Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Watergate arrests, Hunt became more cautious, referring to Administration officials merely as "my people." He insisted that his people were prepared to put up plenty of money for the defense of the arrested...
...four-three of whom are Cubans from Miami-were talked into pleading guilty, TIME has learned, by the same man who recruited them into the conspiracy in the first place: E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA official who had pleaded guilty himself a week earlier. Hunt promised his four confederates that unidentified "friends" would offer each defendant up to $1,000 for every month he spent in prison, with more money to be paid at the time of his release (TIME...
...guilty plea by the four defendants staved off a prospective courtroom uproar-testimony that Hunt had told them the Watergate bugging had been approved by the White House, specifically by two presidential advisers...
...Castro. Hunt's influence over the four dates back to 1961, when Hunt was a leading CIA official engaged in planning the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. At that time, the four men were convinced that Hunt spoke secretly for the U.S. Government; apparently they still are. In 1972, when Hunt recruited them into the Watergate conspiracy, he grandly told them: "It's got to be done. My friend Colson wants it. Mitchell wants it." Colson is in fact an old friend of Hunt's; it was he who got Hunt onto the White House staff...
...Hunt '93, our business manager, was at the bottom of it. He arranged with Wheeler, who then ran a printing press at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linden Street, for the use of his press. Mac and Ed were there on the job to set up the type. The game was on Holmes Field, and perched up on the top row of the bleachers were Frederick Windsor '93 and Maynard ladd '94 to write up the game. But how to connect Windsor and Ladd with Mac and Ed? Again Hunt, overcomer of obstacles, came through with...