E. Howard Hunt's FBI File Released

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/16/e-howard-hunts-fbi-file-r_n_216495.html

MIAMI — Watergate break-in planner E. Howard Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had "executive authorization," according to FBI documents released two years after his death. He died without getting a pardon.

The FBI released 167 pages of Hunt's files following a Freedom of Information Act request by The Associated Press. Wednesday marks 37 years since police caught the burglars in the Washington break-in. The case ultimately made Hunt a household name and led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Despite working as a CIA agent for more than two decades and his role in Watergate, Hunt's file is remarkably thin. As a CIA agent Hunt was involved in a U.S.-backed coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the botched Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He worked in China, Mexico, Japan and Spain, among other places.

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The FBI said it could not release approximately 100 pages of Hunt's file because they are property of the National Archives. What was released, however, details three points in Hunt's life. The earliest files are approximately 30 pages of FBI background checks from 1948 and 1949, before Hunt joined the CIA. Also included are another approximately 30 pages of background checks from 1971 when the White House hired him as a consultant _ the position that led to his involvement in Watergate.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. And what about "the whole Bay of Pigs thing"?

[Selatius]

2. E. Howard Hunt's file is "remarkably thin"? You guys think a lot of pages were omitted?

Curious.