15 Facts About Bernard Barker

Bernard Leon Barker was a Watergate burglar and undercover operative in CIA-directed plots to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Therefore, Bernard Barker was a dual citizen of Cuba and the United States.

At the age of 16, Bernard Barker joined the ABC, a revolutionary group opposed to then president Gerardo Machado y Morales.

Worried by these developments, Bernard Barker's father sent him to live in the United States.

In 1935 Bernard Barker became an American citizen, but he returned to Cuba in order to study at the University of Havana.

Bernard Barker was later recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and worked for them as an undercover agent.

Bernard Barker did work for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bernard Barker was recruited by Hunt to find background information on Daniel Ellsberg.

In 1972, Bernard Barker was one of the five burglars paid by the Committee to Re-elect the President, Nixon's re-election campaign fundraising committee, for a break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and subsequently was convicted in the Watergate scandal.

Hunt claimed that Bernard Barker gave testimony, corroborating his assertion to the Senate Watergate Committee, that the reason they broke in was they were told by Liddy to search for evidence of clandestine financial contributions being received from foreign powers, such as Cuba.

Bernard Barker worked with CRP to get money which went into the Nixon campaign coffers off the books; it was via his bank account that $25,000 from Archer Daniels Midland Chief Executive Dwayne Andreas was obtained by CRP in violation of campaign finance laws.

Bernard Barker was released pending appeal after serving one year of a two-and-a-half to six-year sentence.

Bernard Barker chose early retirement in 1982 rather than fight proceedings seeking his dismissal for loafing on the job.

Bernard Barker died of lung cancer in his Miami home on June 5,2009, aged 92.

Bernard Barker was portrayed in All the President's Men, the 1976 film retelling the events of the Watergate scandal, by Henry Calvert.