E. Howard Hunt
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Everette Howard Hunt (born October 9, 1918 in East Hamburg, New York, United States) worked for the White House under President Richard Nixon, figured in the Watergate Scandal, and was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
Hunt, along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers", a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg had sent a series of documents which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
During World War II, Hunt served in the Office of Strategic Services. An employee of the CIA from 1949 to 1970. In 1949 he established the first post-war CIA station in Mexico City. During this period he wrote several spy novels: East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949) and The Violent Ones (1950).
Hunt organized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building and was also found to be responsible for a break-in at the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
The Rockefeller Commission of the U.S. Congress in 1974 regarded Hunt and Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis as suspects in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Hunt's wife Dorothy was killed in the December 8, 1972 plane crash of United Airlines Flight 533 in Chicago. Congress, the FBI, and the NTSB investigated but did not find anything suspicious, although $10,000 was found in her handbag.
In 1981, Hunt won $650,000 in a libel suit against Liberty Lobby, a right-wing organization, after it published an article accusing him of being involved in the conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy. The author, Mark Lane, defended Liberty Lobby in a second trial in 1985, and he successfully overturned 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.
In addition to his work at the CIA—which included nontrivial roles in the Guatemala coup and the Bay of Pigs Invasion—Hunt was a prolific author, primarily of spy novels. He declared bankruptcy in 1995 and lives in Miami, Florida.
External links
- Slate interview (http://slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2107718)
- CNN interview (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/interviews/hunt/)
- interview (http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-18/hunt1.html)ja:エドワード・ハワード・ハント