Virgilio gonzalez biography

Virgilio "Villo" R. González (May 18, 1926 – July 16, 2014) was a Cuban-born political activist, locksmith, and one of the five men arrested at the Democratic.
Virgilio (Villo) Gonzalez was born in Cuba.
Virgilio "Villo" R. González was a Cuban-born political activist, locksmith, and one of the five men arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.

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Spartacus Educational

We Cubans have never stopped fighting for the liberation of our country. I have personally carried out over 350 missions to Cuba for the CIA. Some of the people I infiltrated there were caught and tortured, and some of them talked.

My mother and father were not allowed to leave Cuba. It would have been easy for me to get them out. That was my specialty. But my bosses in the Company - the CIA - said I might get caught and tortured, and if I talked I might jeopardize other operations. So my mother and father died in Cuba. That is how orders go. I follow the orders.

I can't help seeing the whole Watergate affair as a repetition of the Bay of Pigs. The invasion was a fiasco for the United States and a tragedy for the Cubans. All of the agencies of the U.S. government were involved, and they carried out their plans in so ill a manner that everyone landed in the hands of Castro - like a present.

Eduardo was a name that all of us who had participated in the Bay of Pigs knew well. He had been the maximum representative of the Kennedy administration to our peo

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From Plumbers to Prisoners: The Watergate Scandal's Most Inept Spies

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MEET THE PLUMBERS
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James W. McCord (1924-1917) born in Oklahoma

Black Bag Job: Chief wiretapper

The ex-FBI agent and CIA officer was the security director for the Committee to Reelect the President (Creep) when he snuck into the Watergate complex and put duct tape on a lock, setting off explosive events that triggered Nixon’s 1974 resignation. The electronics expert cooperated with prosecutors and served only four months in prison.

‍Notable quotes: After the break-in, McCord wrote to Nixon aide Jack Caulfield: "If (CIA Director) Richard Helms goes, and if the (Watergate) operation is laid at the CIA's feet, where it does not belong, every tree in the forest will fall. It will be a scorched desert... Just pass the message that if they want it to blow, they are on exactly the right course.”
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Eugenio Martinez (1922-2021) born in Cuba

Black Bag Job: Photographer

Cuban exile and Miami-based CIA agent Eugenio ‘Little Muscle’ Martinez supplied intelligence about Cu

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Virgilio Gonzalez

Cuban-born American political activist (1926–2014)

Virgilio "Villo" R. González (May 18, 1926 – July 16, 2014) was a Cuban-born political activist, locksmith, and one of the five men arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The break-in led to the Watergate scandal and the eventual resignation of United States President Richard Nixon two years later.

Life before activism

González was originally from Cuba.^[2]^[3] He was reported to have been a house painter and barber, and to have fled Cuba after Fidel Castro took over the country in 1959.^[3] González was a personal driver for Cuban naval officer Felipe Vidal Santiago.^[4]

Anti-government work

After arriving in Miami, González became involved with the anti-Castro movement in the United States^{[citation needed]} and continued to work as a locksmith. His skills were greatly desired so he was recruited by an organization that did dirty work for the Nixon White House. This organizatio