William Beecher, military correspondent for the New York Times, publishes a front page dispatch from Washington, "Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested," which accurately described the first of the secret B-52 bombing raids in Cambodia. Within hours, Henry Kissinger, presidential assistant for national security affairs, contacted J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, asking him to find the governmental sources of Beecher's article. During the next two years, Alexander Haig, a key Kissinger assistant, transmitted the names of National Security Council staff members and reporters who were to have their telephones wiretapped by the FBI.
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May 9, 1969:
Reporter breaks the news of secret bombing in Cambodia
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This Week in History, May 9 - May 15
- May 09, 1969
- Reporter breaks the news of secret bombing in Cambodia
- May 09, 1970
- Demonstrations held in Washington
- May 09, 1974
- House votes to initiate impeachment proceedings
- May 10, 1969
- Operation Apache Snow is launched
- May 10, 1972
- Intense air war continues over North Vietnam
- May 11, 1961
- President Kennedy orders more troops to South Vietnam
- May 11, 1969
- Paratroopers battle for "Hamburger Hill"
- May 12, 1961
- Lyndon B. Johnson visits South Vietnam
- May 12, 1971
- Heavy fighting erupts in A Shau Valley
- May 13, 1971
- Paris peace talks at standstill
- May 13, 1972
- Heavy fighting continues at Quang Tri and Kontum
- May 14, 1969
- President Nixon responds to National Liberation Front proposal
- May 14, 1970
- South Vietnamese sustain second highest casualties of war
- May 15, 1967
- U.S. positions south of the DMZ come under heavy fire
- May 15, 1970
- Air Force sergeant awarded Medal of Honor
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