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Operation Sandwedge was a proposed surveillance campaign that would have targeted political enemies of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration. The operation, planned in advance of his 1972 re-election campaign, would have used illegal black bag operations to get information on the financial status and sexual activities of Nixon's opponents. It would have targeted the Democratic Party and the anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as rivals within Nixon's own Republican party. The proposals were put together in 1971 by his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, domestic affairs assistant John Ehrlichman, and staffer Jack Caulfield. Control of the operation was passed to G. Gordon Liddy, who abandoned it in favor of a strategy of his own, Operation Gemstone, which included a plan to break into Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex. Liddy's plan eventually led to the downfall of Nixon's presidency. (Full article...)