Technically, that new, non-agency post would prove important in the Watergate investigation, for it gave Helms plausibility when he denied CIA involvement in Watergate when there were many indications that Cline may have directed the Watergate bungled burglary, the subsequent bungled coverup, and Nixon’s not-bungled forced resignation.
As many experts, such as Deep Throat’s attorney John O’Connor, have posited, the entire Watergate burglary operation seems to have been a purposeful “own goal.” From taping the door locks, which inevitably drew a security guard’s attention, to Bob Woodward’s curious lies to John Dean’s strange conduct to the unethical of Judge Sirica, the affair was replete with red flags.
How did Watergate turn out for Cline, Halper, Dean et al.? Cline would continue as a speaker, historian, and occasional advisor to politicians such as former CIA director George Bush.
The linchpin to the botched coverup, and per some historians, the actual decision to wiretap the Democratic National Committee office at the Watergate, was the young White House counsel, John Dean.
He moved up and up, including a stint as head of the Taiwan station in the late 50s, and had a starring role at a famous meeting in 1962 where Cline deciphered for President Kennedy the U2 plane’s photos of Russia’s missile sites in Cuba.
(Incidentally, the man responsible for running and then revealing the existence of the taping system, Alexander Butterfield, was later credibly accused of being a CIA plant.). Watergate would have never happened without Helm’s curious actions—and again, Helms was Cline’s frenemy.
As a proponent of Taiwan’s independence, Cline led what became known as the Taiwan Lobby alongside Senator and failed presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
Dean would milk Watergate for decades, writing book after book and then, during the Trump admin years, appearing every couple of days on CNN to claim that this (or that) was worse than Watergate.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/the_russia_hoax_s_connection_to_watergate.html
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