Saint John Hunt - Bond of Secrecy: My Life with CIA Spy and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt

Bond
of
Secrecy

My Life with CIA Spy and Watergate Conspirator
E. Howard Hunt

Saint John Hunt

Startling new information about Watergate
and the JFK assassination, including handwritten
memos from E. Howard Hunts famous final confession.

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Bond of Secrecy My Life with CIA Spy and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt

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1. Hunt, E. Howard (Everette Howard) 1918-2007. 2. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963Assassination. 3. Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. 4. Intelligence servicesUnited StatesHistory20th century. 5. United StatesPolitics and government, 1945-1989. I. Title

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For Dorothy

Is there an answer that makes it okay
For God or the Devil to take you away
You gave birth to me, a reason to be
I still am your son, but your life is done

Is there a meaning, what is the gain?
That makes it worth living with all of this pain
I wont let you go, I want you to know
My love will survive, but youre not alive

I miss you

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

President John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University, Old Campus, New Haven, Connecticut, June 11, 1962

By Jesse Ventura

S tated simply, Something stinks.

I wish we knew the truth about the murder of JFK. Maybe we do, but the corporate media repeatedly shouts at us that we dont. Always laying the blame squarely on the shoulders of lone nut Lee Oswald yet nothing has been proved and no one has ever been punished.

Regardless of what the official findings may say, after near fifty years the mystery remains unsolved. What a tribute to the power of those who pulled off the greatest crime of the 20th century.

To make our task even harder, the keepers of the secrets first said that seventy-five years (2038) must pass before we, the people, can be trusted with many of the hard facts about this terrible event when those who lived through it are dead.

After Oliver Stones film, JFK, came out in 1991, the public outcry resulted in the creation of the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB), which was given the job of releasing all of the withheld documents. But, according to a 2012 letter from the Assassination Archives and Research Center there are approximately 50,000 documents still held as classified, and unavailable for public review.

Let me add my voice to those who call for the release of all of these documents. Without all the information whats left is a smelly puzzle with many of the most important pieces missing plus some extra pieces thrown in to play with us.

From the citizen-demanded AARB document releases, we learned about Operations Northwoods, a proposal by the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for President Kennedy to use the CIA to mount false-flag operations against Cuba. Aircraft disguised as Cuban planes were to attack American targets. JFK nixed the illegal action.

Some say that President Kennedys unwillingness to do the bidding of our national security state led to his murder. Others say it was a Mafia hit, and then the states secret squads hushed it up because their association with the Mafia compromised them. And there are so many other tales, including several variations of officialdoms Oswald did it refrain. You listen and look long enough, and you soon find out why conspiracy theory gets such a bad rap. There is just so much hogwash, hooey and hokum out there.

With St. John Hunts book, Bond of Secrecy , we get to hear from someone who was involved in the horrid crime, CIA spy and Watergate burglar, E. Howard Hunt. There is interesting courtroom testimony that Hunt was involved in one of the assassinations many threads: as Eduard, the paymaster for the CIAs exiled Cuban franchise. And before his death, after being thwarted in the telling of his tale, he arranged to give his oldest son the story of his involvement.

Hunt was no Johnny-come-lately to deep politics, he had been involved in the netherworld of espionage since World War II, and was present at many of our countrys secrets. He had been with OSS in China, a CIA station chief in Mexico City in the 1950s, part of the Guatemala project in 1954, and he served as the first Chief of Covert Action for the CIAs Domestic Operations Division.

While I can say that these will not be the last words on the JFK assassination, these are the last words and thoughts of a man who said he had been approached to be on the game-day hit-team. He declined, but accepted a role as benchwarmer. From that position, Hunt had quite the view.

Can we trust what Hunt tells his son here any better than what he has said before? After his public exposure during Watergate Hunt became embroiled within various different conspiracy theories, and had numerous governmental investigation and court appearances about the JFK assassination. He has told several different versions of his involvement: a story about a boy and a wolf comes to mind. So, we cannot know for certain, but we can use what Hunt tell us to explore and hopefully understand those ingrained events of November 22, 1963.

Hunt points us towards exiled Cubans, disgruntled CIA officers and LBJ. Others also finger the same crew, and I have no doubt that they were involved. But, there had to be others, and we need to have our government obey the law, and release all the JFK related documents now, not later.

I want my country back; we need transparency from our elected officials, not cover-up. But I wont hold my breath.

Until we get truth from our government we must find it where we can. St. John Hunts book, Bond of Secrecy is one place. We can gather insight from its amazing story of the firstborn son in the family of a very notorious spy, where truth may be fleeting but also very profound.

By Douglas Caddy

Original Attorney for the Watergate Seven

W hen I first met Howard Hunt in 1970, my immediate impression was of a man who was highly intelligent, possessed perfect manners and was extremely articulate in his conversation.

The occasion of our first meeting was Howards coming on board as an employee at the Robert Mullen & Company upon his retiring from the CIA. The Mullen Company was a public relations firm with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and with offices scattered around the globe. General Foods Corporation was a Mullen Company account. I had gone to work for General Foods in White Plains, New York, not long after graduating in 1966 from the New York University Law School. In 1969 General Foods assigned me to work out of the Mullen Company in conjunction with my job representing General Foods interests in the nations capital.