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George Gordon Battle Liddy (November 30, 1930 – March 30, 2021) was an American lawyer, FBI agent, talk show host, actor, and convicted felon in the Watergate scandal as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit during the Nixon administration. Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the scandal. Working alongside
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, Liddy organized and directed the burglary of the
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headquarters in the Watergate building in May and June 1972. After five of Liddy's operatives were arrested inside the DNC offices on June 17, 1972, subsequent investigations of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He served nearly fifty-two months in federal prisons. He later joined with Timothy Leary for a series of debates on multiple college campuses, and similarly worked with Al Franken in the late 1990s. Liddy served as a radio talk show host from 1992 until his retirement on July 27, 2012. His radio show was
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in 160 markets by Radio America and on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio stations in the United States. Sirius Satellite Radio, Weekends at 6:00am Eastern on Channel 144. He was a guest panelist for
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in addition to appearing in a cameo role or as a guest celebrity talent on several television shows.


Early years


Youth, family, education

Liddy was born in Brooklyn on November 30, 1930. His father, Sylvester James Liddy, was a lawyer; his mother was Maria (Abbaticchio). His family was of Irish and Italian descent. Liddy was named for George Gordon Battle, a noted
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and Tammany Hall leader. He was raised in Hoboken and West Caldwell, New Jersey. He attended St. Benedict's Preparatory School, his father's alma mater, in Newark.


College, military, law school

Liddy was educated at
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, graduating in 1952. While at Fordham he was a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles. Following graduation, Liddy joined the United States Army, serving for two years as an artillery officer during the Korean War. He was assigned to an antiaircraft radar unit in Brooklyn for medical reasons. In 1954, he was admitted to the Fordham University School of Law, earning a position on the '' Fordham Law Review''. After graduating in 1957, he worked for the
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(FBI) under J. Edgar Hoover.


FBI

Liddy joined the FBI in 1957, initially serving as a field agent in Indiana and Denver. In Denver, on September 10, 1960, Liddy apprehended Ernest Tait, one of two persons to be a two-time Ten Most Wanted fugitive. At age 29, Liddy became the youngest bureau supervisor at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. A protege of deputy director Cartha DeLoach, Liddy became part of director J. Edgar Hoover's personal staff and became his ghostwriter. Among his fellow agents he had a reputation for recklessness and was known primarily for two incidents. The first was an arrest in
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, during a
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; he was released after calling
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, former FBI agent and chief of the Kansas City Police. The second was running an FBI background check on his future wife before their marriage in 1957, which Liddy later referred to as "purely a routine precautionary measure". Before leaving the FBI in 1962, Liddy pursued his contacts for bar admissions. Furthermore, his admission to the United States Supreme Court was moved by Solicitor General Archibald Cox.


Prosecutor and politician

Liddy resigned from the FBI in 1962 and worked under his father as a patent attorney in New York City until 1966. He was then hired by District Attorney Raymond Baratta as a prosecutor in
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Dutchess County, New York, after providing references from the FBI. In 1966, he led a drug raid on the
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(then occupied by Timothy Leary) in Millbrook, New York, leading to an unsuccessful trial. Although the case generated much publicity, other lawyers complained that Liddy received credit for something in which he played a relatively small role. He was also reprimanded for firing a revolver at the ceiling in a courtroom. In 1969, a drug raid, directed by Liddy, at Bard College, scooped up, among others,
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and Walter Becker, who later formed the band
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and wrote the song " My Old School" about the raid. Liddy is referred to in the lyrics as "Daddy Gee". During that period, Liddy ran unsuccessfully for the post of District Attorney. In 1968, he ran in the
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's primary election for
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. Employing the slogan "Gordon Liddy doesn't bail them out; he puts them in", he lost to
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in a close race. Liddy then accepted the nomination of the
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and ran in the general election against Fish and the Democratic candidate, Millbrook businessman John S. Dyson. Fearing that Liddy might tip the election to Dyson, Fish turned to the district's Republican leader, State Assemblyman Kenneth L. Wilson, to try and get Liddy out of the race. After Wilson's office discussed the matter with the Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington, Liddy was offered a position with the Treasury Department which he accepted and withdrew from the campaign. Liddy's name remained on the ballot and while he received almost five per cent of the vote, it was not enough to stop Fish's election. After serving as county director of Richard Nixon's successful presidential campaign, he received a political appointment as a special assistant for
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and
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at the United States Department of the Treasury's headquarters in Washington, D.C.. In that capacity, he helped to establish the country's contemporary sky marshal program under the aegis of the United States Marshals Service. Beginning in 1970, he served with Gordon Strachan and David Young as an aide to Domestic Affairs Advisor
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in the Executive Office of the President at the behest of Egil "Bud" Krogh, who worked on initiatives with Liddy at the Treasury Department. He nominally served as general counsel to the finance committee of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP) from 1971 to 1972. Subsequently, Krogh, Liddy, Young, and Erlichman were indicted for conspiracy to commit burglary in September 1973.


White House undercover operative

In 1971, after serving in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House Plumbers "special investigations unit", which had been created in response to damaging leaks of information to the press. At CRP, Liddy concocted several plots in early 1972, collectively known under the title "
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". Some of these were far-fetched, intended to embarrass the
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opposition. These included kidnapping
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organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the
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(which at the time was planned for San Diego), as well as luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in Miami, where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with prostitutes. Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected by
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(who became campaign manager in March 1972), but a few were given the go-ahead by Nixon administration officials, including the 1971 break-in at
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's psychiatrist's office in Los Angeles. Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers to '' The New York Times''. At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the
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offices in the Watergate Complex.


Watergate burglaries

Liddy was the Nixon administration liaison and leader of the group of five men who broke into the headquarters of the
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at the Watergate Complex. At least two separate entries were made in May and June 1972; the burglars were apprehended on June 17. The purposes of the break-in were never conclusively established. The burglars sought to place wiretaps and planned to photograph documents. Their first attempt had led to improperly-functioning recording devices being installed. Liddy did not actually enter the Watergate Complex at the time of the burglaries; rather, he admitted to supervising the second break-in which he coordinated with
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, from a room in the adjacent Howard Johnson Hotel. Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping. Liddy was sentenced to a 20-year prison term and was ordered to pay $40,000 in fines. He began serving the sentence on January 30, 1973. He claimed that on arrival he sang the
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, the Nazi Party anthem. On April 12, 1977, President Jimmy Carter commuted Liddy's sentence to eight years, "in the interest of equity and fairness based on a comparison of Mr. Liddy's sentence with those of all others convicted in Watergate related prosecutions", leaving the fine in effect. Carter's commutation made Liddy eligible for parole as of July 9, 1977. Liddy was released on September 7, 1977, after serving a total of four and a half years of incarceration. Liddy was charged with two counts of
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in March 1974, on the same day that he, Liddy, and the three Cuban burglars were charged with the Watergate-related crimes.Erick Trickey
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''Washington Post'' (July 12, 2022).
Following a bench trial on May 10, 1974, Liddy was convicted of contempt for his refusal to answer questions of the Special Subcommittee of Intelligence of the House Armed Services Committee, which was investigating the CIA's links to the break-in of the offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding, the psychiatrist to
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. Liddy was found guilty and was handed a suspended jail sentence and probation; the judge stated that the sentence was lenient because Liddy was already sentenced to prison on the Watergate charges. Liddy became one of very few people in American history to be convicted of criminal contempt of Congress.


After prison

In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography, titled ''Will'', which sold more than a million copies and was made into a television movie. In it, he states that he was willing to kill during the Ellsberg break-in, and that he once made plans with Hunt to kill journalist Jack Anderson, based on a literal interpretation of a Nixon White House statement, "we need to get rid of this Anderson guy". In the mid-1980s Liddy went on the lecture circuit, being listed as the top speaker on the college circuit in 1982 by '' The Wall Street Journal''. He later joined onetime foil Timothy Leary in a series of debates billed as "Nice Scary Guy vs. Scary Nice Guy" on the college circuit as well; Leary had once been labeled by Liddy's ex-employer Richard Nixon as "the most dangerous man in America". The lectures were the subject of a 1983 documentary film, '' Return Engagement''. Liddy remained in the public eye with two guest appearances on the television series '' Miami Vice'' as William "Captain Real Estate" Maynard, a shadowy former covert operations officer whom
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knew from his military service in South Vietnam. In 1994, the British documentary company
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sent producers
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and Paul Mitchell to interview many of the conspirators for its series titled ''
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'', in which an unrepentant Liddy talked frankly about his role. He was filmed at home while sitting in front of his sizeable collection of firearms and describing "how he had been ready, if ordered, to go straight out and kill Jack Anderson, the Washington D.C. columnist." At one point he was filmed wielding one of his pistols before the TV camera. It was made clear that, at the time of filming, the gun collection was registered in his wife's name, as he was ineligible for a license. In 1994 and 1995, Liddy repeatedly told listeners of his radio program to shoot federal law enforcement officers, giving instructions to aim for their heads. In many of these statements he referenced shooting in self-defense. After the Oklahoma City bombing, when President Clinton denounced the "many loud and angry voices" in conservative talk radio, Liddy responded that the head is a difficult target to hit and that he used pictures of the President and Hillary Clinton for target practice. Liddy appeared in the 1993 Golden Book Video release of '' Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of the Burgled Baseball Cards'' as Corky Lodato. In ''Miami Vice'', he acted with John Diehl, who would later go on to portray Liddy himself in
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's movie '' Nixon'' (1995). Liddy's other television guest credits include '' Airwolf'', '' MacGyver'', and the short-lived '' The Highwayman''. Comic book author Alan Moore has stated that the character of The Comedian (a.k.a. Edward Blake) from his graphic novel '' Watchmen'' was based in a large part on Liddy. In the 1979 TV adaptation of John Dean's book ''Blind Ambition'', Liddy was played by actor William Daniels. In '' Gaslit'', the
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of the podcast '' Slow Burn'', Liddy was played by actor Shea Whigham. In the early 1980s, Liddy joined forces with former Niles, Illinois, policeman and co-owner of the Protection Group, Ltd., Thomas E. Ferraro Jr., to launch a private security and countersurveillance firm called G. Gordon Liddy & Associates. Liddy emerged to host his own talk radio show in 1992. Less than a year later, its popularity led to national syndication through
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's Westwood One Network and through Radio America, in 2003. Liddy's show ended on July 27, 2012. Liddy was sued for defamation in 1999 by Ida "Maxie" Wells, a secretary whose desk at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate was said to have been a target of the last Watergate break-in in order to find evidence related to an alleged prostitution ring kept in Wells' desk. Wells' suit accused Liddy of defamation. Liddy denied the allegation, and the judge dismissed the suit, commenting that "no 'reasonable jury' could have found in favor of the plaintiff." In addition to ''Will'', he wrote the nonfiction books, ''When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country'' (2002), and ''Fight Back! Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style'' (2006, with his son, Cdr. James G. Liddy, along with J. Michael Barrett and Joel Selanikio). He also published two novels: ''Out of Control'' (1979) and ''
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'' (1990). Liddy was one of many people interviewed for the biography of
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, ''Steal this Dream'', by Larry "Ratso" Sloman.


Acting career

Liddy acted in several films, including ''Street Asylum'', ''Feds'', ''Adventures in Spying'', ''
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'', and '' Rules of Engagement''. He appeared on such television shows as '' The Highwayman'', '' Airwolf'', ''
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'', '' Perry Mason'', and '' MacGyver''. He had recurring roles in '' Miami Vice'' and ''
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'', and guest starred in Al Franken's '' LateLine''. On April 7, 1986, he appeared at ''
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'' as a guest judge for a boxing match between Mr. T (with
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and
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) versus
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(with Bob Orton and Lou Duva). In April 1987 he appeared as a celebrity partner for a week on the game show '' Super Password'', playing against Betty White. Liddy co-starred on ''
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'' as the crime boss Jacob Calder from January 12, 2000, to June 6, 2001. He appeared on a celebrity edition ''
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'', the show's series finale, on September 12, 2006 (filmed in November 2005). At 75, Liddy was the oldest contestant ever to appear on the show. He beat the competition in the first two stunts, winning two motorcycles custom built by Metropolitan Chopper. Liddy was also an interviewee in the 2006 documentary '' The U.S. vs. John Lennon'', as well as a commercial spokesman for
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, selling gold on television commercials.


Personal life and death

Liddy was married to Frances Purcell-Liddy, a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, for 53 years until her death on February 5, 2010. She was a teacher. The couple had five children: Thomas, Alexandra, Grace, James, and Raymond. Liddy died on March 30, 2021, at his daughter's house in
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. He was 90, and had suffered from Parkinson's disease.


Publications


Articles

* "American Nightmare" (November 1977). ''Chic''. vol. 2, no. 1. * "Ten Things That Make Me Laugh". (January 1983). '' Playboy''.


See also

* List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States


References


External links


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