Howard Hunt, Jr., American spy (born Oct. 9, 1918, Hamburg, N.Y.—died Jan. 23, 2007, Miami, Fla.), spent 33 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to wiretapping and conspiracy in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex, Washington, D.C., and he organized a string of covert operations as a consultant to U.S.
Allegiance United StatesRole WriterName E. HuntNationality AmericanCodename(s) Robert DietrichService OSS, CIA, President's Special Investigations Unit (White House Plumbers)Operation(s) Operation PBSUCCESSWatergate scandalBirth name Everette Howard Hunt, Jr.Born October 9, 1918Hamburg, New York, United States ( 1918-10-09)Died January 23, 2007, Miami, Florida, United StatesSpouse Laura E. 1977–2007), Dorothy Hunt (m.
1949–1972)Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & CanadaBooks American Spy: My Secret Hi, House Dick, Guilty knowledge, Sonora, Dragon teethSimilar People Frank Sturgis, G Gordon Liddy, Richard Nixon, Charles Colson, Mark FeltEducation Brown University (1940). Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007), better known as E. Howard Hunt, was an American intelligence officer and writer. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Along with G.
Gordon Liddy and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration 'plumbers', a secret team of operatives charged with fixing 'leaks' – real or perceived causes of confidential administration information being leaked to outside parties. Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration. In the ensuing Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
Howard HuntAllegianceUnited StatesService, (White House Plumbers)Operation(s)Codename(s)Robert DietrichGordon DavisDavid St. JohnEdward WarrenBirth nameEverette Howard Hunt, Jr.Born( 1918-10-09)October 9, 1918, United StatesDiedJanuary 23, 2007 ( 2007-01-23) (aged 88), United StatesNationalityAmericanParentsEverette Howard Hunt Sr. And Ethel Jean TotterdaleSpouseDorothy Louise WetzelLaura E. MartinChildrenSaint John Hunt, David Hunt, Kevan Spence (nee Hunt), Lisa HuntOccupationofficer, authorAlma materEverette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American and writer. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as a officer. Along with and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon White House ' — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing ' (real or perceived causes of confidential Administration information being leaked to outside parties).
Hunt and Liddy engineered the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon Administration. In the ensuing, Hunt was convicted of burglary, and, eventually serving 33 months in prison. Contents.Early life and careerHunt was born in, United States, the son of Ethel Jean (Totterdale) and Everette Howard Hunt, Sr., a Republican Party official. An alumnus of in and a 1940 graduate of, Hunt during served in the on the destroyer, and finally, the (OSS) in China. AuthorHunt was a prolific author, primarily of spy novels. During and after the war, he wrote several novels under his own name — East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949), and The Violent Ones (1950) — and, more famously, several spy and novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St.
Hunt won a for his writing in 1946. CIA and anti-Castro effortshad just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA in October 1949 as a political action specialist, in what came to be called their. The CIA was the successor organization of the OSS. Hunt became station chief in in 1950, and supervised, who worked for the CIA in during the period 1951–1952.
Buckley and Hunt remained lifelong friends.In Mexico, Hunt helped devise, the successful covert plan to overthrow, the elected president of. Following assignments in Japan and as station chief in, Hunt was given the assignment of forging leaders in the United States into a broadly representative government-in-exile that would, after the, form a provisional government to take over. The failure of the invasion damaged his career.After the Bay of Pigs, Hunt became a personal assistant to. States that Hunt was asked to assist Dulles in writing a book, The Craft of Intelligence, that Dulles wrote following his involuntary retirement as CIA head in 1961.
The book was published in 1963.Hunt told the in 1973 that he had served as the first Chief of Covert Action for the CIA's. He told the in 1974 that he spent about four years working for the division, beginning shortly after it was set up, by the Kennedy Administration in 1962, over the 'strenuous opposition' of. He said that the division was assembled shortly after the Bay of Pigs operation, and that 'many men connected with that failure were shunted into the new domestic unit.'
He said that some of his projects from 1962 to 1966, which dealt largely with the subsidizing and manipulation of news and publishing organizations, 'did seem to violate the intent of the agency's charter.' Hunt was undeniably bitter about what he perceived as President 's lack of commitment in overturning the regime. In his semi-fictional autobiography, Give Us This Day, he wrote: 'The Kennedy administration yielded Castro all the excuse he needed to gain a tighter grip on the island of, then moved shamefacedly into the shadows and hoped the Cuban issue would simply melt away.' Disillusioned, he retired from the CIA on May 1, 1970. White House service.He went to work for the, which cooperated with the CIA;, White House Chief of Staff to President Nixon, wrote in 1978 that the Mullen Company was in fact a CIA front company, a fact which was apparently unknown to Haldeman while he worked in the White House. Hunt obtained a to handle the firm's affairs during Mullen's absence from Washington.
The following year, he was hired by, special counsel to President, and joined the President's Special Investigations Unit (alias ). Watergate and related scandals. Hunt testifies before the Watergate CommitteeHunt's first assignment for the White House was a covert operation to break into the Los Angeles office of 's, Dr. In July 1971, Fielding had refused an request for psychiatric data on Ellsberg.
Hunt and Liddy cased the building in late August. The burglary, on September 3, 1971, was not detected, but no Ellsberg files were found.Also in the summer of 1971, Colson authorized Hunt to travel to to seek potentially scandalous information on Senator, specifically pertaining to the and to Kennedy's possible extramarital affairs.
Hunt sought and used CIA disguises and other equipment for the project. This mission eventually proved unsuccessful, with little if any useful information uncovered by Hunt.Hunt's White House duties included assassinations-related. In September 1971, Hunt forged and offered to a magazine reporter two top-secret cables designed to prove that President Kennedy had personally and specifically ordered the assassination of and his brother. Hunt told the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 that he had fabricated the cables to show a link between President Kennedy and the assassination of Diem, a Catholic, to estrange Catholic voters from the Democratic Party, after Colson suggested he 'might be able to improve upon the record.' According to, writing in, Nixon White House tapes show that after presidential candidate was shot on May 15, 1972, Nixon and Colson agreed to send Hunt to the home of the gunman, to place presidential campaign material there. The intention was to link Bremer with the Democrats.
Hersh writes that, in a taped conversation, 'Nixon is energized and excited by what seems to be the ultimate political dirty trick: the FBI and the Milwaukee police will be convinced, and will tell the world, that the attempted assassination of Wallace had its roots in left-wing Democratic politics.' Hunt did not make the trip, however, because the FBI had moved too quickly to seal Bremer's apartment and place it under police guard.Hunt organized the bugging of the at the Watergate office building.A few days after the break-in, Nixon was recorded saying, to, 'This fellow Hunt, he knows too damn much.' Very bad, to have this fellow Hunt, ah, you know, ah, it's, he, he knows too damn much and he was involved, we happen to know that. Howard Hunt & One of the Three Tramps Arrested after JFK Assassination, the, and the photographed three under police escort near the shortly after the assassination of Kennedy.
The men later became known as the 'three tramps'. According to, allegations that these men were involved in a conspiracy originated from theorist who compiled the photographs in 1966 and 1967, and subsequently turned them over to during his.
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Appearing before a nationwide audience on the December 31, 1968 episode of, Garrison held up a photo of the three and suggested they were involved in the assassination. Later, in 1974, assassination researchers and Michael Canfield compared photographs of the men to people they believed to be suspects involved in a conspiracy and said that two of the men were Watergate burglars E. Comedian and civil rights activist helped bring national media attention to the allegations against Hunt and Sturgis in 1975 after obtaining the comparison photographs from Weberman and Canfield. Immediately after obtaining the photographs, Gregory held a press conference that received considerable coverage and his charges were reported in and.The Rockefeller Commission reported in 1975 that they investigated the allegation that Hunt and Sturgis, on behalf of the CIA, participated in the assassination of Kennedy. The final report of that commission stated that witnesses who testified that the 'derelicts' bore a resemblance to Hunt or Sturgis 'were not shown to have any qualification in photo identification beyond that possessed by an average layman'.
Their report also stated that FBI Agent Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt, 'a nationally-recognized expert in photoidentification and photoanalysis' with the FBI photographic laboratory, had concluded from photo comparison that none of the men was Hunt or Sturgis. In 1979, the reported that forensic anthropologists had again analyzed and compared the photographs of the 'tramps' with those of Hunt and Sturgis, as well as with photographs of Thomas Vallee, Daniel Carswell,.
According to the Committee, only Chrisman resembled any of the tramps but determined that he was not to be in Dealey Plaza on the day of the assassination. In 1992, journalist Mary La Fontaine discovered the November 22, 1963 arrest records that the Dallas Police Department had released in 1989, which named the three men as Gus W.
Abrams, Harold Doyle, and John F. According to the arrest reports, the three men were 'taken off a boxcar in the railroad yards right after President Kennedy was shot', detained as 'investigative prisoners', described as unemployed and passing through Dallas, then released four days later. Compulsive spy and Coup d'Etat in AmericaIn 1973, published 's book about Hunt's career titled Compulsive Spy. Szulc, a former correspondent, claimed unnamed CIA sources told him that Hunt, working with, had a role in coordinating the assassination of Castro for an aborted second invasion of Cuba.
In one passage, he also stated that Hunt was the acting chief of the CIA station in Mexico City in 1963 while was there.The Rockefeller Commission's June 1975 report stated that they investigated allegations that the CIA, including Hunt, may have had contact with Oswald. According to the Commission, one 'witness testified that E. Howard Hunt was Acting Chief of a CIA Station in Mexico City in 1963, implying that he could have had contact with Oswald when Oswald visited Mexico City in September 1963.' Their report stated that there was 'no credible evidence' of CIA involvement in the assassination and noted: 'At no time was Hunt ever the Chief, or Acting Chief, of a CIA Station in Mexico City.Released in the Fall of 1975 after the Rockefeller Commission's report, Weberman and Canfield's book Coup d'Etat in America reiterated Szulc's allegation. In July 1976, Hunt filed a $2.5 million libel suit against the authors, as well as the book's publishers and editor. According to, Hunt's attorney who filed the suit in a Miami federal court, the book said that Hunt took part in the assassination of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.As part of his suit, Hunt filed a in the in September 1978 requesting that Szulc be cited for if he refused to divulge his sources. Three months earlier, Szulc stated in a deposition that he refused to name his sources due to 'the professional confidentiality of sources'.
Rubin stated that knowing the source of the allegation that Hunt was in Mexico City in 1963 was important because Szulc's passage 'is what everybody uses as an authority. He's cited in everything written on E. Howard Hunt'. He added that rumors that Hunt was involved in the Kennedy assassination might be put to end if Szulc's source was revealed.
Stating that Hunt had not provided a sufficient reason to override Szulc's, ruled in favor of Szulc. Libel suit: Liberty LobbyOn November 3, 1978, Hunt gave a security-classified deposition for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. He denied knowledge of any conspiracy to kill Kennedy. (The (ARRB) released the deposition in February 1996.) Two newspaper articles published a few months before the deposition stated that a 1966 CIA memo linking Hunt to the assassination of President Kennedy had recently been provided to the HSCA. The first article, by —author of the book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974)—appeared in the newspaper on August 14, 1978. According to Marchetti, the memo said in essence, 'Some day we will have to explain Hunt's presence in Dallas on November 22, 1963.'
He also wrote that Hunt, and would soon be implicated in a conspiracy to kill.The second article, by Joseph J. Trento and, appeared in the Sunday six days later. It alleged that the purported memo was initialed by and and showed that, shortly after Helms and Angleton were elevated to their highest positions in the CIA, they discussed the fact that Hunt had been in Dallas on the day of the assassination and that his presence there had to be kept secret. However, nobody has been able to produce this supposed memo, and the determined that Hunt had been in Washington, D.C. On the day of the assassination.Hunt sued Liberty Lobby—but not the Sunday News Journal—for. Liberty Lobby stipulated, in this first trial, that the question of Hunt's alleged involvement in the assassination would not be contested. Hunt prevailed and was awarded $650,000 damages.
In 1983, however, the case was overturned on appeal because of error in jury instructions. In a second trial, held in 1985, made an issue of Hunt's location on the day of the Kennedy assassination. Lane successfully defended Liberty Lobby by producing evidence suggesting that Hunt had been in Dallas. He used depositions from, and, plus a of Hunt. On retrial, the jury rendered a verdict for Liberty Lobby. Lane claimed he convinced the jury that Hunt was a JFK assassination conspirator, but some of the jurors who were interviewed by the media said they disregarded the conspiracy theory and judged the case (according to the judge's jury instructions) on whether the article was published with 'reckless disregard for the truth.'
Lane outlined his theory about Hunt's and the CIA's role in Kennedy's murder in a 1991 book, Plausible Denial. Mitrokhin Archive.
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