SECRET/SENSITIVE The headquarters for the DOD was at 1717 H Street, N.W,, in Washington, D, C,, and then later it was on Pennsylvania Avenue, Hunt's assignment with DOD lasted until the spring of 1965. During the period from January 1962 until 1965, he states that he never traveled to Mexico or any other Latin American country. His first trip to Mexico after 1961 was in 1970, when he traveled there for the Mullen Company after his retirement from the CIA, Hunt's Whereabouts on November 22, 1963 Hunt states that he had never been in Dallas until 1971, with a possible exception of a change of planes on his way to Mexico with his family in 1960. He does not recall whether that change of planes took place in Dallas or in Houston. In any event, he and his family never left the airport on that occasion, He has never had any contact, directly or indirectly, with Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby or anyone else thought to have been associated with the assassination of the President. He was never in New Orleans in 1963 and has never had anything whatever te do with the Fair Play for Cuba fommittee, which he identifies as a communist organization. During the period from January 1962 to 1965, he traveled once or twice per year to India, two or three times per year to Paris, once or twice per year to London, and, during that period, he traveled two or three times to Rome. His only domestic travel in 1963 was between Washington and New York. All travel, whether domestic or international, was in his AUVAGIT Tuod °Y GTwaID AHL HOUT RdODOLOHa own name. Hunt states that in 196] he used the pseudonym of Edward J. Hamilton in connection with his work on the Cuban project in Florida. With the exception of that pseudonym and the pseudonym he used on the identifi- cation papers provided him for the Ellsberg break in, he has never used a pseudonym. SECRET/SENSITIVE. Nicene” HW 50955 Docld: 32204752 Page 45
SECRET/SENSITIVE On November 22, 1963, he and his wife were driving on H Street at about 9th in Washington, D, C,, when he turned the car radio on and learned that the President had been shot. He and Mrs. Hunt had been shopping in a Chinese grocery store in that immediate vicinity, immediately prior to their getting into the car. The Hunts lived at 5215 Balton Road, Sumner, Maryland, On their way home they drove to the Sidwell Friends school on upper Wisconsin Avenue and picked up their younger daughter, Kevan. Kevan told them that Robert and Courtenay Kennedy, children of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, were students in the same school and had been picked up by the Secret Service. The children in the school knew that the President had been shot. Mr. Hunt states that the following persons are witnesses to the fact that he was here in Washington, D, C., at the time the President was shot in Dallas: i 2 SHL WOWd AdoODOLOHa “ Le Pa a | . ae Frey ™, Rad aN \ / ceR [ \ 1. His son, Howard St. John Hunt, then ten years of age. ; FA 2. His daughter, Lisa, then twelve years of age. 3. His daughter, Kevan, then eleven years of age, 4. The family maid, Mary Trayner, now employed by a family living at 4806 DeRussey Parkway, Chevy Chase, Maryland, and whose phone number is 652-2930. AMVdaIY aqyor Mr. Hunt believes that he was either taking the day off from work as a part of annual leave on November 22, 1963, or he may have been recuperating from a hospitalization for ulcers. He had been hospitalized at about that period at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D, C, , Mr. Hunt states that he held the following oil company charge account and credit cards in 1963 and that such accounts may provide corroboration as to his presence in Washington, D, C,, on November 22, 1963: Esso Oil, Gulf Oil, Texaco Oil, Cities Service Oil, Brooks Brothers (New York), Garfinkle's, Woodward and Lothrop, Sears Roebuck & Co., Hecht Co. He also states that telephone records might be checked with ~ SECRET/SENSITIVE HY 50955 Docld: 32204752 Page 6
‘SECRET/SENSITIVE Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co.; that the CIA might have travel voucher records showing his travel during that year and that CIA should also have records on the dates on which he took sick leave or annual leave. Mr. Hunt categorically denies that he has been involved in any way what- soever with the assassination of President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, or any other person either within or without the United States. He similarly denies any participation or involvement whatever in the attempted assassination of Governor Wallace, the disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs or the shooting of Senator Stennis. He states that in connection with the planning for the Cuban invasion in 1961, he did suggest that Fidel Castro should be assassinated either before or contemporaneously with that invasion, but his suggestion was not acted upon or otherwise approved, Attached are copies of a press statement made by Mr. Hunt in early February 1975 in Florida, -in which he denies the allegations made by Dick Gregory and others with respect to his involvement in the assassi- nation of President Kennedy and a letter written to Mr. Hunt by the former family maid, Mary Traynor.. Lisa Hunt confirms her father's account that he was at home with the family in the afternoon and evening of November 22, 1963. She recalls that her father assembled the family in front of the television set. He wanted them all to watch the program because it was an important historical matter. They were all shocked about the assassination of the President, AMVdGIT GUOI “YU ATWHaD FHL woud AGODOLOHA Re ve 7ON, ~. WN - or = i cc: D. Belin . we? Pa ms Senior Counsels ’ SECRET/SENSITIVE HY 50955 Docld: 32204752 Page 7