CREEP

Masterminds behind Watergate $ woking for CREEP were: G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, former CIA agents and FBI agents. As CREEP operatives they were aranging illegal wiretaps at DNC headquarters, campaign of ''dirty tricks" against Democrats. CREEP had illegal slush fund and it linked to key white house aides.


The Committee to Re-elect the President, abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon'smoney laundering administration. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed and slush funds and was directly and actively involved in the Watergate scandal.

CRP used US$500,000 in funds raised for the purpose to reelect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars after their indictment in September 1972, in exchange for their silence and perjury. This act helped turn the burglary into an explosive political scandal. The burglars, as well as G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures, were imprisoned over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up.

The CRP was also connected, e.g. via personal overlap, to the earlier group called the White House Plumbers.