INVESTIGATIONS: The Watergate Taps

At first it seemed as if the five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington last June were simply replaying the Marx Brothers at the opera—they had been caught in the act before any real harm could be done. Then it appeared that they had not only succeeded in bugging the headquarters, but had apparently been financed by $114,000 in Republican campaign funds that had been "laundered" in Mexico and according to the General Accounting Office, may not have been properly recorded under the new Federal Election Campaign Act. Two weeks ago, new evidence suggested that...

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