Jack Caulfield, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1929
Date of Death: 17-Jun-2012
Profession: police officer
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Jack Caulfield
- John J.
- "Jack" Caulfield (March 12, 1929 – June 17, 2012) was an American security operative and law enforcement officer.
- He was a member of the Richard Nixon administration around the time of the Watergate Scandal, though he avoided prosecution. Caulfield was born in The Bronx, New York City.
- He attended Wake Forest University on a basketball scholarship as well as Fordham University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
- He served in the United States Army during the Korean War.
- From 1953 to 1968, he was an officer with the New York City Police Department (NYPD).In 1968, Caulfield left the NYPD and joined the Nixon administration as a security operative.
- He was involved in Operation Sandwedge with H.
- R.
- Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, where he was tasked with setting up a clandestine intelligence-gathering operation against the political enemies of the Nixon administration.
- At one point, Caulfield suggested firebombing the Brookings Institution, a think tank critical of Nixon.In 1972, Caulfield was appointed as assistant director of criminal enforcement at the U.S.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
- In 1973, while at the ATF, Caulfield was sent by the Nixon administration to offer clemency to Watergate Hotel burglar James W.
- McCord, Jr.
- in an attempt to prevent McCord from testifying against the administration.
- McCord was eventually sentenced to prison for his involvement in Watergate.
- Caulfield testified before the United States Senate Watergate Committee but avoided prosecution.
- Before testifying, he resigned from the ATF after serving only nine months.Caulfield's later career was as an executive at an aerosol valve plant in Yonkers, New York.
- The plant was owned by Robert Abplanalp, a close friend of Nixon's.
- Caulfield died in 2012 in Vero Beach, Florida, survived by his wife, two sons, and nine grandchildren.
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