G. Gordon Liddy had spent 52 months in prison for his role in Watergate, and had applied his tough-minded view of the world to life behind bars. In prison, he tells us, informers are regarded as the lowest of the low. WFB: "If, for instance, you were a member of a terrorist gang, the business of which was, let's say, to kidnap and mutilate systematically, and one day you woke up the beneficiary of a changed view of life, I understand you to be saying that you would not inform on the continuing activities of your former confederates,... and the rape and the murder would continue rather than cause you to act out the role of an informant." GGL: "No. The way you have just stated it would lead someone to believe that... the only alternative to the continued killing and mutilation and so on and so forth would be my turning informer, and that's not so. I could turn and make war upon my former associates by honorably attempting to meet them in battle and kill them."