Frank Wills, a night watchman at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., was making his rounds on June 17, 1972, when he noticed a piece of tape on a door.

Some of the Watergate burglary suspects stand with their attorney in January 1973. From left are Gonzalez, Sturgis, attorney Henry Rothblatt, Barker and Martinez.

Buried in the latest batch of released files on the assassination JFK were fresh details about what one of the infamous Watergate burglars was up to in the mid-1960s.

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On June 17, 1972, a band of five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate Complex in D.C., after a failed attempt at wiretapping.

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G. Gordon Liddy, the brash political operative who helped orchestrate the 1972 Watergate burglary, reportedly died on Tuesday at his daughter’s Virginia home. He was 90.

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Their mission was to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, bug the room and photograph documents. If everything had gone as planned, no one would have ever known.

But instead June 17, 1972, became an infamous day. The burglary set off a series of actions that brought down Republican President Richard Nixon – the only US president to resign.