BAKER TRACES CIA'S WATERGATE LINKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000700090046-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: March 23, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2005/07/01 :CIA-RDP91-00901800
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~tront., Bal;cr h: sieves the CIA ~brated excursion to Denver in a ecs, and instructions were is-
~kept close tat;.., :in hunt even af- ~;udicrous CIA ~t?ig to talk to Dita I~ sued to R'F'0 (iti'ashint;ton I"field
13~',~a c1:.,4rnl erso t,
For tmouths, Sen. Iloward
Baker (R'L'enn.) has been piec-
ing togetlicr evidence that the
Central intelligence Agency
?sontehow was involved in' the
;Watergate break-in.
Now tie. is p"reparing' a de-
~failed report, backed up with se-
~cret d~ocumen[s. The report will
d'cliend for explosive effect,
however, more on the yucstions
it asks titan on the answers it
'gives, '
The report. wit[ focus largely
on.formcr Clr1 agent L. Iloward
Hunt, who retired from the CIA
in 1970. joined a C1A cover or-
gan}Lationnnd rhea went on the
White I[ouse payroll in .tiny,
1971. A year later, he helped
plan the 1t'atergate break-in.
In Baker's study of the CIA
`rote in the case, he has made
these tentative findings:
? Lleputy CIA Director Ver-
c/non Walters' repeated claim.
that the CIA grew wary of hunt
and broke contact with hirn by
August 31, 1971, is false. The
GL4 now admits its top psychia-
~itrist, 17 r. Bernard Malloy, mcl
sc?cretiy with Bunt on the Dan-
iel hllsbet?g case as late as Octo-
ber 27, 3.971.
;Cer, he sul;posrdly "refired.'
Crom the CI:1.
o While hunt w;,s working for
licard. The CIA reportedly was
+;?orried tehethcr u?c got the fa-
mous ITT-Oita Y.eard memo
the CIA front company, .heFfr-om tile same source rr?Ito gave
nought out an old Bay of I'i,^,s~us t'nc ITT Chile mcruos impli-
sidekick, Y,ernr.rd L'arker. Tire ~c,atittg thG Cl:'~ in a plot to block
senatorsusl,ecrs 1lunt mayltaCCjt:ie iuaut;ural.of the late Salva-
beeu plannin~? exploits ~vith~ilore:~llende.
Parker on behalf of the CIA. The k ~ Baker suspects, but cannot
senator tcould like to prove, but ~ prove, flint Hunt's plan to break
cannot, that h:.o of the exp}oits'rrao the safe oI Las Vegas pub-
were the \b'ater ate and Ells- .tislter hank Grcenspun muy
berg psychiatrist been}.-ins: a]so have had some CIA under-I
14 hat Baker can show, however, tones. The safe contained hillio-
isthat hunt contacted Barker in nair.e Iloward litiglies' private
April, 1971, mcinths before go}ng P;rpers. Hughes not only was an-
on the 1,'hite House payroll. sociated with the lrlttllen CIA
? :liter hunt vent to work for front but .had also employed
the ll'hitc house, he got a tip Hobert ~;,fahett, another CIA
from Robert?Iiennelt, head of [rontman.
the 3fullcn Ci:1 cover company, * After the \5'atei?gate break=
,that otte of Bennett's ex-employ- `in was discovered, hunt fled to
cos in Vow ~En;;land Karl sontc ` alifornia to a man identified as
'fresh information on the Chap- ~?1lort Jackson;'. who has close
paquiddickepisode.Huntcottld C'}A connections, Baker has
have obtained the' information~lcarned.
by making a sir?pie call to the ~ 't'hese bits o{ evidence-have
cx-employee.7nstead, lIun? ob- feel Baler to suspect that hunt
stained from +,he CIA's deputydi- may never have broken off ltis
'rector a"wig, false.' ID cards, a tics with the CIA, despite state-
voice tnodu!ator, a camcrver-itp ryas far more ex-
tensive than has been revealed
in public testimony.
~"Baker's documents also in-
dicale that former CIA Director
Richard ]tetras helped place:
Li u,nt with Mullen and Co., a CIA.
pose.
o Baker has received indica-
tors that 4lt:nt. ses rchortiug'in-
direcUv to the CIA even after he
had' moved info the