Hunt told The New York Times in 1974 that he spent about four years working for DODS, beginning shortly after it was set up by the Kennedy administration in 1962, over the "strenuous opposition" of Richard Helms and Thomas H. Kennedy fired Dulles in 1961 for the Bay of Pigs failure, Hunt served as the first Chief of Covert Action for the Domestic Operations Division (DODS) from 1962 to 1964. While Hunt was working on Brigade 2506, he helped Dulles write The Craft of Intelligence (1959). In his semi-fictional autobiography, Give Us This Day, he wrote: "The Kennedy administration yielded Castro all the excuse he needed to gain a tighter grip on the island of José Martí, then moved shamefacedly into the shadows and hoped the Cuban issue would simply melt away."Īfter the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Hunt was re-assigned as Executive Assistant to Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Allen Dulles. Kennedy's lack of commitment in overthrowing the communist government of Cuba. Hunt was undeniably bitter about what he perceived as President John F. The failure of the invasion temporarily damaged his career. Following assignments as Chief of Covert Action in Japan and as Chief of Station in Uruguay, Hunt was given the assignment of forging Cuban exile leaders in the United States into a broadly representative government-in-exile that would, after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, form a provisional government to take over Cuba. In Mexico, Hunt helped lay the framework for Operation PBFORTUNE, later renamed Operation PBSUCCESS, the successful covert operation to overthrow Jacobo Árbenz, the elected Marxist president of Guatemala. Buckley and Hunt remained lifelong friends and Buckley became godfather to Hunt's first three children. Buckley Jr., who worked in Hunt's OPC Station in Mexico during the period 1951–1952. Hunt became the OPC Station Chief in Mexico City in 1950, and recruited and supervised William F. The CIA was the successor organization of the OSS. had just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) in October 1949 as a covert action officer specializing in political action and influence, in what later came to be called the CIA's Special Activities Division. Some of his writings found parallels in his espionage and Watergate experiences. Hunt won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his writing in 1946. He also wrote, more famously, several spy and hardboiled novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St. During and after the war, he wrote several novels under his own name, including East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949), and The Violent Ones (1950) . Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, the United States Army Air Corps, and finally, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China. During World War II Hunt served in the U.S. Hunt graduated from Hamburg High School in 1936, and Brown University in 1940. Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York, United States, the son of Ethel Jean (Totterdale) and Everette Howard Hunt Sr., an attorney and Republican Party official. 7 American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond.6.5 "Deathbed confession" of involvement in Kennedy assassination.6.3 Libel suit: Liberty Lobby and The Spotlight.6.2 Compulsive Spy and Coup d'Etat in America.6.1 Early allegations: Hunt as one of the "three tramps".In the ensuing Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison. Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. Gordon Liddy and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration " plumbers", a team of operatives charged with identifying government sources of national security information " leaks" to outside parties. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Howard Hunt, was an American intelligence officer and published author of 73 books. and Ethel Jean TotterdaleĮverette Howard Hunt Jr. Lisa Tiffany Hunt, Kevan Spence (nee Hunt), Howard Saint John Hunt, David Hunt, Austin Hunt, Hollis HuntĮverette Howard Hunt Sr.
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