During the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy were stationed in a room at the Watergate Hotel, while a lookout was across the street at the Howard Johnson Hotel. Microphones hidden in tubes of Chapstick allowed them to coordinate the operation discreetly. During the investigation, the Chapstick tubes were found in the safe of E. Howard Hunt’s White House office. For their roles in the break-in, Hunt and Liddy were convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping. Hunt received a sentence of 2½-8 years (serving 2½ years), while Liddy was sentenced to 20 years for refusing to cooperate. He served 4 years before being paroled.
