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hunt linked to Wallace shooting ?<a href="http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1235-bigger-than-watergate-the-cover-up-that-succeeded.html"> http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1235-bigger-than-watergate-the-cover-up-that-succeeded.html</a>

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<li>Gore Vidal in the New York Review of Books in 1973 came to a similar conclusion. Vidal’s article, “The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt,” traversed Hunt’s long career as a spy novelist and concluded that Hunt likely authored the Bremer diary.</li>

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</li><li>Seen in this light, one wonders if Nixon’s pay-offs to the blackmailing E. Howard Hunt (as much as $180,000 in cash at a time) served not merely to cover up the break-in at the Watergate Hotel – but to cover up a Hunt-Bremer-Wallace connection to Chuck Colson and the White House, a connection that ultimately might have signaled complicity in attempted murder.</li>

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</li><li>Anecdotal evidence supports the notion of assassination plots issuing from the Nixon White House. A Boston intelligence operative named William Gilday as early as 1970 reportedly met with Nixon aides who recruited him for “schemes ranging from dirty tricks to murder,” according to Anthony Summers, author of “The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.” “Those [Gilday] was incited to kill,” Summers writes, “included Senator Edward Kennedy and George Wallace. The aides in question are unnamed here for legal reasons but Gilday has appeared to have knowledge of corroborating details – their nicknames, for example – and has provided reconnaissance photographs he said were taken with Kennedy’s murder in view.” The Nixon White House Tapes suggest a Boston connection to Chuck Colson, who in conversation with a worried Nixon – who complained that operations that were “very close to me” had been rife with mistakes – told his president that he would never betray him. “I did things out of Boston,” Colson said, referring to “15 or 20 black projects.” “We did some blackmail and…my God, uh, uh, uh, I’ll go to my grave before I ever disclose it.”</li>

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</li><li>Note that Nixon from the first news of the Wallace shooting became obsessed with the case, ordering the FBI to immediately force jurisdiction. Mark Felt, assistant FBI director under acting director and faithful Nixon appointee L. Patrick Gray, took charge in the critical first hours, but was quickly replaced by Gray, who would later help destroy Watergate evidence and was also pivotal in shunting the Bremer case out of the purview of the Watergate hearings. Gray briefed Nixon daily on the Bremer developments. Nixon stipulated that all evidence seized in Bremer’s apartment be remanded to the White House rather than FBI headquarters, against protocol. All copies of the Bremer diary transcripts that had been provided the Secret Service and other agencies were to be surrendered and destroyed immediately. All records that the White House itself had even seen the diary were to be destroyed. Nixon apparently felt the need to cover tracks.</li>

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<a title="Watergate burglaries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_burglaries">Watergate burglaries</a> and <a title="Watergate scandal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal">scandal</a></td></tr><tr><th style=" padding-right: 1em;">Codename(s)</th><td>Robert Dietrich</td></tr><tr><th style=" padding-right: 1em;"> </th><td>Gordon Davis</td></tr><tr><th style=" padding-right: 1em;"> </th><td>David St. John</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style=" height: 4px; text-align: center; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(221, 221, 221);"> </td></tr><tr><th>Born</th><td>October 9, 1918(1918-10-09)

<a title="Hamburg (town), New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg%28town%29,New_York">Hamburg, New York</a>, <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th>Died</th><td>January 23, 2007 (aged 88)

<a class="mw-redirect" title="Miami, Florida" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Florida">Miami, Florida</a>, <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td><a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a></td></tr><tr><th>Parents</th><td>Everette Howard Hunt Sr. and Ethel Jean Totterdale</td></tr><tr><th>Spouse</th><td><a title="Dorothy Hunt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hunt">Dorothy Louise Wetzel</a>, Laura E. Martin</td></tr><tr><th>Children</th><td>Saint John Hunt, David Hunt, Kevan Spence (nee Hunt), Lisa Hunt</td></tr><tr><th>Occupation</th><td><a class="mw-redirect" title="CIA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA">CIA</a> agent, <a title="Author" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author">author</a></td></tr><tr><th>Alma mater</th><td><a title="Brown University" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University">Brown University</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> <a title="Author" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author">author</a> and <a title="Espionage" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage">intelligence officer</a>. He worked for the <a title="Central Intelligence Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA) and later the <a title="White House" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House">White House</a> under President <a title="Richard Nixon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>. Hunt, with <a title="G. Gordon Liddy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.Gordon_Liddy">G. Gordon Liddy</a> and others, was one of the White House's "<a title="White House Plumbers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Plumbers">plumbers</a>" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "<a class="mw-redirect" title="Political leak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_leak">leaks</a>." Hunt, along with Liddy, engineered the <a title="Watergate burglaries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_burglaries">first Watergate burglary</a> and in the ensuing <a class="mw-redirect" title="Watergate Scandal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_Scandal">Watergate Scandal</a>, was convicted of <a title="Burglary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary">burglary</a>, <a title="Conspiracy (crime)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy%28crime%29">conspiracy</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Wiretapping" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiretapping">wiretapping</a>, eventually serving 33 months in prison.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#Early_life_and_career">1 Early life and career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#CIA_and_anti-Castro_efforts">2 CIA and anti-Castro efforts</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#Watergate">3 Watergate</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#Later_life">4 Later life</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#JFK_Conspiracy_allegations_and_Death">5 JFK Conspiracy allegations and Death</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#Trivia">8 Trivia</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#External_links">9 External links</a></li>

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Hunt was born in <a title="Hamburg (town), New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg%28town%29,New_York">Hamburg, New York</a>, <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>, of <a title="English people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people">English</a> and <a title="Welsh people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people">Welsh</a> descent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-0">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-1">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-1">2]</a> An alumnus of <a title="Nichols School" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichols_School">Nichols School</a> in <a title="Buffalo, New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,New_York">Buffalo, New York</a> and a 1940 graduate of <a title="Brown University" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University">Brown University</a>, Hunt during <a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a> served in the <a title="United States Navy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy">U.S. Navy</a> on the destroyer <a title="USS Mayo (DD-422)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mayo%28DD-422%29">USS Mayo</a>, <a title="United States Army Air Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a>, and finally, the <a title="Office of Strategic Services" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> (OSS) which he worked for in <a title="China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China">China</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-hedegaard-2">[3]</a> During and after the war, he also wrote several novels under his own name — East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949) (with a hero named "Hank Sturgis"), and The Violent Ones (1950) — and, more famously, several spy and <a title="Hardboiled" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardboiled">hardboiled</a> novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St. John. Hunt won a <a title="Guggenheim Fellowship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> for his writing in 1946.

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<a title="Warner Bros." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> had 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 <a title="Special Activities Division" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division">Special Activities Division</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-3">[4]</a> He became station chief in <a title="Mexico City" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City">Mexico City</a> in 1950, and supervised <a title="William F. Buckley, Jr." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Buckley,Jr.">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a>, who worked for the CIA in <a title="Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico">Mexico</a> during the period 1951–1952. Buckley and Hunt remained lifelong friends.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

In Mexico, Hunt helped devise <a class="mw-redirect" title="Operation PBSUCCESS" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBSUCCESS">Operation PBSUCCESS</a>, the covert plan to overthrow <a class="mw-redirect" title="Jacobo Arbenz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Arbenz">Jacobo Arbenz</a>, the elected president of <a title="Guatemala" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala">Guatemala</a>. Following assignments in <a title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japan</a> and as station chief in <a title="Uruguay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay">Uruguay</a>, Hunt was assigned to forge <a title="Cuban exile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_exile">Cuban exile</a> leaders in the United States into a broadly representative government-in-exile that would, after the <a title="Bay of Pigs Invasion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion">Bay of Pigs Invasion</a>, form a provisional government to take over <a title="Cuba" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba">Cuba</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-5">[6]</a> The failure of the invasion damaged his career.

After the Bay of Pigs, Hunt became a personal assistant to <a class="mw-redirect" title="Allen Dulles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles">Allen Dulles</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-6">[7]</a> <a title="Tad Szulc" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Szulc">Tad Szulc</a> states that Hunt was asked to assist Dulles in writing a book, The Craft of Intelligence, that Dulles wrote following his involuntary retirement in 1961.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-7">[8]</a> The book was published in 1963.

Hunt told the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Watergate Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Watergate_Committee">Senate Watergate Committee</a> in 1973 that he served as the first Chief of Covert Action for the CIA's <a class="new" title="Domestic Operations Division (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Domestic_Operations_Division&action=edit&redlink=1">Domestic Operations Division</a>. He told the <a class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times">New York Times</a> 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 <a title="Richard Helms" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms">Richard Helms</a> and <a title="Thomas Karamessines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Karamessines">Thomas H. Karamessines</a>. 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."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-8">[9]</a>

According to <a title="Tad Szulc" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Szulc">Tad Szulc</a>, Hunt was assigned to temporary duty as the acting CIA station chief in Mexico City for the period of August and September 1963,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-9">[10]</a> at the time of <a title="Lee Harvey Oswald" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald">Lee Harvey Oswald</a>'s alleged visit there.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-10">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-11">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-11">12]</a> In his 1978 testimony, however, Hunt denied having been in Mexico at all between 1961 and 1970.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-12">[13]</a>

Hunt was undeniably bitter about what he saw as President <a title="John F. Kennedy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>'s lack of spine in overturning the <a title="Fidel Castro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro">Fidel Castro</a> regime.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-rosenberg-13">[14]</a> 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 <a class="mw-redirect" title="Jose Marti" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Marti">Jose Marti</a>, then moved shamefacedly into the shadows and hoped the Cuban issue would simply melt away."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-14">[15]</a> Disillusioned, he retired from the CIA on May 1, 1970, and went to work for the <a title="Robert Mullen Company" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mullen_Company">Robert R. Mullen Company</a>, which cooperated with the CIA. Hunt obtained a <a class="new" title="Covert Security Approval (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_Security_Approval&action=edit&redlink=1">Covert Security Approval</a> to handle the firm's affairs during Mullen's absence from Washington.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-15">[16]</a> The following year, he was hired by <a title="Charles Colson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson">Charles Colson</a>, chief counsel to President <a title="Richard Nixon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, and joined the President's Special Investigations Unit (alias <a title="White House Plumbers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Plumbers">White House Plumbers</a>) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-hedegaard-2">[3]</a>.

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Hunt testifies before the Watergate Committee

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Hunt's first assignment for the White House was a covert operation to break into the Los Angeles office of <a title="Daniel Ellsberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg">Daniel Ellsberg</a>'s psychiatrist, Dr. <a class="new" title="Lewis J. Fielding (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lewis_J.Fielding&action=edit&redlink=1">Lewis J. Fielding</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-16">[17]</a> In July 1971, Fielding had refused an FBI request for psychiatric data on Ellsberg.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-17">[18]</a> Hunt and Liddy cased the building in late August.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-18">[19]</a> The burglary, on September 3, 1971, was not detected, but no Ellsberg files were found.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-19">[20]</a>

Also in the summer of 1971, Colson authorized Hunt to travel to <a title="New England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England">New England</a> to seek potentially scandalous information on Senator <a title="Ted Kennedy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy">Edward Kennedy</a>. Hunt sought and used CIA disguises and other equipment for the project.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

Hunt's White House duties included assassinations-related <a title="Disinformation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation">disinformation</a>. In September 1971, Hunt forged and offered to a <a title="Life (magazine)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%28magazine%29">Life</a> magazine reporter top-secret State Department cables designed to prove that President Kennedy had personally and specifically ordered the assassination of <a title="Ngo Dinh Diem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem">Ngo Dinh Diem</a> and his brother <a title="Ngo Dinh Nhu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Nhu">Ngo Dinh Nhu</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-21">[22]</a> 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 <a title="Catholic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic">Catholic</a>, to estrange Catholic voters from the Democratic party, after Colson suggested he "might be able to improve upon the record."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-22">[23]</a>

According to <a title="Seymour Hersh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh">Seymour Hersh</a>, writing in <a title="The New Yorker" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker">The New Yorker</a>, Nixon White House tapes show that after presidential candidate <a title="George Wallace" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace">George Wallace</a> was shot on May 15, 1972, Nixon and Colson agreed to send Hunt to the <a title="Milwaukee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a> home of the gunman, <a title="Arthur Bremer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bremer">Arthur Bremer</a>, to place <a title="George McGovern" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern">McGovern</a> 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.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-molotsky-23">[24]</a>

Hunt organized the bugging of the <a title="Democratic National Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee">Democratic National Committee</a> at the Watergate office building.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-apobit-24">[25]</a>

A few days after the break-in, Nixon was recorded saying, to <a title="H. R. Haldeman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R.Haldeman">H. R. Haldeman</a>, "This fellow Hunt, he knows too damn much."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-nytobit-25">[26]</a>

[V]ery 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. And that it gets out that the whole, this is all involved in the Cuban thing, that it's a fiasco, and it's going to make the FB, ah CIA look bad, it's going to make Hunt look bad, and it's likely to blow the whole, uh, Bay of Pigs thing which we think would be very unfortunate for CIA and for the country at this time, and for American foreign policy, and he just better tough it and lay it on them.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-26">[27]</a>

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Hunt and fellow operative <a title="G. Gordon Liddy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy">G. Gordon Liddy</a>, along with the five arrested at the Watergate, were indicted on federal charges three months later.

Hunt's wife, <a title="Dorothy Hunt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hunt">Dorothy</a>, was killed in the December 8, 1972 plane crash of <a title="United Airlines" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines">United Airlines</a> <a title="United Airlines Flight 553" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_553">Flight 553</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,Illinois">Chicago</a>. <a title="United States Congress" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress">Congress</a>, the <a title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI), and the <a title="National Transportation Safety Board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board">National Transportation Safety Board</a> (NTSB) investigated the crash, and found it to be an accident caused by crew error.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Howard_Hunt#cite_note-27">[28]</a> Over $10,000 in cash was found in Dorothy Hunt's handbag in the wreckage.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#cite_note-28">[29]</a>

Hunt eventually spent 33 months in prison on a conspiracy charge, and said he was bitter that he was sent to jail while Nixon was allowed to resign.

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n 1981, Hunt won $650,000 in a libel suit against the Liberty Lobby for a 1978 article that appeared in the right-wing group's conspiracy-minded newspaper, The Spotlight. The article linked Hunt to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, suggesting the CIA man was in Dallas on the day of the 1963 shooting. Mark Lane, author of the best-selling "Rush to Judgment," successfully defended Liberty Lobby in a second trial in 1985, overturning the original libel award. Lane outlined his theory about Hunt's and the CIA's role in Kennedy's murder in a 1991 book, "Plausible Denial."

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The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt

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<h1>G. Gordon Liddy: listening to Hitler "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before"</h1>

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Radio host and former Nixon administration official G. Gordon Liddy discussed environmentalism; how Adolf Hitler inspired Liddy in his youth; the Vietnam War; child-rearing; Watergate; and his 1994 advice to his listeners to shoot agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in an interview with columnist Johann Hari, published November 22 in the British newspaper The Independent. According to Hari, Liddy called environmentalists "fanatics" like Al Qaeda, claimed that the "official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet," and said that if U.S. policy during the Vietnam War was up to him he would have "drowned half the country and starved the other half." In discussing Hitler's personal influence upon him, Liddy said that "at assemblies where the national anthem is played, I must suppress the urge to snap out my right arm."

Following are excerpts, grouped by subject, from Hari's November 22 article, titled "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=585368">G Gordon Liddy: Voice of unreason</a>":

Environmentalists

G. Gordon Liddy is vibrating with rage. "Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them," he quivers. "Osama believes there are 72 virgins waiting for him. The environmentalist believes human beings cause global warming. They both want to wreak havoc because of their mad beliefs. What's the difference?" I am lying on a hotel bed in New York City listening to Liddy's radio show and trying to figure out how I can possibly interview this man in half an hour. "Why should we listen to these fulminating feminists, proselytizing poofters, the environmentally ill, these multilateralist UN one-world government worshippers and other politically correct castrati?" he is demanding. "Why?"

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"Yes, there is such a thing as global warming," he admits. "And there is such a thing as global cooling too. They happen in great eons-long, periodic swings, and it has to do with the activity of the sun, not of humans." Really? You know better than 99 per cent of physicists and environmental scientists? "Environmentalists are like a guy who pisses into a river at bedtime and then blames himself for the flood the next day," he says mysteriously, before saying that we should embrace global warming as a Good Thing. "The effect of warming is to quintuple the yields of US crops and double our life expectancy! Bring it on!"

He boasts that he drives a massive SUV "which can carry three quarters of a ton, [has] 300-horsepower, and burns more gas than you could ever dream. If somebody in a little environmentally-friendly car crashes into me, it's all over. For him!" He also, for some reason, violently despises airbags, which he calls "killers." He brags he would like to "invite Ralph Nader over so I could serve him Spotted Owl Stew."

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Hitler as an early political hero

The Fuhrer was G Gordon Liddy's first political hero. Liddy was a sickly, asthmatic child when he grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, in the 1930s. The town was full of ethnic Germans who idolized Hitler. Liddy was made to salute the Stars and Stripes Nazi-style by the nuns at his school; even now, he admits, "at assemblies where the national anthem is played, I must suppress the urge to snap out my right arm." His beloved German nanny taught him that Hitler had -- through sheer will-power -- "dragged Germany from weakness to strength."

This gave Liddy hope "for the first time in my life" that he too could overcome weakness. When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body." He describes seeing the Nazis' doomed technological marvel the Hindenberg flying over New Jersey as an almost religious experience. "Ecstatic, I drank in its colossal power and felt myself grow. Fear evaporated and in its place came a sense of personal might and power."

A-ha. So, Mr Liddy, do you feel that your early, formative love for Hitler shaped your political behavior later in life? "Oh, no," he says somberly. He renounces Hitler's war against the Jews as "evil" and flaunts his support for Israel's hard right as evidence he is not an anti-Semite. "It was part of my childhood, that's all," he says.

Really? That doesn't seem to match the historical record. In his autobiography, Liddy admits that, after reading the writings of the notorious anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh, Liddy decided to pick his wife on eugenic grounds. He held out for "a tall, fair, powerfully built Teuton." Isn't that behavior at the very least in the shadow of Hitler?" Of course not. Genetics is accepted by everyone." But a Teuton? My dictionary defines it as "descended from an ancient Germanic tribe. Often synonymous with Aryan." He waves his hand and says, "That's how we spoke then. This is political correctness."

Okay, so how about your fanatical Nietzschean emphasis on Will-power? He has written, "If any one component of man ought to be exercised, cultivated and strengthened above all others, it is the will; and that must have one objective -- to win." He used to take his kids to see Leni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda movie 'The Triumph of the Will.' When he was a kid himself, he went to insane ends to test his will-power. He stood in front of approaching trains, telling himself he would not die because "I am a machine too." During lightning storms, in order to demonstrate to himself to power of his will, he would climb onto tall trees and yell, "Kill me! Kill me!" He even trained himself to kill animals in anticipation of becoming a brutal soldier. He describes beheading chickens with glee: "I killed and killed and killed, and finally I could kill efficiently and without emotion or thought. I was satisfied; when it came my turn to go to war, I would be ready. I could kill as I could run -- like a machine."

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