Video: July 10, 1972 (at 10:47)

(Monday, July 10, 1972, during the Watergate scandal) — Watergate surveillance man Alfred Baldwin today confessed to the FBI his role in the electronic eavesdropping on Democrats in the Watergate office complex.

Baldwin told FBI agents that he worked directly for burglar James McCord, and also had contact with two other burglars, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy on behalf of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (Nixon).

Baldwin’s statement is the first direct link for FBI investigators between the burglary and Hunt and Liddy.