Jefferson Morley - Scorpion's Dance - The President, The Spymaster and Watergate

Jefferson Morley - Scorpion's Dance - The President, The Spymaster
and Watergate
Apr 5, 2023

It is 50 years since the Watergate scandal; the scandal which
changed America forever. Journalist Jefferson Morley has a fine
pedigree in both journalism and research. He joins Ed Opperman to
talk about his work on the CIA, his commentary on the National
Security State and the recent revelations concerning the JFK
conspiracy.

He has researched the events and repercussions for democracy and
society and the result is Scorpion's Dance.

For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold
story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and
their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions'
Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson
Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as
the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between
President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms. Nixon and
Helms went back decades; both were 1950s Cold Warriors, and both
knew secrets about the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as
well as off-the-books American government and CIA plots to remove
Fidel Castro and other leaders in Latin America. Both had enough
information on each other to ruin their careers. After the
Watergate burglary on June 17, 1972, Nixon was desperate to shut
down the FBI's investigation. He sought Helms' support and asked
that the CIA intervene―knowing that most of the Watergate burglars
were retired CIA agents, contractors, or long-term assets with deep
knowledge of the Agency's most sensitive secrets. The two now
circled each other like scorpions, defending themselves with the
threat of lethal attack. The loser would resign his office in
disgrace; the winner, however, would face consequences for the
secrets he had kept. Rigorously researched and dramatically told,
Scorpions' Dance uses long-neglected evidence to reveal a new
perspective on one of America's most notorious presidential
scandals.

Website : Jefferson Morley

Twitter : Jefferson Morley

Book : Scorpion's Dance

March 2023

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