Charles Nuzum
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Charles "Charlie" A. Nuzum (1923 – 2 August 2008) was an agent of the FBI who oversaw the investigation into the Watergate scandal. Nuzum was chief of the FBI's bankruptcy, antitrust and wiretapping unit at the time of the break-in at the Watergate office.
Early life
Charles Nuzum was born in Bourbon County, Kansas, in 1923. When Nuzum was a child, his family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. When World War II started Nuzum was attending St. Petersburg Junior College, later serving as a pilot flying a B-24 in the Army Air forces. Charles won some awards including Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and the Purple Heart award. In 1948 he graduated from the University of Michigan and later joined the FBI in 1954. Nuzum moved to Washington in the early 1960s.
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