The

Hellwood Archive

Cult cinema, true crime, strange history and cultural oddities.

Stories from the darker corners of film, television, music, literature, crime, history and the unexplained.

watergate

1972 Washington political intelligence meeting with surveillance photographs, bugging equipment and a map of the Watergate complex spread across a desk

True Crime History

Operation Gemstone: The Bizarre Dirty-Tricks Plan That Led to Watergate

Before Watergate became shorthand for presidential scandal, G. Gordon Liddy presented Nixon campaign officials with Operation Gemstone, an extraordinary menu...

15 Sep 2026 • Archive Note