Mike Sheehan
Raw
Story
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
E. Howard Hunt, an enigmatic figure in 20th-century American
political subterfuge, has died at age 88, the Associated Press
is reporting.
Hunt, who had a key role in the Watergate Hotel break-in that
led to the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon, "succumbed
after a lengthy bout of pneumonia," the AP quoted his son,
Austin.
Aside from his part in Watergate, Hunt was a World War II veteran,
longtime officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, and a prolific
author of spy novels.
According to an online biography, "In 1951, he hired William
F. Buckley, Jr. as a CIA agent working within the Mexican student
movement. Buckley and Hunt remained life-long friends."
Earlier this month, RAW STORY reported on Hunt's upcoming book,
in which he speculates that President Lyndon Johnson "may
have played a role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
Hunt was often implicated by conspiracy theorists as having a
part himself in the assassination.
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