Eugenio Rolando Martínez CareagaSam Roberts

''The New York Times'', February 2, 2021. (alias Musculito, July 8, 1922 – January 30, 2021) was a member of the anti-Castro movement in the early 1960s, and later was one of the five men recruited by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt in 1972 for the Memorial Day weekend Watergate burglary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. He later worked as a real estate agent. Weeks after the initial break-in, on June 17, 1972, the men were arrested by District of Columbia Police inside DNC headquarters during what they said was a second entry into the building to correct problems with the first break-in. Martinez and the others were convicted in the ensuing Watergate scandal. The others were Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Barker and James W. McCord Jr., James McCord. After completing his 15 month prison term,"Eugenio Martínez, Watergate burglar whose bungled break-in led to Nixon’s fall, dies,"
''Los Angeles Times'', February 12, 2021. Martinez was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Martínez was the only person aside from Nixon to receive a pardon for his role in the scandal. Martinez was portrayed in ''All the President's Men (film), All the President's Men'', the 1976 film retelling the events of the Watergate scandal, by Dominic Chianese. On August 31, 2016, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained Central Intelligence Agency, CIA internal documents, through a Freedom of Information Act (United States), FOIA request, that stated Martinez was a paid asset of the Agency at the time of the break-in. Although his connection to the Agency was acknowledged, until this release the CIA had maintained that his service had ended and he no longer had an association with the Agency for at least two years prior to the incident at the Watergate Hotel. He died on January 30, 2021, at his daughter's home in Minneola, Florida at the age of 98.

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