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White House Plumbers

Special unit set up in the White House in 1971 to stop leaks and gather information on Daniel Ellsberg.

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Dates
1971–1972
Place
Washington, D.C.
Also known as
Plumbers, Special Investigations Unit

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Timeline 2 dates
  1. 1971–1972 White House Plumbers
  2. 1971 White House Plumbers part of United States government
Proof 3 sources
  1. Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History: The Pentagon Papers in the Federal Courts (2nd ed.), Federal Judicial Center, 2019. Primary record
    Two members of the Plumbers—E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who had orchestrated the Ellsberg break-in—planned and supervised the June 1972 burglary of the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
    the White House had established a special unit, nicknamed the “Plumbers,” to deter future leaks of classified material as well as to gather information on Ellsberg and Russo.
  2. Watergate Special Prosecution Force Report, U.S. Government Printing Office (Superintendent of Documents). Primary record
    a special investigative unit in the White House, known as the “Plumbers,” had been responsible for a break-in in September 1971 at the Los Angeles offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding
  3. The Senate Watergate Report: the final report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Ervin Committee), Dell edition, vol. 1, Dell, reprinting the Committee's report as released to the press, 1974. Scholarship & press
    This special investigations unit planned and carried out the burglary of the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
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