Hunt became the OPC Station Chief in Mexico City in 1950, and recruited and supervised William F. These men were indispensable-until they became expendable." Mexico, Guatemala, Japan, Uruguay and Cuba Men like this would never be invited for lunch with Allen Dulles at the Alibi Club or to play tennis with Dick Helms at the Chevy Chase Club.
To the Georgetown set, there would always be something low-rent about men like Hunt-as well as William Harvey andĭavid Morales. Everyone knew Hunt was a writer, but they also knew he was no Ian Fleming. But it turned out that Hunt’s father was a lobbyist in upstate New York to whom Donovan owed a favor, not a fellow Wall Street lawyer. Hunt liked to brag that he had family connections to Wild Bill Donovan himself, who had admitted him into the OSS, the original roundtable of American intelligence. But that’s not how he was viewed at the top of the agency. Īccording to David Talbot, "Howard Hunt prided himself on being part of the CIA’s upper tier.
He was assigned as a covert action officer specializing in political action and influence in what later came to be called the CIA's Special Activities Division. had just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) in October 1949. The subsequent emergence of the Cold War and the lack of a central intelligence organization resulted in the CIA's formation in 1947. Shortly following the end of World War II the OSS was disbanded. Prior to 1949, Hunt served as an Officer in the Information Division of the Economic Cooperation Administration, a predecessor of the Mutual Security Agency. He continued his writing career after he was released from prison, publishing nearly twenty spy thrillers between 19. Some have found parallels between his writings and his experiences during Watergate and espionage. Hunt won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his writing in 1946. He also wrote spy and hardboiled novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis, David St. During and after the war, he wrote several novels under his own name, including East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Maelstrom (1949) Bimini Run (1949), and The Violent Ones (1950). Hunt was a prolific author, having published 73 books during his lifetime. Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, the United States Army Air Corps, and finally, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, in China. During World War II, Hunt served in the U.S. He graduated from Hamburg High School in 1936 and Brown University in 1940. Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York, United States, the son of Ethel Jean (Totterdale) and Everette Howard Hunt Sr., an attorney and Republican Party official. 4 Memoir: American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond.3.6 "Deathbed confession" of involvement in Kennedy assassination.3.3 Libel suit: Liberty Lobby and The Spotlight.3.2 Compulsive Spy and Coup d'Etat in America.3.1 Early allegations: Hunt as one of the "three tramps".2.3.3 Executive Assistant to DCI Allen Dulles.2.3.2 Mexico, Guatemala, Japan, Uruguay and Cuba.2.2 Economic Cooperation Administration.After release, Hunt lived in Mexico and then Florida until his death. In the ensuing Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration " plumbers", a team of operatives charged with identifying government sources of national security information " leaks" to outside parties. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), particularly in the United States involvement in regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and author.
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