Watergate: The Hoax

by Ashton Gray

There was no "first break-in" at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate over Memorial Day weekend 1972. There were no electronic "bugs" planted in DNC headquarters at all that weekend. There were no "logs" of intercepted conversations, because there were no bugs to begin with. What the world knows as "Watergate" was an elaborate hoax designed to hide what the CIA was really doing over those three days, while Americans were cooking out and celebrating the start of summer. It was three days that changed the history of the world—but the "Official Story" of a break-in at the Watergate that weekend is the real cover-up of something far darker, far more malignant, than the world has ever known. "Watergate" was a hoax. It was a malicious fiction. And fiction doesn't leave a paper trail.

Genres: History

620 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2016

Reviews

[Myles Thatcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally makes sense of the senseless "explanations" given to the world about Watergate. Over 600 pages, with 495 citations, many to previously unexposed facts, make it impossible to encapsulate in a brief review. What we know—or were misled to believe—as "Watergate" was a terrible and complex hoax perpetrated on the American people and the world by the CIA and its allies to cover up deeds far more dirty than what we were told.

[Stephen Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thoroughly researched and painstakingly annotated work that documents the fallacy of the official narrative and, in so doing, underlines how easy wilful deceptions are created and accepted by the public.