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their book, :"Jb.e Esp10- C.LA. acti'Vity..
the domestic field.''. .~ . :: . · ··-.. ·, Ar:coniirtJ to the ~CC'o_unt of 1
dent .group-. . . .
, ppe~~~te Cl)RvtC· · . µi. the mterv1ew,. Mr; }tUnt .. In respanse to i quesUon:·a ~e: Los Anplea Tunes.- Mr•
p,tl.ono~~any. invo~'!'ement sa1d·· t;tt~t th~ w~s'.streo:1uous mom'ent la~ Mr.' Hunt dePfct- COloy's report .showed that the
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or-•.lcDflW&edge ~f domestic spy· oppos1t100 to· its e3tabllshment C-:!:A- harl ll'atnt.ained record, 1
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.,_ ing; Oft' radical5 and other dissi· in.1962, P.uticularly from Rich- ed
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n dents by ·the Domestic Opera· ard· Hehm. ··who later. became Fodot:'s Trav~· Guides, Inc-.. .as and engaged .fn other illegal.
ts tions Divfsioa. But he sald that the CJ.A. director: and Thomas a f~er agent for .t he CI:A. in clandestine activities. · • ~.,_- ·
some of·-· hls.,....pr0jects · from f KarameS,ines,..~ho latet' be· ~ustr:ta-. The ~.I.k-chi~ ot s~- ~ · The account also said 't.bit d
1962 to 1966-which dealt came the agency chief of clan· tioa m Austna. Mr. Hunt said, some· or the illegal activities
Id largely with the subsldlzlag and destine aperations. -. . . "had U!'dertal<~ to. ~elp ~im "including at least three u:
18 manipulation-·of the--news and Mr. Hant. who · -ttt'ired in f~rm
his publishing orga~a·
legal entries.'" had been direct- ~
Jt publishing .-;organizations-did 1970 after servfitg .'riiore than t1on. and. It continued •on ed against c.J.A. emptoyes .sllS- ••
le seem "t<>, viol~. the- intent:: of :ID(years with -the CJ.A., t'old through the yean-I sup,~~~:..• pected~ot ·••.slipping. over.to--the ·
e- the agency's :charter,•:=_-: ;~·":_ ~· the . y/atergate .committee that ~~t~.o~ .12 to- 15.y~rs. : ~ i. other side.':, ··. ·, · --~:.. --;...· , ~
. ~ The New ·York Times, quot- t~e : domestic · ot?eratio~s 'd ivi· .Y 'e d und~o his· los.sesi : · ~e .Lo.s.Angetes Tlmes: said in
t· Ing a former underco~er agent s1on had "es~abh.shed field sta- Mr. _HU:"t..said. · and he was_on its mformatfon ·had come from ·
'if for the Domestic Opesations Di· tions · Jn Boston,::.and .f;hicago ~e!C.I.-ill~ltand may s~_I an . Jnfonned . Goventinent
. xt vision, sai!l ~ · ~undaf. editions and . S_il!' Francis~o, t~. na1119 a .· or a . ow. . · · .. _, -.:·"''' sourc.&--: who· had · obtained . it re
thr.t the agent' was directly in· f~w c1t1es. The~e ·were parallel S Mr. ~unt._~.urther told.-. the from a . C.I.A.. o~flclal wl~ac· m
·n· volved In the monitoring of to the extant overt C.I.A. estab- en~te investigatoM that the ce:o;s to th& 5<>1>&ge report of
. ld antiwar diuidenl! and :adical li~~ment [alresdy set up those subs•dY, to the. Praeger ·Com· Mr. Co~by. r:< .
t\grc,.;;>s in New York City be- c1ues] and a large variety of pany was o~v•?,us~y
a propa- . The sourc& said the ·'teport
~r ginniing with the student up- domestic based operations were Jan~a. oreratton -in that the d11t not ·fully $US.Sllnmte- all ..1
ta~
d 1risings at Columbia University conducted by this division." publisher produced bo?ks upon the materhrl carried ln The New 1
-e: In 1968. . .. · ·. '.'~.Iy
.staff ran.a . media op- th~,
agency's req~~sL
·- · . .· !Ork Time$ .artlcir-. ·--·· · k~
:it Mr. Hunt's t~timoity sug· eration known as Continental · Most ot.these- - he said In .Th& Wset Coast: n~per th
:r gests that que.stionablo domes· Pres5 out of. the National Pre5s arillap~nt referebl~eh~o other, also-1eported that Represent.a·
~: tic activi ties by the C.l..A. h3.d Building in Washington," Mr. ~ u ~::;'· pu 15 ing~ve;- tives: P~lllip .Burton Democnt ba
•· appar&ntly begun · under the Hunt added. "W~'. funded much ures •.- . ere- I\. propagan a or Ca.hfornla.. and .Elizibeth
71. Kennedy Administration con· ot the· activities · of the Fred· operation, . thoug_lt · what the Holtzman, Democrat! ot· Btack.·
: tinu~d during the Johns;n Ad· erick D. Praeger Publishing Fodor submy had to do with 1.yn.~~would. introduce _Jegisla-
13 ministration and as well·in· Corporation in New York City propaganda,hlr atnytdhltng e.tse,,! t1on after. Congress reconY~ned
s· fonned sources have told The We funded, to a large eictent. w~ n~ver fu h
e tele onnu:- on Jan·. 14- to establish a spec· di
13 Times, reached a peak during the. acµ~ti~s o(.Fodor's Travei vers~tl~:. t~a ...-~M~~~ H~~~ ial p~secutor's. office anli.. a u:
m the antiwar outbursts In oppo· Guide, d1stribut~ by the David noted that they, travei books select c;on~1onal . commit.. D
V· sitjon . to President Nixon's McKay ~orporat1on.'' . had 'provided "cover" for t~e .t o snvestitate the· allega·
:ii Vietnam. policy. . . . ·: No ~1stlng for Continental C.I.A. agents eage,rto travel in t1ons. against t e CJ.A. . ..
!h Tha Tunes also reported Sun· Press coul~ be found In the cur- forei countries dis ised a.s · ·
day that the new domestic unit rent Woishmgton telephone di· travefwriters gu :· ···:·~ =;:.::~"""'":""'l!'!l~-
?d 1wa5 ·rormed In 1964, but Mr. rectory .and·, ~r. Hunt recalled Mr. Fodor. ·a natlve Hunga· - -
1w-Hunt .rl!<'.aUed that It was as· .durlni; todays, telephone ._con· rlan :who became. an American
to!s~mbl~ shortly ~ter the f~ ver5ation that the news agency citizen in 1942 could not be
ll~l~re ot the Bay of Pig:.t operation yr.i~'l:JJ.S~ .mostly to supply reached for comment it his
le· 11\ late 1961. Many agency men new.s ··articles-or propaganda home or office in Litchfield
:e: connected wi~ that failure -to !~reign clients. . . Conn.· . . :... '
1t· were shunted into the new do- .. ·Kenneth L. .Rawson, the~- Jn · a relat~ development.
11. mestic unit. Mr. Hunt said. . tdent and editor or the David Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
: .. . T~ay, . the 11mf!-'• quoting Mcl\:ay Company, lnc._. sald in a Democrat of Mln.nesot.a, 11n:
..: well·tnfo~ed sourcn, tepoi;ted t~t~phone :· coi:iversat1on from nounced.. today_ that he would
that three more former high· his home tonight that In the introduce legislation when 'eon.
level · e>fliclals or the ·.C.l.A.'s y~ars rerel'T'ed to by !\fr. Hunt gress convenes next month to
countenntelllgence division had ht.s company. simply distributed create a permanent Joint Com·
resign~. effectlva tomorrow, the FOdor gwdes publl.shed then mittee on National. Security. to
t fo!lowing the revelatloas earlier by F~or's Mod~"! Guides, Inc. ove~· intelligence operations.
this month of massive domestic Mr.. Rawson said he had no ·."The time has come forCon-
operatlons by the agency. The ~owledge of Mr. Hunt's allega... g'ress to face- up to a- res f')n•
t sudden ·retln!ment or James ~ion?. ~r ot any outside flnanc· sibillty It' has shirked to/too
l ~ An~leto!1· tlirector.or tha. coun· mg of.th~ guides~ publication in manyyears," he said In a si~te­

1 ; ter1ntell13ence.· :dfviston. . was tha ·~arly nlneteen·sl:rtls. In ment. Issued from his offlco In
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Kay bought Mr. Fodor's pub- ..·
en s ne '~ · lishinit compllny and b~:ime }.:, ~ton~~-T-,,._ • · ··
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refused today to d15CU'9 the re- of the guides. . a 'report prepared .tor. President
: portc~ shake-:up ~the .counter· The C.t.A.'s ttnk to the Pra~ Ford. William E. Colby, di~tor
• i.n~~~hgence ~yision. ·:.."t••·: • •. gef' Publishing Company be- o_q:entr:ai IritellJg~. h.u con• .
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»Y Laurence Stern
Wullloctoo Pon s.act Writ••
President ·. Niicon d~~ided .-
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counter reported · "black- ·, .;.,.
mail" threats by Wate~ate ·;-

conspirator E. Howard Hunt ...

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t r a n s c r l p t s demonstrat-·
eel yesterday. •h

The Oval Office conversa- . . ..

tions· reveal that national·se· ~ .
curlty-a central theme in
the President's Wat~ate
defense--was ~mplay!d as a ;_
major t3ctic ln efforu - by ·
)fr. Ni.'<oa and his chi~ aides ·
to avoid the . appearance . of. ·~· ;·,.._
crl minalli:rbillty in the Ell~ ···· i;t<;t~ .
berg break-in. . . , -: . '· : .. ,_;-.. t :, ·: k~'" '
The- transcript .sbo;,;. that':' ;ii}~..
when · the .President' pro-·:-. ~- ··~
fessed to have first -learned; ·.' .. 'L.
in a March 17. 1973, conver- · : ·
· satlon with John. w. Dean -
II I, or the -. bui~lary of the· ·
· o!flc_e of the psycblatrl~t. of .--:. ~~;~
Damel Ellsbe~. Mr. N1:c:on ... ~:.1"
proclaimed it uirrelevant..~ - ;1!ic:: ~· 4• • . -. \. _ ";~·
D"'.an bad_,_ .... the mat· : · '[!
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te~ In discu_ssl~~ the possible · · i~-~~~~j~.; , ~ .-.r~ :'l -< •
mmlnal lfab1hty of then- -. ....~-~·· ~, " · :.:· ~!·~;- · : .
White House aide John D. ~-· 14· . ·:.:..~ .: ·-: ·
Ehrtichman for his dealings i' · _:"-f.~!.•~;: ·:_:
with Hunt and fellow Water- · ·: ;~ · .: .· ·
zate bur::lar G. Gordon Lid· . . :'_,~.:;· .
dy\rhen Dean mentioned .-._-.-~ f · ·.:
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ln the·· name of God was.<;.. ~ • ·,1,ti ·~·: > ·
Ehrllchman having some- :·. ·. ~'._·__:,·;_:.' :....)_··.~.· .
thing (unlntelligibl&) in the · · . , . ·
Ell:>berg (unlntelllgible)?" · : .: , • '...::: ':. · byJamu ic.· w. Atb•rt~":....Tbe Waahl.nnoo Pon · ·~ .:,.-~ ::'.,
Dean . eicplained that It' : · -·~ · · · ~ · · · · ..:- • ·"
was "part of an operation : .. ·.: ·:.:" _E. '!~~'~Runt Jr.: $120,000 dem~d on. Q!al_ Olttce. . ·:, · :
in connection with thP. Pen- · · , · -.· · ;•· - .. , · -· · · · ·
tagon Paper.s. T1tey were-- Haltleman, "we were check· · "to Sl!t up_a doml!$ciC national .:~. : .. · ·
the whole · thing~they · · Ing them.".·:-. .. · · · security ln.telligence- pr~ · ·:... .-. : .
\~a?led to get Ells bergs psy- "Neither,'~ _concluded the ·. grlm" and that .·"you could · · · ·
ch1atrlc records for some · President, · ·· · "could · be t h" L i th CIA :· •.. ~
reason. I don't know... . trusted."···.. . , :. pu 1m ou n e _!'.,. • .
.. ~~r. .N'i:ton ·. answerea: · . · " I tbltik '.\ve: eould get by ··:.~omep_lace_-·/~- : . ~~ · ~ . : ~~ . ·
This ls the first I ever on that,·~ Dean assured. Tbe President - a.nswettd~ . : ··
he:ird of this." H<! then went In his tcl~vlsed addr~ · .. WP. wfll do it.'.• · · •- •-
~-" to ~~cribe it :is Monday night the President . . Deaa fuctbtt=told th& Prest- . :...
1rrclevanL s:ild he . conside red ''Ion" · ··
But four days later the . and hard" whether h~ i'1ent that Sullivan ~isted
subject came up a\tnin in · shoul<l allow "blackmail" Conner_ Whittt House- aide · .~ ·-
the O\·al Olflce. De:1n re- pa~·me.nts to be made to' · ·Torn Ch:irle3 Huston on a ··,. · -
ported to _the Prcs!dent that Runt because · of Hunt's · pl:in for instituting a domes: · :..·.. •·
Hunt was demnnding :in nd- . thrent to expose "a potentlnl - . . . • ·
ditlonnl $120,000. · · national security pi·otilem or tic nation.al Intelligence pro- ...._
"Hunt has !'low· made a di· · serious proportlons.'.' · . gram durmg June, :1970. The , . : . : · .·.
rcct .~rent agalm1t Ehrlich- -. The transcript rc\·ealed . . pl~n was P.ut into o~ral!on '. ' ". ':·:'-:
man, Dean was quoted . as nothing beyond the colio-· · by the _Pri;s1dent for five- days · · : _
telling President NJxon. "As ·. quoy . on "the El!s6er"·: bur-'· ·and · rescinded . becaustt · or · < • . ·•
:i result of this, th ls l:i his · ·. glary to suggest the" i:c:lst-.:· ·. t'h· · "bittei· oppos.iUOll· 'Of · . · t·
. bl~ckmall. He says, 'I will ence o! such a major na"'i )~oover. ; . · :: -'.~:· ".' ' ..., .~:.)r~-
bnn: · John Ehrllchmi\n tional security Issue. ?\Ir. ·.. Huston s plan .proVJded for .. ·-.. ·:· :
down to his knees. and puf Nixon . emphii..sl7ed durlng :. illegal . break-ins.. ·· and .. telo- .... · •••; ·i
h im In jrul •• -" ·· · ., , , • the March 21 .transcript thnt ':' · phon~ and - mail ,_urvellla.ace ."' : · ·, .:
" Wa.:1 · he talking . about . he knew .or no· other activ-." ol sus~ecte~· subvel'3tves. ·: .' •.. ~ >: .·
Ellsberg!" the President. ites involving Hunt th:in the ·.·. fn-·d1~c11ssmg: the-prO<Specb · · -.•: · · : :·
:isked. . , burgl:iry of . the psychia-~· -·of. SuJhvan's em~loymeot to . : "', :- 1..
"Ellsber;: and apparently : trist's office and the Water·>: counter the Watergate. revel· : -;;-: .; ~· :-
some other things. I don't . · gate break-lo. " '. ·<-' ations that wer~ ;pourtng out ·, ...,.__·:;·=: ·-.
know the full extent of it," ' . ln the major Watel-g:ite ., In the. press, the · President ' :.'.. " · :-:·
Denn replied• .- • ' · · defense statement thnt the· ,·.-said 1he..fonn~ FBl official's .-:.,; .::,~~;
"I' don't know . about any-:.. President' ts.sued on May 22,.: .~.. !llsclosures oL I!em~ttc ti·· · '"'.~ 7{·T!· :.
thing else," the. President · 1973, he declared thnt "It ~'."re:!ularitles - · .. would ·- be · a · , .; ·~.:.::.:.. .(
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· · · "Was .-he "talkin11.... about :.: ··bl! ~lmew ·.o:i: · no· uuiU" -~-: ·---- · -,.·--:.·T··-~·- •...;,. , ..... : ." , ·,·..... .. ..... .
Ellsberg?" ·. the . · President.·: ..ues involving Hunt
asked. .·' "
the · tha~
·· :· ...:: .:.).>urglarY ot .the · psyc~ :·· of. Sullivan"_~· empl0J1DeDt . ~ · .::·-.. -:!.:·
m-·~usslnl- fiie-pro1~··"'±·
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c "Ellsbe.r: .and apparently · · trist's office and the Water· -. ·: counter the- Watergate revel" ~;:.:-:-. ~-='
l some other . things. I don't .:~ gate break-in. . · : · : ". ....'. · ~tions that :were- poarlnt out::;~.- · :.·
know the full extent of it:• ·.. :: In. the ma]oi· Water:ite . · in. tbe;· press. the · President~.-'':~ :. -·
Dean re11Ued. •. ' · . ·· · defense· statement ·that the. · said the.former FBl offlclal'li"·:;,:;:,_:... -.
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1 "I' don't know · ·a bout anY· · · President issued on May 22,. . ·.disclosures oL Democratic ·.:- t.r-··'"~~~
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sal~ ~ n~t 1'~- ~'_.
thing else,.. the President ·. 1973 he declared that "it ·· •-Would · be
· . . · · Is my LnteJttion to place . bell of a - l>realt for a new"9oo
u Later ln the conversation . a ·aatlonal, secunty •cover' oq paper; a: hell of"• stofy! Th.--..:.; "/-
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" iChman had potential
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l : nal llabllity "because- of this ··. questlcmlng Hunt;" to ."stay.. ·. Mr. Nixon· finally • suggest~°"~'·
-I·~ conspiracy to burglarize the ·. out..of nationill..securlty mat- _·-_ed ~at. if.· SuUtvan were·· at_ ::..~·· . -~
Ellsber~ ,·.~:~
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Id.· Subsequ~ntly. dter- H: n: .. :·.. « The ..'trarlsc'rlpts.'Ja!So'<li~.: ·be1::iuse-·oc-m pollticaraa:.:· ~.: . i..7
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.n. the centrn!. · before· · ?resident on '.March 13 to · · "\VeU: why don't you "just ., ·

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I the three men: · • · surface "dirty trlck" acllvi· tell · hlm-he-· could say. 'I . · · ·
"What . ls thtt answer· on ties· by the Democrnb dur- ' - did · polltlcal work at; all•. .
Ing the 1968 rampaign ~nd My work In l he Nl:"ton ad-- ,_··
this?' ' asked. ?.tr. NL'Con.
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.c i '"How (can) you keep it out al10 "destroy" the imnge of ministration was solely
I don't know. You can't keep former FBI Direct or J. Ed· the n:itional security.' And ;
·gar Hoover. The ke~ to this _. that..ls lhorou$tly· true!" · · . -
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<>. It out LC Hunt talks . .."
Dean at this point sug- scheme, as lt was dl8cussed ·· · "That is · true:• Dean ··
't ? estttd that ··~:011
might tJUt , by the two men, was to be a
it on a national secunty former top aide to Hoover.
s?~n~ed. .
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\\en. · g ood luck," sat~·· - ,
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· lS1 grounds ba~is." Wl\Uam · Sullivan. · (Hoover President ·Nl.xoo• . . · · · • - · r- · :--
. <>l "National security,.. the e ventually I I.red Sullivan fo r· , . <· ... .r· :."- · ':
1ur President a;:rcecl ··We had his criticism FDC · • o~
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IOjl to get information for na· · performa nce .) .
;c>.tc tional security grounds." President _NL'tOD · . asked · · • · . ·.,;. '··
a f The three e:cmnined this why Sulllvan would cooper." ·BUENOS AIRES~ Apr\l ~;.

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~~ . defonse. · ate wltb the' plan, and Dean ClncRs thro\l:thout Argcntin~ .. .
· "Then." lnterjected Dean, · · explained thnt ."the quid pro_ will· 1
be- put.· back one hour- al ·• .
"Ui.e question \s, with Sullivan ls th:it he m tonight at the end"o( . ·
the CCA do It or why c\ldn't '. wnnts· someday to ~et' back an emergency daylight savlni · . •
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S.:>S! .. why didn't quo· dnlght.
·15.\1 tll~ F'Bl clo It?" ln the bureau very bad\,7." · mensure ' nd.0 1lted ln Jnnuao;• ·
"Because." offered Mr. . '. ''That's" easy," said .tbe ;ts a result of the world. oil cri-.. . -
<>sm Nixon. ·we had to do it on a · · President. . · :1is.. From· tomorrow ArgenUna·.. : ·.
le l confidential basis." · Dean then suggested that will be on~ · hour · ahead. of.. ,.
"Because," chimed In Sullivan's "desire in . is Eastern Dayli gnt lime.- .. ~ ........, -: ..
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By Chauncey Mabe
HOWARD HUNT JR. JS ONE SPY ''You can't ask me anything l haven't already
who isn't shy of publicity. heard," he says.
On the day that a Sunshine writer It is Hunt who suggests that he pose for photos
and photographer meet with him, he w ith a gun. Shooting, it seems, is one of his
has just returned from Washington, favorite pastimes. Moving outside to the back
.... D.C., where he taped a segment for · ,yard, he stands with a superb hunting rifle cra-
the Larry King television show. In a .... died in his arms. He has bagged 300 deer with
few days he would be hosting celeb- this weapon in Argentina, he boasts, but adds
rity photographer Annie Leibovitz, that, having tired of killing things, he doesn't
who was to shoot a portrait for a hunt anymore.
Vanity Fair magazine spread com- Hunt balks only when the photographer sug-
memorating the 20th anniversary of the Water- gests that he attach the scope that goes with the
gate break-in, which occurred on June 17, 19i2. gun and bring it to his eye.
Hunt professes not to have read AU the Presi- ''I'd rather not do that," he says, "because of
dent's M en , or for that matter, any book on the all this talk about me killing Kennedy."
subject of Watergate. EVERETTE HOWARD HUNT WHO SPENT
" I was there," he says. " What could they tell many of his formative years in Fort Lauderdale,
me?" has been hip-deep in many of the great historical
There's at least one part of the book that Hunt events of the past half-century. In the early part
probably would not flnd disturbing. It comes of World War n he served in the Navy until
when a secretary in Charles Colson's office at sidelined ·by a non-combat injury.
the White House tells Washingt:on Post reporter · Later he joined the Office of Strategic Services
Carl Bernstein that Hunt was ttte only member (OSS), the war-time intelligence organization,
ot t he White House Special Investigative Unit - then helped implement the Marshal\ Plan as U.S.
known as the " plumbers" - who was liked by Ambassador Averell Harriman's press secretary
the clerical staff. in Europe. .
He was, she told Bernstein, nice, personable When the OSS evolved into the Central lntelli-
and pleasant. gence Agency after the war, Hunt was recruited.
And so we found him. Spending more than two decades as a CIA of!i-
Hunt extends a warm welcome at his rented cer, he participated in the overthrow of a Marx-
bome in Miami Shores, offering drinks and giv- ist government in Guatemala in 19o4 and was in
lng the photographer the run of his house to charge of setting up a govemrnent-ln-exlle for
scout for likely shooting locations. the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.
The reason for this interview is the publica- A man of letters and a man of action, he has
tion of his new novel, a spy thriller titled Body written more than 70 books, most of them ac·
Count. tlon-adventure or s py novels.
Hunt does not blanch at the mention of other, So aside from evidence for or against, there is
more sensitive topics: his 21 years in the CIA; his a certain symmetry to the idea that Hunt WBS
participation in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion somehow involved in the assassination of John
of Cuba; his central role in Watergate. F. Kennedy.
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ofMcCarthyism - mnking
unsubstanti.ated allega-
tUms," Hunt says of effort$
to link him to JF!Cs killing.
''And 'it's very profitable. No
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 HUNT to rehabilitate his reputation by
Hunt has a knack for s howing up making him seem competent, whole-

w~/l(ak
at strategic moments . some and well-meaning, and more
Still fit-looking at 73, he recalls than a little innocuous.
his childhood in South Florida as an
TAD SZULC OFFERS ANOTHER
idy Ilic time of hunting, fishing and explanation for why Hunt's account
swimming. His father was an attor-
ney who practiced law in South of his spy career is so uneventful -
and also why he bungled the Water-
Florida and in Durrah>, N.Y., where gate affai r so badly. In Compulsive
Hunt was born in the suburb of Spy, Szulc reports that Hunt, wi th
Hamburg. In Fort Lauderdale, Hunt the exception o f his tour of duty in
attended Stranahan High School. Uruguay, never handled intelligence
He wrote about his you th in his
1974 autobiography, Undercover:
full time.

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Memoirs o f an American S ecret " His speciality," Szulc writes .
"was so-<:alled covert political ac-
Agenc. Jn the prologue, he promises
to a nswer the question of how he tion." That means Hunt oversaw the
came to part icipate in Watergate by infiltration of political parties, labor
making an examination of his entire unions a nd youth groups, encourag-
ing pro-American factions. He a lso
life. The book. however, does noth-
wrote and disseminated black pro-
ing nf the sort.
filled with the finest dinettes of No nne's childhood ls as free of paganda.
worry as the one Hunt descr ibes in " This was vital work Crom the
every style, shape, size and color.«> Undercover. Even Tom Sawyer had
CIA's viewpoint, but it d id not make
Howard Hunt a spy or even a r eal
a rougher time of it . His 011ly stated
sources of anxiety ca ml! from deep-cover o perator," Szulc writes.
switching schools twice a y<!ar, a 13y this scennr io, when Hunt be·
mild case of rlyslexia, and from he- came involved with rl!al cloak·and-
tni; harasseu hy loca l boys afto?r hil; dagger oper.1. i11m. : L~ a Whit.e House
fa1.h.ir became a municipal judgP.. 11 lumllt!r, ht! s 1111ply tliJn ' t kll<lW
Unde rr.nvcr does sU!lJlest, h•>W· what he wns <.lom~ . His ust! of a red
ever. that things might have beell wig, devices tn o.: han!(c his gait or
less placid than Hunt allows. This alter his voice, his e nthusiasti c
occurs when he is stricken with a camaraderie with G. Gordon Liddv
sudden case of stammering while a - it all became laughably pathetic
sopho more a l Brown University in the instant the plot was re vealed.
Rhode Island. An avuncular campus During the time that Hunr w~ ~
working days for the CIA, he was
doctor discovers chat the s tuttering spending five hours a night - 9 p .m.
is the result of Hunt's having been
to 2 a .m. - writing adventure nov-
discouraged as a child from using
e ls. He averaged two a year, with
his left hand for writing. many of the books re<:eiving favor-
N ; 974, TAD SZULC, A FOf!MER a ble notices. To avoid problems with

I .Yew l'ur k Times rr.porcer. wrn1c

a bo11k ahuut Hnnt titled Com -
pu/siH· :;py: 'f/tc :;trange Cart'er ,,,
the CIA, he usually pnhlishcu 1hc
uooks, including l..!mit o f D11rk11t'.5S
a nd Blmi11i llut1. unllcr •me uf severa l
pseudonyms.
E. flmv;irrl Hunt. It is intcl'l:stl ng
that ~his book appeared in the same Hunt is a writer or rcal tale nt who
year as Hunt's own memoir, l><:cause rmljored in English at Brnwn Univer-
It contradicts mnch of what Hunt sity. Bis fl l'Sl novel, Ea.,;t of Fare-
tells us about his career. ivell, published in 1942, was so well
Szulc'e book presents an image of received chat he was awarde d a
Hunt as a relatively low-level CIA Guggenheim writing iellowship that
I slJolllroOIH t lJUI o c
iff •rS officer not welt thought of by most allowed him to spend a year in Mex-
of his colleagues or s uperio rs . ico following World War II.
'fben~·s o11ly I ctioll ,,,Jtb ibe . The two books are even at var- Is there a connection between the
· 1es 1 sc e dinettes. talents of a writer and those of a
t IJe ''''' ·•etl /ou•es.1 JJric:e 011 i · • "or iance about how long Hunt worked
o1u1rt111 e . IJ' o11ly c:IJo c:c .1· for the CIA. Hunt says he retired s py? Are the skills required for
"'
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, id 11111Jet1 1 after <! 1 years, but Szulc places the uisinformation s imilar to those of
,111s1mul111g qut11i1Jber 110 ,us11111c:e is figure a t 23 years, reporting that the c reative imagination?
' atf re111e111 , .' while Hunt was o n the staff of Arn· " Maybe it i:; the ability to imagine
prices. "' re11t savillgs. bassador Averell Harriman , ht! was :>omething and then carry it out,"
100 iveul for g really working for the CIA . Hunt says .
One of the fe w highlights of those Tad Swlc, in Compulsive Spy, of-
~=====--- fers a more si nister explanation.
years came during Hunt's tour as
CIA station chie f in Mexico City . He Hunt, he writes, lived a life that
s ucceeded in discrediting a commu- over lapped reality and the fantasy
nist politician by planting false :ito- world he wrote about in his spy nov-
ries about him in the local news- els. Szulc quotes an unnamed CIA
papers. This sort of information is officer identified only as "a former
3978 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Be-.ic.h , FL 33409 known in th e trade as "b lack s uperior" of Hunt 's, who said .
O k.:.:d1olx:.: Bh'd.. just"""'' ur 1''1\m lk:ad1 1 ~1k1:s llll'd .. propaganda." " Howard was always play-acting.
on the so utlt side of the ' trCl'I. Undercover seems a form of dis- acting out a fantasy rather than
information it.i;e lf, inte nded to put a functioning in a reasonably r ationa l
• 407-688-1007 • gloss on every ns pect uf Hunt's life, fashion."
 democratic process. To Hunt, the
tragedy is in the personal losses of
those who were arrested and con-
victed, plus, as he says , the fact that
"the country was ungoverned for
two year s" prior to Nixon 's resig-
nation.
Hunt says he spent $800,000 in
legal fees, even though he pleaded
guilty. He lost three years of his life
to prison, and missed valuable time
with h.is children. His first wife,
Dorothy, died in a commercial plane
crash in the middle of the Watergate
scandal.
To Hunt, his participation in Wa-
tergate was simply the legitimate do-
mestic application of the skills he
learned and employed overseas as a
CIA officer.
" You use the word burglarizing,"
he says. " My context is an ·entry
"The primary lesson of Watergate operation: It's a semantic differ-
is, get it in writing," Hunt says. "If e nce, but it's a rather important one.
I think if anyone had told me I was
Ollie North and ,John Poindexter going to burglarize, I would have
had learned the lesson of Water· paused and said, 'Wait, what am I
getting into'?' "
gate, they would have fared better The purpose of the Watergate
(in the Iran-Contra scandal)." break-in, he adds, was not to gain
campaign intelligence.
Hunt continued working for the " I 'll tell you what I wa:> Loh.I ," lte
CIA until 1970, then became a con- says. "There were street rumors in
sultant to the White House a nd Washington and Miami that funds
eventually one of t he Wate rgate from Castro and funds from Viet-
hunglers. nam were being inserted into the Mc-
Along with G . Gordon Liddy, he Govern campaign, and the White
wn.< nt the center o r WatPri:nrn as House wanted to know if there was
one of the lc:ic.Jing 111c1111Jcr" ...,r tht: anything of that kind reflected in
White House Special fnvestigative the accounting books of the Demo·
!J nit, later known as the ··ptumb- c ratic National Committee. In other
cn;."' This was the clandesli ne intel- words, were illegal funds being re·
ligence unit that broke into the ceived in an illegal manner ?"
office or a ps ychiatrist to Daniel With a perfectly straight face,
Ells berg, a former e mployee of the Hunt says, " We were looking for
law-breaking."
Department of Defense who had re-
leased t he classified Pentagon Pa-
pt'!rs on the Vietnam War. Later, the
plumbers broke into the Washington
Asked about the ineptitude of the
White House plu mbers , Hunt re·
sponds, "Well , maybe so, maybe I
Our Sofas Are On Sale.
wes~est\6u
headquarters of the Democratic Na- was n bumbler. It's better t han being
tional Committee. Among Hun t 's a fiend , isn't it? After 20 years, I
other dirty tricks was falsifying can't really get excited about it."
Considering the a lmost comical
government archives to make it
seem that Preside nt Kennedy had
directly orde red the assassination
o f South Vietnam's Premier Ngo
Dinh Diem on Nov . I , 1963.
failure of the Watergate burglars,
one wonders if a " bumbler" could
possibly have played a role in a con-
spiracy - if there was a conspiracy
Jump onThem.
"Hindsight is always wonderfully - to kill JFK.
darifying, if not useful ," says Hunt, Hunt is a proponent of the Warren
explaining his regret for Wate rgate. Commission's conclusion that Lee With over 500 styles and over 1700 differcnc fabrics or leathers, Fmc Designs offers
Yet he makes it clear that his only Harvey Oswald acted alone. you a~ endless sclemon of sofas and chairs. And nght now they' re all on sale. So
remorse is that he got caught.
" The prirnat"!f lt!Sson of Watergate
"Lee Harvey Oswald was a man of
the left," Hunt says. " He emigrated hurrymandorder yourswda)l,andthcn hurry ~
home. Because wtth delivery m JUSt 35 days
Fir1e oes1·gn.s ·
is , get it in wnfo,g," h!!- says. "If to the Soviet Union, he came back your new rumirure ju.st m ig ht beat you there. The Possibilities Are Endless.
Ollie North and John Poindexte r had and worked fo r Castro in the Fair
learned the lesson of Watergate, Play for Cuba Committee. He killed
JFK, and the Ir.ft has been unable 10
they would have fared better (in the
Iran-Contra scandal)." confro111. the lamentable fact that it Our Spring Sof.a Sale Ends Soon
was a man of the left who killed
THE TRAGEDY OF WATERGATE their hero. "
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HUNT and that the CIA was going to s a cri- raising a number of q uestions about "'These things were of some im-
fice him to the House Select Commit- the credibility of Hunt's witnesses, por t to me I 0 year s ago," Hunt says
lal movie, JFK, written and directed tee on Assassinations in order to who testified he was in Wash ington, with a note of weariness.
by Oliver Stone, a proponent of t he protect the agency's alleged deepe r and about possible motives for t he The reason that Lane won the sec-
conspirac y t('eory. Hunt describes involvement in the killing. (This did CIA to wan t Kenne dy dead. on d libel trial , Hunt adds, is t hat he
t he movie as " meretricious" and has not come to pass.) Lane a lso produced a deposition succeeded in retr yin g Watergate.
no intention of seeing it. Hunt hired Miami attorney Ellis by a woman named Marita Lorenz, a " I 'll s ay this about Mark Lane . ..
Rubin a nd sue d The Spocliglit for former mistress of Fide l Castro a nd Hunt s :i.ys. " He's an excellent lawyer
SEVERAL BOOKS AND ARTICLES and a des picable person . And that 's
have been written by conspiracy all l have to say."
theorists attempting to place Aunt Hunt is a writer of real talent who majored in English at On the continu ing efforts to tie
in Dallas at the ti me of the assas·
s inatlon. Tw() lawsuits filed hy Hu nt Brown University. His first novel was so well received Hunt to the JFK assassination, he
says, "This is the new, 1990s ver-
ultimately proved uns uccessf ul.
Coup d'Ewt i11 America, by A .J.
that he was awarded a Guggenheim writing fellowship, s ion of McCar thyism - making un·
s ubstanti:i.te<I a llegations . And it's
Wehe rma n and Michae l Canfie ld, a l-
leges that pictures of t hree bums
allowing him to spend a year in Mexico after World War II. very profit:>.ble. No one has ever lost
money huckstering a conspiracy
a rrested on the grru;sy knoll in Dal- boo k . So th e r e will always be
las just after the shoot ing of Ken- libel. In December 198 1, a jury a contract CIA agent. Lore nz testi- books."
nedy show two of the me n to be foun d for Hunt and awa rded him a fied that Frank Sturgis e nlisted he r
Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, judgment of $650,000. in a gun-running mission from Mi- TOWARD THE END OF THE INTER-
who participated in the Bay of Pigs The Liberty Lobby appealed, hir· ami to Dallas in late November 1963. view, Hunt's 8-year-old daughter ar-
and Watergate. ing Mark Lane, a leading conspiracy In a Dallas hotel room, Lorenz tes· rives home from school. The four
Even t hough mos t othe r backers theorist, to handle its de fense. In tified, she saw Hunt pny off Sturgis children from his first marriage are
of the CIA conspi racy theory do not 1985 a second trial resulted in a a nd the others. After Hunt left, Jack grown. Seven years a fter the death
agree that Hunt is one of the tramps, Miami jury finding the Liberty Ruby , who later mu rdered Oswald, o f his fi rst wife, Hunt married again .
the su it was settled without an apol- Lobby not guilty of libel. Lane's came in a nd also received a payoff. this time to Laura, a school teacher
ogy or a c ash payment from the a u - book about the trial, Pla usible De- Lorenz, fearing she wns out of her in her mid-40s. They have two chil-
thors to Hun t . nial, is now a best selle r . league, asked Stur gis to take her to dren, a son a nd a daughter .
In 1978, Tlie S po tligh t, a ne ws- In the appeal, Lane disc arded the the a irport so she could fly to Miami. " My life Is quite different now ,''
poper publis hed by the far-right Lib- standard " absence of malice" libel He agreed. The date, s he testifie d, Hu nt s ays. ··1 lead a quiet life. l see
e r ty Lobby, r an a story alleging that defense, pre fe rring to try to prove was Nov. 21, 1963. muc h more of these two children
Hunt was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 , that Hunt was in Dallas at the time So m e mon t h s later , LorP. n z than I rl id t he others. I think I have a
of the assassination and that the claimed in her deposition, Sturgis few more books to write, a few more
CHAUNCEY MABE is t heSun.Senti- ClA killed Kennedy. told her that he and his associates fi s h to catch, a fe w more skeet to
11el's book editor . Lane ma kes a persuasive case, had killed Kennedy. shoot." 0

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three-McCord, Hunt, and a Cuban exile named Eugenio Martinez. A vet-

eran of Operation Mongoose, Martinez was actually still employed b y the.
Agency at the time of the break-in, receiving a retainer of $100 a month for
reporting on the Cuban exile community in Miami. After his arrest inside
the Watergate, Martinez was immediately dropped from the payroll, and
the following day, on Tuesday, June 20, Helms took the first public step in
his campaign to put a moat between the CIA and Watergate. At an execu-
tive session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where Helms testi-
fied on SALT, Senator Percy asked, just before Helms ended his testimony,
"Do you want to volunteer any information on Mr. Jim McCord?"
"Yes, I'll volunteer anything you would like," said Helms. "I just want
to distance myself from my alumnus." A bit later he added, "I don't have-I
can't conceive of what that caper was all about, I really can't conceive
it."26
This was probably true as far as it went: what the "caper was all about"
is still a subject of debate. 27 But Helms was already in a position to con-
ceive quite clearly who the burglary team had been working for, and thus to
sense the dimensions of what had happened. In particular, Helms knew a
;;ood deal about the relationship of Howard Hunt and the White House,
1nd what he knew explains what he did.
Helms first met Hunt in i956, when Hunt was passing through Wash-
ngton on his way to a new post as chief of station in Uruguay. During the
oUowing fourteen years the two men saw each other infrequently, but Hunt
:onceived of Helms as a friend, admired him openly, and more than once
:o.lled on Pim for help. In his memoirs of the B:iy of Pigs operation Hunt
:ave Helms's code name inside the CIA-"Knight"-to David Phillips.
Vhen Phillips wrote his memoirs he conceded that he was the man Hunt
filled Knight, and commented, "Bestowing the name of Knight was the
.ltimate accolade-people who have worked in CIA will recall that pseudo-
ym belonged to one of the Agency's most senior officers, a man Howard
1olized ."28 Why Hunt idolized Helms is not so easy to explain. Helms and
:unt came from quite different traditions inside CIA, just as they differed
! politics. Hunt was an activist and right-winger, while H elms was a
ureaucrat, a foreign intelligence man, and a political moderate. His atti-
1de of suspicion toward the Soviet Union, a sort of given inside the CIA,
:ight strike outsiders as hard-line, but Helms was no ideologue. His ap-
·oach to political problems was entirely pragmatic. But H elms defended
·uat on several occasions, and Hunt's gratitude was enduring.
In Uruguay in ig6o, for example, Hunt had broken every rule in the
1<>k when he bypassed his immediate boss, the U.S. ambassador, Robert
·>:.·odward, and tried to extend his tour as chief of station in Montevideo by
ipealing directly to the President of Uruguay. Hunt's career in the CIA
ght to have ended then and there, but all that happened was that he was
Hed back to Washington in time to spend a few acrimonious months as
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political action officer on the Bay of Pigs project until Bissell fired him for one of the two great "black I
refusing to take orders. He finished out the project with a low-level job Colson's plan after a meeting
working on propaganda. After the invasion collapsed, Hunt was a fifth afternoon he telephoned the D
wheel looking for a job. Helms offered him to Allen Dulles as a ghostwriter eral Robert E. Cushman, to a:
on Dulles's planned memoirs. When that fell through, Helms next proposed contacting you sometime in the
that Hunt serve a tour as the deputy chief of station in Madrid. Hunt ac- know that he was in fact doi.J
cepted reluctantly; it struck him as a demotion. But even that was denied )onrnme acquaintance with th
him. Fate sent Woodward as ambassador to Madrid before him, and Wood- prettyo much carte blanche ...."S
ward flatly refused to have Hunt inside the Embassy. He went even further, When Hunt first went to '
insisting that an order be placed in Hunt's file barring him from ever again seems to have undertaken thre
holding a job with State Department cover. Helms was irritated by Wood- discredit Senator Edward F. :
ward's attitude and refused to be balked; he gave Hunt an "outside" job in Chappaquiddick scandal, a pla
Madrid.29 by "proving" a direct ~nd de1ib
Before his tour in Spain ended, however, Hunt requested a transfer an effort to embarrass Daniel E
back to Washington because his son needed medical treatment which was throughout the summer and fa
unavailable in Madrid. Helms approved the transfer and assigned Hunt a provided by the CIA. On July:;
new job as chief of the covert-action staff in the DDP's ·western European Hunt visited General Cushman
Division. There he was not a success. "'Can you imagine a right-winger like requested some special equipm
Hunt trying to deal with the Social Democrats in Germany?" asked a CIA op--in and out."32
officer, who thought one of Helms's principal administrative failings was his "I don't see why we can't,
willingness to go on giving high-level jobs to incompetents for no better officer from the CI A's Technical
reason than a desire to avoid hurting their feelings. Later, Hunt was shifted speech-altering device, and a m
to the Domestic Operations Division. In April 1970, apparently realizing house in Washington. On July 2
that his career was permanently blocked in CIA, Hunt asked Helms for asked to prepare a psychologic:
early retirement. Helms said okay and wrote a letter of recommendation \Vashington rumor as being err
which Hunt used to obtain a job with a Washington public relations finn, to David R. Young, a White I
Robert R. Mullen and Company.80 So far as is known, that was the last specialists known as the plumb•
Helms heard o~ Hunt until July i97i. the CIA with the request. Osb<
During that .flfteen-month period, however, Hunt was busy. Bored with Helms, initially reluctant, fina
his routine job in public relations, and disappointed when the furn was sold it.''"
to someon e invited in from the outside, he renewed a casual friendship with If Helms was wary of direc
Chuck Colson, a fellow graduate of Brown University whose White House to plug security leaks, be was
connections impressed Hunt. Colson, in turn, was impressed by Hunt's himself with the problem. W
'1eading role" in the Bay of Pigs. Lunching together often, they found proved too vague to satisfy Eh
themselves politically congenial and imagined that their shared taste for try again, and the following d
intrigue might make them good partners. All they needed was a project, and Krogh or David Young with b
Daniel Ellsberg gave them one. York Times story on India by
After the New .York Times began to publish the Defense Department reporting on the government i
study of decisi~nmaking in Vietnam, l..'nown as the Pentagon Papers, in J~~e Agency had agreed to lend tl
1971, Colson suggested that Hunt join the White House as a "consultant 10 questioning of a State D epartr
order to mount an operation which would discredit Ellsberg, and thus turn lllation which h ad appeared in
the episode into a public-relations triumph for Nixon. After all, this w~ But Hunt was a different
exactly the sort of thing Hunt had excelled at abroad. Years before, P~ on July 22, suddenly escalated
Linebarger, an expert in psychological warfare, bad praised Hunt as haV1Jlg the CIA to lend him his old Ai
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one of the two great "black minds" in CIA. John Ehrlichman approved :,,~
Colson's plan after a meeting with Hunt on July 7, i971, and the same i;'
afternoon he telephoned the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Gen- 1!:
eral Robert E. Cushman, to ask the CIA's help. Hunt, he said, "may be 1~·
contacting you sometime in the future for some assistance. I wanted you to .1
know that he was in fact doing some things for the President. He is a
longtime acquaintance with the people here. You should consider he has
pretty much carte blanche... ,"31
When Hunt first went to work for the White House in July i971, he
seems to have undertaken three separate projects at once: an attempt to
discredit Senator Edward F. Kennedy with new information about the .' '

Chappaquiddick scandal, a plan to discredit the Kennedys more generally

by "proving" a direct and deliberate U.S. role in the murder of Diem, and
an effort to embarrass Daniel Ellsberg. In all three, pursued simultaneously
throughout the summer and fall of i971, Hunt depended h eavily on aid
provided by the CIA. On July 22, nvo weeks after Ehrlichman's phone call,
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Hunt visited General Cushman in his seventh-Boor office at the CIA and
requested some special equipment for a "sensitive" interview-"a one-time
op--in and out."32
"I don't see why we can't," Cushman said, and the following day an
officer &om the CIA's Technical Services Division (TSD} delivered a wig, a
speech-altering device, and a miscellany of identification to Hunt at a safe-
house in Washington. On July zB Hunt suggested to Colson that the CIA be
asked to prepare a psychological profile of Ellsberg, who was described by
Washington rumor as being erratic and unstable. Colson passed on the idea
to David R. Young, a White House aide working with the leak-plugging
specialists known as the plumbers. Young, in tum, called Howard Osborn at
the CIA with the request. Osborn asked Helms if they should comply, and
Helms, initially reluctant, finally said, "All right, let's go ahead and try
it."83
If Helms was wary of directly involving the CIA in White House efforts
to plug security leaks, he ~as nevertheless glad somebody was concerning
himself with the pr~blem. When the first attempt at an Ellsberg profile
proved too vague to satisfy Ehrlichman and the plumbers, Helms agreed to
try again, and the following day, on August i3, i971, be called either Egil I
Krogh or David Young with his own request for a leak bunt, after a New I '.
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York Times story on India by Tad Szulc pointed a finger at a CIA agent
reporting on the government in New D elhi. A couple of weeks earlier the ..
Agency had agreed to lend the plumbers a CIA polygraph expert for the
questioning of a State Department officer suspected of having leaked infor-
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. By Bob Woodwar~ CIA physician, said the sources, who· . no comment on the allegation that he · Hunt tonfidentially revealed to former 'The aborted Anders
Wasblnston Pott81~f Wrl~r added that the poison was a variety planned to assass\nate Ander1?on. CIA associates after the Watergate plot, however, has ne
. E. Howard Hunt Jr. told associates that would leave no trace during a rou- Hunt told associates after the Water· break-in. He told the associates he ously revealed. Neither
.. after the Watergate break-in that he tine medical examination or autopsy. gate arrests in June, 1972, that the or· feared that an investigation of the House committees no
Hunt told the sources ·Anderson was der to assassinate Anderson came from break-in would lead to disclosure of the CIA are aware of t
, was ordered in December, 1971, or Jan· according to staff mem
: ·uary, 1972, to assassinate syndicated to be assassinated becalise he was pub- a senior official in' the Nixon White the assassination plan and the bur-
glary of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's psychia·
lishing sensitive national security in· House. The sources added, however, Other sources lnU
·: ~olumnist Jack Anderson, according formation in his daily newspaper col· that Hunt has told contradictory sto- trist's office. with the Watergate in
· to reliable sources. · :umn, based on top secret documents ries. To one source he said the order The identity of the former CIA doc- pres!ied surprise that s
According to the sources, Hunt told that were coming into Anderson's pos- came directly from the senior official tor and the reason the assassination have been kept secret
' his former CIA associates that the or- session. To another he said that an intermedi· was called-off could not be determined. example, Charles W.
; der was canceled at the last m.inute- Hunt, a retired CIA agent, pleaded ary relayed the instructions of the sen· Hunt and others broke into the Los mer White House spec
but only after a plan bad been devised guilty in 1973 to charges stemming ior official. Angeles office of Ellsberg's psychia· recruited Hunt for Wh
~ to make Anderson's death appear acci- from the Water.gate break-in in which Planning for the assassination ex· trist In 1971, seeking information on said yesterday that he
' ' dental. he participated. He is now serving a tended over several days, the sources the 'Pentagon Papers defendant. The il· of the plan.
i J: His alleged plan involved the use of prison · term in Florida. Hunt said said, and went forward in sufficient legal entry was publicly revealed in Anderson could not
!· ~ a poison to be obtained from a former through bis lawyer that he would have detail to be one of two incidents that mid-1973. comment yesterday bu
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. no"~omment on the allegation that he· Hunt -confidentially revealed to former , The aborted Anderson assassination today he found an assassination plot .~ ·· ·.':'·· : ·
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, planned to assassinate Ander~on. CIA associates after the Watergate plot, however, has never been previ- "hard to believe." , · . · . · ;-. :.<·~· :~~} ~;·
. Hunt told associates after: the Water- break-in. He told the associates he ously revealed. Neither the Senate nor Anderson told upr he · knew l·:·:..~; . ~-~ that::
:gate arrests in June, 1972, that the or- feared that an investigation of the House committees now investigating top White House aide H.R. .Haldeman".: ·-~~ll
der to assassinate Anderson came from break-in would lead to disclosure of the CIA are aware of the alleged plot, ha~ ord~red t~e . ~ustlce. Deparymentr : _:.4{"rr:
. a senior official in' the Nixon White the assass1nation plan and the bur- according to staff members. to mvestigate hlDl m an ~fforUo ,find;! .-.J.:'f~ ~
House. The sources added, however, glary of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's psychia-
that .Hunt has told contradictory sto- trist',s office.
Other sources intimately familiar "some crime that . piey .could·:_;atta~kij ~··
with the Watergate investigations ex- me with" and that a.raid on hl.s ottlce'.i·:J. ;;~.: ..
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.ries. To one source he said the order The identity of the former CIA doc· ' pressed surprise that such a plan could was once discussed at the department.... . r:·;·.-' .
came directly from the senior official . tor and the reason the assassination have been kept secret for so long. For . "But I have absofotely reason .to;: _;_., ~. :.." . < no
To another he said that an intermedi- was called off could not be determined. example, Charles . W. Colson, the for· believe that Haldeman -' would . order, • --.;. , •.
ary relayed the instructions of the sen- · Hunt and others broke into the Los mer ~bite House spec~al counsel who my assasalnatlon,"=.Andenon told .UPI •. , .; . ·" ::~.
ior official. . Angeles office of Ellsberg's psychia· . re~rwted Hunt for White House work, ·,The alleged ·Anderson ,1118aeslnaUon' . ,_;,. ,..-; :.

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, Planning for the assassination ex· trist in 1971, seeking information on ! said yesterday that he had never heard ··.plan.ha& no connection to 8 previously : , _ .
. !~r:.~c;;;e~es:;efoa~~~~s,1!h~~~~~:~ ~~;aie:~~~n:a:p~r:b~~~~~!~!Je~e ~ : ;o~ !~~:;:~~ c~uld not be' reached for .:: repo~ted.;incldent in which wa_tergat~ : ·~:·:~· .
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.:.W~TERGATE, From Al . Anderson was frequently a target of
r ·: · ··.-· . · ·. : . , Wi1ite House efforts to discredit him
. BP,irator , G, Gordon · Liddy .. appar. and to locate his sources, according to
ntly thought he had been ordered to information made public during the
U:Anderson. various Watergate investigations.
Th.e Liddy incident, according to tes· W. Donald Stewart, a former top
. ony before the Senate Watergate Pentagon investigator, said in a series
mmittee, was triggered by a chance of recent interviews that none of the
mark by former President Nixon's Watergate-related investigations pub-
puty campaign director, Jeb Stuart licly revealed the . true extent to which
gruder, who expressed a desire to Anderson was a thorn in the side of
et ·rid" of Anderson. Liddy appar- the Nixon administration.
tly took him literally but Magruder In the course of numerous investiga-
on made it clear that he was not se- tions of Anderson columns quring
us, according to Watergate testi- 1971-72, Stewart 'said he was .given
ny. "every resource in the book" to locate
y all available accounts, the Liddy the sou1·ce of the leaks. He said he
·ident was never followed by any ac· identified nearly 60 classified docu-
1 steps tci plan the assassiria'tion of ments to which Anderson had acce~.
derson. . At one point Stewart said he wanted
Villiam A. Snyder, Hunt's attorney, to obtain . a search .warrant to go
d he spoke to Hunt Friday about the through Anderson's office but· his SU·
eged Anderson plot and that neither periors would not approve such a re· ·" ~..::);~
nor his client would have any com- quest. 1 • • , · .
nt., .
One investigation of Anderson cost JACK ANDERSON . . :, · ·E,1lHOWARD HUNT :'\:.
source close · to Hunt said that more than $100,000, Stewart estimated. • •• target, agent in-alleged White House plan .! , -· ,! '.J .
nt and .bis attorney were worried It.included development o.f an ~labo- - . , ;.. .. . . .·. .. ·· I ". ·._ .-,... ·;_ _..-·~'. '. ·;
t public disclosure of the aborted· rate contingency plan in ca~e a sus- .
assination plot might lead to an· ipected leaker of information to Ander· -by military liaison personnel in the .they'did litUe U•any ~work 1lil :Che Rad-·
er investigation. . · son fled the country. White House to obtain Kissinger's sen- ford 'investigation.. , . ,, . : :.,: . . ,
e.ferrlng to acting U. S. Attor·ney' Perhaps Anderson's best-known leak sitive papers for senior. Pentagon offi- ; Stewart ·said the·:1eaks· 'to; An.derson
Silbert, who· beaded the .first in 1971 was the highly classified infor· cers. .infuriated the' :White Howe to the
tergate investigation, the source ·mation that President Nix.on secretly ·In the course of that probe, it was · :point that then President Nixon war- .
: "You've .got Earl Silbert sitting ·.favored Pakistan in the India-Pakistan revealed that Navy yeoman Charles B. . :ried .about his- ability "to .Conduct !or-
·e and Howard (Hunt) heads bis s- war while the administration publicly Radford, an assistant to the Pentagon .elgn' affair.s .. . . . · · 1
. .· . What a zealot can do with the proclaimed neutrality. liaison officer on Kissinger:s staff, · ·Stewart . d~scribed: an incident in
_spiracY law: is amazing even if noth· In one of the leaked documents, knew Anderson and was the suspected' . ,early \January, 1972, 'when the threat
was done." Heney A. Kissinger, then the presi- leaker. ' /~ lposed . by· Anderson's: access to cla!>-Si·
ilr0 rt claimed it was in part Hunt's dent's national security adviser, was
'cooperate with the first quoted as saying: "I am getting hell jointly conducted by Ste~ ~
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'fied •. ~at!_l.rial ·_reached . crisis· pi·opor-
· •estigation that prevented every half hour from the President Pentagon and White Ho ~~ !
;~lip.e 'vacationing in Florida, Stew-
ncovering the full exent that we are not b~ing tough enough on Young 1who1•• heaqe _:>:art~~j_he,.;'!Va.s . summoned back to
. ~ conspiracy. . · India .. .He wants to tilt in favor of . ''_pJµmbef~'.'.., ~nit. 1 , 1v·
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equcntly a target or Washington by J. Fred Buzhardt, then ·why Mr. Nixon revealed the plan. White
ts . to discredit him ' general counsel to the Defense Depart- ' House officials said it was in large
ources, according to ment, and the man to whom Stewart part an attempt to trigger a response by
public during the reported on the leak investigations. Hanoi.
investigations. Upon returning to Washington, Stew·· Stewart and another s~urce who pre-
wart, a former top art said, he was met at the airport a1;d viously held a high post in the Nixon
tor, said in a series taken to the Pentagon. There Buzhardt administration said the fear that An-
ws that none of the told him they had to find out lmmedi· derson might break the story
investigations pub· atel.y if Radford knew about the then· prompted the President's speech.
true extent to which secret peace negotiations. During the period 1971-72 'numerous
thorn in the side of
tration. Included in the secret negotiations •ources sa\d the President and Kis·
numerous investiga- were 13 trips to Paris by Kissinger to singer voiced.strong feelings about An·
n columns during meet with Communist leaders and a derson and claimed he was .a ·serious
aid he was .given 1971 trip by Kissinger's deputy Alexan· threat to the national security and
the book" to locate der M . Haig, Jr., to meet with South ' their efforts tQ end the Vietnam war.
e leaks. He said he Vietnamese President Thieu. "It was very, very serious," one
60 classified docu- Stewart said that he and Buzhardt in source said, "and it is hard to capture
derson had acce~. several days established that Radford the atmosphere. (during those times)
wart said he wanted knew the details of the secret negotia- but everything 'was at stake-end!ttg
rch warrant to go tions. . ... the war, national security and even the
's office but his su- . This caused a storm in the Pentagon Pr esident's·re-_eleetion. All -!~ese thmiii
. approve such a re- and White House, Stewart said. "They .hung. on stopping the..leaks. . .- · ;;;;:
1 - Nere afraid that Jack Anderson ...was ·· Stewart. said in the recent 1nterVi8'1
ion of Anderson cost JACK ANDERSON E.·HOWARD HUNT · going to scoop them," Stewart said. that he was not aware of any retali&: . :-
, Stewart estimated. • •• target, arent in·alleged White House plan Several _weeks later-January· 25,_ t?ry a~tion .ever having.· ~ee~· . . m.~. 1 1 .~
lopment of an elabo- : 1972-President Nixon unexpectedly ·· . tio~e~..or conte~pl~t.ed agamst ;An~4!!: ., · .·
plan in ca~e a sus- · t . ~ . :".
information to Ander- by military _liaison ·personnel in the they did little if any work on the Rad- revealed the Kissinger trips and uri•. · .son . .;.f: · ·. .;:.. .
White House to obtain Kissinger's sen- ford investigation, veiled the administration's peaf!e plan .. · · · iThere· ls, no .· eYidenc!(! .:Whlltsoe.t !ft ' ;
try. sitive papers for senior: Pentagon offi- Included was agreement. by · Presi· .. .suggesting that'· the President'.or Ki8> · / ··
on's best-known leak Stewart said the leaks· to Anderson dent Thieu and his vice p~esident to ' singer had' any ,involvement" in'· ~- . :. ;
ighlY classified lnfor- cers. ·infuriated the White House to the resign from office while new South Vi-. plan to ·assassinate.- Anderson, ·!'m · ·
ident Nixon secretly ·In the course of that probe, it was point that then President Nixon wor- etnamese elections were held. . : sources intimately involved in ·national···. ·
in the India-Pakistan
dministration publicly
revealed that Navy yeoman Charles 'B.
Radford, an assistant to the Pentagon
ried .about his ability to -conduct for-
eign affair.s
This was made public in a dramatic : security affairs during _:the perioq
· speech 'by Mr. Nixon on national "tele- :. ;-' ~hat an atmosphere of-_. crisis :was ere. ·
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raUty. · liaison officer on Kissinger'.s staff, Stewart described sn incident in vision. In speaking of the 30 months of · ated. . ; ; ·: · ..: · •· ; ·. ::
e leaked documents, knew Anderson and was the suspected' early January, 1972, when the threat secret negotiations, the President said: ;·.• ."Lots of other things, were· done· in
·nger,:.. then: the ,presi· leaker. . · {!. posed by Anderson's access to classi- "There was never a lea!<, becau.s e we ~.;. the name of national Sl?j:urity," ,a f~
security adviser,. was ." : The iinvestigation of Radf~~~/ S fied material reached crisis proper· we1·e determined not to jeopardize ·u~e) mer senior official said, "and, .soJU! 1
;;,,;. "l "'11 O"<'tlin!! h PI\ ;ointly conducted by_, S~e~-~ / ':. tlons.·. ' ,. ' . j r secl'et negotiations.'l . ·. ,' ...:'. zealot down the line/ might · ha~ ;
While v:icntioning in Stew- At the time many .government. offi:.: ! thought assassination would solve tlM .
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·:;,By Norman Kempste.r The Senate Armed Serv- would be virtually unde
· Washington Star Stall Writerices Committee later re- tectable. ··
· ·~The staff of the Senate ported that Radford pro-
Intelligence Committee has vided information to COLBY -AND pther ·wit-
begun a crash investigati~n Ande.rson and also fed se- nesses at the hearings said
of reports that columnist cret documents from 11 grams of the toxin were
Jack Anderson was marked Secretary of State Henry A. held in a CIA vault despite
for assassination by the . Kissinger's· office to Adm. . Nixon's orders to destros
Nixon White House. Thomas Moorer , then all such materials. C9lby
.: The committee staff has chairman . of the Joint said the decision to keep the
been studying for some Chiels of Staff~ poison was made by·· a
time a pattern of angry re- MOORER HAS admitted middle-level bureaucrat
sponses by former Presi- receiving- the documents who did not inform his su-
dent Richard M. Nixon and .but he said they were of no ·periors of his action. Colby
-his aides to revelations of use to .him. The admiral said the poison ·was nev.er
administration·secrets pub- denied ordering Radford to used. .-..
lished in Anderson's col- · Although there was . m
.u mn: · · · _spthe Senate Intelligence firm evidence of a plot by
· It was ~nderstood that Committee was understood . Hunt, it was ·widely report-
the · comm1tt~e has . n~t . to be. especially intrigued ed earlier that Hunt's part-
uncovered ev1de!1ce mdi- with reports that Hunt, a ner in the Watergate break-
eating a ~lot t<? k1.ll the. Pu- former CIA agent who is in G. Gordon Liddy, once
litz~r Pr1ze-wmmng JOUr- now serving a prison· term er'roneously believed he had
nahst. But the staff ~e.~:in for his part in the Water- been ordered to kill An~~r-
to probe such a. poss1b1 1ty gate . scandal, was to be son. · 1
after Th.~ W_ashmgton Po~! provided by a former CIA. once Jeb Stuart Magruder, !
quoted reliable sources doctor with a poison that deputy director · -of j
as saying that Watergate would leave no trace that Nixon's Committee for the
conspirator ~ · Howard · could be discovered during dent, Re-election of the Presi-.
Hunt told associates that he a routine autopsy. related that he once
was ordered to kill Ander- The committee last week someone stohould
remarked . Liddy that
"get"
son~ although the orde~ was held three days of hearings Anderson,
canceled at .th~ last~1.nute . to learn about just such a interpreted He said I.:iddy_ .
the remark as ;
- IN A TELEPHONE p0ison, a shellfi~~- toxin. instructions to murder the :
interview, Anderson said he CIA Director Wilham E . columnist but the misun- ;
was told yesterday by a _ Colby said the poisoh was derstanding was corrected· l
source he considers reliable could so deadly that a lethal dos.e b.efore Liddy took ~ny ac_- l1
that an order to kill him be so small that it t1on.
was issued by "a top White
House aide in Nixon's inner
circle."
. · But Anderson said the
source, whom he declined
.to name,
. .
had no .hard evi-