Bernard Baker, who was convicted of breaking into the Democratic Party's National Headquarters at the Watergate building, died at the age of 92 on June 5, 2009.
Mr Baker was a Cuban-born American who was recruited for various undercover operations during President Richard Nixon's administration by E. Howard Hunt. Barker was involved with Hunt and the C.I.A. in planning the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.
He was also involved in the 1971 break-in at the Los Angels office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg who disclosed the Pentagon Papers to the press.
Mr Barker was convicted of the Watergate break-in along with four others. After a series of appeals, he served approximately three months before being released in January 1974. He returned to the Miami area where he served as a city sanitation inspector and later as a building inspector.
In later years, he continued to express no regrets about his prior actions and felt they were in the interest of national security.
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