Watergate Historical Documents Collection Archive USB Drive

Watergate Historical Documents Collection Archive USB Drive

108,322 pages of files in 26 document collections with primary or secondary material relating to the Watergate scandal. "Watergate," is an often used as a disambiguation for events occurring before and after the June 17, 1972, break in to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, by members and associates of President Richard Nixon's administration, including various accusations of abuses of power.

Collections covering events such as the Chennault Matter Vietnam War Peace Affair's 1968 campaign October Surprise, the Watergate Democratic National Committee Headquarters break-in, the Watergate trial, Watergate Congressional hearings, news of the existence and release of Nixon's White House recordings and the movement to impeach President Nixon.

The USB Pen card works with any device with a USB 2.0, 3.0 or 3.1 interface. The Pen card chip is housed in a metal body that is waterproof, shock-proof, temperature-proof, magnet-proof, and X-ray-proof.

This collection includes as a finding aid, a unified full-text index of all computer recognizable text in all documents in this collection, making it possible to quickly search all computer recognizable text across all pages of all collections in one search.

Collections include:

Bob Woodward CIA and FBI Files - 627 pages of CIA and FBI files related to Bob Woodward. He has won nearly every American journalism award, and the Washington Post won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. 

CIA Operation CHAOS, CACTUS, RESISTANCE, & MERRIMACK American Dissidents Monitoring Programs Files - 5,325 pages of CIA files (3,244 pages) and Congressional investigation reports related to Operation Chaos. Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name of a Central Intelligence Agency domestic intelligence program compiling information on Americans from 1967 to 1974, Established by President Johnson and expanded under President Nixon, the program's original mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war and other protest movements.

David Gergen - White House Files - 77 pages of selected David Gergen White House files related to Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. These files were not available to the public until July 21, 2011. This set of documents ends with the three different resignation letter drafts President Nixon had to select from to end his presidency.

FBI-Nixon Intelligence Letter Program (INLET) FBI Files - 530 pages, the 1969 to 1972 intelligence letter program, code named "INLET", according to a bureau memorandum, was not only intended to provide the president with domestic and international security issues, but also, "items with an unusual twist or concerning prominent personalities which may be of special interest to the President."

Frank Sturgis - Watergate, JFK Assassination, Anti-Castro Activity - FBI and CIA Files - 3,579 pages of FBI, CIA, The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Rockefeller Commission (Also known as The United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States), and the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) files covering Frank Sturgis and issues related to him. Some documents in this collection were not declassified until November 2021.

Impeachment Department of Justice Guide (1974) - A 278-page report from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel titled, “Legal Aspects of Impeachment: An Overview,” completed in February 1974.

Justice Department Prosecutive Memorandum re Watergate Break-in, June 17, 1972

Nixon Administration Wiretapping Members of the Press FBI Files - 180 pages of FBI files related to the Bureau's attempt learn about its own bugging and wiretapping, "special highly sensitive coverage," of members of the press and the National Security

Pardon of Richard Nixon by President Ford Documents - 4,321 pages of documents related to the pardon of Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974, by President Gerald Ford.

President Richard Nixon's Enemies List - Documents, White House Recordings, and Interviews - 177 pages of documents, 14 minutes of Nixon White House recordings, and 2 excerpts of oral history interviews of Daniel Schorr and George Schultz, covering the creation and development of a list of individuals viewed by the Nixon White House as President Nixon's major political opponents, which came to be known as the "enemies list."

Roger Stone FBI Files & Other Documents - 135 pages, the FBI files date from the Watergate era. They cover Roger's work with Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), investigation into possible “violations of election laws,” links to Watergate figures, and acts of political dirty tricks.

Secret Service Files on the Nixon White House Taping System - 66 pages of Secret Service Files regarding Secret Services files President Nixon’s secret White House taping system.

Senate Historical Office Watergate Synopsis - A 4-page history of Watergate prepared by the United States Senate Historical Office

Seymour Hersh American Investigative Journalist CIA Files - 1,453 pages of CIA files commenting on the reporting by or making note of the consequence of Seymour Hersh’s reporting to the Central Intelligence Agency, especially concerns about leaked classified information.

Spiro T. Agnew FBI Files, Department of Justice Files, Agnew Trial - 2,319 pages, covering the corruption investigation of President Richard Nixon's vice president Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996).  Agnew resigned as vice president and later pleaded no contest to tax evasion charges pursued by the IRS.  Agnew was convicted of a single count of failing to pay income tax on $29,500 of income. He was sentenced to 3 years of probation and fined $10,000.

Vietnam War Chennault Affair - Nixon's October Surprise Documents - 1,606 pages of Johnson and Nixon White House, FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC and State Department files, oral history transcripts and 2 hours and 22 minutes of audio recordings of President Johnson phone conversations, related the "Chennault Affair," also sometimes referred to as "Nixon's October Surprise."

On October 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam. Johnson believed this would result in peace talks to end the Vietnam War. At the time, Johnson knew that some supporters of the Nixon campaign, chiefly Anna Chennault, were secretly communicating with the South Vietnamese Government in an effort to affect their approach to a peace process.

Vietnam War Pentagon Papers DOD Files, FBI Files, Nixon Tapes & Court Documents - 8,968 pages of Pentagon Papers, FBI files, court documents, Kissinger transcripts, grand jury testimony, summaries of press coverage, along with Nixon audio recordings and an audio recording of Supreme Court oral arguments in the case New York Times v United States, and more.

Watergate: Break-in FBI Files - 17,504 pages of FBI files, dating from 1972 to 1979, covering the breaking and entering of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters offices in the Watergate Hotel building in Washington, District of Columbia.

Watergate: Burglars Trial U.S. v. Liddy et al Court Documents - 1,273 pages of records of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of United States versus G. Gordon Liddy, Eugenio Martinez, Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, James McCord, Bernard Barker, and Virgilio Gonzalez, also known as the Trial of the Watergate Burglars. On June 17, 1972, police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. 

This collection includes court documents, previously sealed trial proceedings, evidentiary discussions held outside the jury's presence, pretrial discussions between defendants' lawyers and the Court, and post-trial sentencing information.

Watergate: CIA Files - 2,910 pages of material. The Watergate break in involved previous CIA employees or contacts Howard Hunt, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis. This has led to speculations and investigations into possible CIA involvement in the Watergate break-in.

Watergate: Congressional Hearings and Investigations Documents, Reports, Exhibits, Transcripts - 33,115 pages of United States Congressional material and supporting documents related to Watergate.

Watergate: Key Individuals FBI Files - 15,174 pages of FBI files covering 21 key individuals related to activities associated with Watergate.

Watergate: Key Individuals Oral Histories - 2,243 pages from 49 oral history interview transcripts of interviews with 33 key individuals involved in matters associated with the Watergate scandal. The interviews were conducted between 1974 and 2011, by staff members of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Gerald F. Ford Presidential Library and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Watergate: Nixon Recordings and Transcripts, FBI Review Files - 140 of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering FBI analysis of its conduct during the Watergate investigation. 14 hours of selected conversations.

Watergate: Prelude to Watergate Break-in Nixon White House Documents - 126 pages of documents and Nixon Tapes covering various political intelligence activity performed by the Nixon White House before the June 17, 1972, Watergate Break-in.

Watergate: Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) Documents - 5,310 pages of selected documents from and related to the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) held by the National Archives, Record Group 460 (Records of the Watergate Special prosecution Force, 1971–1977) located at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. The collection also contains material held by the Gerald Ford Presidential Library covering the WSPF.

On November 2, 1973, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force was established in the Department of Justice. The WSPF was tasked with investigating and prosecuting offenses surrounding the break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex in 1972.