WI Hunt caught in Bremer's apartment?

PoD: May 16th, 1972

FBI agents sent to secure the apartment of Arthur Bremer, the attempted assassin of George Wallace, catch Nixon operative and aide E. Howard Hunt trying to plant evidence in Bremer's apartment that would paint him as a George McGovern supporter.

Effects, anyone? (This makes Watergate look like a Sunday school picnic, IMO...)
 
Just to be clear, my understanding is that IRL a) Colson wanted Hunt to break into the apartment to find out what kind of political sympathies Bremer might have, not to plant evidence, and b) Hunt refused to do that anyway.

Is this a correct summation?
 
“According to Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, Nixon White House tapes show that after presidential candidate George Wallace was shot on May 15, 1972, Nixon and Colson agreed to send Hunt to the Milwaukeehome of the gunman, Arthur Bremer, to place McGovern presidential campaign material there. The intention was to link Bremer with the Democrats. Hersh writes that, in a taped conversation, "Nixon is energized and excited by what seems to be the ultimate political dirty trick: the FBI and the Milwaukee police will be convinced, and will tell the world, that the attempted assassination of Wallace had its roots in left-wing Democratic politics." Hunt did not make the trip, however, because the FBI had moved too quickly to seal Bremer's apartment and place it under police guard.[35]

however, if you want to make Watergate seems a Sunday picnic what about political opponents assassination?

“In 1972, Hunt and Liddy were part of an assassination plot targeting journalist Jack Anderson, on orders from Colson.[33] Nixon had disliked Anderson because during the 1960 presidential election Anderson had published an election-eve story concerning a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother,[34] which Nixon believed was the reason he lost the election. Hunt and Liddy met with a CIA operative and discussed methods of assassinating Anderson, which included covering Anderson's car steering wheel with LSD to drug him and cause a fatal accident,[3]poisoning his aspirin bottle, and staging a fatal robbery. The assassination plot never materialized because Hunt and Liddy were arrested for their involvement in the Watergate scandal later that year.”
 
however, if you want to make Watergate seems a Sunday picnic what about political opponents assassination?

“In 1972, Hunt and Liddy were part of an assassination plot targeting journalist Jack Anderson, on orders from Colson.[33] Nixon had disliked Anderson because during the 1960 presidential election Anderson had published an election-eve story concerning a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother,[34] which Nixon believed was the reason he lost the election. Hunt and Liddy met with a CIA operative and discussed methods of assassinating Anderson, which included covering Anderson's car steering wheel with LSD to drug him and cause a fatal accident,[3]poisoning his aspirin bottle, and staging a fatal robbery. The assassination plot never materialized because Hunt and Liddy were arrested for their involvement in the Watergate scandal later that year.”
Oh boy, this deserves a separate thread.
 
Colson was one mean so and so. I like his character in that marvelous TL McGoverning where he lost his marbles and goes out to attempt arson in the Brookings Institution in order to find and steal some documents while at that very time the Watergate burglary is taking place. For all his troubles, Chuckie Boy ends up getting fired by Nixon and thrown under the bus by Nixon and Haldeman!
 
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