The Twelve Pages That Nearly Built Nixon's Secret Spy Machine
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The Twelve Pages That Nearly Built Nixon's Secret Spy Machine
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A White House safe held a twelve-page plan in September 1971 that proposed surveilling the sexual habits of private citizens and requested a $500,000 operating budget - but it was rejected not for illegality and not for lack of ambition. How did a former NYPD officer’s bound proposal become the moment that birthed something far darker and ultimately helped bring down a presidency?
In this episode, we walk through the origins, contents, and fate of Operation Sandwedge, the proposal Jack Caulfield delivered to the Nixon White House, and trace why the plan was sidelined and what replaced it - a development that set the stage for Watergate. What made Sandwedge unacceptable to Nixon’s inner circle, and how did that decision lead to a more dangerous path?
Person: Jack Caulfield
Date: September 1971
Event: Operation Sandwedge proposal filed in White House safe
Budget requested: $500,000 (Haldeman later pushed to $800,000)
Replacement operative named: G. Gordon Liddy
- Sandwedge proposal ran to twelve pages and was physically typed and bound.
- The plan requested an operating budget of $500,000 and field offices in Washington, New York, and Chicago.
- H. R. Haldeman advocated increasing the budget to $800,000.
- A memo from Gordon Strachan in October 1971 questioned Caulfield’s ability to run the operation, citing his background.
- After the October 1971 meeting, Jack Caulfield was removed and G. Gordon Liddy was brought into the conversation.
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