{"product_id":"book-j60p","title":"Secret Agenda","description":"Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was \"the sixth man, the one who got away\" when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim McCord, led a break-in team into a trap at the Watergate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the Freedom of Information Act to win the release of the FBI's Watergate investigation—some thirty-thousand pages of documents that neither the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e nor the Senate had seen—Hougan refuted the orthodox narrative of the affair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmed with evidence hidden from the public for more than a decade, Hougan proves that McCord deliberately sabotaged the June 17, 1972, burglary. None of the Democrats' phones had been bugged, and the spy-team's ostensible leader, Gordon Liddy, was himself a pawn—at once, guilty and oblivious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe power struggle that unfolded saw E. Howard Hunt and Jim McCord using the White House as a cover for an illicit domestic intelligence operation involving call-girls at the nearby Columbia Plaza Apartments.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49279925944624,"sku":"BDj60p","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49279926010160,"sku":"ZEj60p","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49279926108464,"sku":"ZMj60p","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/j60p-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780510357","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-j60p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}