MIAMI -- Funeral services are planned in Florida for one of the five Watergate burglars.

Bernard Leon Barker, a Cuban-born former CIA operative who also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion, will be buried Saturday at Graceland Memorial Park North in Coral Gables.

Barker was one of five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington. They were caught in the act and arrested on June 17, 1972, setting in motion events that would topple Richard M. Nixon's presidency.

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