26/09/2026
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Before Watergate became one of the biggest political scandals in American history, another operation was already underway.
It involved secret White House operatives, a psychiatrist’s office, confidential records—and a break-in that officials later tried to keep buried.
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg had become nationally known after leaking the Pentagon Papers, the classified history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The Nixon administration wanted damaging information about Ellsberg.
So a covert unit known as the “Plumbers” was created to deal with leaks and gather information.
Then came the strange part.
Why would a political operation target a psychiatrist?
On September 3, 1971, three burglars entered the Beverly Hills office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist. According to National Archives records, the operation had been approved as a covert attempt to examine medical files and learn more about Ellsberg’s motives and possible plans to release additional classified material.
The burglars had a problem.
They could not pick the lock.
So they forced their way inside.
But they did not find the information they were looking for.
And then something even stranger happened.
Before leaving, the burglars scattered prescription drugs around the office in an apparent attempt to make police believe the crime had been committed by a drug addict rather than by a highly organized political operation. That detail appears in a National Archives description of the investigation.
Imagine being the police officer walking into that office.
Would you have recognized what the scene was really hiding?
At the time, this was not yet the Watergate scandal the public would come to know.
But the people and methods connected to the Fielding burglary would later appear in the larger Watergate investigation. National Archives records identify the Plumbers as a White House unit involved in the Fielding break-in, while later records connect figures such as E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord to the operations.
Then, in June 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex.
Investigators began pulling on the thread.
One of the burglars’ address books contained contact information linked to Howard Hunt. The discovery helped expose connections between the break-in team and people associated with the White House.
So how did a psychiatrist’s office become part of the Watergate story?
Because the Fielding break-in happened months before the Watergate burglary—and it showed that covert operations against political enemies were already taking place.
The most unsettling part is not the broken door.
It is what the burglars were looking for.
Private medical information.
And when they failed to find it, they reportedly tried to leave behind a false explanation for the crime.
What started as a search for one man’s secrets eventually became evidence in one of the most consequential investigations in modern U.S. political history. National Archives records preserve the case files, interviews, court records and investigative material connected to the Plumbers and the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
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📄 National Archives — Watergate Special Prosecution Force records, 1973–1977
📄 National Archives — Fielding/Ellsberg break-in investigative records, 1971–1973
📄 U.S. Senate — Watergate Committee investigation, 1973–1974
