Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hunt, who admitted earlier to forging telegrams designed to link President Kennedy with the Diem assassination, said he had forged the cables only after finding large gaps in State Department records...
...became clear to me, from the State Department files, that a number of cables were missing," Hunt said. "That is to say that the chronological files did not contain cables in chronological sequence...
Whoever copied the documents for the Kennedy Library, Hunt said, "would also have had the opportunity to remove any cables that could have been embarassing to the Kennedy legatees...
...Hunt did find, however, three or four authentic cables suggesting that "they [the White House] had pretty close to pulled the trigger against Premier Diem's head, but didn't say so in so many words...
...Hunt was reportedly building a dossier under the supervision of former White House aide Charles W. Colson to embarass Senator Edward M. Kennedy '56 (D-Mass.), then considered the leading Democratic presidential candidate by the White House...