Reporter breaks the news of secret bombing in Cambodia
William Beecher military correspondent for the New York Times publishes a front page dispatch from Washington Raids in Cambodia by U.S.Unprotested which accurately described the first of the secret B-52 bombing raids in Cambodia.Within hours Henry Kissinger presidential assistant for national security affairs contacted J.
Edgar Hoover the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation asking him to find the governmental sources of Beechers article.During the next two years Alexander Haig a key Kissinger assistant transmitted the names of National Security Council staff members and reporters who were to have their telephones wiretapped by the FBI.
