Declassification

Inside the fall of Nixon: Newly released CIA documents reveal the turmoil of Watergate, North Korea's delight in the end of America's 'Wicked Boss' and what the USSR really thought of the disgraced President

Newly declassified intelligence documents have revealed the Soviets were worried the Watergate scandal embroiling then President Richard Nixon would be used as an excuse to wreck relations with the USSR.

A brief on September 5, 1973, said Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had 'voiced suspicions that opponents of Soviet-U.S. accommodation are trying to exploit Watergate and said he wanted to build detente so firmly that it will not be an issue in future U.S. politics.'

The international response to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's fall is noted in 2,500 documents the CIA released on Wednesday at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.