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...certain exactly when he left Nassau. Sources in the Hughes Tool Co. said that he was out of the Britannia Beach Hotel by 8 o'clock the morning of the Bahamian raid. If so, his whereabouts for the next two days is a mystery. Apparently, Hughes boarded a chartered boat for the first stage of his hegira-the 180-mile trip to an unspecified coastal haven somewhere near Miami...
However Hughes traveled, an extensive airlift began on Wednesday night to remove his personal belongings from the ninth-floor suite at the Britannia Beach. Workers loaded three flatbed trucks with his paraphernalia: a refrigerator, a hospital bed with railings, a hospital stand of the kind used to hold aloft blood plasma, six television sets, many cartons of purified water, motorized reclining chairs, numerous pots and pans. Said CBS-TV Producer Don Hewitt, who was vacationing on Nassau and happened to see part of the move: "It didn't look like a rich man's stuff. It looked like...
...being involved in litigation. There may be a partly justified paranoia about business enemies-and the press, for that matter-intruding upon his sanctum. Last year a group of men, including Robert Maheu's son Peter, were evicted by security guards from the Britannia Beach Hotel, where they were allegedly trying to bug Hughes' suite from the one below...
Hughes' present sanctuary at the Britannia, like his old penthouse at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, is something from a James Bond movie set. Hughes occupies the western end of the Britannia's ninth floor, attended 24 hours a day by the Mormon Mafia. His suite is decorated with the usual hotel furniture, plus a humming array of several hundred thousand dollars worth of electronic equipment, including a radio-telephone hookup to the U.S. mainland and telephone scramblers to prevent his phone conversations from being bugged. The roof bristles with antennas. At night all eleven of Hughes' balconies...
...order to leave the Britannia Beach Hotel, Hughes would probably have had to use the emergency stairs from his suites on the ninth floor, since the only elevators are in the center of the hotel. He could then have walked to the rear parking lot, where a Ford truck converted into an ambulance is always parked. Then he would have had to drive across the high, humpbacked Paradise Island bridge, which forms a narrow bottleneck between Paradise and the island of New Providence. On the return trip, he would have had to pass through a $2 toll gate. Leaving...