Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under rough cross-examination by Mitchell's attorney, William Hundley, Hunt refused to characterize his demands for money as either "extortion" or "blackmail." Asked Hundley sarcastically: "What was it, investment planning?" Showing a secret agent's preference for euphemisms, Hunt insisted that he was merely making a "reiteration of requests for keeping commitments . . . in the tradition of a bill collector." Defense attorneys pounced on a reference in early galleys of Hunt's book to what he described as attempts by Ben-Veniste to get him to give false testimony. According to Hunt, this occurred when Ben-Veniste...
...face was prison-gray, his voice unemotional, his subdued presence almost indistinguishable from the wood-paneled walls of Federal Judge John J. Sirica's Washington, D.C., courtroom. Yet former CIA Agent and Intrigue Novelist E. Howard Hunt provided the first genuine surprise of the Watergate conspiracy trial. Under the brisk questioning of Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, the convicted Watergate burglar admitted that he had lied in his previous Watergate testimony no fewer than twelve times and given "evasive" answers on other occasions. Even his soon-to-be-released memoirs, Undercover, contains lies, he admitted, that were designed...
Called as a court witness by Sirica because of the Government's understandable argument that it did not want to vouch for his credibility, Hunt presented the prosecution with a recurrent, if anticipated problem: How could it show that many of its once perjurious witnesses were now telling the truth? Hunt, who directed the break-in with G. Gordon Liddy, explained that he had decided to become truthful after reading transcripts of White House tapes in which he and the other burglars were scathingly described as "idiots" and "jackasses." Declared Hunt: "I realized these men were not worthy...
...main impact of Hunt's revised testimony was to incriminate further former Attorney General John Mitchell in the coverup. Hunt claimed for the first time that Liddy, who has resisted all pressure to tell his own story, had told Hunt that "the big man"-meaning Mitchell-"said O.K., and the word is go" to bug Democratic national headquarters. Hunt also conceded that he had received secret payments after his arrest, not merely to meet legal fees but so "that I would not reveal my knowledge of the Watergate affair." Also contradicting his previous testimony, he admitted that...
...Hunt gets into trouble when he comes out of the mine and into the day light. Between the beginning and end of Gold there is a great deal of foolish ness about Sir John's plotting, Roger Moore's carrying on with the wife of his immediate and sinister superior (Bradford Dillman) and the wife's (Susannah York) becoming smitten with Moore...