How the CIA protected a Watergate burglar

Richard Helms

James McCord was the most important of the Watergate burglars, Bob Woodward once noted. As this declassified JFK file shows, McCord was the chief of the Office of Security, an experienced officer, with impressive security credentials.

He was protected by CIA director Dick Helms.

After the release of the Family Jewels documents in 2007, Woodwa…