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At the time, liddy was legal counsel for the committee to reelect the president crp, but known as creep and part of a white house group called the plumbers. Gordon liddy, a nowdisbarred lawyer thats best known for his time serving as the chief operative in the white house plumbers special investigative unit in 1971. If you are not a conspiracy theorist before you read this book, you will almost certainly be one by the time you finish. Gordon liddy book list fictiondb is committed to providing the best possible fiction reference information. G gordon liddy born on november 30th, 1930 1 was an army officer, lawyer, fbi agent, counsel to the president nixon, actor, writer, and talk radio personality he gained notoriety for his involvement in the watergate scandal, and his refusal to testify.
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