THE SPY IN THE COLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100090111-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: January 29, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24 : CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090111-9
C_rl 3. v t 3 2 9 JAN ;973
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TRIALS about $8,000-or $2,000 apiece-has the feeling they're a ban one . n o
reached the four defendants. Yet the story."
The Shy in the Cold four men do not appear to be displeased Hunt makes no a ort to hide his
with the arrangement. To have worked own sense of abandonment. "N obod y
"Well, I'm sorry but I don't believe with Hunt, one of them told the has invited me anys%here for six
yousaid Federal Judge John J. Sirica. court, had been "th.greatest honor' - months." harassed, he my kids says. alre}tefamily ased andr taunt
lie gate was addressinn four of the
not Wate
with for C ) ears rand
d gate defendants. claim hat he they could I sold you r and your sold me." Intan inter- 1 people hIl worked of
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ave
res
not UP1
t not rc emon y. r Even lisums as l highleas Beckwith, F. Howa dp 1-lunt ntqDa\ t` Ihhad}lunchtlast seek cs ith my dlr gh-
d mo they said, simply turned up those mocking then t e addedr lefee
CIA1of icer \0 o n vorkcdlfor me in`Ja-
$114,000, ter
.in brown manila envelopes from none well's 1!S ~ and
Chcc. Despite the judge's sharp sively: "There was none of that in any panSHe e looked
Sp right th ougheme." of
questioning, the four insisted last week operation I ever ran. Nobody above or ure. eakin- of death
t
on pleading ignorance-and guilt. That below me was ever sold out. I protect his wife }in a nhicagoapltdmyash last month, unt Hunt, a mr ster (who S10,000 site as crr~ing i reduced the number of defendants from the people I deal kith."
ndral so reducvertd sclose has wr ttenrsomre 46lnovelslasi well as was to have sbeenainvestedl' inUa new
seven oos to that at the and
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who sanctioned the conspiracy to bug an account of the Bay of Pies fiasco business enterprise out there, a concern
bit
Democratic Party headquarters last tcalled Give Us alk because -I've trbeenrltaking decided after. I got have of o jail.- Turning a job
June. he re
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The four-tree o wo-YEo thatt ha cnme o bans from Miami-were talked into r, stead of my wife. The Watergate would
A have been over for tile. My family.
pleading guilt)', TIME has learned, by r
the same man who recruited them into would have been financially secure. And
the conspiracy in the first place: E. .,.` i the four children Hunt,
wastinaway iner
who had pleaded guilty himself a Ceek another point, as he spoke of trying d earlier. Bunt promised his four confect At
A explain his situation to his nine-ver-
r~ old son, he wept. Sion later he - car-
crates that unidentified "friends'' would e
offer each defendant up to S 1,000 for to hw pt. fish at the ere or a
every month he spent in prison, with tine; himself e sou--ling hard, but it looks
more "lone to be paid at the time of like a pI'm
retty strong line.
his release (fu-E, Jan. 22). Hunt joined the CIA in 1950 after
The guilty plea by the four defen } having served in the Na y and the oss
during World War 11. \\ of kcd as a LIFE
dams staved oft a prospective court
room uproar-testimony that Hunt had correspondent in the South Pac+lic, svon
told them the Watergate bugging had a Guggenheim fete South in creative
been approved by the White } louse, spe riting and sold a movie script t1linrini
-cificall) by two presidential advisers writing to n sold Bro. for ip t it Ile
former Attorne' General John t 3 is proud of his 20 )ears in the CIA,
though he feels "the agency" has treat-
Mitchell, then head of the Committee
for the Re-Election of the President, ed him badly of late. "When the) idcn-
and Charles W. Colson, who at the time tified me as a former CW,e officer right
was on the \Vthe House staff as spe after the \Vatcrgate arrests." he sas,
cial counsel to the President. ' "they abrogated our agreement of
Castro. Hunt's influence over the confidentiality."
four dates back to 1961, when Hunt ~__-. -- --- As a member of the agency's "De-
partment of Dirty Tricks,'' he worked
waS a leading CIA Official engaged in E. HOWARD HUNT
planning the Bay of Pigs invasion of "My people."
Cuba. that on the operation that overthrew the
time, the four men were
convinced that hunt spoke secretly for as an irresponsible adventurer, a des- Communist-supported Guatemala re-
r\rbenz After
s his
he U .S. Gov 9 721 when apparently Hunt recruit- Pictures A f d rbe at thephotographer. tial have made the cc up. hells rbenz in 195.
still are. In 1972, people were stripped naked at the air-
were al-
he them into the \Vatcrgate conspiracy, me look like a buffoon." For legal rea- PeoIl
sons, he refused to say much about the port and searched before they
he grandly told Them: its got to be
done. My friend Colson wants it. Mitch- Watergate trial, but he reminisced free- towed tO lea e.c'dl Of his ,Guatens fns
Guevara. If
ell wants it." Colson is in fact an old 1y about other adventures.
tell you a
got "Lt tile
wartime)OperationcI snohooelling when ttl e shoos no
sta friend ithe t was lie
Hunt on uto vol
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was
h a
197 1 lso al it S I fourcthatctheirloldtenemy cation inscelntr.il China. \Ve hadla)u sc- cislion, andcIshcalsecoftenc\conderdhow
Fso told tile
in suppl+iedrrfor t,rlrlonths, hsoln \sec`1ven t otut the ii telligence Ofcthai \c been , sthn atictlit-
Fidel Castro
for the rDemocr+tic11Party in
dircctly
partchutrn,, supplies out of a C-47 to tic medical student iron ;Ar~.entina.
the hope that a 'sicGosern cirtory
Could soften the U.S. altitude toward cthcril argo Ili -,I itce holtdingl onto the"chute ilects:r"You see, our Gus ennmentluains
Cuba. ~ like msself to do these things
After the \Vatcrgate arrests, Bunt wire and pushing the Stull out in a bur- people
became more cautious, referring to Ad- rv from about 6(n) feet. "I Co of it,, were and do them suceessfull). It becomes a e fa
w
a ministration ollicitd ilh erelhiy as
people androne Loer gotlcaughtirbysthetr.laps ten lief tr+veled under+asslunredtnanics,
put I
people." Ile ilsi e
an tuntor1t+hodostnusstion al'thletpthraserollingCInontrhislIipsrso
C)'for prCli'lled to
hr,lrriested r tile]). A and teaout skinned i\C,
C\pccts ettichdhl~ttl+ri,nr aitnsdouli'k e rrtur~nslto
cy f, r thee (1efcnsc o f (lie r k Of the j;-~,Utu) Hunt i, Known to have esprrts resupply, t
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090111-9