157-10005-10229] + Date:10/02/93 Page:1l JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : SSCIA 157-10005-10229 4 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE : . i . REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS/TRANSCRIPT & SUBJECTS : | BUNT, E. HOWARD, JR. EMAN, RANDALL, ESQ. holIN AIR FORCE BASE, FT. WALTON, FLORIDA .- ALLEGED CIA PLOT TO ASSASSINATE JACK ANDERSON . 01/11/76 51 DATE : PAGES : DOCUMENT TYPE : TRANSCRIPT CLASSIFICATION : T RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : P DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/04/93 GPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS BOX 248-11 mm ase warm sense sven nen ie xin xo com cs sane ¢:¢ FUR 7-T PED (5% GD EMD COD nD mh EU Re cave ete cornt dete GS GOO SHOES SES ES SED GED GED um mts SED mh hath ae ae NED SEED USE SE uD ID GD GID EP ND GED SrmD emp ent enw crews wen emey Quem cou mun) cay one Soup Com ae Sas nt ~ ITEM IS RESTRICTED HW 50955 Docld:32202419 Page 1
Pnone (Area 2062) 544-6000 WARD &@ PAUL HW 450955 410 First Street, $.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 10 il 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 el ee 29 24 29 DoclTd: 32202419 Page 2 GVRP SECKEI 18 run into somebody on the street in Georgetown, a mutual friend, some weeks before who by coincidence happened to say, oh, I saw Manhy Gunn the other day. He's retired and practicing out in Maryland. And that has got to be it because he was not an intimate of mine. We didn't keep in close touch. So I never attempted to get in touch with him at the Agency. I simply looked him up or called information or something like that, invited him into lunch and said I had a matter I wanted to discuss with him. Mr. Liebengood. Did you ever tell anybody or otherwise make known to anybody at the Agency that you had just had this contact with Dr. Gunn? | Mr. Hunt. I don't believe so. I think Pack Bauman any have known about it subsequently because he was a close friend, but: -I-don't think that I got in touch with Manny through him. Wabout this or would Gunn have told him about it? Mr. Hunt. If in factfimagy knew about it? Mr. Liebengood. Yes. Mr. Hunt. I would have to say it was either Gunn or Liddy. | Mr. Liebengood. Did you make any arrangements or have any discussions with Dr. Gunn about maintaining the confidentiality of your inquiry? TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET 1 Mr. Hunt. No. 2 Mr. Baron. Did you meet Richard Nixon personally at that 3 time? Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 ‘ 4 | When did you first meet with him? 5 Mr. Hunt. Met with him, I never met with him. I have 6 || met him on several occasions but I never had a private seance 9 with him. I met him first at Harvey's restaurant in about 8 1953, and I next saw him in Montevidea where I interpreted for 9 him for a while. I was poown there and we. 10 || were waiting for General Walters to arrive, and I served as cas 1] || an interpreter. 12 I next saw President Nixon at a formal White House recep- 13 tion. He recalled, or he said he recalled our previous meetings, WARD & PAUL 14 and I told him I was now working for Chuck Colson, and he said 15 yes, I know all about that. And that's all in my book, Undercover 16 Mr. Baron. While you were in the Nixon White House you 7 didn't have a direct line to the President? 18 Mr. Hunt. I never met the President. : 19 Mr. Baron. Moving back to 1964, there is a note in : 20 | Theodore White's book, “Breach of Faith," that. refers to : 21 spying at Barry Goldwater's headquarters, which Howard Hunt a 22 || of the CIA had supervised for LBJ in 1964. @: 23 Mr. Hunt. That's in my book and in my testimony. : 24 Mr. Baron. Senator Schweiker, who is a member of our " 25 Committee, has expressed an interest in a quote by Frank Sturgi HW A095. Docld: 39707419 Page 3 Te % Fa CEFLRPET
Phone (Area 202' 544-6000 WARD &@ PAUL HW 50955 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, 0.C. 20003 10 ll 12 13 14 | 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 295 24 20 it+mP SECKEI 44 this before, but I can't recall where. Mr. Liebengood. Was it Robert Kennedy? Mr. Hunt. No, the death of John Kennedy. She had been introduced to me by Martinez who brought her to my hotel room. He provided the tape recorder for our discussion. He did not help.me translate it because I don't need help. I did that back in the White House, and I was assisted to some extent by Mary Kiyonaga, who is the daughter of happened to be in the office next to mine. In any event, this is a raw report. The woman's. bona fides were established . solely by Rolando Martinez, who we determined later was on the CIA payroll at that time, although I did not know it. I provided a raw report and submitted it to the Chief of the WH division. Mr. Liebengood. Did you ever get any feedback from that report? Mr. Hunt. None. Oh, I gave a copy to Charles Colson. Mr. Liebengood. The same affidavit suggests, and there is supporting information that in addition to the information for WH, the transmittals to Dr. Malloy, that there was, I think the wording in the affidavit says gossip information passed on to Richard Helms. Do -you remember using that: channél::to communicate with Ricta Helms in any fashion? Mr. Hunt. No, at no time. Mr. Liebengood. Do you know Mr. Charles Wylie in New DocTd: 32207419 Page 4 | TOP SECRET i i | i ; i H 1
Phone (Area 207) 544-6000 LO 11 12 13 WARD & PAUL 14 15 16 1? 18 19 20 zl Ra £9 24 410 First Streat, $.E., Wasnington, 0.C. 20003 25 ‘ BW 50955 Docld:32202419 Page 5 ahold ofgiiteds G0 Dewi f 1S: York, a journalist? Mr. Hunt. No. Mr. Liebengood. Are you aware of any Agency interest during the time you had left the Agency and was with Mullen and the White House, of any Agency interest in Robert Vesco and his activities? Mr. Hunt. No. Mr. Liebengood. Were you ever asked to coordinate any White House interest in Robert Vesco with the Agency? Mr. Hunt. No. Mr. Liebengood. Do you remember how you happened to get URE ESE Eggi gor when you were talking with him, because of any security work? Mr. Hunt. How did I get in touch with him. I wrote him. And those letters are a matter of record. Mr. Liebengood. I know we've been over the ground about when your contact with him was. There was some information to indicate that Charles Kane had suggested that you get ahold No. I served with Kane and would not have ever approached him for any recommendations. Mr. Liebengood. So there was no Kane contact with regard SGumaneswaddress Mr. Hunt. Not that I can recall, no. had been known tO me. He wrote me a couple of times a year TOP SECRET