This is an approximate 4,200 illustrated monograph on Famous Cases of the FBI. This series has been called, "Cliffs Notes for busy people.
The 1972 presidential election was a hotly debated and it created a hostile to its participants. This atmosphere would lead to unethical and illegal acts by some Republican operatives.
Shortly after 2 a.m. on June 17, 1972, a security guard noticed several door locks had been taped so they would close but not lock. The guard called the police and they arrested five men photographing documents. They were Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, James W. McCord, the security director for the Committee for the Re-election of the President ), and Frank Sturgis
Police said the men had with them two sophisticated devices capable of picking up and transmitting all room conversations, and phone conversations. In addition, police found lock-picks, door jimmies, and almost $2,300 in cash, most of it in $100 bills with sequential serial numbers.
The men also had a walkie-talkie; a radio that could monitor police channels, 40 rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras and three pen-sized tear gas guns.
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