Editing G. Gordon Liddy (section)

== FBI ==
Liddy began his career with the FBI in 1957, <ref name="Newton2003"/> initially serving as a field agent in Indiana and Denver.<ref name=kernan1/> While stationed in Denver, he made a significant arrest on September 10, 1960: [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1960#Ernest Tait|Ernest Tait]], a notable criminal who had twice appeared on the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|Ten Most Wanted]].<ref name="kernan1">{{cite news |last=Kernan |first=Michael |date=November 1, 1972 |title=Liddy: Cowboy on the Potomac |url=http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20%20Files/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000670%20to%2000809/Watergate%2000672.pdf |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |access-date=April 10, 2014 |archive-date=February 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206091324/http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20%20Files/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000670%20to%2000809/Watergate%2000672.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> 

At age 29, Liddy became the youngest<ref name="epstein1" /> bureau supervisor at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.. Under the mentorship of deputy director [[Cartha DeLoach]],<ref name="Newton2003" /> Liddy secured a position on director [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s personal staff, even acting as Hoover's [[ghostwriter]].<ref name="epstein1" /> Despite his achievements, Liddy was also known for his reckless behavior among his fellow agents,<ref name="Newton2003" /><ref name="LukasHoff1999">{{cite book|author1=J. Anthony Lukas|author-link1=J. Anthony Lukas|last2=Hoff|first2=Joan|title=Nightmare: the underside of the Nixon years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6C9aAAAAYAAJ|date=September 30, 1999|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-8214-1287-9|page=viii|access-date=October 1, 2016|archive-date=June 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614203325/https://books.google.com/books?id=6C9aAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="perlstein" /> highlighted by two particular incidents.<ref name="Gentry2001">{{cite book|last=Gentry|first=Curt|title=J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu86exHKPvMC&pg=PA692|year=2001|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-393-32128-9|page=692|access-date=October 1, 2016|archive-date=June 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614203325/https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu86exHKPvMC&pg=PA692#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> 

The first incident took place in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], during a covert operation. He was arrested but was subsequently released after contacting [[Clarence M. Kelley]], former FBI agent and the then-chief of the [[Kansas City Police Department (Missouri)|Kansas City Police]].<ref name="Newton2003" /><ref name="Gentry2001" /> The second incident involved an FBI [[background check]] that Liddy conducted on his future wife before they got married in 1957.<ref name="Newton2003" /><ref name="Gentry2001" /> Liddy later claimed this action was a routine precautionary measure.<ref name="playboy">{{cite encyclopedia |author=Norden, Eric |date=June 9, 1983 |title=The Playboy Interview |encyclopedia=Norden, Eric |publisher=Putnam |editor=Golson, G. Barry |volume=2 |location=New York |pages=347–74 |isbn=039950768X}}</ref>

Prior to his departure from the FBI in 1962, Liddy sought admission to various bars, leveraging his professional contacts. His application for admission to the [[United States Supreme Court]] was supported by [[Solicitor General of the United States|Solicitor General]] [[Archibald Cox]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Admissions to the Bar |url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?men_tab=srchresults&handle=hein.journals/joscus76&size=2&collection=journals&id=300 |journal=Journal of the Supreme Court of the United States |date=May 21, 1962 |page=290 |volume=196 |access-date=January 13, 2017 |via=HeinOnline |url-access=subscription |archive-date=February 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206091517/https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?men_tab=srchresults&handle=hein.journals%2Fjoscus76&size=2&collection=journals&id=300 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|jstor=1290112|last=Liddy|first=G. Gordon|title=Review: Character, Conscience, and Destiny|journal=Michigan Law Review|volume=96|number=6|pages=1975–79, 1979|doi=10.2307/1290112|date=May 1998|url=https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2009&context=mlr|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=April 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426022122/https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2009&context=mlr|url-status=live}}</ref>