Ep. 31: Baking Baker

As impeachment was closing in on President Nixon, the CIA could,
it seemed breathe a sigh of relief, as it had skillfully and
luckily, with the unstinting help of the Washington Post,
navigated rocky shoals.  The Mullen cover contract (Ep.
3),  Michael Stevens’ bombshell stories (Ep. 14),  Lou
Russell’s involvement (Ep. 15), the desk key found during the
Watergate breakin (Ep. 16),  CIA handler, Lee Pennington's
document burning (Ep. 17),  the CIA Defense offered during
the burglary trial (Ep. 27),  blackmail claims (Ep. 28), and
Bittenbender's reports had all been avoided in the public
narrative.  So nothing could derail our country’s first
presidential impeachment, correct? 

But what if an honest CIA Security Officer, wishing not to be
obstructive, forced disclosure of previously concealed CIA
documents to the Senate? The Democratic Majority would not wish
to touch them, but what about the Republican Minority, led by
Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, heretofore cowed into submission
by the Washington Post?  And with the televised hearings
long concluded, how would the Republican Minority reach the
public? Tune in to this chapter of Watergate, regarding the
little-read Baker Report, that has been lost to history.
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