why did nixon want to keep Moorer-Radford Affair secret when it was an example of HIM getting spied on, not the other way around?

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This is in no way a defense of Nixon, I’m just genuinely unclear why this was a scandal he wanted to keep under wraps, when unlike the other ones he doesn’t seem to have been at fault and it seems like it would have been evidence he was spied on (which he seemed to think happened a lot more than it really did)

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