Ep. 30: Stranger Danger, Hiding Stevens and Russell

As of late March 1973, it looked like all the pieces were falling
in place for the CIA to avoid exposure of its role in the
Watergate scandal and to hide the salacious information actually
targeted.  If Watergate continued to be viewed as a campaign
fiasco,  John Dean’s and Jeb Magruder’s testimony against
their superiors in the White House would be increasingly
valuable.  But there loomed, as Watergate burglar James
McCord was unleashing to Judge Sirica about the White House, two
serious dangers to this view of Watergate:  Michael Stevens
and  Lou Russell. They worried Dean and Magruder more than
they threatened the CIA.  Stevens and Russel especially
threatened a newspaper which was about to be awarded a Pulitzer
Prize for its Nixon-targeted reporting. Can you guess which
paper, and whether it reported truthfully about Russell and
Stevens?  Could that paper have helped avoid at least one
needless death?
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