As shadowy in death and he was in life, James McCord died at 93 — two years ago.
, which broke much of the Watergate scandal, obtained his death certificate and reported that he died of pancreatic cancer.
Carrying briefcases and walkie talkies, McCord and four Cuban nationals who made up a clandestine burglary team known as the ‘plumbers” broke in to the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate building. While McCord and the others scoured the offices, Liddy and Hunt — equally compromised ex-spies — ran the operation from another hotel room.
McCord later said it was never altogether clear to him what they were looking for, and that he was working on vague directions to take photos of anything that appeared to be related to money. Watergate was a single chapter in Nixon’s larger quest to get dirt on his political opponents, whether it was their sex lives, tax records, drinking habits or marital problems.
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