In 1972 to keep Martha Mitchell quiet about Nixon...

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Martha Mitchell was wife of Nixon's Atty Gen. John Mitchell.

Mr. McCord said, H. R. Haldeman and other top aides of President Nixon were jealous of Mrs. Mitchell's popularity and speaking engagements, and wanted to do whatever they could to embarrass her.

Mr. McCord was Mrs. Mitchell's bodyguard before he became chief of security for Mr. Nixon's re‐election campaign. Mrs. Mitchell has complained that on the weekend the Watergate break‐in was discovered in June, 1972, she was held political prisoner” at the Newport er Inn at Newport Beach, Calif.

She said she had been given injections and held in her room against her will. Mr. McCord said “they kept her locked up and she began to be afraid for her life.”

He said that Mr. Haldeman—then President Nixon's chief of staff—had been involved in “a great effort in the White House to discredit Martha Mitchell.”

“They were extremely jealous of her and feared her because she was very candid,” Mr. McCord said.

“Thank God somebody is coming to my assistance,” Mrs. Mitchell said last night when told of Mr. McCord's statements.

“I was not only kidnapped hut. I was threatened at gun point, and you can put that in,” she said in a telephone conversation.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/19/archives/mccord-declares-that-mrs-mitchell-was-forcibly-held-comment-from.html

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1. Martha was right!

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2. K&R

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3. And one of Trump's pals was involved!

Trump Ambassador Beat and ‘Kidnapped’ Woman in Watergate Cover-Up: Reports
sez Newsweek, on 12/11/17.

Stephen King, 76, a longtime confidante and booster of House Speaker Paul Ryan (and former business partner of Ryan’s brother, Tobin), who is the new U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic. He has no diplomatic experience and had never spent a day in Prague before taking up his post there on December 7. Radio Prague, the official state news outlet, called him “a rich Republican businessman…who worked for the FBI early in his career.”
In June 1972, King was an ex–FBI agent working as a security aide for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP, Nixon’s campaign arm. His duty on the week of the break-in was to protect—and keep a close eye on—Martha Mitchell, the talkative wife of Nixon’s campaign director, former Attorney General John Mitchell, while the Mitchells were on a campaign swing in California.

She was on the phone in a hotel room, telling veteran reporter Helen Thomas about the recent Watergate break-in.
Enter King, who “rushed into her bedroom, threw her back across the bed, and ripped the telephone out of the wall,” wrote veteran Washington reporter Winzola McLendon in her 1979 biography of Martha Mitchell, to whom she was close. “The conversation ended abruptly when it appeared someone took away the phone from her hand,” Thomas reported. “She was heard to say, ‘You just get away.’”

Thomas added that when she called back, the hotel operator told her, “Mrs. Mitchell is indisposed and cannot talk.”

Thomas reported the incident, which set off the stories about Martha, both pro and con.

I did not remember at the tiime that this incident happened when Martha first heard of the Watergate break -in. But it sure is understandables why Nixon and et al did not want her talking.

https://www.newsweek.com/2017/12/29/donald-trump-watergate-stephen-king-martha-mitchell-richard-nixon-john-744823.html