Newly Declassified Watergate Documents Expose Deep State Plot Against Nixon

The Moa Radford Affair: A Deep State Operation

• 🎯 James Rosen details the "Moa Radford affair," a secret investigative unit formed in 1971 by the White House, known as "the plumbers," to plug news leaks and conduct sensitive operations.
• 💡 The plumbers' activities included breaking into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office and, crucially, investigating leaks of National Security Council (NSC) meeting minutes to reporter Jack Anderson.
• 🔑 This investigation focused on Yman Charles Radford, a young Navy stenographer and courier who was tasked by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to gather intelligence on Kissinger's NSC.

Radford's Espionage and Nixon's Dilemma

• ⚡ Radford admitted to stealing approximately 5,000 classified documents from the NSC between 1970 and 1971, delivering them to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• 🧠 Nixon discovered this operation through White House tapes from December 21, 1971, where he, Haldeman, Erlichman, and Mitchell discussed the "federal offense of the highest order."
• ⚠️ Nixon and his advisors, including Attorney General John Mitchell, decided against prosecuting the military officials involved to avoid exposing secret operations and to prevent further vilification of the armed forces during a culturally turbulent time.

The Cover-Up and Continued Secrecy

• 🧐 In 1974, the Senate Armed Services Committee held classified hearings on the Moa Radford affair, but no public action was taken.
• 🔍 Nixon's testimony in June 1975 before Watergate special prosecutors included discussions of the "Radford project," with seven pages of his testimony being stamped "classified" by White House officials.
• 📜 These seven pages, which detailed Nixon's insights into global power politics and revealed he had met Yman Radford, remained classified until 2011, long after Nixon's death.

The Deep State Revealed

• 🕵️ Rosen argues that the Moa Radford affair, along with military spying and CIA infiltration of Nixon's orbit (including the Watergate burglary team and the Secret Service's taping system), demonstrates the existence of a "deep state."
• 📌 Nixon, despite his own guilt in the Watergate scandal, is presented as a victim of this deep state apparatus, which spied on him extensively.
• 💬 The newly declassified documents and Nixon's own testimony provide evidence that the deep state existed and targeted the President himself.