Charles Radford, a US Navy yeoman first class, worked at the National Security Council in the early 1970s. His clerical role gave him access to highly classified US government documents. Between 1970 and 1974, Radford secretly copied thousands of sensitive papers. He passed these to top military officers, including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Thomas Moorer. This spying exposed how the military monitored civilian US leaders internally. Radford’s leaks related to the 1971 India-Pakistan war. Henry Kissinger managed US foreign policy during that crisis. Publicly, the US claimed neutrality but privately backed Pakistan, which was key to enabling Nixon’s secret outreach to China. Radford copied Kissinger’s memoranda, National Security Council notes, and classified assessments on the conflict. The leaked documents revealed Nixon and Kissinger’s secret support for Pakistan and their use of military signals to pressure India. This contradicted US public neutrality claims and exposed Washington’s real motives during the war, which saw mass atrocities in East Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. Radford gave the material to journalist Jack Anderson, who published stories revealing the US government's hidden actions. The leaks embarrassed Nixon’s administration and increased tension between the White House and military leaders. Military chiefs supported Radford’s spying. They disliked Nixon and Kissinger’s policies, resented being sidelined in wartime decisions, and viewed Radford’s actions as a necessary check on civilian control. Although caught and admitting the leaks, Radford was never prosecuted. Nixon said charging him risked revealing secret US diplomacy and illegal government surveillance. Radford was quietly removed and the affair remained classified for decades. Parts of Nixon’s 1975 testimony on Radford’s case stayed sealed for nearly 50 years. Recent release shows how close the US came to a constitutional crisis during Watergate, with conflicts between civilian authority and an independent military security apparatus. Charles Radford was a junior figure but his actions exposed a deep struggle over US foreign policy control during the Cold War and reshaped the Watergate story.