But, here's an excerpt regarding the material that is supposed to be aired tonight...
An investigative report By Larry DuBois and Laurence Gonzales
Illustrations by Eraldo Carugati
THE PUPPET ...
UNCOVERING THE SECRET WORLD OF NIXON, HUGHES AND THE CIA
Including
The Buying of the President
The Worlds Biggest Intelligence Front
The War Within the Hughes Empire
The Untold Story Behind Watergate
Of all the mysteries surrounding the Watergate affair, perhaps the strangest is that in this, the most thoroughly investigated burglary in history, no pub¬licly accepted motive for the break-in itself has ever been established. A vague notion that a group of Republican-sponsored burglars decided to get some dirt on the Democrats and did so without knocking is still widely believed. Lost in the bonanza of books and movies about who did it and how it was done is the central question: Why did it happen?
In the recent past, some accounts—notably. J. Anthony Lukas’ massive Watergate study, "Nightmare"—have suggested that both the Howard Hughes organization and the CIA had connections with Watergate. And some important pieces of the puzzle were put in place by a few of the investigators on Sam Ervin's Senate Watergate committee. But the puzzle was never made whole, the pieces never seemed to fit.
A set of unusual circumstances led Playboy to un¬dertake an investigation of Hughes and the CIA and to get a fuller picture of Watergate. Part I of our report will examine the links between Hughes and the CIA and the events leading up to Watergate. Part II, to appear in November, will examine the cover-up that succeeded and will reveal how newsmen were misled in their efforts to report the whole story.