George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930), known as G. Gordon Liddy , is a former FBI agent, lawyer, talk show host, actor, and figure in scandal Watergate as chief operative of the White House Plants unit during the Nixon Administration. Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, robbery, and illegal tapping for his role in the scandal.
Working with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy arranged and directed the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate building in May and June 1972. After five Liddy members were arrested inside the DNC office on June 17, 1972, subsequent investigations of the Watergate Scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy was convicted of robbery, conspiracy and refused to give testimony to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He served nearly fifty-two months in federal prison.
He later joined Timothy Leary for a series of popular debates on various campuses, and also 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 in 2009 was syndicated in 160 markets by American Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio stations in the United States. He has been a guest panelist for Fox News Channel in addition to appearing in cameo roles or as a guest of talented celebrities on several television shows.
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Initial years
Youth, Youth, family, education
Liddy was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Sylvester James Liddy and Mary (nÃÆ' Â © e Abbaticchio). Mostly of Irish descent, his maternal grandfather was of Italian descent. Liddy grew up in Hoboken and West Caldwell, New Jersey. He was named for George Gordon Battle, a New York City lawyer and a Tammany Hall DA nominee who had guided Liddy's father.
Liddy spent 1st through 3rd grade at the Academy of the Sacred Heart. She was enrolled in fourth grade at SS Peter and Paul Parochial School. He is listed on St. Aloysius Parochial School at the sixth grade level in September 1941. He graduated in 1944 and in September of that year he entered Saint Benedictic Preparation School in Newark, New Jersey, from which he graduated in June 1948, age 17.
College, Military, Law School
He was educated at Fordham University, graduating in 1952. While at Fordham he was a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles. After graduation, Liddy joined the United States Army, serving for two years as an artillery officer during the Korean War. He remains in the United States for medical reasons. He returned to New York City in 1954 to attend Fordham University School of Law, earning a position at Fordham Law Review. After graduating from law school in 1957, he worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under J. Edgar Hoover.
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FBI
Liddy joined the FBI in 1957, initially serving as a field agent in Indiana and Denver. In Denver, on September 10, 1960, Liddy captured Ernest Tait, one of two men who were wanted by the Most Wanted Top Ten. At the age of 29, Liddy became the youngest Bureau Superintendent at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.. A student of the vice director of Cartha DeLoach, Liddy became part of the personal staff of director J. Edgar Hoover and became the author of others. Among his colleagues, he has a reputation for carelessness and is known primarily for two incidents. The first is the arrest in Kansas City, Missouri during the black bag work; he was released after calling on Clarence M. Kelley, a former FBI agent and Kansas City Police chief. The second was running an FBI background check on his future wife before their marriage in 1957, which Liddy later called "pure routine precautions."
Before leaving the FBI, Liddy pursued his contacts for the reception bar. In an example of the irony played by history, his admission to the United States Supreme Court was transferred by the Archibald Cox Public Attorney.
Prosecutors and politicians
Liddy resigned from the FBI in 1962 and worked as a lawyer in New York City until 1966. He was hired by prosecutor Raymond Baratta at that time as a prosecutor in Dutchess County, New York after interviewing and giving references from the FBI. In 1966, he led a drug raid on the Timothy Leary Milbrook plantation that produced a failed experiment. This case generated a lot of publicity even though other lawyers complained Liddy received credit for something that played a relatively small role. He was also reprimanded for firing a pistol in the ceiling in the courtroom. The politically motivated drug attacks at Bard College involved, among others, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who later formed the band Steely Dan and wrote the song "My Old School" about the attack. Liddy is mentioned in the lyrics as "Daddy Gee."
He ran unsuccessfully for the position of the DA. In 1968, he ran for the United States House of Representatives in New York's congressional district, running under the slogan "Gordon Liddy did not save them, he put them in", but lost to Hamilton Fish IV in a closed race. He then worked with Egil "Bud" Krogh, Gordon Strachan and David Young, all his assistants to John D. Ehrlichman, Assistant President For Domestic. He subsequently reached office, in 1972, from the General Counsel, the Committee on Finance Committee for the Resumption of the President (CRP). In September 1973 Krogh, Liddy, Young and Erlichman were indicted for conspiracy to commit robbery.
White House secret operation
In 1971, after serving in several positions within the Nixon government, Liddy was transferred to Nixon's 1972 campaign, CRP, to expand the coverage and range of the White House's "Builders" unit, which had been created in response to various damages. leakage of information to the press. The official title in CRP is the general counsel of financial operations.
At CRP, Liddy composed several plots in early 1972, collectively known as "Operation Gemstone". Some are far-fetched, meant to embarrass the Democratic opposition. These included kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the Republican National Convention (which was then planned for San Diego), as well as guiding middle-level campaign officials to a houseboat in Baltimore, where they would be quietly photographed in a position of compromise with prostitutes. Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected by Attorney General John N. Mitchell, but some were granted permission by the Nixon Administration officials, including the 1971 burglary at the psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg's office in Los Angeles. Ellsberg has leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times . At some point, Liddy was instructed to enter the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex.
Watergate theft
Liddy is the liaison of the Nixon Administration and the leader of a five-man group that entered the Democratic National Party's headquarters in the Watergate Complex. At least two separate entries were made in May and June 1972; thieves were arrested and arrested on 17 June. The intention of piercing is never defined concretely. The thieves tried to set up wiretaps and planned to photograph the documents. Their first attempt has led to improperly installed recording devices. Liddy did not actually enter the Watergate Complex; Instead, he admits to supervising a second break-in that he coordinated with E. Howard Hunt, from a room at the adjacent Watergate Hotel. Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, robbery and illegal wiretapping.
Liddy was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay a $ 40,000 fine. He began serving sentence on January 30, 1973. On April 12, 1977, President Jimmy Carter converted Liddy's sentence into eight years, "for the sake of justice and justice based on comparative sentence of Mr. Liddy with people of all punishments in the Watergate-related trial ", leaving the penalty imposed. The change of Carter made Liddy eligible for a conditional release on July 9, 1977. Liddy was released on September 7, 1977, after undergoing four and a half years of detention.
After a jail
In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography, titled Will , which sold over a million copies and made into a television movie. In it he states that he once made plans with Hunt to kill journalist Jack Anderson, based on a literal interpretation of Nixon's White House statement "we need to get rid of this Anderson man".
In the mid-1980s Liddy continued the lecture series, which was listed as the top speaker on the college circuit in 1982 by The Wall Street Journal. He later joined LSD supporters Timothy Leary in a series of debates that were billed as Nice Scary Guy vs. Nice Guy Scary, which is also popular on college circuits; Leary was once labeled by former employer Liddy, Richard Nixon as "the most dangerous man in America." Liddy remains in the public eye with two guest appearances on the Miami Vice television series as William "Captain Real Estate" Maynard, a former secret operation operative Sonny Crockett knows of his military service in South Vietnam.
She appeared in the 1993 Golden Book Video release Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of Baseball Card Reda as Corky Lodato. In Miami Vice, he acted with John Diehl, who would later portray Liddy himself in Oliver Stone's 1995 film Nixon . Other Liddy TV guest credits include Airwolf , MacGyver and short-lived The Highwayman . The comic book author Alan Moore has stated that the character of The Comedian (Edward Blake) of his graphic novel Watchmen is partly based on Liddy. In the 1979 TV adaptation of John Dean's book, Blind Ambition, Liddy was played by actor William Daniels.
In the early 1980s, Liddy joined forces with former Niles, Illinois, police and co-owners of The Protection Group, Ltd., Thomas E. Ferraro, Jr., to launch a private security and detention company called G. Gordon Liddy & Associates. The company was unsuccessful, filing for bankruptcy on November 12, 1988.
In 1992, he appeared to hold his own radio talk show. Less than a year later, its popularity led to a national syndication through Viacom's Westwood One Network and via Radio America, in 2003. The Liddy event ended on July 27, 2012.
In addition to Will , he wrote a nonfiction book, When I Become a Child, It's a Free Country (2002), and Counter Back! Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style (2006, with his son, James James Liddy, with J. Michael Barrett and Joel Selanikio). He also published two novels: Out Of Control (1979) and The Monkey Handlers (1990). His novels are not selling and his works are non-fiction.
Liddy was one of the many people interviewed for Abbie Hoffman's biography, Stealing the Dream , by Larry "Ratso" Sloman.
Acting career
Liddy acted in several films, including Street Asylum , Feds , Adventure at Spying , Camp Cucamonga , and Engagement Rules . He appeared on television shows like The Highwayman , Airwolf , Fear Factor , Perry Mason , and MacGyver . He has repeatedly played the role of Miami Vice and Super Force , and guest stars at Al Franken LateLine . On April 7, 1986, he appeared in WrestleMania II as guest judge for boxing match between Tuan T (with Joe Frazier, The Haiti Kid) versus Roddy Piper (with Bob Orton and Lou Duva).
Liddy joined the 18 Wheels of Justice as Jacob's boss Jacob Calder from January 12, 2000 - June 6, 2001.
Liddy appeared in the celebrity edition of
He was also an interviewee in the US vs. documentary film. John Lennon as well as a commercial spokeswoman for Rosland Capital, which sells gold in television commercials.
Personal life
Liddy married Frances Purcell-Liddy, a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, for 53 years until her death on February 5, 2010. She is an educator. The couple has five children and twelve grandchildren.
References
External links
- G. Profile Gordon Liddy NNDb
- Liddy on TuneIn
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