nswers in the case (Emergy, 126). Four of the seven individuals apprehended for the Watergate break-in were connected with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and were hired hands on call to take care of the agencys less tasteful work; bugging phones or picking locks (Emergy, 102). When arrested and searched, in the pockets of two of the burglars the police retrieved the name and phone number of E. Howard Hunt. Police traced the number and found it to be in the Nixon White House. Bringing to question, what business did members of a CIA task force that specialized in burglary and spying have with officials in the White House? Also retrieved from the five individuals detained at the scene, was, altogether, $2,300 in cash, primarily in hundred-dollar bills with the serial numbers in sequence. This was coincidental because, John Ehrlichman once revealed, Bob [H.R.] Haldeman said nothing to the rest of us about $350,000 the President had him skim off the top of the 1972 campaign funds to be held in a safe-deposit box (by Alex Butterfield) for emergencies (Emergy, 222). Perhaps, Nixon and his cabinet members and the other officials who did business with Nixon, saw the Democratic campaign as an emergency that they needed to take action against. In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings on Watergate, placing Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina as chairman. John Dean was of the first individuals to be interrogated. A series of startling revelations followed. Dean testified, under oath, that John Mitchell had ordered the break-in at the Watergate and that a major attempt was under way to hide White House involvement. Dean also claimed that the president had authorized payments to the burglars to keep them quiet. The evidence found on the five men when they were apprehended at the scene of the crime can justify the payments. The $2,300 that the authorities had found on the men were in exact order, by ser...
