Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy dies at 90
G. Gordon Liddy, Richard Nixon’s associate who organized the Watergate invasion and later refused to testify at congressional hearings on the matter, died Tuesday at his daughter’s home in Virginia. He was 90 years old. Throughout his life, Liddy served in the Navy, ran unsuccessfully for Congress and worked as an FBI agent and prosecutor, but gained notoriety as Agent Nixon. He was assigned to discredit Daniel Ellsberg after he leaked Pentagon documents and went on to coordinate the 1972 robbery of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the DC Watergate complex. Liddy, who also did not testify at his criminal trial, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but had his sentence commuted and, in the end, served only 52 months. After his stint in prison, Liddy became an actor, specializing in playing villains, and hosted a talk show on the right-wing radio, “The G. Gordon Liddy Show”.
[Los Angeles Times]