POSTGATE CAST OF CHARACTERS
Lawyers for Burglary Team
Henry Rothblatt (lawyer for Martinez, Barker, Sturgis and Gonzalez)
Gerald Alch and Bernard Fensterwald (lawyers for McCord)
Burglary Supervisors
Lawyers for Burglary Supervisors
Wiretap Monitor
Lawyers for Wiretap Monitor
Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP)
John Mitchell, Director
G. Gordon Liddy, Counsel
Penny Gleason, Assistant Security Officer
Glenn Sedam, General Counsel
Jeb Magruder, Deputy Director
James McCord, Director of Security
Paul O’Brien, Outside Counsel for CRP
Robert Odle, Director of Administration
CIA
Richard Helms, Director (terminated by Pres. Nixon in January 1973)
Gen. Robert Cushman, Deputy Director
Howard Osborn, Director of Security, Office of Security (OS)
Paul Gaynor, Chief of Staff, Security Research Staff (SRS), Division of OS
Dr. Edward Gunn, retired, former Chief of Medical Division (“poisons” doctor)
Louis Vasaly, case officer of Lee Pennington
Lee Pennington, contact with James McCord
Cecil Pennington, CIA agent with last name “Pennington” identified to FBI by CIA
Martin Lukoskie, case officer for Robert Bennett of Mullen & Co.
Rob Roy Ratliff, White House CIA liaison
Miriam Furbershaw, retired CIA clerk rented room to and evicted James McCord
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, 1924 - May 1972
Patrick Gray, Acting FBI Director May 1972-April 1973
W. Mark Felt, Deputy Assistant Director, directed investigation of Watergate until Jun 15, 1973
Angelo Lano, Special Agent, investigated Watergate on behalf of Washington Field Office
William Ruckelshaus, Interim Acting Director May-June 1973, seeks Felt’s resignation
William Sullivan, retired Assistant Director, rival to Felt
Department of Justice Headquarters (“Main Justice”)
John Mitchell, Attorney General January 1969-March 1972
Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General (acting) March 1972 - (confirmed) June 1972-April 1973
Elliot Richardson, Attorney General May 1973-October 1973
William Ruckelshaus, Deputy Attorney General under Richardson
Archibald Cox, Special Prosecutor terminated in “Saturday Night Massacre”
United States Attorney’s Office
Earl Silbert, Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of Watergate burglary prosecution
Seymour Glanzer, Assistant U.S. Attorney, chief assistant to Silbert in burglary prosecution
John Rudy, Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of prosecution in U.S. v Bailley
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Lawrence O’Brien, Chair
Robert Strauss, Treasurer
Spencer Oliver, Jr., employed by ADC, an affiliate of DNC
Ida “Maxie” Wells, secretary to Spencer Oliver, Jr.
Barbara Kennedy Rhoden, successor to Maxie Wells
Counsel for DNC
Williams, Connolly and Califano (WCC), represented DNC and Washington Post, 1972-1973
Joseph Califano, partner at WCC, General Counsel to Washington Post and DNC 1972-1973
Alan Galbraith, partner at WCC, interviewed Alfred Baldwin, III
Charles Morgan, Jr., Alabama civil rights attorney, intervened in burglary trial for DNC, Oliver, Wells
Hope Eastman, associate of Charles Morgan, Jr.
Washington Post
Ben Bradlee, Editor
Barry Sussman, Assistant Editor
Timothy Robinson, reporter
Alfred E. Lewis, reporter
Eugene Bachinski, reporter
Bob Woodward, reporter
Carl Bernstein, reporter
Richard Cohen, reporter
Martin Schram, reporter
Reporters not with Washington Post
John Crewdson, New York Times
Seymour Hersh, New York Times
Howard Marks, Chicago Today
Patrick Collins, Washington Star-News
Jack Anderson, freelance journalist
Jack Nelson, Los Angeles Times
Ronald Ostrow, Los Angeles Times
Tom Condon, Hartford Courant
Sandy Smith, TimeMagazine
Public Affairs, Publisher
Peter Osnos, President and Founder
Mullen & Company
Robert Mullen, former owner
Robert Bennett, purchased Mullen & Co. in 1971
Spencer Oliver, Sr., Mullen officer, father of Spencer Oliver, Jr., of ADC/DNC
Howard Hunt, retired CIA agent, part-time Mullen copywriter, part-time White House contractor
Douglas Caddy, counsel for General Foods, closely associated with Mullen
Hobart Taylor, outside counsel for Mullen
White House
Richard Nixon, President
H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff
John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President
John Dean, White House Counsel
Fred Fielding, Deputy White House Counsel
Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor
Alexander Haig, Aide to Kissinger
Jack Caulfield,White House detective
Anthony Ulascewicz,Caulfield’s covert investigator
Alexander Butterfield, Deputy Assistant to Nixon
Charles Colson, Special Counsel to Nixon
William Timmons, White House Aide
Rose Mary Woods, Nixon’s personal secretary
Donald Segretti, “Dirty Tricks” program operator
Herbert Klein, Communications Director
Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon’s private attorney
Alfred Wong, Supervisor of White House Secret Service detail
U.S. Senate
Senator Sam Ervin, North Carolina Democrat, Chairman of Select Watergate Committee
Senator Howard Baker, Tennessee Minority Leader, Select Watergate Committee
D.C. Police
Officer Carl Shoffler, burglary arresting officer, D.C. Police
Officer J.T. Barrett, burglary arresting officer, D.C. Police
Garey Bittenbender, Intelligence Officer, D.C. Police
Courts
John Sirica, Judge, U.S. v. Liddy
David Bazelon, Court of Appeals Judge, U.S. v Liddy
James Belson, Judge, burglary arraignment, U.S. v. Liddy
Other Characters
Lou Russell, contractor, McCord and Associates
William Birely, benefactor of Lou Russell
Maureen Biner Dean, fiancé and later wife of White House counsel John Dean
Cathy Dieter, alleged madame of Columbia Towers call girl operation
Phillip Mackin Bailley, lawyer for Cathy Dieter, arrested for unrelated Mann Act violation
McCord Associates, private security firm of James McCord
Michael Stevens, supplier of surveillance equipment to James McCord
Dorothy Hunt, Howard Hunt’s wife, “hush money” courier killed in United Airlines plane crash