Scorpions’ Dance Audiobook Libro.fm

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For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate breakin The untold story of President Richard Nixon CIA Director Richard Helms and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency

Scorpions Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light as the culmination of a concealed deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms

Nixon and Helms went back decades both were 1950s Cold Warriors and both knew secrets about the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as well as offthebooks American government and CIA plots to remove Fidel Castro and other leaders in Latin America Both had enough information on each other to ruin their careers

After the Watergate burglary on June 17 1972 Nixon was desperate to shut down the FBIs investigation He sought Helms support and asked that the CIA interveneknowing that most of the Watergate burglars were retired CIA agents contractors or longterm assets with deep knowledge of the Agencys most sensitive secrets The two now circled each other like scorpions defending themselves with the threat of lethal attack The loser would resign his office in disgrace the winner however would face consequences for the secrets he had kept

Rigorously researched and dramatically told Scorpions Dance uses longneglected evidence to reveal a new perspective on one of Americas most notorious presidential scandals

A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press