Everett Howard Hunt – Wikipedia

Everett Howard Hunt Jr. (Hamburg, 9 October 1918 – Miami, 23 January 2007) was an American secret agent and writer.

From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an official of the CIA, in particular he was active in the involvement of the United States of America in the changes of regime in Latin America, including the coup d’etat in Guatemala in 1954 and the attempt to invasion of Cuba at the bay of the pigs. According to G. Gordon Liddy and Frank Sturgis, Hunt was one of the so -called ” plumbers “Of the presidency of Richard Nixon, a group of operational agents in charge of identifying the possible sources of information considered dangerous for the government. ^[first]

Together with Gordon Liddy, Hunt designed the theft with a burglary burglary and other clandestine operations on behalf of the Nixon administration. Following the Watergate scandal, Hunt was sentenced for theft with burglary, a criminal association and interception and remained for this 33 months in prison. After his release he lived first in Mexico and then in Florida, where he remained until his death.

Hunt was born in Hamburg in the state of New York, ^[2] , son of Ethel Jean (Totterale) and Everette Howard Hunt Sr., a lawyer and official of the Republican Party. He graduated in 1936 in the Hamburg High School in New York ^[3] And then to the Brown University of Providence in 1940. During the Second World War, Hunt served in the US Navy, boarded the USS destroyer Mayo , then in the Air Force and finally in the OSS, the precursor of the CIA, in China. ^[4]

Author [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Hunt was a prolific author, having published 73 books in his life. ^[5] During and after the war he wrote several novels under his name, including East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949), and The Violent Ones (1950). He also wrote espionage novels e hardboiled Under various pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis, David St. John and P. S. Donoghue. Hunt also won the Guggenheim Fellowship prize for his works in 1946. Someone found parallels between his writings and his experiences of espionage and watergregate. ^[6] He continued his writer’s career after being released from prison, publishing almost twenty espionage works between 1980 and 2000. ^{[2] [7]}

CIA [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Anti-castro activity [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Shortly after the end of the Second World War the OSS was dismantled. The subsequent emergency of the Cold War and the lack of a central organization of intelligence determined the creation of the CIA. Warner Bros. had just purchased the rights of Hunt’s novel Bimini Run , when these, in October 1949, became part of the CIA’s political coordination office. He was assigned as a undercover actions officer, specialized in political activities and influences in what will then be called special activities division. ^[8]

According to David Talbot,

( IN ) «Howard Hunt prided himself on being part of the CIA’s upper tier. But that’s not how he was viewed at the top of the agency. Hunt liked to brag that he had family connections to Wild Bill Donovan himself, who had admitted him into the the original roundtable of American intelligence. But it turned out that Hunt’s father was a lobbyist in upstate New York to whom Donovan owed a favor, not a fellow Wall Street lawyer. Everyone knew Hunt was a writer, but they also knew he was no Ian Fleming. To the Georgetown set, there would always be something low-rent about men like Hunt—as well as William Harvey and David Morales. The CIA was a cold hierarchy. Men like this would never be invited for lunch with Allen Dulles at the Alibi Club or to play tennis with Dick Helms at the Chevy Chase Club. These men were indispensable—until they became expendable.»

( IT ) «Howard Hunt felt proud to be part of the highest level of the CIA. But this was not seen as the top of the agency. Hunt loved to boast of having a family bond with William Joseph Donovan himself, who had enrolled him in the OSS, the original “round table” of intelligence American. But Hunt’s father came out was a “lobbyist” in the north of the state of New York, to whom Donovan had to be a favor, not a legal member of Wall Street. Everyone knew that Hunt was a writer, but it was also known that it was not an Ian Fleming. In Georgetown’s-wellness environments, there would always have been some of low revenues about people like Hunt- as well as William Harvey and David Morales. The CIA was a “cold” hierarchy. People like him would never have been invited to breakfast with Allen Dulles at the Alibi Club or to play tennis with Dick Helms at the Chevy Chase Club. These people were indispensable- as long as they became spent. ”

( [9] )

Mexico, Guatemala, Japan, Uruguay and Cuba [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Hunt became head of the OPC station in Mexico City in 1950, and recruited and supervised by William Buckley, who worked in the Hunt OPC station in Mexico in the period 1951–1952. Buckley and Hunt remained friends for life and Buckley became godfather of the first of Hunt’s three children. ^[ten]

In Mexico, Hunt collaborated in setting the Pbfortune’s operation, subsequently renamed PBSUCCESS Operation, the successful “covered” operation to overthrow Jacobo Árbenz, the president of Guatemala democratically elected.

Hunt was assigned head of the operations covered in Japan. Subsequently he served as the head of the station in Uruguay (where he was noticed by the diplomat Samuel F. Hart, for his controversial methods of action). Hunt would subsequently say:

( IN ) «What we wanted to do was to have a terror campaign, to terrify Arbenz particularly, to terrify his troops, much as the German Stuka bombers terrified the population of Holland, Belgium and Poland.»	( IT ) “What we wanted to do was a campaign of terror, to terrorize in particular Arbenz, to terrorize his troops, more than the German bombers Stuka terrified the populations of Holland, Belgium and Poland.”
( [11] [twelfth] )

Hunt was subsequently entrusted with the task of forming the Cuban leaders in exile in the United States as suitable representatives of a government in exile that would, after the invasion of the bay of the pigs, formed a state of the united pro-stated puppet, with the intention to take Cuba. ^[13]

The failure of the invasion temporarily damned his career.

Hunt was undeniably embittered for what he perceived by the lack of assignment by President John F. Kennedy for the attack A and the reversal of the Cuban government. ^[14] In his semi-ironed autobiography, Give Us This Day , he wrote:

( IN ) «The Kennedy administration yielded Castro all the excuse he needed to gain a tighter grip on the island of José Martí, then moved shamefacedly into the shadows and hoped the Cuban issue would simply melt away.»	( IT ) “The Kennedy administration provided in Castro all the excuses he needed to obtain a solid control on the island of José Martí, so he disappeared shamefully in the shadows and hoped that the Cuban question simply melted [alone].”
( Everett Howard Hunt, Give Us This Day )

Executive assistant of the DCI Allen Dulles [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In 1959 Hunt helped the director of the CIA Allen W. Dulles to write The Craft of Intelligence . ^[15] In the following years Hunt founded the 2506 brigade, a group of Cuban exiles sponsored by the CIA and set up to try the military reversal of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. He made the aborted invasion of the bay of the porci, with the landing in Cuba on April 17, 1961. After this Fiasco, Hunt was reassured to the position of executive assistant of Dulles. ^[16]

Other activities [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

After President John F. Kennedy had torpedoed Dulles in 1961 for the failure of the Bay of the Porci, Hunt served as the first head of the undercover operations for the domestic operations division (Dods) from 1962 to 1964.

Hunt declared to The New York Times In 1974 that he had spent about four years working for the Dods, starting shortly after he had been installed by the Kennedy administration in 1962, with the strenuous opposition of Richard Helms and Thomas H. Karamessines. He said that the division was put together shortly after the operation of the porci bay and that “many men involved in this failure were transferred to new national units”. He also stated that some of his projects from 1962 to 1966, who had widely dealing with subsidies and manipulations of news and publishing organizations in the USA “seemed to violate the purposes of their constitutive act”. ^[17]

In 1964, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) John A. McCone directed Hunt to take a special assignment as an agent with unofficial coverage in Madrid (Spain), with the task of creating the American response to the series of novels by Ian Fleming with The agent of the British secret service James Bond. Once assigned to Spain, Hunt had the coverage as an official of the foreign office of the United States Department of State, who had transferred his family to Spain to write the first draft of the 9 novels of the Peter Ward series, On Hazardous Duty (1965).

After a year and a half in Spain Hunt returned to his assignment in the Dods.
After a short mandate at the Special Activities Staff of the European West Division, he became head of the actions covered for the Region (however remaining his headquarters in the Washington metropolitan area) in July 1968. Hunt was praised for his “sagacity, Balance and imagination “, and received the second highest qualification of Forte (which meant” performance … characterized by exceptional competence “) in an examination of the performance by the head division of operations in April 1969. However, this was reduced to the major third Degree of adequacy in an amendment by the deputy head of the division, which recognized Hunt’s “vast experience” but objective that “a series of personal and tax problems” had “aimed at making his cut more tanned.” ^[18] Hunt subsequently claimed that he “had been stigmatized for the episode of the bay of the pigs”, and had come to the conclusion that he “would not be promoted too high.” ^[19] In these final years of the service provided by Hunt for the CIA, he began to cultivate new contacts in the “world of society and business”. ^[19] As he served as vice -president of the Brown University Club of Washington, he made friends and began a strong link with the president of the organization, already Congreational Assistant Charles Colson, who soon began to work for the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon. ^[20] Hunt left the CIA with the degree of GS-15, Step 8 ^[21] April 30, 1970.
After retiring from the CIA, Hunt neglected to create a pension fund for his wife. In April 1971 he asked to remedy this decision but had a refusal from the agency. On May 5, 1972, with a letter to the general councilor of the CIA Lawrence Houston, Hunt overshadowed the possibility of returning to active service for a short period in exchange for the activation of the Fund for its proposed according to retirement. Houston replied in his response on May 16 that this “would have been a violation of the spirit of the CIA law on retirement”. ^[21]

Immediately after his retreat, he went to work for Robert R. Mullen Company, who collaborated with the CIA; H. R. Haldeman, head of cabinet of the White House during the Nixon presidency, wrote in 1978 that Mullen Company was in fact a CIA facade company, which was apparently unknown to Haldeman while he worked at the White House. ^[22] With the CIA project QKenchant, Hunt obtained a security covered approval to treat the business affairs during the absence of Mullen from Washington. ^{[23] [24]}

Service at the White House [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In 1971, Hunt was hired as a consultant by Charles Colson, director of the Nixon Public Relations Office, and entered the Special Investigative Unit of the White House, specialized in political sabotage. ^[4]

Hunt’s first assignment for the White House was a “covered” operation to be clandestinely introduced to the Los Angeles office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, Lewis J. Fielding. ^[25] In July 1971, Fielding had rejected the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation relating to the psychiatric data of Ellsberg. ^[26] Hunt and Liddy examined the building in late August. ^[27] Fraudulent access took place on 3 September 1971 and was not discovered, but no archive was found regarding Ellsberg. ^[28]

Even in the summer of 1971, Colson authorized Hunt to go to new England to look for potentially scandalous information on Senator Ted Kennedy, concerning the ChappaquidDick accident in particular and any extra-specific relationships of Kennedy. ^[22] Hunt sought and used disguises and other CIA vehicles for the project. ^[29] Finally, this mission proved to be a failure, with a few or null useful information discovered by Hunt. ^[22]

Hunt’s tasks at the White House also included disinformation works relating to murders.
In September 1971, Hunt falsified and offered the magazine Life Two telegrams top-secret of the United States Department of States of America created to demonstrate that President Kennedy personally and specifically ordered the assassination of the President of the South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngô osenh Nhu, during the 1963 coup d’état in South Vietnam. ^[30] Hunt told the United States’ Watergate Committee of the Senate in 1973 that he had “manufactured” the telegrams to show a connection between President Kennedy and the assassination of Diem, a Catholic, to subtract the votes of the Catholics from the Democratic Party. ^{[thirty first]}

In 1972, Hunt and Liddy were part of a conspiracy to assassinate journalist Jack Anderson, on Colson’s order. ^[32] Nixon had aversion to Anderson since during the 1960 Anderson presidential elections he had published a story concerning a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon’s brother ^[33] that Nixon believed it had been the reason why he lost those elections. Hunt and Liddy met an operational CIA and discussed how to assassinate Anderson, including sprinkling the LSD Anderson car steering wheel to take drugs and cause a fatal accident, ^[4] poison his aspirin bowler hat and organize a robbery with murder. The plot never realized because Hunt and Liddy were arrested for their involvement in the Watergate scandal later in that year.

The Watergate scandal [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

According to Seymour Hersh, who wrote on The New Yorker , Nixon’s tapes to the White House show that after the shooting against the presidential candidate George Wallace of 15 May 1972, Nixon and Colson agreed to send Hunt to the home of the criminal Arthur Bremer, in Milwaukee, to place the McGovern presidential campaign there. The intention was to connect Bremer with the Democrats. Hersh wrote that, in a recorded conversation,

( IN ) «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.»	( IT ) “Nixon is stimulated and excited by what seems to be one last and dirty political makeup: the FBI and the Milwaukee police will be convinced, and will say to the world, that the attempt to assassinate Wallace had roots in the left wing of the democratic politicians.”
( Seymour Hersh )

However, Hunt did not travel because the FBI had moved too quickly, sealing Bremer’s apartment and putting it under police control. ^[34]

Hunt organized the establishment of the National Democratic Committee in the building for Watergate Offices. ^[35] Hunt and the operating colleague G. Gordon Liddy, together with the five clusters arrested in the Watergate, were incriminated for crimes of federal competence three months later.

Hunt exerted pressure on the White House and on the President’s re -election committee in order to obtain cash payments to cover the legal expenses, give financial support to the family and the personal expenses and of his scassinatori companions. Figure-key Nixon, including Haldeman, Charles Colson, Herbert W. Kalmbach, John Mitchell, Fred Larue, and John Dean ended up ined in the reward schemes and conspicuous amount of money were passed to Hunt and his accomplices to try to secure themselves their silence at the trial, declaring themselves guilty to avoid the accusation questions and beyond. ^[36] Tenacious communication means, including the The Washington Post and the The New York Times In the end they used investigative journalism to reveal the financing system and published several articles that proved that it was at the beginning of the end of the abilling. The public accusation exploited the journalistic revelations. Hunt also put pressure on Colson, Dean and John Ehrlichman, to ask Nixon who worked for clemency in the sentences and finally the presidential forgiveness for himself and for his friendly; This eventually favored the implication and trapping of those who were higher. ^[37]

Hunt was sentenced from 30 months to 8 years in prison, ^[38] and spent 33 months in prison at the Federal Correctional Complex of Allenwood and the federal prison with minimal safety at the base of the Air Force of Eglin, in Florida, reaching the latter on April 25, 1975. ^[39] While he was in Allenwood, he suffered a medium severity heart attack. ^[40]

Hunt supported the conclusion of the Warren commission that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ^[41]

Preliminary statements: Hunt as one of the three tramps [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The Dallas Morning News , The Dallas Times Herald , and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram They photographed three homeless people escorted by the police near the Texas School Book Depository shortly after Kennedy’s assassination. ^[42] The men later became known as i three tramps . ^[43] According to Vincent Bugliosi, statements that these men were involved in a conspiracy originated from the theory Richard E. Sprague, who compiled the photographs in 1966 and 1967, and subsequently turned to Jim Garrison during his investigation on Clay Shaw. ^[44]

Appearing in a public hearing on 31 December 1968, the episode of The Tonight Show Garrison showed a photograph of the three and suggested that they had been involved in a murder. ^[44] . Further on, in 1974, the investigators of murders Alan J. Weberman and Michael Canfield compared men’s photographs to those who suspected were involved in a conspiracy and said that two of the men were the burglars of the Watergate, E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. ^[45] The comedian and activist of Civil Rights Dick Gregory helped to bring the attention of the national media on the statements against Hunt and Sturgis in 1975 after obtaining the photographic comparison from Weberman and Canfield. ^[45] Immediately after Gregory he held a press conference that received considerable attention and his accusations were reported on the periodicals Rolling Stone It is Newsweek . ^{[45] [forty six]}

The Rockefeller Commission reported in 1975 that they investigated the declaration that Hunt and Sturgis, on behalf of the CIA, participated in the assassination of Kennedy. ^[47] The final relationship of that commission established that witnesses who asserted that the “derelitti” had a similarity to Hunt or Sturgis “did not seem to have any characteristic in identifying the photography as well as the fact of being that of any average man”. ^[48] Their report also established that the FBI agent, an “expert recognized at national level in identifying through photos and analysis of the photographs” together with the FBI photographic laboratory, had concluded from the comparison of the photographs that none of the people [of the photo] was Hunt or Sturgis. ^[49] In 1979, the Commission chosen by the Chamber of Deputies on cases of assassination reported that forensic anthropologists had already analyzed and compared the photographs of the “wanders” with those of Hunt and Sturgis, as with those of Thomas Vallee, Daniel Carswell and Fred Lee Chrisman. ^[50] According to the Committee, only Chrisman resembled some of the wandering, but he flattened that he was not on the Dealey Plaza on the day of the assassination. ^[50]

In 1992, the journalist Mary La Fontaine discovered on November 22, 1963 recordings of the arrest that the Dallas police department had released in 1989, which quoted the three men such as Gus W. Abrams, Harold Doyle and John F. Gedney. ^[51] According to reports on the arrest, the three men “were brought out of a car box on the road immediately after they shot President Kennedy”, detained as “prisoners for investigations”, described as unemployed people who passed through Dallas, then released four days later . ^[51]

Compulsive Spy It is Coup d’Etat in America [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In 1973, Viking Press published Tad Szulc’s book on Hunt’s career entitled Compulsive Spy . ^[52] Szulc, a former correspondent of The New York Times , he supported by unidentified sources of the CIA that Hunt, working with Rolando Cubela Secodes, played a role in the coordination for the assassination of Castro for a second aborted invasion of Cuba. ^[52] In a passage, he also claimed that Hunt was the operating garment of the CIA station in Mexico City in 1963, while Lee Harvey Oswald was there. ^{[53] [54]} Szulc Scrisse: As I mentioned above, Hunt spent August and September 1963 in Città del Messico in charge of the CIA station there . (it.: As I mentioned above, Hunt spent August and September 1963 in Mexico City in command of the local CIA station) ^[55]

The report of June 1975 of the Rockefeller Commission established that they investigated the statements that the CIA, including Hunt, may have had contact with Oswald or with Jack Ruby. ^[56] According to the Commission, a “witness witnessed that E. Howard Hunt was head of CIA station in Mexico City in 1963, which implies that he” could have “had had contacts with Oswald when he visited Mexico City in September 1963. ” ^[57] Their relationship established that there was no “credible evidence” of an involvement of the CIA in the assassination and noticed: “never [hunt] was in charge, or agent in this quality, of a headquarters in the Cia Mexico City”. ^[58]

Published in the autumn of 1975, after the report of the Rockefeller Commission, the book by Weberman and Canfield Coup d’Etat in America I will reiterate Szulc’s statements. ^[54] Weberman and Canfield wrote: “According to the former journalist of Times , Tad Szulc, Howard Hunt was the head of the CIA station in Mexico City in August – September 1963 “. In July 1976, Hunt embarked on a cause for $ 2.5 million defamation against the authors, as against publishers. ^[59] According to Ellis Rubin, a public accuser of Hunt who intended the cause before the Federal Court of Miami, the book stated that Hunt had taken part in the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. ^[59]

As part of his cause, Hunt began a legal action at the District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia in September 1978, asking for Szulc to be accused for the insult to the court if he had refused to reveal his sources. ^[53] Three months earlier, Szulc stated in a deposition that he refused to reveal his sources based on “professional secret on sources” and the “privilege of journalists”. ^[53] Rubin stated that the knowledge of the sources of the affirmation that Hunt was in Mexico City in 1963 was important for the passage “is what everyone uses as authority … he is mentioned in every writing on E. Howard Hunt”. ^[53] He added that to the rumors that Hunt was involved in the assassination of Kennedy could have ended if the sources of Szulc had been revealed. ^[53] Since Hunt had not provided sufficient reasons to overcome the rights of protections of the sources according to the first amendment, the judge of the Albert Vickers Bryan Jr. district issued his sentence in favor of Szulc. ^[54]

Cause for defamation: liberty lobby and it Spotlight [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

On November 3, 1978, Hunt provided a reserved deposition for the Assassinii Committee. He denied having been aware of any conspiracy to kill Kennedy. (The Assassination Reviews Review Board (ERB) made the Deposition public in February 1996.) ^[60] Two newspaper articles published a few months before the deposition claimed that a 1966 Memorandum of the CIA, which connected Hunt to the assassination of President Kennedy, had been recently provided by the Hsca. The first article by Victor Marchetti – Author of the book Book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974) – appeared in the Liberty Lobby newspaper, The Spotlight on August 14, 1978. According to Marchetti, the memo Which essentially said “one day we will have to explain the presence of Hunt in Dallas on November 22, 1963.” ^{[sixty one]} He also wrote that Hunt, Frank Sturgis and Gerry Patrick Hemming were implicated in conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy.

A second article, edited by Joseph J. Trento and Jacquie Powers, appeared six days later in the Sunday edition of The News Journal , Wilmington, nel Delaware. ^[62]

It claimed that the alleged memo It had been started by Richard Helms and James Angleton and showed that, shortly after Helms and Angleton were promoted to their high position in the CIA, they discussed the fact that Hunt was in Dallas on the day of the assassination and that his presence had to be Secret keen. However no one had been able to exhibit this supposed memo , and the president of the presidential commission on CIA’s activities in the United States showed that Hunt had been present in Washington on the day of the assassination. ^[63]

Hunt feces cause a Liberty Lobby – but not to Sunday News Journal – for defamation. Liberty Lobby He claimed, in this first procedure, that Hunt’s alleged involvement in the assassination would not have been contested. ^{[sixty four]} Hunt prevailed and a compensation for damages of $ 650 000 was recognized. In 1983, however, the judgment was overturned on appeal due to errors in the establishment of the jury. ^[65] In a second trial, held in 1985, the writer Mark Lane posted the problem of where Hunt was on the day of the assassination of Kennedy. ^[66] Lane successfully defended the Liberty Lobby Producing evidences that suggested that Hunt had been to Dallas. He used David Atlee Phillips’ depositions, Richard Helms, G. Gordon Liddy, Stansfield Turner and Marita Lorenz, plus a Hunt interrogation. In the new process the jury issued a verdict in favor of the Liberty Lobby . ^{[sixty seven]} Lane claimed to have convinced the jury that Hunt had been one of the conspirators in the assassination of JFK, but some juror, who was interviewed by media , he said that they had rejected the conspiracy theory and judged the case (based on the judge’s instructions) on the fact that the article had been published with “unconscious contempt for truth.” ^[68] Lane stressed this theory about the roles of Hunt and CIA in the assassination of Kennedy in a 1991 book, Plausible Denial . ^[69]

Archivio Mitrokhin [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The former Kgb Vasili Mitrokhin archivist indicated that in 1999 Hunt was part of a conspiracy theory created artfully and disclosed by a Soviet program of operating measures specifically adopted to discredit the CIA and the United States. ^{[70] [71]} According to Mitrokhin, the KGB created a false letter from Oswald to Hunt thus implying that the two men were connected to each other as conspirators, so he sent copies to “three of the most active conspiracy pisters” in 1975. ^[70] Mitrokhin indicated that the photocopies were accompanied by a false letter of anonymous source, claiming that the original had been to the director of the FBI Clarence M. Kelley and had apparently been eliminated. ^[70]

“Confession on the death bed” on the involvement in the assassination of Kennedy [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

After Hunt’s death, Howard St. John Hunt and David Hunt claimed that their father had recorded numerous statements about himself and others involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. ^{[4] [72]} Recordings of notes and audio were made. On April 5, 2007, number of Rolling Stone , St. John Hunt listed a number of individuals who believed to be implicated by his father, including Lyndon B. Johnson, Cord Meyer, David Atlee Phillips, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, Antonio Veciana, William Harvey and a murderer he called French gunman grassy knoll that many presume is Lucien Sarti. ^{[4] [seventy three]} The two children claimed that their father “cut” the information from his memories to avoid possible incriminations for perjury. ^[72] According to the widow of Hunt and other children, the two brothers took advantage of the loss of lucidity of Hunt to exploit him for money and subsequently falsified Hunt’s supposed confessions. ^[72] The Los Angeles Times He said he examined the material offered by the children to support the story and to have found him “inconclusive”. ^[72]

Memory: American Spy: my secret story in the CIA, Watergate and beyond [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Hunt’s memory, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond , ^[74] It was written by ghost-writer Greg Aunapu and published by John Wiley & Sons in March 2007. ^[75] According to the Hunt writer, he would have intended to write an update to his 1974 autobiography Undercover And add a supplement with post-9/11 reflections, but when immersed in the project it was too sick to continue.

This suggested John Wiley & Sons to look for a ghost writer who wrote the book in its integrity. According to St. John Hunt, it was he who suggested to his father the idea of ​​a memory to reveal what he knew about the assassination of Kennedy but the Hunt Litery Summer refused her as a calm. ^[72]

The premise ad American Spy it was written by William F. Buckley Jr. ^[76] In Buckley, it was requested through an intermediary to write the introduction but declined after discovering that the manuscript contained material “which proposed transgressions of the largest order, including the suggestion that Lyndon B. Johnson could have had a role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. ” ^[76] He established that the work was certainly written by a ghost writer But finally he agreed to write an introduction by focusing on his ancient friendship with Hunt, after receiving a revised and amended manuscript. ^[76]

Publishers Weekly he called American Spy An “airy, unrepentant memory” and described it as a “nostalgic memory [which] digs new land in an already crowded field”. ^[77] Tim Rutten, del Los Angeles Times , he said that it was a “bitter and self -comprehensive memory” and that “offers a rather standardized report of how the men of his generation are involved in activities of intelligence “. ^[78] Referring to the title of the book, Tim Weiner of The New York Times He wrote: ” American Spy it is presented as one secret history , a double misrepresentation. There are no real secrets in this book. As a story is a fandonia ». ^[79] Weiner said that the analysis by the author of the assassination of Kennedy was the weak point of the book, indicating that Hunt claimed to take the various theories of conspiracy seriously, including those of the involvement of President Johnson. ^[79] He concluded his criticism by describing it as a work “in the long tradition of nonsense” and “a book to avoid”. ^[79] Joseph C. Goulden del The Washington Times He described it as a “real book confusion” and liquidated Hunt’s statements against Johnson as “fantasies”. ^[80] Goulden summarized his criticism: “I would now like to not have read this pathetic book. Avoid it.” ^[80]

Writing for the The Christian Science Monitor , Daniel Schorr said “Hunt tells much of his adventure of the watergate rather directly”. ^[81]

In contrast with this opinion, James Rosen del Politic He described the chapters relating to the Watergate scandal as the “most problematic” and: “There are numerous factual errors-bad names, incorrect dates, participants-fantasma in meetings, fictitious data orders-and the authors are not fully directed, they focus on each other, Just to drop out of school to the large literature that has been born in the last two decades to explain the central mystery of the Watergate. ” ^[82] Rosen’s criticism was not totally negative and he claimed that the book “is successful in bringing the reader beyond caricatures and conspiracy theories to preserve the valid memory of Hunt as he actually was: a passionate patriot, committed to participating in the Cold war, lover of good food, wine and women; intriguing intriguing, mischievously witty and superb narrator of jokes. ” ^[82]

Dennis Lythgoe di Deseret News He said “the narrative style is clumsy and often embarrassing”, but that “the book as a whole is a fascinating look in the mind of one of the greatest figures of the Watergate”. ^[83] In National Review , Mark Riebling appreciated American Spy Like “the only autobiography that knows which it convincingly expresses what was similar to being an American spy”. ^[84] The editor of the The Boston Globe , Martin Nolan called him “admirable and important” and said that Hunt “presents a lively version tabloid of the 70s “. ^[85] According to Nolan:
“It is the best time-to-topic description of June 17, 1972, Scasso of the headquarters of the National Democratic Committee, which I have read.” ^[85]

Hunt’s first wife Dorothy died in a plane crash on December 8, 1972 on the United Airlines 553 flight to Chicago. The United States Congress, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident, concluding that it had been accidentally caused by a crew error. ^{[eighty six]} Over $ 10 000 in cash were found in Dorothy Hunt’s hand luggage. ^{[eighty seven]}

Hunt later married the teacher Laura Martin in second wedding, from whom he had two other children, Austin and Hollis. After his release, he and Laura moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, where they lived for five years, after which they returned to the United States, where they settled in Miami, Florida. ^[88]

On January 23, 2007 Hunt died of pneumonia in Miami. ^{[2] [89]} His body was buried in Hamburg’s hometown, New York. ^[90]

A romantic story about the role of Hunt in the invasion of the porci bay appears in Norman Mailer’s 1991 novel Harlot’s Ghost . Hunt was played by Ed Harris in the biographical film Nixon . In the 2019 film The Irishman , Hunt was played by the theater actor Daniel Jenkins. Canadian journalist David Giammarco interviewed Hunt for the December 2000 issue of the magazine Amateur cigar . ^[91] Hunt later wrote the preface to Giammarco’s book For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films (ECW Press, 2002).

Essay [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• Give Us This Day: The Inside Story of the CIA and the Bay of Pigs Invasion – by One of Its Key Organizers (1973)
• Undercover: memoirs of an American secret agent / by E. Howard Hunt (1974)
• For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films / by David Giammarco; Preface by E. Howard Hunt (2002)
• American spy: my secret history in the CIA, Watergate, and beyond E. Howard Hunt; with Greg Aunapu; Prefazione di William F. Buckley Jr. (2007)

Novels published as Howard Hunt or E. Howard Hunt [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• East of Farewell (1942)
• Limit of darkness, a novel by Howard Hunt (1944)
• Stranger in town (1947)
• Calculated risk: a play / by Howard Hunt (1948)
• Maelstrom / Howard Hunt (1948)
• Bimini run / by Howard Hunt (1949)
• The Violent Ones (1950)
• Berlin ending; a novel of discovery (1973)
• Hargrave deception / E. Howard Hunt (1980)
• Gaza intercept / E. Howard Hunt (1981)
• Cozumel / E. Howard Hunt (1985)
• Kremlin conspiracy / E. Howard Hunt (1985)
• Guadalajara / E. Howard Hunt (1990)
• Murder in State / E. Howard Hunt (1990)
• Body count / E. Howard Hunt (1992)
• Chinese Red / by E. Howard Hunt (1992)
• Mazatlan / E. Howard Hunt (1993) (on the cover the former pseudonym P. S. Donoghue)
• I / E. WwaLDD tunta. (1994)
• Islamorada / E. Howard Hunt (1995)
• Paris edge / E. Howard Hunt (1995)
• Izmir / E. Howard Hunt (1996)
• Dragon teeth: a novel / by E. Howard Hunt (1997)
• Guilty knowledge / E. Howard Hunt (1999)
• Sonora / E. Howard Hunt (2000)

Come Robert Dietrich [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• Cheat (1954)
• One for the Road (1954)
• Be My Victim (1956)
• Murder on the rocks: an original novel (1957)
• House on Q Street (1959)
• Murder on Her Mind (1960)
• End of a Stripper (1960)
• Mistress to Murder (1960)
• Calypso Caper (1961)
• Angel Eyes (1961)
• Curtains for a Lover (1962)
• My Body (1962)

Come P. S. Donoghue [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• Dublin Affair (1988)
• Sarkov Confession: a novel (1989)
• Evil Time (1992)

Come David St. John [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• Festival for Spies
• The Towers of Silence
• Return from Vorkuta (1965)
• The Venus Probe (1966)
• On Hazardous Duty (1966)
• One of Our Agents is Missing (1967)
• Mongol Mask (1968)
• Sorcerers (1969)
• Devil (1971)
• Coven (1972)

Come Gordon Davis [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

• I Came to Kill (1953)
• House Dick (1961)
• Counterfeit Kill (1963)
• Ring Around Rosy (1964)
• Where Murder Waits (1965)

Come John Baxter [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]