Shane O’Sullivan is an Irish author and filmmaker based in London. He is a regular contributor to The Washington Post and the author of The Watergate Burglars: Nixon, Dirty Tricks, and the CIA (2022), previously titled Dirty Tricks (2018). He holds a PhD from Roehampton University and is an an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Film and Photography at Kingston School of Art in London. His research interests include political history and intelligence studies.

Melissa Graves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel. Her research areas include national security legal issues, the US presidency’s relationship to the intelligence community, and intelligence analysis. She teaches a variety of courses on intelligence and legal issues. Her book, Nixon’s FBI: Hoover, Watergate, and a Bureau in Crisis, evaluates the historically complex and oftentimes fraught relationships between the President, Attorney General, and FBI Director.

Adam Henig is the author of Watergate’s Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman (2021, McFarland & Company, Inc.). He’s also written Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey (2014) and Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training (2016). He’s currently working on a biography of 1970s Detroit Tiger star, Ron LeFlore. https://www.adamhenig.com/

Douglas Caddy was the initial attorney for the seven Watergate burglars. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and New York University School of Law. He is the author of six books including Watergate Exposed: How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up (2009) and Being There: Eyewitness to History (2018). HIs first book, The Hundred Million Dollar Payoff (1974), was publicly praised by President Gerald Ford. His biography appeared for over two decades in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

A graduate of Ripon College and Northwestern University Law School, Daniel was a criminal and civil trial attorney with the Federal Government (DOJ) and in private practice from 1966 to 2013, and recognized in the Best Lawyers of America (multiple years). Publications included “Will Jury Nullification Save Oliver North?” (Legal Times, 1987).

Precedent setting cases included establishment of the “good faith reliance on apparent authority” defense during his representation of the Cuban Americans in the Watergate case.

Timothy Naftali is a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service and History at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. A native of Montreal and a graduate of Yale with a doctorate in history from Harvard, Naftali writes on national security and intelligence policy, international history and presidential history. Most recently, with Peter Baker, Jeffrey Engel and Jon Meacham, he wrote Impeachment: An American History.

Naftali came to NYU Wagner after serving as the founding director of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, where he authored the Library's nationally acclaimed exhibit on Watergate and oversaw the release of 1.3 million pages of presidential documents and nearly 700 hours of the infamous Nixon tapes. Naftali is a CNN contributor and was featured in CNN’s Presidents Under Fire: The History of Impeachment and served as historical consultant to the CNN Original Series Tricky Dick.

Earl Silbert was the First Assistant in Washington DC’s U.S. Attorney's office when the Watergate burglary took place. Along with a team of FBI agents and two colleagues, he led the investigation into the break-in and prosecuted the first Watergate trial—of the burglars, Hunt and Liddy. He then used the convictions as leverage to continue the investigation, seeking any and all higher-level officials responsible for the break-in. His team had negotiated a plea agreement with Jeb Magruder, and was in the midst of plea negotiations with White House Counsel John Dean when the Special Prosecutor took over in June 1973.

Silbert served as U.S. Attorney from 1974-79, then left the government for private practice. For decades, Washingtonian included him on its list of top lawyers. Chambers USA listed him as “the dean of the Washington Bar” and “one the most revered lawyers in Washington.” He served as president of: the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Council for Court Excellence, and the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys. After retiring in 2019, he started working on a memoir of his year as the first Watergate prosecutor, aided by a diary he kept at the time, and his suspense novelist daughter. The Missing Watergate Story will be available for pre-order this summer.

Angelo Lano joined the FBI in 1966 and became the lead Investigator and case agent assigned to the Watergate case. Working out of the Washington DC Field Office, Lano oversaw the Bureau’s investigation into the burglary and later provided support to the investigation of the Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Office.

Daniel Mahan worked alongside Angelo Lano during the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in, conducting the majority of White House interviews for the Bureau including John Dean, Charles Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy.

Ray Locker is a longtime journalist and author in Washington. Before he turned to writing full time, he was the Washington enterprise editor at USA TODAY, where he supervised coverage of the White House, military, money in politics and health care. His first book, Nixon's Gamble (2015) was the result of years of interest in Nixon and current events. Haig's Coup (2019) is the follow-up volume, which digs more deeply into how Alexander Haig, Nixon's chief of staff, forced Nixon from office.

After returning from Vietnam, Scott Camil became the Florida Coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War and gave public testimony during the Winter Soldier Investigation in 1971.

Camil was on President Nixon's “enemies list” and was called “an extremely dangerous and unstable individual whose activities must be neutralized at earliest possible time” by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Camil and the VVAW were later targeted by James McCord during Watergate.

In October 1971, Judy Hoback was hired by Hugh Sloan as a bookkeeper/Accountant for the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President. She provided the FBI with critical information that linked the burglary to the Nixon Administration, altering forever the focus of the Watergate investigation.

Twenty-year veteran FBI Supervisory Special Agent John Mindermann led a SWAT team, was an instructor of firearms-defensive tactics, and worked in England & Japan. At Quantico's Behavioral Science Unit, he created and taught Crisis Intervention and stress awareness courses.

With SA Paul Magallanes, he debriefed key Watergate witness Judy Hoback, whose timely, inside information shifted the FBI's primary focus from the burglars to the Nixon administration. Active field work focused on organized crime, terrorism & violent predators. He is the author of In Pursuit: From the Streets of San Francisco to Watergate (2014).

Paul Magallanes is president and founder of Magallanes Associates International. He retired from the FBI as Special Agent after a distinguished 21-year career in law enforcement.

He began his career with the FBI in Tampa, Florida, where he was one of the first FBI agents nationally to work in an undercover capacity. Due to his expertise, Mr. Magallanes was instrumental in numerous cases, such as the Watergate Burglary, where he developed two sources of information which ultimately led to the relinquishing of the Presidency. He interviewed the Watergate Cuban burglars in Spanish in the DC Jail after the break-in.

Christopher Moran is Professor of US National Security at the University of Warwick, where he completed a BA in History in 2003, an MA in 2004, and a PhD in 2009. Between 2008 and 2011 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project, 'Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA and the Contested Record of US Foreign Policy', which included a 6 month Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Between 2011 and 2014, he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to write a history of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the CIA, a project that remains in progress. During this time, he enjoyed 6 months as a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Jefferson Morley is a journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over thirty years, fifteen of which were spent as an editor and reporter at The Washington Post. He is the author of Our Man in Mexico (2008), a biography of the CIA’s Mexico City station chief Winston Scott; and Scorpions’ Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate (2022). Morley has written about intelligence, military, and political subjects for Salon, The Atlantic, and The Intercept, among others. He is the editor of the blog JFK Facts and lives in Washington, DC.

John Prados is a senior fellow of the National Security Archive, where he directs projects on the CIA and on Vietnam. He is author of classic histories of the Vietnam war including Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War (University of Kansas Press), The Hidden History of the Vietnam War (Rowman & Littlefield), The Blood Road (John Wiley & Sons), and Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh (Houghton Mifflin). He had worked with veterans groups for many decades, including the American Legion, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. His most recent article appears in The VVA Veteran.

Prados’s current book is The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness (The New Press). Other works include Safe for Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield), Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun (PenguinRandomHouse), and The Family Jewels (University of Texas Press).

Other works on the CIA include William Colby and the CIA (University of Kansas), Presidents’ Secret Wars (Rowman & Littlefield), and The Soviet Estimate (Princeton). There are also books on the origins of the Iraq war, presidents’ forging national security policy, and White House tapes.

Four of his books, including Unwinnable War but, most recently, Ghosts of Langley, have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Prados holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) from Columbia University. His papers, articles, and reviews have appeared widely, and he has served as historical consultant on film projects. Prados also designs board games, among them the classic title Third Reich.

Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished journalist and bestselling historian, has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he serves as the director of cyber initiatives for The Aspen Institute and is a contributor to Wired, CNN, and Politico. He’s written for publications from Esquire to Rolling Stone to The New York Times, and edited two of Washington’s most prestigious magazines, Washingtonian and Politico Magazine.

Graff is the author of multiple books, including The Threat Matrix, the national bestseller Raven Rock, and the New York Times bestsellers The Only Plane in the Sky and Watergate: A New History.

James Rosen is an acclaimed reporter and historian. During the Obama administration, Rosen's exclusive reporting on national security subjects prompted illegal surveillance of him and his family by the FBI, and the censorship of his work by the State Department. He became the first reporter in American history designated a criminal co-conspirator by the federal government, in an alleged violation of the Espionage Act, for reporting classified information. These abuses of power triggered official investigations and procedural reforms at both DOJ and State.

Rosen's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and many other outlets. His first book, The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate (Doubleday, 2008), was hailed by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as “a terrific book both as biography and history…reads like a dream and catapults the reader back into that incredible time as if it were yesterday.”

Rosen's most recent book, A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century (Crown, 2016), an anthology of eulogies by the late William F. Buckley, Jr. that Rosen conceived and edited, spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Currently serving as chief White House correspondent for Newsmax and completing a biography of Antonin Scalia, Rosen holds degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. With his wife and two sons, he lives in Washington and the Chesapeake Bay area.

W. Joseph Campbell, PhD, is an American writer, educator, historian, and media critic. He has written seven solo-authored books, including the award-winning Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths of American Journalism, which includes a chapter dismantling the "heroic-journalist" myth of Watergate. Getting It Wrong inspired critics to refer to Campbell as "the man who calls journalists on their own B.S." and as "the master of debunk." Campbell, a former newspaper and wire service journalist, is a tenured full professor at American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C. His most recent book, Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections, was published in 2020.

David Kaiser, an historian, has published ten books, including Postmortem: New Evidence in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (co-author William Young) and The Road To Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. He taught for 37 years at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, the Naval War College and Williams College. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Tom Cryer (he/him) is a first-year Arts and Humanities Council-funded PhD student of U.S. History at University College London’s Institute of the Americas. His doctoral project investigates memory, race, and nationhood through the lens of the life, scholarship, and advocacy of the leading African American historian John Hope Franklin. Before arriving at UCL, he received a BA (Hons) in History and an MPhil in U.S. History from the University of Cambridge. In his PhD’s first year he has presented across the UK, USA, Austria, and Australia, in addition to writing for LSE’s American Politics and Policy Blog, the Journal of the History of Ideas blog, U.S. Studies Online, and Doing History in Public.