I asked about this in another related thread, but I am curious to know if this sort of thing happened during the Watergate investigation: biased FBI agents and related people railroading others into singing like birds against Nixon and his administration? I know that FBI director Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” and that Woodward and Bernstein’s boss Ben Bradlee was a close friend of the Kennedys, for starters.
Felt was the asst. director:
William Mark Felt Sr. was a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who served as the Bureau’s Associate Director, the FBI’s second-highest-ranking post, from May 1972 until his retirement from the FBI in June 1973. Wikipedia