European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Lid dyes watergate conspirator who prevailed Kay Bartlett associated Pressw Hen he came out of prison in 1977, the Man nearly As famous Lor Ealing a ral As Tor masterminding the bungled watergate break in tossed a Little German Over Iha Heads of waiting quotation was from the philosopher Nietzsche whal does not kill me makes me stronger. Ten years later it turns out to have been prophetic. Financially at least watergate has strengthened g. Gordon Liddy. Perhaps in other ways Loo. The Only watergate conspirator who would never break his code of silence. Liddy was $340,000 in debt when his sentence was commuted. Today he probably makes More Money than any of the other Well known watergate figures. And he haunts ii. The License Plains on his Black Volvo read "h20gate." i did not just survive he says i he prevails Over a lot a Winter Home in Scottsdale Ariz a summer Home Nestle re Back from his 400 eel of Potomac River frontage at Forl Washington met. 25 minutes from the White House. A licensed Pilot he s thinking of buying a plane to commute to his various s in demand on the lecture circuit and has three very Liddy esque businesses going he has appeared in a few episodes of Miami vice has a role in a made for to movie coming this fall and is negotiating other movie and television deals. He also wrote a spy novel and an autobiography win. The latter also became a movie. Exerting will and will Power has been sacrosanct Lor Liddy since childhood. It was to conquer a ral phobia that he ate one he begs off specifics Aboul his income noting that his wife of nearly 30 years. Frances is the family s financial Genius. His College lecture fees Are 84,000 to $6 000 a crack and he does about 60 a year. Corporately. He Speaks for $8.000 to si0.000. Which shows once again that crime can pay especially if you re still firmly convinced you did nothing wrong except gel caught which is How Liddy sees it. Why does t anyone remember the first watergate break you know. The one where we were successful " jokes the totally unrepentant Liddy the Man who served the longest stretch. 52vi months of a 21-year sentence partly because of his code of loyally in Lack. This is the time of the year the National archives display the captured he muses aloud i have the a captured ones Nghil he compares himself in some ways to u. Col Oliver North except of course. Liddy would never have talked even with immunity. Ollie North was the acting officer just As i was the acting officer for what i did we were both on the Bridge when the ship nil a reef and our 0b was damage control it remains to be seen whal will happen in the North situation. But from whal i know now i d be Happy so die with a Man with thai degree of integrity of his Early release Isom prison. Buddy says i was i pardoned. I was expelled " mis prison stories Many of which Are in will Are hilarious and Liddy Lovas to rehash them How he lapped Telephone lines at Danbury broke into the prison Arsenal at Allenwood and copied the serial numbers of the weapons led prisoners on food strikes was elected cell Block Leader filed writs forged documents to get a private bathroom and brought serious lawsuits on behalf of the inmates against the prisons when he could. Bui Don t Gro me Loo much credit. The people who run prisons Are not exactly rocket scientists says the Man who was shuffled to nine different prisons during his More than four years behind bars. When Liddy complained about a leak thai was keeping prisoners awake at night the plumber lord him. " Bleep you Liddy. You re not in the White House now. You re in the big that Man. Liddy says was made the plumber by virtue of having seen a wrench once when to was 18. But in last. His major accomplishment in life was becoming toilet trained Vintage buddy. At 56, buddy is still Liddy. A Man variously described As arrogant intelligent incorrigible articulate funny. Clearly he seems incorruptible in his private code that includes a bit of rambo. Strong conservatism Pierce anti communism disdain of Lattle tales and snitches Appeal to military Virtues Flag and his career and traits have Many non admirers who deem his credibility thin and his philosophy distasteful thai Liddy has remained Liddy May partly account for his popularity on the lecture circuit he s an effective speaker Quick to illustrate his Points with examples and lard them with quotations from Emerson. Franklin and Edmund Burke. Some of the students he Speaks to know All Aboul watergate he says but there Are others who just know that i m whal historians can a primary figure and they come to the lectures not Quile sure whether i m Ulysses Grant or red he loves hecklers. I look at them like Ted Williams looked at a straight Ball coming across the plate and i have them. And i have fun too ii they want to know Why my version is Correct. I Tel i pm because i m standing up Here and you silting Down Liddy s former agent says he has spoken on More than 700 campuses. On some he debated or. Timothy Leary of Ltd lame whom he had prosecuted years ago. And sex Yippie Abbie Hoffman. Liddy spends a lot of Lime in Miami where he runs a traditional Security company called gemstone. Trivia buffs might recognize that As the Overall code name Lor the watergate caper. He also runs a floating and terrorist school attended by Many a journalist including Ronald Reagan or. On assignment from Playboy. It s a one to three week course costing from j1,500 to s2,700 Tor three weeks. Ammunition is supplied but room and Board is nol Liddy s moveable Academy operates out of Hole suites where there s a shooting Range nearby faculty members he says include former Cia and Page 14 the stars and stripes Fri agents Legal experts. British and israeli commandos and counter terrorism consultants los a sophisticated stale of the Art High tech Academy Liddy says. We Are not training mercenaries. We Are training the curriculum oilers martial arts guarding celebrities negotiating on hostages applying Force without Lear of indictment and above All getting out of Tough situations alive. Buddy confirms rumours Hal he to Aboul to Start an Ami terrorist school in Cosla Rica la is to be a Public company though no Stock is to be sold in Iha United slates or Canada. The same regulations will apply As in his . Schools convicted felons Liddy is one himself need not apply. Sandinista likewise need t Bolher. A Contra applicant would be admitted he says but we re nol training soldiers. We train specialists in something More Complex than Liddy also runs Hurricane Force which he Calls the Only private counter terrorist Force in the work the members Are All bilingual and induce cubans commandos from Israel a master sniper from great some former Cia men and two women one of whom uses the code name according to the Boss All travel under anonymity. The lab for gelling a hostage out of a third world country might come to a Cool i Ilion says Liddy but the three jobs Hurricane Force has handled so far have been More prosaic and much cheaper. He mentions two without giving Delall the hurricanes recovered a child taken by the father to another hemisphere he says and Reed an amen can from a third world prison where he had bean held on in Ped up charges. Buddy stresses that Hurricane Force avoids violating Laws it can l match the governments elite teams such As Delta Force or sea team six and the government should gel the first Call Lor help. Bui when government can to or wont move Lor political and other reasons Liddy s Lorce is ready. Melodramatic stiff. As so Many of Liddy s accounts. He tells a reporter at the outset of a conversation thai. While a won t answer some questions he won t lie. Ques Ron did you even Iii anyone answer there s no statute of limitations on of now. In t 1hat just a Gordon Liddy playing g. Gordon Liddy he lakes off his aviator sunglasses and answers slowly and chillingly i told you i would nol Liddy was born in new York City attended Fordham University and graduated from its Law school after a stint As an army artillery officer. He then pined the Fri and slayed five years before entering his lather s Law firm. By Hen. The 60s were upon us with a vengeance and i wanted to go into politics he says he hired on As an assistant District attorney in Poughkeepsie. By a Job in which he displayed a. Flair or the dramatic he once tired a gun in a courtroom and another time waved i a knife under the noses of jurors and smashed a jury rail with a 2-by-4 to demonstrate its lethal potential. He ran for Congress on the conservative party ticket and isl. But his showing was sul Lucienl to draw an sunday a
