Editing G. Gordon Liddy (section)

==Liddy’s Plumbers activities included==
- Ellsberg Break-In (September 1971): Liddy and Hunt orchestrated the burglary of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding’s office in Los Angeles to obtain files on Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker. Executed by Cuban exiles Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martínez, and Felipe de Diego, the operation found no compromising material but set a precedent for Watergate.  
- Operation Gemstone (1972): As general counsel for Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Liddy devised Operation Gemstone, a $1 million espionage and sabotage plan, including bugging opponents and kidnapping protesters. CREEP’s Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Mitchell scaled it back to wiretapping the Democratic National Committee (DNC).  
- Watergate Break-In (June 1972): Liddy masterminded two DNC headquarters break-ins at the Watergate complex. The May 1972 entry installed wiretaps, but faulty devices led to a second break-in on June 17, 1972. Liddy supervised from a nearby hotel, while Hunt, James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Virgilio González, Eugenio Martínez, and Bernard Barker were caught, with Hunt’s White House phone number linking the operation to Nixon, triggering the Watergate Scandal.