Watergate scandal: George Gordon Lindy dies

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent dies at 90 George Gordon Lindy, its central shape the watergate scandal.

George Gordon Lindy, who was one of the masterminds of the 1972 Watergate building robbery, was at the center of the scandal that marked the beginning of the end of his presidency. Richard Nixonwrote the Washington Post.

Lindy, known for her participation in the watergate scandal, used his reputation to build a twenty-year career as a presenter on a broadcast broadcast by many conservative radio stations. He died at his daughter’s home in Fairfax, Virginia, according to the report.

THE son of Thomas P. Lindy confirmed the death of the man from Nixon’s entourage, who, among other things, had happily taken on the “dirty job” of leaking the media, without specifying the causes. He simply said it was not due to COVID-19, Poust wrote.

Lindy and J. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, drew up plans so unlikely, so illegally, that their superiors often rejected them without a second thought. Among them: the idea of kill investigator-journalist Jack Anderson, a fierce critic of President Nixon; provoke a scandal against Democratic politicians by organizing a party with prostitutes; kidnap pacifist protesters and take them to Mexico.

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However, not all the plans were rejected. In 1971, a few months before robbery at the watergate building, Lindy was a member of the team that broke into the psychiatrist’s office watched by Daniel Elsberg, the former US Army analyst. Who leaked the famous Pentagon Papers by Vietnam War.

The robbery that would lead to Nixon’s downfall followed. Lindy and Hunt proposed the robbery of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building, while the then Republican president was campaigning for his re-election.

But the group of thieves was arrested. Lindy was tried guilty by conspiracy, robberies and wiretaps. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and seven years before being released on bail by Republican President Jimmy Carter in 1977.

Unlike her six co-defendants, Lindy refused to cooperate with prosecutors or answering questions from the jury, prompting the judge to add 18 months to his sentence.

He had no regrets after his incarceration: He had told the New York Times that if he could go back in time, he would do what he was convicted of again.

He used his reputation to establish private security company, write books that became bestsellers, play roles in television series and movies and, since 1992, become Presenter a radio program aimed at conservative audiences that was broadcast by 225 radio stations. Retired in 2012.

Lindy, with her distinctive mustache, was known to them. boys he … boasted that he could put his hand on a flame or kill someone with a pencil. In his autobiography, he wrote that he was captivated by the tone of his speeches. Adolf hitler that his parents’ German maid listened to on the radio as a child.

Born in 1930 in New York, Lindy studied law. He graduated in 1957. After two years of military service, he became an FBI agent before giving up the practice of law in Manhattan. He later became a prosecutor in New York County, New York, where he earned a reputation for carrying a gun in court. “He passionately believed that drugs, criminals, and communists were great ‘dangers’ to America,” wrote the New York Times in a 1973 profile.