Talk:E. Howard Hunt

message: Having a bear of a time finding a PD photo of Hunt, will keep looking.  Also need to do a once over on the article and expand a bit before he was in OSS which is more or less where this bio starts.  --Wgfinley 20:27, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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message: If there was a second trial, there has to have been an appeal in between.  An appeal is not a second trial. Failure to mention appeal detracts from the clarity and credibility of the passage.
--Jerzy·t 19:20, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libel Suit 

message: Why on earth is is part of a project on Texas? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.55.141.119 (talk) 01:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  texas? 

message: I would be curious to know why the Howard Hunt article would be part of a project on Texas. Editdroid 19:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My guess is because of conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination. See information above removed from article for discussion. Pretty tenuous if you ask me. Jokestress 19:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If that is the case I'd say it's tenuous to the point of absurdity. Editdroid 02:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas? 

message: First, I believe Hunt's date of birth is well established as 10/9/1918.  The article lists date of birth with a question mark. 
Second, this article could be much improved by including a few additional facts.  For one thing, they would make  Hunt's importance in the Cold War made clearer.  They are fact which also highlight his involvement in U.S. role in Latin America over the last 60 years.  
Hunt was CIA station chief in Mexico City.  His role in organizing the Bay of Pigs fiasco is pointed out as is reference to Watergate.  However, the Watergate information should include some clearer reference to time (year, context).  In addition, it is important to understand why Hunt says the break-in happened--again the Cuban obsession--to find out if rumors that McGovern's campaign had received contribution from Fidel Castro were true. 
In addition, Hunt played a central role in the death of another Cuban figure of continuing global significance--Che Guevara.  The CIA and Bolivian Army monitored Guevara's radio communications via radios that Hunt feed to the guerrillas through his CIA contacts.  
With approval, I can provide references to these pieces of information for inclusion.  24.41.66.249 16:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fidel, Che Guevara, and Bay of Pigs 

message: Why isn't the trial against Spotlight Magazine mentioned ?
You would think this was a major event in his life, considering that he lost the case. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 91.149.12.201 (talk) 01:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spotlight Magazine 

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message: For future reference: https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/720/720.F2d.631.82-5321.html -Location (talk) 21:52, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I have removed the following quote from the JFK allegations section:
:Give Us This Day, Hunt's book on the Bay of Pigs Invasion, was published late in 1973. In the book's foreword, he commented on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as follows:
:"Once again it became fashionable to hold the city of Dallas collectively responsible for his murder. Still, and let this not be forgotten, Lee Harvey Oswald was a partisan of Fidel Castro, and an admitted Marxist who made desperate efforts to join the Red Revolution in Havana. In the end, he was an activist for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. But for Castro and the Bay of Pigs disaster there would have been no such "Committee." And perhaps no assassin named Lee Harvey Oswald".Szulc, Compulsive Spy, 99. Szulc, writing in 1974, calls this "a bizarre passage."
The quotation without the context of analysis by secondary sources doesn't provide much information. Fringe, conspiracy sources seem to suggest that Hunt meant that Oswald's presence as an assassin was due to a plot by Castro to assassinate Kennedy. Others, as in Jim Rasenberger's The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (p.82), interpret the quote as meaning that the Bay of Pigs gave Oswald motivation to kill Kennedy. All of the sources seem to imply that he meant one thing or the other, but I really cannot find a source that takes a firm stance in stating what they think he meant. I have replaced this open-to-interpretation quote with a reliable source stating that Hunt believed Oswald acted alone. Location (talk) 18:08, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Give Us This Day'' quote 

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message: Under no.5 "Watergate and related scandals", the final paragraph states that Hunt was convicted and spent 33 months in prison arriving April 1975, but was fully pardoned in September 1974.  Unless there was a strange circumstance that required him to be imprisoned for 33 months after being pardoned more than a year earlier, this is probably incorrect.  Mentioned paragraph quoted below:
"Hunt eventually spent 33 months in prison at the low-security Federal Prison Camp at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, on a conspiracy charge, arriving there on April 25, 1975,[28] and said he was bitter that he was sent to jail while Nixon was allowed to resign while avoiding prosecution for any crimes he may have committed, and was later fully pardoned in September, 1974, by incoming President Gerald Ford."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.210.13.237 (talk) 19:55, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a run-on sentence, I fixed it. Raquel Baranow (talk) 22:29, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It was Nixon who was pardoned by Gerald Ford, not Hunt. There is no date conflict with that. Hunt applied for a pardon from Ronald Regan but was turned down in 1983. BuffaloBob (talk) 21:57, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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message: Copied text & references from E. Howard Hunt to CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory See former article's history for list of contributors.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:30, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: * thanks. But why? —usernamekiran[talk] 17:43, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
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message: The section title "Anti-Castro Efforts" contains no mention whatsoever of Castro. The extended quotation in the second paragraph is out of place in a Wikipedia article and, if kept, would be better suited in a section devoted to his character and personality
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:f1b0:7bd0:d9fc:deba:76b5:1663 (talk) 04:26, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I will leave expanding that section to others, but I removed the quote. The quote is an excerpt from David Talbot's book The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government that posits Allen Dulles orchestrated the assassination of JFK. Not a reliable source. -Location (talk) 18:48, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
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message: *https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorothy_Hunt&oldid=669846678
*NODULE XII - EVERETT HOWARD HUNT in "Coup d'etat In America" at archive.org
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message: Szulc, Tad (1973). Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt. New York
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thread_title:  Tad Szulc: ''Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt'' 

message: Hunt's first wife, Dorothy Louise (née Wetzel) Day Goutiere Hunt, was born on April 1st, 1920, in Dayton, Ohio. She was a CIA employee in Shanghai, later serving as a Marshall Plan secretary to W. Averell Harriman in Paris. The couple raised a son named Saint John, a son named David and two daughters, Lisa, Kevan (a daughter). Dorothy Hunt was killed in the December 8, 1972, crash of United Airlines Flight 553 in Chicago. Congress, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the crash, and concluded that the crash was an accident caused by crew error. "Much more than" $10,000 in cash was found in Dorothy Hunt's handbag in the wreckage. Exnihilox (talk) 04:48, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor grammar - ??? Needs to be written by a native English speaker!