What was its Purpose?
The actual purpose of the break-in has never been adequately resolved, and the recurrence of the CIA in the story has raised questions that still do not have any answers. The break in was at the Democratic campaign headquarters. The purpose was to re-elect Nixon. According to G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, there were two primary missions for a first burglary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate on May 28th. Liddy said that "There were two things they were to do. One was the telephone of Larry O'Brien, wiretap, and the other was a room monitoring device of Larry O'Brien's office." Hunt said that "photography had been the priority mission," and that "the photography mission was paramount." Bernard Barker said that his "only job" on the first burglary was to "search for documents to be photographed" by Eugenio Martinez, mainly "documents that involved natural and foreign contributions to the Democratic campaign, especially to Senator McGovern, and also, possibly to Senator Kennedy," and in particular any contributions from "the foreign government that now exists on the island of Cuba."