Howard Hunt, alias “Eduardo”
Worked in CIA for 21 years.
Ivy League New Yorker, field man for CLA in Latin America, Spain, Far East.
Wrote 45 novels for the CIA — science-fiction, detective, short stories. Pseudonyms: Robert Dietrich, John Baxter, Gordon Davis. Senior member of a Special Task Force during two periods of national emergency; participant in White House conferences on security matters.
Planning director for Bay of Pigs invasion; worked closely with Barker, conduit of funds for Bay of Pigs.
Developed and guided media operations abroad and negotiated with senior officials of foreign countries for CIA.
Defense Department counsel, 1957-1960.
Military service, Navy Reserve, U.S. Army Air Corps.
Conservative republican.
White House consultant, 1971-72 on Pentagon Papers and Narcotics Intelligence.
Shared offices with Robert Bennett of Mullen & Company. Bennett, through 75-90 “dummy” organizations, raised the secret $10-million for Nixon’s Committee.
Spoke up against radicals, black protestors at Brown University alumni; deplored “the lack of patriotism in youth.”
Left Washington, New York, maybe the U.S. after his friends were arrested.
White House desk, examined by FBI after he fled, contained a pistol and two walkie-talkies that could connect to the walkie-talkies confiscated at the time of the Watergate arrests.
Worked in offices of Robert Bennett of Mullen & Company, public relations firm, in 1969, while still with CIA. Close friend and attorney Douglas Caddy shared the same offices; Caddy was co-founder of Young Americans for Freedom. Robert Mullen alleged to be CIA, as well as Caddy. Close links of CIA and Spiro Agnew through this office.
Business partner of Bernard Barker in Nicaragua, Santa Domingo.
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“David St. John” was E. Howard Hunt, writing, like a good spook, under a pseudonym. He had started writing novels out of boredom from being put on ice at the CIA. He was quite successful at it, too. Hunt wrote as feverishly and fast as Kerouac. He cranked out a novel in 1971 full of paranoid, civilization crumbling psychosis.
. His book The Coven provided a window into the mind of a Plumber. Everette Howard Hunt believed, as many in the White House believed, that behind the earnest humanitarian face of liberalism lay irredeemable evil. George Gordon Battle Liddy suspected Daniel Ellsberg was a KGB agent, or that the Times had acquired the Pentagon Papers through a black-bag job. In their minds, every evil was linked. Liddy gave over twelve pages in his memoirs to an account of his involvement in a raid on the home of Timothy Leary—“one more problem of the sick ’60s.”
“To permit the thought, spirit, life-style, and ideas of the ’60s movement to achieve power and become the official way of life of the United States was a thought as offensive to me as was the thought of surrender to a career Japanese soldier in 1945.”
And when he considered the 1972 presidential election—“in view of the thousands of bombings, burnings, riots, and lootings of the ’60s, to say nothing of the murders of police just because they were police, the killing of judges, and the general disintegration of the social order”—he realized that for Nixon to fight according to the normal procedures of democratic politics would have been just such a surrender. It was like one of the agents in a novel by Howard Hunt said: “We become lawless in a struggle for the rule of law—semi-outlaws who risk their lives to put down the savagery of others.”
These men were not aliens. They were Americans—in a time when millions of Americans agreed with Joe and resonated enough with E. Howard Hunt’s dank anxieties to turn him into a bestselling author.
Liddy and Hunt push each other deeper into crazy patriotism paroxysms