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- Bernard Leon Barker (March 17, 1917 – June 5, 2009) was a Watergate burglar and undercover operative in CIA-directed plots to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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Bernard Leon Barker (March 17, 1917 – June 5, 2009) was a Watergate burglar and undercover operative in CIA-directed plots to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
- Cuban/American
- June 5, 2009 (aged 92), Miami, Florida, US
- military, agent
Bernard Leon Barker was a hero to many, first as a World War II flier and prisoner of war, later as a CIA operative working to overthrow Fidel Castro. But he is best remembered as a White House ''plumber:'' one of the burglars whose break-in helped topple a U.S. president. He died Friday at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Miami ...
He was 92. Mr. Barker, who was born in Cuba, was a onetime undercover operative for the CIA and helped organize the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, an ill-fated attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel...
Jun 6, 2009 · Bernard Barker, a Cuban-born CIA operative who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was later a Watergate burglar, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92. Barker died at his home...
Jun 7, 2009 · Obituary. Bernard Barker. CIA agent caught in the Watergate burglary that led to Nixon's fall. Michael Carlson. Sun 7 Jun 2009 19.01 EDT. On 7 June 1972, alerted by a night-watchman who had...
Jun 6, 2009 · Jun 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon. Bernard Leon Barker, Cuban-born of American parents (and a citizen of both countries since the age of 18, though an exile from the land of his birth for a half-century), died in Miami yesterday at the age of 92.
Jun 6, 2009 · Bernard Barker, a Cuban-born CIA operative who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was later a Watergate burglar, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92. Barker died at his...