Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox reportedly once said the case was like a jigsaw puzzle, and Frank Sturgis was a piece of the puzzle that didn’t quite fit. Sturgis is best known as one of ...

Each week, Pilot researchers spend a couple of hours on the microfilm machine scanning old newspapers for interesting stories which we then use in our “This Week in History” column that runs each ...

On this day in 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate Office Building, noticed that latches on several stairway doors were taped. He removed the tape only to discover an hour later that ...

FIFTY years ago, a watchman was making his rounds at the Watergate Complex in Washington DC when he noticed a piece of tape on a basement door. This piece of evidence left behind by ex-FBI agent James ...

Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, is the daughter of a Venezuelan dictator and a CIA spy linked to an attempted Castro hit, the JFK assassination and Watergate burglar Frank ...

The 1970s didn’t do quiet. With counterculture clashes to headline crimes, the decade left behind mugshots that feel like live wires, like stark flashes where celebrity, politics, and panic all show ...

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