Eugenio Martínez

Eugenio Rolando Martínez , called Musculito , aka Jene Valdes , (born July 8, 1922 ) is a Cuban military and burglar. He was one of the five Watergate burglars and the "photographer" of the burglar group.

Martínez was a Cuban exile and a veteran of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion . Bernard Barker (another Watergate burglar) testified to him "over a hundred secret landings in Castro's Cuba ." The CIA paid him $ 100 a month for information from Cuba.

In the winter of 1962 a rumor arose that two Red Army officers in Cuba wanted to defend the United States . A small group with Martínez and Virgilio R. González (another later Watergate burglar) set out on a secret mission to Cuba in June 1963 to find these officers. However, this action was unsuccessful, so they returned again.

Martínez was already involved in the break-in of the psychiatrist's office of defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg (because he leaked the secret Pentagon papers on the Vietnam War to the press). Another Watergate burglar, Frank Sturgis, was a friend of columnist Jack Anderson. He also introduced Anderson to Martínez. At the time of the break-in, room 214 in the Watergate Hotel was rented to Martínez and Barker. During the break-in he was still in the service of the CIA (he even had to work off a CIA advance payment). In the Watergate trial, he pleaded “guilty.” Martínez is also said to have received $ 10,000 from the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CRP) bribe fund to pay his lawyers. After his release from prison, he was pardoned in 1983 by the Republican President Reagan .

He later worked in the real estate business in Miami , Florida .

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1. ↑ http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1987/Power-To-Pardon-Unquestioned-And-Often-Used-By-Reagan/id-22de16abf62fc46aa0053d3928caef2d