The conspiracy buffs interpret it differently:
mtracy9.tripod.com
"NIXON: When you get in to these people, say: "Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that..." ah, I mean, without going into the details of, of lying to them to the extent to say that there is no involvement. But, you can say, this is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting into it, the President believes that this is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again. And, ah because ah these people are playing for, for keeps and that they should call the FBI and we feel that...that we wish for the country, don't go any further into this case, period! "
"Haldeman [in his book "Ends of Power"] also links the CIA to the Watergate burglars and, by implication, to the Kennedy assassination. Haldeman writes, "...at least one of the burglars, Martinez, was still on the CIA payroll on June 17, 1972--and almost certainly was reporting to his CIA case officer about the proposed break-in even before it happened [his italics]."
washingtonpost.com
The Wash Post says the CIA was trying to prevent "being tarnished by the Nixon administration's troubles"
"Helms was fired from his post in 1973 after he refused to help Nixon use the CIA to stall the FBI's Watergate probe." |
