Charles Nuzum

Charles (Charlie) A. Nuzum (1923 - 2 August 2008) was in the FBI and in charge of an investigation involving the Watergate scandal. Charles Nuzum was chief of the FBI's bankruptcy, antitrust and wiretapping unit at the time of the break-in at the Watergate office (Sullivan).

Early life

Charles Nuzum was born in Bourbon County, Kansas in 1923. When Nuzum was a child, his family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. When World War II started Nuzum was attending St. Petersburg Junior College, later serving as a pilot flying a B-24 in the Army Air forces. Charles won some awards including Flying Cross, Air Medal and the Purple Heart award. In 1948 he graduated from he University of Michigan and later joined the FBI in 1954. Nuzum moved to Washington in the late 1960s.^[1] Nuzum had a wife, Joy L. Nuzum and two children, Charles Nuzum Jr. and Denise Perrino.^[2]

Watergate

Nuzum's involvement with Watergate

At the time of the Watergate scandal, Mr. Nuzum was chief of the FBI's bankruptcy, antitrust, and wiretapping unit. Nuzum lead the investigation into the Watergate burglary. The investigation revealed that the White House was connected to the burglary, and the burglary to an ever so expanding set of other numerous crimes, taken under to punish the so called political enemies of Nixon's administration. Nuzum would inform his superiors, which also included Robert Gebhardt, the FBI's assistant director of the investigative division.Robert Gebhardt then would send the reports to the FBI's associate director, Mark Felt. Felt then passed the information on to L. Patrick Gray, the FBI’s acting director. Many of the key memos from this period contain the name and initials of Charles Nuzum.^[3]

Retirement

In 1975, Charles Nuzum retired. Shortly after retiring, Nuzum returned to Florida and became employed by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, as a state beverage division chief. At the time of his retirement in 1983, he was president of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators. In 1983 he became president of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators. Nuzum was also a valued member of the "Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI." Later in life, Nuzum had an accidental fall, and later died.^[4]

References

1. ^ Sullivan, Patricia (23 August 2008). "Washington Post". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202743.html. 
2. ^ "Anti-Facist Encyclopedia". http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/obit-charles-a-nuzum-85-led-fbis-probe-of-1972-break-in-at-watergate-complex. 
3. ^ "Anti-Facist Encyclopedia". http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/obit-charles-a-nuzum-85-led-fbis-probe-of-1972-break-in-at-watergate-complex. 
4. ^ "Anti-Facist Encyclopedia". http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/obit-charles-a-nuzum-85-led-fbis-probe-of-1972-break-in-at-watergate-complex. 

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Date of death	2 August 2008
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