Secret Agenda
Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA

With excellent citations, an impressively thorough investigation and logical analysis, Hougan paints a convincing portrait of the "secret agenda" behind the Watergate break-ins, a political scandal the accepted narrative of which makes less and less sense the more one looks into it. From the ineptitu......more

I bought and read this book in the late 80s, and I must say it informs my judgment every time a 'gate' is appended to any Govt scandal; real or imagined. What Hougan reveals is the "Deep State" [fact] that today's Derp State fiction is often accused of mimicking. Let's just call that 'Derpgate '.........more

Asks many questions that were never asked during the trial and Senate Hearings . Revealing loose ends that weren’t tied up. With all the evidence that was burned, shredded & purposely ignored,, an analysis of speculation & conjecture based on circumstantial evidence is discussed. Describes the Conta......more

Watergate Secrets Revealed I was ten years old when the Watergate break-in occurred. I remember the hearings being constantly on TV. I recall the names of the principals; but, I never understood what exactly happened or why. This book goes a long way toward explaining what ended the Nixon presidency......more

This was an extremely interesting book which adds so many elements to the political crimes that today we know as Watergate. It is especially interesting in the realization that the media and Deep State were just as corrupt back in the 1970's as they are today with the CIA in particular violating the......more