# Douglas Caddy

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'''Douglas Caddy''' (born March 23, 1938),{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} is an American [attorney](/source/lawyer) who was briefly [counsel](/source/counsel) for the five men arrested for the [Watergate burglaries](/source/Watergate_burglaries), as well as two other men involved in the [Watergate scandal](/source/Watergate_scandal), [E. Howard Hunt](/source/E._Howard_Hunt) and [Gordon Liddy](/source/Gordon_Liddy).<ref name="Hudson">{{cite journal |last=Hudson |first=Mike |date=August 16, 2005 |title=Our "Deep Throat" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 |journal=The Advocate |issue=944 |location=Los Angeles |publisher=LPI Media Inc. |issn=0001-8996 |pages=52, 54, 56 |accessdate=July 21, 2014}}</ref>

==Background==
Caddy was born in 1938.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} He was educated at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S. degree) and New York University School of Law (J.D. degree).{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}

==Watergate==
According to Caddy, he met Hunt at a [public relations](/source/public_relations) firm then became friends due to shared political views.<ref name="Hudson"/> He served as national director for [Young Americans for Freedom](/source/Young_Americans_for_Freedom) and had volunteered for the [Committee to Re-elect the President](/source/CREEP).<ref name="Hudson"/> Caddy said that he also provided routine legal work for Hunt.<ref name="Hudson"/>

Around 3 a.m. on the morning of June 17, 1972, Caddy stated that Hunt called him from an office in the [Old Executive Office Building](/source/Old_Executive_Office_Building) and said that they needed to talk.<ref name="Hudson"/> The two men met at Caddy's house where Hunt's predicament became evident.<ref name="Hudson"/> Caddy never spoke in court for Hunt, Liddy, or the five burglars.<ref name="Hudson"/> Inexperienced in [criminal law](/source/criminal_law), he enlisted the help of a criminal attorney to represent the five burglars.<ref name="Hudson"/> Liddy also retained Caddy's services on Hunt's advice.<ref name="Hudson"/>

Citing [attorney–client privilege](/source/attorney%E2%80%93client_privilege), Caddy refused to divulge to government investigators who arranged legal counsel for the burglars.<ref name="Hudson"/> Eleven days after the burglaries, Judge [John Sirica](/source/John_Sirica) of the [United States District Court for the District of Columbia](/source/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Columbia) [subpoena](/source/subpoena)ed him to testify before a [grand jury](/source/grand_jury).<ref name="Hudson"/> Refusing to do so, he was found in [contempt of court](/source/contempt_of_court).<ref name="Hudson"/> Caddy alleged that judges and prosecutors attempted to manipulate him because he was [gay](/source/gay).<ref name="Hudson"/> An appeals court eventually upheld his right to refuse to testify.<ref name="Hudson"/>

The character "Markham" in the 1976 film ''[All the President's Men](/source/All_the_President's_Men_(film))'' is based on Caddy.<ref name="Hudson"/>

==JFK assassination==
Caddy claims that when he asked Howard Hunt why President [John F. Kennedy](/source/John_F._Kennedy) was [assassinated](/source/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy), Hunt told him it was because Kennedy was about to disclose 'the Alien Presence' to the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCpfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79| author=Douglas Caddy| title=Being There: Eye Witness To History| publisher=TrineDay| date=2018| pages=79–80| isbn=9781634241151}}</ref>

==Later activities==
As of 2005, Caddy was a private practice attorney in Houston, Texas.<ref name="Hudson"/>

==See also==
[Shearn Moody Jr.](/source/Shearn_Moody_Jr.)

==References==
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