CIA FILE ON HUNT, E. HOWARD.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 01/01/0000
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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The chapters viere on carly intelligence elperiences

China, Guatamala, CIN airlires, Hunt's experiences as COS Montevideo

(including his falling out with the two top State officials there

whom he will tear a strip oif, but it is old hat), Cuba, service as

"aide to AiD", CIA comestic ops, service in 1964 cs a "CIA/inite

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ras involved",

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PR fiim with Horard lüghes as client, close relations with Colson

and Brlichnan, General Cushman and CIA assistance to Hunt and why

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18-17-98

CONFIDENTIAL 6820ISZ OCT 7S STAFF

CITE DOC/MIAMI 12952

DOD/WASHINGTON

ост 8.

4 40PM '75

200136

ATINS OFFICE OF THE CHIEF (STARLING)

SUBS: MEDIA RELATIONS

А*

THE FOLLOWING IS FOR THE RECORD.

ON THIS MATTER TO LA DIVISION IN GREATER

LOCAL STATION HAS REPORTED

LENGIM.

FOR SOMETIME HOW,

ONE JAMES PHILLIPS HAS BEEN AGGRESSIVELY

SEEKING OUT AGENCY STAFFERS, FONTER STANTERS AD LOCAL ASSETS IN

ORDER TO INTERVIEW IMEN.

PHILLIPS APPEARS. TO BE A LOCAL RESIDENT

BUT HE IS APPARENTLY IN SOME WAY ASSOCIATED WITH L0230T XL

SORTS THE VELL-KROWN BOULDER, COLORADO, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AND ASSYGU

PUSLISHER•

PHILLIPS' EFFORTS

SEEM TO BE CONNECTED WITH A 30OK

WHICH BROVN IS PLANNING WHICH WILL DEAL WITH AGENCY ACTIVITIES

IN THE MIAMI AREA.

PART OF THIS BOOX IS CONCERNED DIRECTLY

WITH LO HOWAND HUNT.

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PRILLIPS' EFFORTS THUS FAR HAVE LED HIM TO SEVERAL

FORMER STATION ASSEIS.

IN MODITION, HE MAM

TELEPHOHED JAY

GLEICHAUF BUI AFTER A FAIRLY SRISF AND APPARENILY HARMLESS

CONVERSATION JAY NEFUSED

TO COOPERATE FUPTHER.

PHILLIPS HAS MADE AN UNUSUALLY AGGRESSIVE EFFORT TO

LOCATE MAINARING THROUGH THE OFFICE OF OUR BUILDINS MANAGER.

THE STAFF OF THE BÜILDING OFFACE, IN KEEPING WITH THEIR.

REGULAR PROCEDUPE, OFFERED TO TAXE PHILLIPS: TELSPHONE:

RUCER AND HAVE MALTARING PLACE A CALL TO HIM. PHILLIPS

RUDE REJECHLON OF THIS FORMULA WAS SO STRONG THAT MAINWARING

MAD TO APOLOGIZE TO THE RENTAL OFFICE FOR ASSORSING ABUSE

OH OUR BEHALF.

IN ANY EVENT, IS ONE OTHER INTERVIEW, PILLIPS

"ZATIONED THAT HE HAD ALREADY

INTERVIERED MAIlWANING AND

THAT HAIIDARING HAD TALKED FREELY..

MENCE THERE SHOULD BE

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NO ONUSCTION TO ANYONE ELSE BEING TOTALLY OPEN WITH HIM®

THIS JOURNALISTIC PLOY IS, OF COUSSE, TOTALLY FALSE:

MAINVARING HAS NEVER EVEN SEEN PHILLIPS MUCH LESS TALKED

TO HIN.

6..

#LOCAL STATION AND OS ARE CONCERNED WITH THESE

DEVELOPRENTS WHICH EXCEPT FOR THE FICTITIOUS MAINWARING

INTERVIEU APPEARS ONLY PERIPHERAL TO OUR IMMEDIATE INTERESTS.

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18-17-78

JAN 30 4 17 PH°74

SECRET 3BIGSUZ JAN 74 STAFF

CITE DOD/NEW YORK 20293

PRIORITY DOD/WASHINGTON

IC: CHIEF, DOD CHORTONS FROM SHUGRUE

SUSJECTS 36 JANUARY A NEU YORK POST ARICLE, THUNT'S LIFE

AS A SPY°

1. EDWARD JOSEPH WASPEN IS A WELL-DRESSED MAN, A MUSIC

LOVER, A GUN ENTHUSIAST, À RESIDENT OF ONE OF MANHAITAN'S LESS

EXCLUSIVE HOTELS. HE IS SS YEARS OLD AND HAS ONLY ONS REAL

PROBLEM--HE DOSSN'T EXIST.

2. HE IS A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION OF THE CIAO THET

ORETICALLY, EDWARD JOSEPH WARREN IS WHAT A PROPERLY DISGUISED

SPY SHOULD RESEMBLE ON A CLANDESTINS MISSION.

3. CONVICTED WATERGATE CONSPIRATOR E: HOWARD HUST LIVED

THE FEM AND ONLY WEEXS OF EDWARD JOSEPH WARREN'S "LIFE" IN THE

'SUMMER OF, 1971. IN REEO OF A COVER FOR HIS WORX AS A WHITE

MOUSE "PLUMSER," HUNT REQUESTED AD RECEIVED FROM THE CIA

PARAPHERNALIA DESISTED TO CONCEAL HIS TRUE IDENTITY SHILE

PROVIDING HIM A NEW ONE, DITH THE MELP OF CIA TECHNICIANS.

EVERETTE MUVANO MUNT JR. SECATE EDWARD JOSEPH BARREL.

AKA

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PAGE GO GE CF E T. DOGANY 20293

PUSLISHED COCUMENTS

A. THE DETAILS OF NOW HUNT SECAME WARREN CAN SE TRACED FROM

DOCUMENTS ON FILE WITH THE SENATE WATERGATE COMMITTEÉ IN

WASHINGTON. THE DOCUMENIS SERE PUELISHED BY THE COMMITTEE AS PART

- OF THE TRANSCRIPT OF ITS MEARINGS.

ONE DOCUMENT ON FILE IS A PHONY NEW YORX STATE DRIVER'S

LICENSE, WITH AN UPPER WEST SIDE ADDRESS.: "THIS LICENSE WAS

FORGED," SAID A DEPI, OF MOTOR VEHICLES SPOKESMAN. "IT WAS NEVER

ISSUED BY OUR AGENCY.": HE DENIED ANY DEPARTMEHT COOPERATION WITH

THE CIA.

New Att

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& ACTING MANHAITAN DISTRICI ATTORNEY ALFRED-SCOTTI, WHILE

UNSÜRE WHETHER HE HAD JURISDICTION, SAID

IF HIS OFFICE COULD

IT WOULD CONSIDER PROSEOUTING THOSE WHO FALSIFIED THE LICENSE.

"A FORGERY IS A FORGER," SAID SCOTTI, "EVEN IF COMMITTED BY THE

GOVERNMENT

A SPOKESMAN FOR AITOPNEY GENERAL LEFXOWITZ SAID

HIS OFFICE HAD NO JURISDICTIÓN IN FORGERY CASES:

7. WALLACH'S WAS APPARENILY EDWARD JOSEPH: WARREN'S

FAVORITE CLOTHIER. A SPOXESMAN FOR THE STORE WAS UNASLE TO

EXPLAIN YOU HUNT OBTAINED ONE OF ITS CARDS. "THE CIA,"

HE

SAID, "HAS NEVER REQUESIED ANY ASSISTANCE FROM WALLACH"S.

8 THE CIA ALSO ISSUED HUNT A LIFE MEMBERSHIP IN THE

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSN: AN NRA SPOKESMAN WAS DISTURBED ABOUT THE

FORGED DOCUMENT. "IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T MAXE US LOOK.

GOOD, " HE

SAID. "VE GOULDN'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN ANYTYPNG LIKE

SATERGAIg." •

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• D UINER COMPANIES UHOSE IDENTIFICATION CARDS WERE FORGED,

INCLUDING FIRST RATIONAL CITY BANK, NEWYORK LIFE INSURANCE CO.,

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE AND RCA, EXPRESSED VARIED FEELINGS OF

SURPRISE, INDIGNATION AND HELPLESSNESS WHEN INFORMED OF THE

FRAUDS.

18. A NEW YORX LIFE OFFICIAL COULD REMEMBER NO SIMILAR

INCIDENT IN THE INSURANCE COMPANY'S HISTORY. "BUT WHAT CAN

YOU DO, ME ASKED, "TAKE THE CIA INTO COURT?"

•WOULDN®I COOPERATE'

11° WHILE SAYING THAT "NO LEGAL ACTION SAS ANTICIPATED,"

A HIGH CITISANK OFFICIAL---WHO ASXED THAT MIS NAME NOT BS USED

EMPHASILEO THAT "WE DID NOI AND WOULD NOT COOPERAIS WITH THE CIA."

SOUNDING ANNOYED, THE OFFICIAL ADDEDS NOBOY LIKES TO GET MIXED

UP. Ild ALTIMING LIKE THIS."

I2. THE QUALITY OF THE CIA FORGERIES IS READILY APPARENT

TO EXPERIS. THE CODE NUMBER ON THE DRIVER'S LICENSE, DERIVED

FROM A

SECRET FORMULA INVÖLVING THE REGISTRANT•S BIRTH DATE AND

NAME, SO CLOSELY RESEMBLED THE AUTHENTIC VERSION THAT STATE MOTOR

VEHICLE DEPT. AUTHORITIES ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THE LICENSE WAS.

REAL.

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FINE MODE CHE & DCDINY 22293

THE STATE CLAIMS IT DID NOT GIVE THE CODE TO THE CIA, BUT SAYS

TAL INFCHMATION IS KNOWN TO STATE TROOPERS AND IS ON FILE WITH

THE FEElA.

13.. THE CIA'S KNOWLEGE OF CODES APPARENTLY EXTENDS BEYÖND

THOSE I THE PUBLIC SECIOR: ON ALL BUT ONE OF THE ÜTHER CARDS,

TRE CURRECT COMBINATION OF NUMBERS AND LETTERS WAS

MeTICULOUSLY FAXED.

AN INCONSISTENCY

14. THE PHONY CONTINENIAL POLICY CARD WAS NUMBERED

11-AF-65A392• A CONTINEUTAL SPOKESMAN QUICKLY SPOTTED AN

INCONSISTENCY, HOWEVER, NOTING THAT AF REFERS TO AN AUTO POLICY,

WHICH SOULD HAVE SEVEN FINAL DIGITS, NOT SIX AS ON THE HUNT

VERSION.

::15. A SPOKESMAN FOR IME CIA DECLINED TO COMMENT WHEN

ASKED IF THE STATE AND PRIVATE FIRMS HAD COOPERATED IN PREPARING THE

FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS. HE ALSO REFUSED TO DISCLOSE THE NAME OF THE

CIA SECTION WHICH PREPARES FORGERISS OF THIS NATURE. EVERYTHING

WE•VE HAD TO SAY ABOUT WATERGATE. SAID THE SPOKESMAN,

OVE ALICADY TOLD CONGRESS. ÄJY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ALREADY

ANSWERZD."

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