What Happened in History: Browse Historical Facts on Kudos 365

William M. Beecher, New York Times military correspondent publishes a one-page dispatch from Washington, ‘Raids in Cambodia by US Unprotested,’ describing the first of recent B-52 raids in Cambodia and exposing President Richard M. Nixon's secret bombing campaign over Cambodia.  Within hours, Henry Kissinger, presidential assistant for national security affairs, contacts J. Edgar hoover, the director of the FBI, asking him to find the government sources of Beecher’s article. During the next two years, Alexander Haig, a key Kissinger assistant, transmitted the names of national Security Council staff members and reporters who were to have their telephones wiretapped by the FBI. More