Died: March 30, 2021. IT was Monday, June 19, 1972. A break-in in the early hours of Saturday morning at the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex in Washington had been discovered. Carried out with the aim of bugging the offices, it was an accident waiting to happen. Five men, led by a former CIA agent, James McCord, had been arrested at the scene and had already appeared in court, charged with felonious burglary and with possession of implements of crime. The burglary – actually the second one at the DNC offices in the space of a few weeks – had been put together by G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, and E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent; they had monitored the operation from a Watergate hotel room, but had fled.