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Jun 6, 2009 · Bernard Leon Barker was born March 17, 1917, in Havana to a Cuban mother and an American father. He came to the United States as a teenager but returned to Cuba to attend the University of Havana.
Sep 20, 2015 · Weitzman later identified this man as Bernard Barker, a CIA asset and the future Watergate burglar who would lead the four-man contingent of Cuban–born Watergate burglars from the Miami area. Barker was an expert at surreptitious entries, planting bugs and photographing documents.
Jun 5, 2009 · 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. Investigators have revealed evidence linking him to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including eyewitness accounts placing him at the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, on November 22, 1963. Barker was born in ...
Jan 8, 2015 · Bernard Barker 1917–2009 On the night of June 17, 1972, police arrested five men who had broken into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
Bernard Barker was the son of an American couple living in Havana. Possessing both Cuban and US citizenship, he studied at the University of Havana. After the Second World War – in which he was ...
Jun 16, 2022 · Bernard Barker and Virgilio González outside of a district court before their Watergate trial. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images But, but, but: The Cuban American Watergate burglars were not heroes among Mexican Americans, the nation's largest Latino group in 1974 and today, Ignacio Garcia, a history professor at Brigham Young University ...
Jun 13, 2017 · Convicted Watergate defendants Eugenio R. Martinez and Bernard L. Barker arrive handcuffed at the Senate Office Building before their meeting with special investigators in Washington, May 11, 1973.
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