Ep. 11: The Dog Who Did Not Bark; Jack Anderson and the CIA

One of the lingering mysteries of Watergate is the foreknowledge,
or lack of same, of the country’s most famed “muckraker,”
syndicated columnist Jack Anderson.  Anderson was known as a
man with incredibly wide and deep sources at all levels of
Washington, D.C. government scandals, and in 1972 won a Pulitzer
Prize for his reporting on the Nixon Administration’s secret
policies regarding the India-Pakistan conflict, seemingly getting
inside information from a military spy ring which had infiltrated
the White House.  Anderson, intriguingly, was later said to
be the target of a Nixon order to assassinate or disable him by
poison, as testified to by Howard Hunt.  Was he?  And
if Anderson did know of an impending Watergate breakin, wouldn’t
he print it?  If not, why not?  Also, oddly, the CIA
also seems to have had interactions of a threatening nature with
him in early 1972.  Anderson’s role, or lack of role, in
Watergate is one of the scandal’s murkiest areas of
mystery.

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