The burglary was committed on June 17, 1972, by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment and office complex in Washington, D.C. Their arrest eventually uncovered a White House-sponsored plan of espionage against political opponents and a trail of complicity that led to many of the highest officials in the land, including former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White House Chief of Staff H. ... Haldeman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon himself....

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They're acts were later linked to a White House sponsored plan of espionage against Nixon's political opponents. About a year later in 1973 the testimony of the White House aide Alexander Butterfield uncovered the entire investigation. ... In 1974 Nixon released edited transcripts of the White House tapes. ... This framework, which was agreed on by all three leaders, led to a peace treaty between the two nations and was signed in Washington D.C. in 1979. ... As a result of the Iranian hostage crisis, congress had marked Iran as a terrorist nation and had outlawed the sale of weapons ...

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The past century has been one of sensational crimes that have amazed many Americans. Form the Lindbergh baby to the exploits of Al Capone, to serial murderers like Ted Bundy. Crime has become a cultural phenomenon that has captured the interests of academics and the causal reader alike. To look back at the last century we can see an explosion in books on true crime and a growth in the fields of psychology, sociology, and criminology. This growth in book sales as well as academic research has shown that the crime wave of the twentieth century has caught the attention of the average citizen. ...

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