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Attorney General John Mitchell, referring to the crimes committed by officials, called them the "White House Horrors". More than 70 people were convicted of crimes related to Watergate (some pleaded guilty before trial) Here is a listing of much of the criminality involved: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Watergate Complex as depicted in Government Exhibit 1. ...

• Breaking into Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
• Mitchell gave approval to the break-in at the Watergate.
• G. Gordon Liddy proposed firebombing the Brookings Institution.
• E. Howard Hunt fabricated documents implicating John Kennedy in the assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
• John Ehrlichman ordered FBI Director Gray to take possession of the files in Hunt's safe, keeping them secret from prosecutors.
• Gray destroyed the evidence from Hunt's safe.
• Henry Petersen gave Dean secret grand jury testimony.
• Gray at the FBI gave Dean access to all FBI investigation files.
• Creation of the Plumbers at the White House to plug leaks through the use of illegal wiretaps.
• Sandwedge: The Caulfield operation designed to orchestrate a massive campaign to spy on the Democrats.
• Ehrlichman claimed he did not know in advance about the Ellsberg break-in; he knew.
• Gemstone: The Liddy operation to kidnap students who might disrupt the Republican convention in 1972; use prostitutes to compromise Democratic politicians. Attorney General Mitchell objected to the plan on the grounds it cost too much; he later approved a scaled-down plan. Mitchell, Haldeman and Jeb Magruder approved of Gemstone.
• Hush money paid to Watergate break-in defendants.
• Nixon promised clemency to Watergate criminals.
• Caulfield sent to Chappequiddick to pose as a reporter to dig up dirt on Kennedy before all the leaks.
• Nixon is heard on the tapes telling Ehrlichman in April 1973 that he should hint to Dean to stay on the reservation because in the end the only man who can grant Dean clemency and save his ability to practice law is the president.
• Charles Colson was guilty of offering clemency to Hunt at Nixon's orders.
• Nixon told Petersen to stay out of the Ellsberg psychiatrist's break-in on the grounds that an investigation would compromise national security.
• Nixon proposed to Alexander Haig and Fred Buzhardt that they manufacture evidence -- a missing dictabelt tape -- wanted by Judge John Sirica; both refused.
• Nixon ordered the IRS to audit the tax returns of Larry O'Brien, head of the Democratic National Committee.
• Nixon ordered the IRS to stop an investigation of Howard Hughes.
• Huston Plan: In June 1970 Tom Huston persuaded the heads of the CIA, DIA, and NSA to approve a plan for black bag jobs against "enemies" of the Nixon administration. (J. Edgar Hoover opposed the Huston Plan; Nixon, fearful Hoover would blackmail him by leaking word of the plan, dropped it.)