filters down.
I'm sure there were a lot of theories then, just as there are today.
And maybe hookers is the real reason.
But the facts are: (a) Woodward was Naval intelligence, (b) his source for info was a high-level FBI agent, (c) the Watergate Hotel break-in was conducted by CIA/FBI operatives, and (d) Nixon spoke of the "Bay of Pigs thing" as code for the JFK assassination points to the idea that this was much more important to those who wanted to truth hidden than some story about hookers and cocaine.
You don't take down a president because of hookers. JFK was banging Marilyn Monroe and others. Nobody really cared. And nobody would have believed Nixon himself was into hookers, anyway (LOL).
That story wreaks of disinfo.
I doubt your major knew anything about these other aspects of the story, and he probably believed the hooker stuff (which might have also been true, btw).
I have heard that, too, but I suspect it is either disinfo to distract from this much larger story, or possibly true but irrelevant to the real reason he was removed from office.
Again, my source was someone in intelligence communicating with someone new to intelligence. An O4 sharing a story with an O2.
There is ZERO chance that a major would have that level of knowledge. The fact that he told what he believed to be true to a 1st lieutenant is irrelevant to whether or not it was the REAL reason to boot Nixon.
Gossip filters its way down the chain of command. At least it did in 78. There were a lot of pissed off people in MI that didn’t want to see the change from Nixon to Ford to Carter.
True enough.
And misinformation/disinformation also filters down.
I'm sure there were a lot of theories then, just as there are today.
And maybe hookers is the real reason.
But the facts are: (a) Woodward was Naval intelligence, (b) his source for info was a high-level FBI agent, (c) the Watergate Hotel break-in was conducted by CIA/FBI operatives, and (d) Nixon spoke of the "Bay of Pigs thing" as code for the JFK assassination points to the idea that this was much more important to those who wanted to truth hidden than some story about hookers and cocaine.
You don't take down a president because of hookers. JFK was banging Marilyn Monroe and others. Nobody really cared. And nobody would have believed Nixon himself was into hookers, anyway (LOL).
That story wreaks of disinfo.
I doubt your major knew anything about these other aspects of the story, and he probably believed the hooker stuff (which might have also been true, btw).