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WATERGATE FIGURE LOSES SUIT AGAINST TABLOID

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
Collection: 
General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP91-00587R000100610012-3
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RIPPUB
Original Classification: 
K
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1
Document Creation Date: 
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date: 
February 23, 2011
Sequence Number: 
12
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
February 7, 1985
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OPEN SOURCE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00587R000100610012-3 r^'fl j MMPPEARE NEW YORK TIMES v;,~,~-~ 7 February 1985 Around the Nation Watergate Figure Loses Suit Against Tabloid, MIAMI, Feb. 6 (AP) - A Federal jury today decided that E: Howard Hunt Jr. was not libeled in an article by a former agent of the Central Intelli- gence Agency that suggested that Mr. Hunt was part of a conspiracy to assas- sinate President Kennedy. A six-member jury found in favor of Liberty Lobby, a conservative Wash- ington group that publishes The Spot- light, the tabloid in which the article appeared in 1978. Mr. Hunt, who was one of the men arrested in the break-in at the Democratic National Commit- tee's headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington in 1972, was seeking $1 million in damages. The suit dealt with an article by Vic- tor Marchetti, a former C.I.A. agent, that contended that a 1966 C.I.A. memorandum said Mr. Hunt was in Dallas the day Mr. Kennedy was slain and suggested that he had a role in the murder. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/23: CIA-RDP91-00587R000100610012-3
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