The $250 Thousand Dollar Breakin Plan of G Gordon Liddy Was Not Liddy's First Proposal

Gordon liddy's proposal was extremely costly, requiring a budget of 250 thousand dollars in untraceable cash. Liddy had gained a reputation among administration hierups as something of a flake and there were questions about his stability and judgment. The breakin plan itself was a highly risky operation, requiring the participation and discretion of ten men. Despite the obvious counsel of the above reasons, the expensive, chancy, pointless and potentially calamitous proposal of a man whose judgment was known to be questionable, was approved. How could it be that intelligent men of the attainment of mitchell and mcgruder would do something so very, very foolish? Perhaps the answer lies in a little discussed fact