In 1972 the company received public attention in relation to the Watergate scandal when staff writer E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA intelligence case officer and Mullen employee, was revealed to have been running a group of Nixon Administration "plumbers" responsible for the break-in. He was subsequently convicted of conspiracy and served time in prison after a check with his name on it found at the scene of the break-in connected him to one of the burglars. ROBERT R. MULLEN DEAD AT 77; EISENHOWER AIDE IN '52 RACEContext of 'June 17, 1972: Lead Burglar Cleans out Watergate Listening Post, Alerts Lawyer to Arrests'
