Not until Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy will a memoir exist by one of the principal Watergate saboteurs-provocateurs that exposes the full extent of the insalubrious side of political "negative campaigning." Among numerous dirty trick schemes, Kelly conspired with convicted Watergate figure Donald Segretti to totally disrupt a fundraising dinner for Senator Ed Muskie at the Washington Hilton; hired a University of Miami coed to strip naked and parade before Muskie's hotel; released two mice and a bird that threw a Muskie press conference into a panic; created havoc at Democratic campaign events and headquarters; organized fake luncheons, press releases and other treacherous acts. The aim of the Nixon White House and Committee to Reelect the President was for the dirty trickster to sow discontent among the Democratic primary candidates and to blame each other for the dirty tricks so as to make it more difficult for them to unite in the general election against Nixon. The author was one of only three witnesses who testified specifically about dirty tricks before the Senate Watergate Committee (SWC). Chapters detail how dirty tricks were planned and executed, how Kelly dealt with special prosecutors, investigators, Watergate Judge John Sirica, the FBI, an inebriated Senator Ted Kennedy, the Senators on the Senate Watergate Committee, Bernstein and Woodward, Lesley Stahl and others in the media.
