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n nauoml bestseller [ I ^ J ^^** ^o LIDDY "Fully prepared to hate it, I carried the book home with me one evening and found myself completely enthralled. It is one of the most engrossing and thoroughly honest self-revelations that I have ever read. THIS IS ONE YOU'VE ABSOLUTELY GOT TO READ." — DenverPost "Candid...forthright...lucid...graphic...intelligent... mind-boggling...outrageous. Whatever else may be said ofMr. L—iddy, he is a True Believer." Larry King, The New York Times BookReview "THERE IS ALMOST AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES IN THE BOOK. As history and as a study in psychopathology, the book is very good. It is the self- portrait ofa zealot. His story rings true...it is credible. A hundred little facts and inferences convince me that he has been as honest as he could be." — Bob Woodward, The Washington PostBook World WILL Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2009 littp://www.arcliive.org/details/willautobiograpliOOIidd MORE CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR WILLI "Intelligent...intima—te...worth reading." Los Angeles TribuneBookReview ''Will is a knockout of a book that will totally fascinate the reader. But it is the humor that you never quite suspect will be there that r—eally grabs you." West CoastReview ofBooks "An unusual and fascinating book...Will is a great deal more than just Liddy's view of Watergate. Extremely well-written, constantly enthralling. Liddy also includes a scathing indictment of Judge John Sirica; a clean and concise history of the FBI; an expose of the federal prison system; and an incredible analysis of the general moral health and welfare of the United States....No matter what your preconceived opinion of G. Gordon Liddy may be, this book will—not leave you unmoved." Fort Worth Star-Telegram WITH EXPLOSIVE NEW MATERIAL EXCLUSIVELY FOR THIS EDITION— THE TRUE WATERGATE STORY St Martin'sPaperbacks Titles by G. GordonLiddy Will The Monkey Handlers Out of Control St.Martin'sPaperbackstitlesareavailableatquantitydiscounts forsalespromotions,premiumsorfund raising.Special books orbookexcerptscanalsobecreatedtofitspecificneeds. For information writetospecialsales manager,St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, N.Y. 10010. You can get any St. Martin's Paperbacks title in print. For every book ordered, please send title and retail price, plus $1.50forthefirsttitleand50(tforeachtitlethereafter,tocover postageand handling.Sendcheckormoneyorder,orcharge to your VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER or AMERICAN EXPRESS card—no cash or CODs. New York residents add applicable sales tax. Mail to: Publishers Book and Audio MailingService,P.O.Box120159,Staten Island,NY10312-0004. wni THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ST.MARTIN'SPAPERBACKS NOTE: Ifyou purchasedthis bookwithoutacoveryou shouldbeawarethatthisbookisstolen property. Itwas reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher, and neitherthe author northe publisher has received any payment forthis "stripped book." Tothememoryof the Honorable SylvesterJ. Liddy, R.V.O., K.N.O. myfather ChapterXIIappearedinsubstantiallythisforminTruemagazine. WILL Copyright© 1980byG.GordonLiddy. PostscripttothePaperbackEditioncopyright© 1991 byG GordonLiddy. CoverphotographcourtesyUPI/Bettmann. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproducedinany mannerwhatsoeverwithoutwrittenpermissionexceptinthecaseofbrief quotationsembodiedincriticalarticlesorreviews.Forinformationaddress St.Martin'sPress, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y 10010. ISBN:0-312-92412-7 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica St.Martin'sPresshardcovereditionpublished 1980 Dell/St.Martin'sedition/February 1981 St.Martin'sPaperbacksedition/July 1991 9876543 10 PREFACE In July of 1973 Stewart Alsop wrote me a letter that said, in part: "It has long seemed to me that your powerful personality played an important part in the episode which has now generated a great constitutional crisis. As my article suggests, I understand the reasons for your re- luctance to talk heretofore, but since quite literally every- body else involved in the affair has talked at great length, it seems to me that those reasons no longer hold. In any case, if you wished to put any subject off the record, I should of course respect your wishes. You have played a vitally important role in a major historical development, and it seems to me that by now you owe it to yourself, and indeed to history, to say more about that role." The article he refers to was titled "War, Not PoUtics." In the piece he likens the character of some of us who worked in Washington in the early 1970s to the "many brave and good men" who served in the wartime OSS. "Curiously enough, in another time, G. Gordon Liddy would have been regarded as among the bravest and the best. ... In all secret services, it has to be assumed that any ca—ptured agent—can in time be broken. But there were a few a very few captured OSS agents who remained unbreakable, and they were regarded as true heroes. In the case of CREEP, the stubbornly silent G. Gordon Liddy seems to be the only operative to fall into this category. ... In wartime, G. Gordon Liddy would have been festooned with decorations rather than slapped in jail. As so often in wartime, his stubborn silence did no good." I Hked the piece, but I'm not ready to agree my silence did no good. If in the end it had been of no benefit to anyone else, I'd have done the same thing.—But it did help others, and if the containment strategy and personal — code that prompted my initial silence had been pursued by all my associates, it would have proved successful, and this book would never have been written. When Mr. Alsop wrote his article in 1973, he had no idea what remained unrevealed. Only now that statutes of limitation have ex- pired can I write what is in this book without risking the liberty of any of my former associates. For all of that preamble, this is not just a Watergate book. It is not even just a Washington book. I've tried to make it a book of both public issues and personal con- victions. In my original proposal to my publisher I said, "I became what I wanted to be." The publisher seized on that, maintaining that what I was, and what I became, and what I then did with it, was what the book should tell. So I've told it, because I agree with Mr. Alsop and all those after him who carried the same message: I do owe a debt to history. And I do want you to know, as much as a book can convey it, the man I am. With this book I give thanks to the thousands who have written to me, and circulated and signed so many peti- tions to the President seeking my freedom, and my debt to history is discharged. I only wish Stewart Alsop and my father, both of whom died with their boots on, were here today to read it. Oxon Hill, Maryland 11 February 1980
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