Reply #49: Nixon's treason, Watergate, Bob Woodward's intell background... [View All]

""Nixon sought détente with the Soviet Union through the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) negotiations, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), and negotiations on the European flash point, Berlin. He sought to open a dialogue with the rulers of mainland China, in part to reduce their support to their supposed clients in North Vietnam and in part to act as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union. All of these efforts were secrets from everybody in the government, except for Kissinger and his closest staff. Through Yeoman Radford's efforts, Admiral Moorer knew them all and, by his own account, he didn't like any of it. The Chief of Naval Operations since July 1970, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, virtually accused Nixon of treason in his book. Leaks of NSC plans and policies to New York Times reporter William Beecher seem to have dropped dramatically after the closing of the JCS liaison office. The military did not like Nixon's policies and may well have played an active role in his fall from power.""


Nixon's original 'October surprise' of 1968-69 in shutting down impending LBJ/Humphrey peace agreement with Hanoi didn't get him ousted, but as the book Blind Man's Bluff and the above weblink imply, Adm Zumwalt and a host of other naval high-rankers plus those in intelligence at CIA, would have loved to get Nixon and Dr K out after the SALT talks gifted the Russians with a whole Delta class of subs...