Mystery – June 17

“Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee here.”
– Alfred E. Lewis in The Washington Post‘s first article about the arrest of US President Richard M. Nixon’s re-election campaign employees for burglarizing the Watergate building on this date in 1972.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that a relatively simple criminal matter has much deeper implications for an important public leader.

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