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Sat Aug 9, 2014, 03:26 PM Aug 2014

The CIA hatched two plots to assassinate Nixon and sabotaged the Watergate break-in Read more: http

The CIA hatched two plots to assassinate Nixon and sabotaged the Watergate break-in because they didn't want the Vietnam war to end, claims explosive new book

CIA and military Joint Chiefs infiltrated the White House and spied on Nixon, the late former president's longtime confidant Roger Stone writes

The agencies wanted room to run in Vietnam but Nixon turned dovish and began a troop withdrawal after his stunning White House victory in 1968
Two separate plans were drawn up to kill him

One, quickly dismissed, was a plot to fire a missile at Nixon's vacation compound in Key Biscayne, Florida

The other involved a staged gunfight at an anti-Vietnam War convention where Nixon was to speak, with an assassin shooting him in the chaos

The CIA obtained a gun and hired an assassin, but he refused to proceed when he found out who his target was


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719226/CIA-hatched-two-plots-assassinate-Nixon-sabotaged-Watergate-break-didnt-want-Vietnam-war-end-says-explosive-new-book.html

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